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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>
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  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   <h3>Objective</h3>
  85
  86   <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
  87   insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
  88
  89   <h3>Hardware</h3>
  90
  91   <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
  92   of Linux systems.</p>
  93
  94   <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
  95
  96   <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
  97   <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
  98   (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
  99
 100   <h3>Networking</h3>
 101
 102   <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
 103   class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
 104   class="standout">Samba</span></p>
 105
 106   <h3>Software</h3>
 107
 108   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
 109     <tbody>
 110       <tr>
 111         <td>Version Control Systems</td>
 112         <td>
 113           <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 114           <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
 115         </td>
 116       </tr>
 117       <tr>
 118         <td>Issue Tracking</td>
 119         <td>
 120           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
 121           <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
 122         </td>
 123       </tr>
 124       <tr>
 125         <td>Languages</td>
 126         <td>
 127           <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
 128           <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
 129           <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
 130           <span class="standout">TCL</span>
 131         </td>
 132       </tr>
 133       <tr>
 134         <td>Middleware</td>
 135         <td>
 136           <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
 137           <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
 138           <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
 139         </td>
 140       </tr>
 141       <tr>
 142         <td>Web Apps</td>
 143         <td>
 144           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
 145           <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
 146         </td>
 147       </tr>
 148       <tr>
 149         <td>Databases</td>
 150         <td>
 151           <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 152         </td>
 153       </tr>
 154       <tr>
 155         <td>Coninuous Integration</td>
 156         <td>
 157           <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
 158           <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
 159         </td>
 160       </tr>
 161       <tr>
 162         <td>Virtualization</td>
 163         <td>
 164           <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
 165         </td>
 166       </tr>
 167     </tbody>
 168   </table>
 169
 170   <h3>Education</h3>
 171
 172   <p>
 173     A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
 174     Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University,  San Jose State
 175
 176     University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
 177
 178   <h3>References</h3>
 179
 180   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
 181     <tbody>
 182       <tr>
 183         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14959116">David Petro</a></td>
 184         <td>(425)-391-4185</td>
 185         <td><a href="mailto:david.petro@ge.com">david.petro@ge.com</a></td>
 186         <td>Manager, General Electric</td>
 187       </tr>
 188       <tr>
 189         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
 190         <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
 191         <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
 192         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 193       </tr>
 194       <tr>
 195         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
 196         <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
 197         <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
 198         <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
 199       </tr>
 200       <tr>
 201         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
 202         <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
 203         <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
 204         <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
 205       </tr>
 206       <tr>
 207         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
 208         <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
 209         <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
 210         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 211       </tr>
 212     </tbody>
 213   </table>
 214
 215   <br>
 216
 217   <hr noshade>
 218
 219   <h2>Clients</h2>
 220
 221  <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
 222
 223   <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
 224   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 225
 226   <p>Working on converting an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span>
 227   build system to the Broadcom/Avago standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
 228   and <span class="standout">Git</span>. Wrote a Perl script to driving signing of
 229   executables. Wrote a Perl script to remotely execute commands remotely on Windows
 230   systems using Cygwin/ssh. This script also supplied username/password so that
 231   when logged into the Windows system, Windows could access remote filesystems.</p>
 232
 233   <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
 234   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 235
 236   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
 237
 238   <p>Working on keeping the Internet from exploding! ;-)</p>
 239
 240   <p>Working on creating servers to implement protocols such as RDAP (pretty
 241   much the new whois(1)) and the like for testing SLA compliance of various TLD
 242   registrars around the world.</p>
 243
 244   <hr noshade>
 245
 246   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
 247
 248   <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
 249   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 250   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
 251
 252   <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
 253   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 254   <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
 255   Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
 256   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>
 257   servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
 258   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
 259   import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
 260   <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
 261   for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
 262
 263   <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
 264   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
 265   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
 266   <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
 267   <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
 268
 269   <hr noshade>
 270
 271   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
 272
 273   <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
 274   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 275   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
 276
 277   <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
 278   AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
 279   The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
 280   standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
 281
 282   <hr noshade>
 283
 284   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 285
 286   <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
 287   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 288   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 289
 290   <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
 291   Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
 292   this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
 293   module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
 294   <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
 295   and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
 296   modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
 297   build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
 298   the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
 299   to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
 300   that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
 301   triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
 302
 303   <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
 304   migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
 305   Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
 306   <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
 307   farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
 308   perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
 309   9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
 310   as the engineers checked in code.</p>
 311
 312   <hr noshade>
 313
 314   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
 315
 316   <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
 317   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 318   <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
 319
 320   <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
 321   <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
 322
 323   <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
 324   interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
 325   process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
 326   developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
 327   line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
 328
 329   <hr noshade>
 330
 331   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
 332
 333   <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
 334   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 335   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
 336
 337   <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 338   administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
 339   in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
 340   similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
 341
 342   <hr noshade>
 343
 344   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
 345
 346   <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
 347   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 348   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
 349
 350   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 351   Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
 352   using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
 353   application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
 354   integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
 355
 356   <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
 357   tools such as <a href="v">Perl::Critic</a> and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
 358   Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
 359
 360   <p>Automated tests using <a href="">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
 361   all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
 362   Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
 363
 364   <hr noshade>
 365
 366   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
 367   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
 368
 369   <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
 370   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 371   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
 372
 373   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 374   Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 375   application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
 376   license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
 377
 378   <hr noshade>
 379
 380   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
 381   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
 382
 383   <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
 384   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 385   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
 386
 387   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 388   Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
 389   official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
 390   integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
 391   test history.</p>
 392
 393   <hr noshade>
 394
 395   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
 396   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 397
 398   <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
 399   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 400   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 401
 402   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 403   Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
 404
 405   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
 406   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
 407
 408   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
 409   group.</p>
 410
 411   <hr noshade>
 412
 413   <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
 414   alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
 415
 416   <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
 417   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
 418
 419   <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
 420   as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
 421   uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
 422
 423   <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
 424   Developed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>).
 425   Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
 426
 427   <hr noshade>
 428
 429   <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
 430   alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
 431   Company" border=0></a></p>
 432
 433   <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
 434   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 435   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
 436
 437   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 438   administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
 439   systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
 440
 441   <hr noshade>
 442
 443   <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
 444   Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
 445   border=0></a></p>
 446
 447   <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
 448   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
 449
 450   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 451   Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
 452   <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
 453   GNU make. Analyzed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">Build
 454   Performance</a> and <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress
 455   Testing</a>.</p>
 456
 457   <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
 458   on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
 459   Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
 460
 461   <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
 462   Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
 463
 464   <hr noshade>
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