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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>
58       </address>
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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90                 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
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93               <br>
94               <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
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101
102
103   <h3>Objective</h3>
104
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>
107
108   <h3>Hardware</h3>
109
110   <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
111   of Linux systems.</p>
112
113   <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
114
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>
118
119   <h3>Networking</h3>
120
121   <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
122   class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
123   class="standout">Samba</span></p>
124
125   <h3>Software</h3>
126
127   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
128     <tbody>
129       <tr>
130         <th>Version Control Systems</th>
131         <td>
132           <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
133           <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
134         </td>
135       </tr>
136       <tr>
137         <th>Issue Tracking</th>
138         <td>
139           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
140           <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
141         </td>
142       </tr>
143       <tr>
144         <th>Languages</th>
145         <td>
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>
150         </td>
151       </tr>
152       <tr>
153         <th>Middleware</th>
154         <td>
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>
158         </td>
159       </tr>
160       <tr>
161         <th>Web Apps</th>
162         <td>
163           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
164           <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
165         </td>
166       </tr>
167       <tr>
168         <th>Databases</th>
169         <td>
170           <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
171         </td>
172       </tr>
173       <tr>
174         <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
175         <td>
176           <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
177           <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
178         </td>
179       </tr>
180       <tr>
181         <th>Virtualization</th>
182         <td>
183           <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
184         </td>
185       </tr>
186       <tr>
187         <th>Cloud Computing</th>
188         <td>
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>
196         </td>
197       </tr>
198     </tbody>
199   </table>
200
201   <h3>Education</h3>
202
203   <p>
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
206
207     University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
208
209   <h3>References</h3>
210
211   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
212     <tbody>
213       <tr>
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>
218       </tr>
219       <tr>
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>
224       </tr>
225       <tr>
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>
230       </tr>
231       <tr>
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>
236       </tr>
237     </tbody>
238   </table>
239
240   <br>
241
242   <hr noshade>
243
244   <h2>Clients</h2>
245
246   <hr noshade>
247
248   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
249
250   <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
251   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
252
253   <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span>
254   build system to the Broadcom/Avago standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
255   and <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables. Developed Perl
256   script to remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span>.
257   This script also supplied username/password so that when logged into the Windows system, Windows 
258   could access remote filesystems.</p>
259
260   <hr noshade>
261
262   <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
263   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
264
265   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
266
267   <p>Developed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
268   server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
269
270   <hr noshade>
271
272   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
273
274   <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
275   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
276   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
277
278   <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
279   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
280   <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
281   Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
282   Maintained custom build system that utilized <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span class="standout">Windows</span>
283   servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
284   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
285   import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
286   <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
287   for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
288
289   <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
290   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
291   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
292   <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
293   <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
294
295   <hr noshade>
296
297   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
298
299   <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
300   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
301   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
302
303   <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
304   AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
305   The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
306   standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
307
308   <hr noshade>
309
310   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
311
312   <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
313   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
314   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
315
316   <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
317   Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
318   this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
319   module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
320   <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
321   and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
322   modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
323   build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
324   the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
325   to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
326   that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
327   triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
328
329   <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
330   migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
331   Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
332   <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
333   farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
334   perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
335   9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
336   as the engineers checked in code.</p>
337
338   <hr noshade>
339
340   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
341
342   <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
343   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
344   <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
345
346   <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
347   <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
348
349   <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real Aid In Debugging) which 
350   provided a consistent interface with complete command history and variable substitution courtsey of a Perl
351   module that I wrote called <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>. This Perl
352   process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
353   developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
354   line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
355
356   <hr noshade>
357
358   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
359
360   <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
361   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
362   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
363
364   <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
365   administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
366   in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
367   similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
368
369   <hr noshade>
370
371   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
372
373   <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
374   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
375   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
376
377   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
378   Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
379   using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
380   application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
381   integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
382
383   <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
384   tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
385   and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
386   Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
387
388   <p>Automated tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
389   all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
390   Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
391
392   <hr noshade>
393
394   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
395   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
396
397   <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
398   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
399   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
400
401   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
402   Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
403   application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
404   license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
405
406   <hr noshade>
407
408   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
409   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
410
411   <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
412   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
413   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
414
415   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
416   Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
417   official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
418   integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
419   test history.</p>
420
421   <hr noshade>
422
423   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
424   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
425
426   <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
427   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
428   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
429
430   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
431   Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
432
433   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
434   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
435
436   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
437   group.</p>
438
439   <hr noshade>
440
441   <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
442   alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
443
444   <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
445   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
446
447   <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
448   as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
449   uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
450
451   <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
452   Developed CVS Utilities).
453   Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
454
455   <hr noshade>
456
457   <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
458   alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
459   Company" border=0></a></p>
460
461   <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
462   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
463   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
464
465   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
466   administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
467   systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
468
469   <hr noshade>
470
471   <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
472   Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
473   border=0></a></p>
474
475   <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
476   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
477
478   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
479   Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
480   <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
481   GNU make. Analyzed Build Performance and Build Stress Testing.</p>
482
483   <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
484   on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
485   Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
486
487   <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
488   Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
489
490   <hr noshade>
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