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79 <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
80 <address style="text-align:center">
81 11727 Stoney Peak Dr #65<br>
82 San Diego, California 92128-6440<br>
84 <p style="text-align:center">
85 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
86 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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109 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" border="0" align="center">
112 <td valign="top" align center>
113 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
115 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
117 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
119 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
130 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
131 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
135 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
136 of Linux systems.</p>
138 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
140 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
141 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
142 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
146 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
147 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
148 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
152 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
155 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
157 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
158 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
162 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
164 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
165 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
171 <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
172 <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
173 <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
174 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
180 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
181 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
182 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
188 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
189 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
195 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
199 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
201 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
202 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
206 <th>Virtualization</th>
208 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
212 <th>Cloud Computing</th>
214 <span class="standout">AWS: EC2</span>,
215 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
216 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
217 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
218 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
219 <span class="standout">Route53,
220 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
229 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
230 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
232 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
236 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
239 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
240 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
241 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
242 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
245 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
246 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
247 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
248 <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
251 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
252 <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
253 <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
254 <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
257 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
258 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
259 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
260 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
273 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
275 <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
276 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
278 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
279 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
280 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
281 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
282 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
283 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
284 building and signing of executables.</p>
288 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
289 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
291 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
294 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
295 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
299 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
301 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
302 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
303 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
305 <p><span class="standout">Devops Admin</span>: Initially wrote scripts to
306 import data from <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
307 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
308 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
309 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
310 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
311 managing VM images in vSphere,
312 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
313 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
315 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
316 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
317 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
318 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
319 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
320 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
321 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
322 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
326 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
328 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
329 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
330 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
332 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
333 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
334 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
335 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
336 performing builds.</p>
340 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
342 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
343 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
344 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
346 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
347 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
349 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
350 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
351 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
352 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
353 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
354 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
356 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
357 <span class="standout"><a
358 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
359 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
360 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
361 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
362 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
363 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
364 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
368 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
370 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
371 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
372 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
374 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
375 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
376 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
378 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
379 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
380 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
381 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
383 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
384 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
385 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
386 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
390 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
392 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
393 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
394 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
396 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
397 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
398 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
399 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
400 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
404 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
406 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
407 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
408 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
410 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
411 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
412 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
413 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
414 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
415 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
416 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
418 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
419 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
420 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
421 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
423 <p>Automated tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/">NetHawk EAST
424 Simulators</a> to automate all testing and store results into a <span
425 class="standout">MySQL</span> database. This reduced the time it took to certify
426 testing with the military several fold. Also developed a <span
427 class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
431 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
432 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
434 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
435 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
436 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
438 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
439 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
440 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
441 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
442 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
446 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
447 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
449 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
450 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
451 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
453 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest
454 UCM</span> Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries.
455 Baselined official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span
456 class="standout">continuous integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to
457 show <span class="standout">Junit</span> test history.</p>
461 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
462 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
464 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
465 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
466 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
468 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
469 Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
471 <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
472 merge Clearquest databases.</p>
474 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
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