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54 <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
55 <address style="text-align:center">
56 11727 Stoney Peak Dr #65<br>
57 San Diego, California 92128-6440<br>
59 <p style="text-align:center">
60 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
61 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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84 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" border="0" align="center">
87 <td valign="top" align center>
88 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
90 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
92 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
94 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
105 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
106 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
110 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
111 of Linux systems.</p>
113 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
115 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
116 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
117 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
121 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
122 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
123 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
127 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
130 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
132 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
133 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
137 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
139 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
140 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
146 <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
147 <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
148 <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
149 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
155 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
156 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
157 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
163 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
164 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
170 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
174 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
176 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
177 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
181 <th>Virtualization</th>
183 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
187 <th>Cloud Computing</th>
189 <span class="standout">AWS: EC2</span>,
190 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
191 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
192 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
193 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
194 <span class="standout">Route53,
195 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
204 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
205 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
207 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
211 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
214 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
215 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
216 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
217 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
220 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
221 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
222 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
223 <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
226 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
227 <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
228 <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
229 <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
232 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
233 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
234 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
235 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
248 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
250 <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
251 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
253 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
254 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
255 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
256 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
257 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
258 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
259 building and signing of executables.</p>
263 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
264 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
266 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
269 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
270 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
274 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
276 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
277 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
278 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
280 <p><span class="standout">Devops Admin</span>: Initially wrote scripts to
281 import data from <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
282 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
283 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
284 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
285 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
286 managing VM images in vSphere,
287 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
288 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
290 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
291 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
292 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
293 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
294 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
295 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
296 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
297 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
301 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
303 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
304 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
305 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
307 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
308 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
309 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
310 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
311 performing builds.</p>
315 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
317 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
318 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
319 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
321 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
322 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
324 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
325 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
326 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
327 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
328 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
329 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
331 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
332 <span class="standout"><a
333 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
334 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
335 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
336 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
337 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
338 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
339 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
343 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
345 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
346 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
347 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
349 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
350 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
351 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
353 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
354 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
355 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
356 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
358 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
359 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
360 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
361 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
365 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
367 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
368 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
369 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
371 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
372 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
373 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
374 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
375 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
376 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
377 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
378 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
382 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
384 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
385 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
386 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
388 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
389 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
390 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
391 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
392 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
393 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
394 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
396 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
397 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
398 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
399 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
401 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
402 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
403 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
404 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
405 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
406 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
407 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
408 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
409 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
410 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
411 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
412 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
415 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
416 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
417 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
418 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
420 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
421 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
422 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
423 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
427 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
428 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
430 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
431 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
432 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
434 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
435 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
436 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
437 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
438 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
442 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
443 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
445 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
446 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
447 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
449 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
450 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
451 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
452 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
453 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
454 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
455 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
456 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
457 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
458 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
459 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
460 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
461 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
462 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
463 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
464 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
465 to show Junit test history.
469 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
470 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
472 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
473 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
474 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
476 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
477 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
478 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
479 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
481 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
482 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
483 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
484 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
485 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
486 records as needed.</p>
488 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
489 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
490 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
491 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
494 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
495 Multimedia group.</p>
497 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
498 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
499 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
500 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
501 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
502 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
503 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
507 <p><a href="http://www.lynuxworks.com"><img src="Lynuxworks.gif"
508 alt="Lynuxworks" title="Lynuxworks" border="0"></a></p>
510 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
511 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/LynuxWorks">LynuxWorks</a></p>
513 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
514 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
515 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
517 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
518 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
519 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
520 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
521 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
523 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
524 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
525 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
529 <p><a href="https://www.ameriquestcorp.com/"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
530 alt="Ameriquest" title="Ameriquest" border="0"></a></p>
532 <p>March 2004 - December 2005<br>
533 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
534 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Ameriquest">Ameriquest</a></p>
536 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
537 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
538 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
539 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
540 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
541 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
545 <p><a href="http://krldesign.com/saliraweb/"><img src="Salira.gif"
546 alt="Salira" title="Salira" border="0"></a></p>
548 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
549 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Salira">Salira</a></p>
551 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
552 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
553 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
554 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
556 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
557 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
558 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
559 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
560 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
561 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
562 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
563 performed on the server.</p>
565 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
566 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
567 labeling and release management.</p>
569 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
570 the product into a more compact form.</p>
572 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
573 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
574 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
575 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
577 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
578 notes for every release.</p>
580 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
583 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
584 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
586 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
590 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
591 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
593 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
594 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
595 Systems Technology Division<br>
596 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
598 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
599 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
600 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
601 related patch depots.</p>
603 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
604 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
605 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
607 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
608 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
611 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
613 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
614 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
615 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
616 and other such changes.</p>
618 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
622 <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
623 title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
625 <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
626 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
627 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
629 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
630 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
631 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
632 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
633 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
634 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
636 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
637 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
638 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
640 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
645 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
646 title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
648 <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
649 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
650 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
652 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
653 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
654 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
658 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
659 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
661 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
662 Systems Technology Division<br>
663 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
665 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
666 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
667 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
668 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
669 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
670 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
671 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
672 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
673 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
674 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
675 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
677 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
678 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
679 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
680 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
681 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
682 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
685 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
686 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
687 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
688 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
689 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
690 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
692 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
693 software packages without the need for individual system administration
694 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
696 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
697 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
698 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
699 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
700 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
702 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
703 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
704 language called edl.</p>
706 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
707 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
708 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
709 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
711 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
712 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
713 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
715 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
716 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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