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117 <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
118 <address style="text-align:center">
119 14435 South 48th Street #2083<br>
120 Phoenix, Arizona 85044-6448<br>
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123 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
124 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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133 <font size=-1 class="dim">Sorry for the blink but for some reason recruiters can't find this link!</font></p>
140 <font size=-1>For the most up to date copy of this resume see <a href="http://clearscm.com/Resumes/Andrew">http://clearscm.com/Resumes/Andrew</a></font>
147 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" border="0" align="center">
150 <td valign="top" align center>
151 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
153 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
155 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
157 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
167 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
168 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
172 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP, Microsoft Windows as well as various
173 other manufactures of Linux systems.</p>
175 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
177 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
178 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
179 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
183 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
184 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
185 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
189 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
192 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
194 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
195 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
199 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
201 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
202 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
208 <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
209 <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
210 <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
211 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
215 <th>Configuration Management</th>
217 <span class="standout">Puppet</span>, <span class="standout">Ansible</span>
223 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
224 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
225 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
231 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
232 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
238 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
242 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
244 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
245 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
249 <th>Virtualization</th>
251 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
252 <span class="standout">vSphere</span>, <span class="standout">vCenter</span>
256 <th>Cloud Computing (<span class="standout">Classroom Only</span>)</th>
258 <span class="standout">EC2</span>,
259 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
260 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
261 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
262 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
263 <span class="standout">Route53,
264 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
270 <p><span class="standout">Important Note:</span> While I am AWS certified, I
271 currently do not have actual on the job experience with AWS. Training for obtaining
272 an AWS Certificate does require hands on with various AWS services as listed above
273 in order to properly prepare for the test. I have been working in the computer
274 field all my life and specialize in coming up to speed with new technologies
275 very quickly and feel confident that I can learn any AWS services in use at
276 your company in a short period of time. Please take this into account while
277 evaluating my skills. Thanks.</p>
282 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
283 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
285 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
289 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
292 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-clarke-30853132/">Charles Clarke</a></td>
293 <td>(770) 252-1500</td>
294 <td><a href="mailto:charles@abs-consulting.com">charles@abs-consulting.com</a></td>
295 <td>Owner ABS Consulting</td>
298 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-connor-285114/">Tom Connor</a></td>
299 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
300 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
301 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
304 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/specware/">James Chen</a></td>
305 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
306 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
307 <td>Consultant at Specware & 2Opp, LLC</td>
310 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivdutt-jha-032414/">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
311 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
312 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
313 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
324 <p><a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/">
325 <img src="WellsFargo.png" alt="Wells Fargo" border="0"></a></p>
327 <p><a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/">WellsFargo</a> July 2019 - Present<br>
329 <p>Working on Perl Dancer applications</p>
333 <p><a href="https://gdmissionsystems.com/en/satellite-ground-systems/mobile-user-objective-system">
334 <img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
336 <p>March 2018 - April 2019<br>
337 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
338 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
340 <p>For this technology refresh of over a decade ago, I was instrumental in
341 setting up and maintain dozens of Solaris 5.11 zone systems and served as the
342 primary Solaris System Administrator. This includes setup of many services
343 like NIS, DNS, NTP, SMTP, AutoFS as well as a standard set of tools.
345 <p>Introduced <span class="standout">Puppet</span> to the group and served as
346 the <span class="standout">Puppet Master</span>.</p>
348 <p>Created Windows based <span class="standout">VMs</span> for specific roles
349 such as <span class="standout"BuildForge Console</span>, Application server,
350 Domain Controllers, etc. These were managed under <span
351 class="standout">vCenter</span>.</p>
353 <p>Developed <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts for validation testing
354 of <span class="standout">Clearcase</span> and <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>.
355 Developed a Clearcase enhanced monitoring tool to monitor servers, loadavg and
356 filesystems as well as Clearcase objects like VOBs and views.</p>
360 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
362 <p>August 2016 - January 2018<br>
363 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
365 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
366 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
367 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
368 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
369 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
370 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
371 building and signing of executables.</p>
375 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
377 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
378 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
381 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
382 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
386 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
388 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
389 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
390 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
392 <p>Initially wrote scripts to import data from
393 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
394 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
395 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
396 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
397 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
398 managing VM images in vSphere,
399 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
400 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
402 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
403 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
404 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
405 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
406 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
407 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
408 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
409 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
413 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
415 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
416 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
417 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
419 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
420 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
421 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
422 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
423 performing builds.</p>
427 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
429 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
430 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
431 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
433 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
434 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
436 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
437 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
438 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
439 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
440 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
441 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
443 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
444 <span class="standout"><a
445 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
446 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
447 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
448 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
449 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
450 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
451 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
455 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
457 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
458 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
459 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
461 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
462 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
463 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
465 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
466 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
467 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
468 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
470 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
471 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
472 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
473 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
477 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
479 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
480 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
481 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
483 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
484 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
485 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
486 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
487 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
488 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
489 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
490 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
494 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
496 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
497 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
498 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
500 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
501 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
502 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
503 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
504 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
505 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
506 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
508 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
509 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
510 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
511 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
513 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
514 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
515 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
516 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
517 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
518 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
519 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
520 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
521 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
522 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
523 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
524 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
527 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
528 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
529 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
530 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
532 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
533 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
534 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
535 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
539 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
540 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
542 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
543 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
544 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
546 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
547 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
548 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
549 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
550 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
554 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
555 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
557 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
558 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
559 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
561 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
562 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
563 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
564 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
565 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
566 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
567 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
568 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
569 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
570 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
571 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
572 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
573 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
574 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
575 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
576 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
577 to show Junit test history.
581 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
582 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
584 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
585 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
586 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
588 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
589 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
590 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
591 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
593 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
594 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
595 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
596 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
597 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
598 records as needed.</p>
600 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
601 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
602 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
603 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
606 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
607 Multimedia group.</p>
609 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
610 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
611 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
612 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
613 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
614 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
615 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
619 <p><a href="http://www.lynuxworks.com"><img src="Lynuxworks.png"
620 alt="Lynuxworks" title="Lynuxworks" border="0"></a></p>
622 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
623 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/LynuxWorks">LynuxWorks</a></p>
625 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
626 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
627 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
629 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
630 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
631 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
632 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
633 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
635 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
636 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
637 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
641 <p><a href="https://www.ameriquestcorp.com/"><img src="Ameriquest.png"
642 alt="Ameriquest" title="Ameriquest" border="0"></a></p>
644 <p>March 2004 - December 2005<br>
645 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
646 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Ameriquest">Ameriquest</a></p>
648 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
649 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
650 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
651 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
652 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
653 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
657 <p><a href="http://krldesign.com/saliraweb/"><img src="Salira.png"
658 alt="Salira" title="Salira" border="0"></a></p>
660 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
661 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Salira">Salira</a></p>
663 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
664 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
665 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
666 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
668 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
669 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
670 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
671 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
672 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
673 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
674 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
675 performed on the server.</p>
677 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
678 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
679 labeling and release management.</p>
681 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
682 the product into a more compact form.</p>
684 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
685 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
686 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
687 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
689 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
690 notes for every release.</p>
692 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
695 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
696 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
698 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
702 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
703 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
705 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
706 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
707 Systems Technology Division<br>
708 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
710 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
711 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
712 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
713 related patch depots.</p>
715 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
716 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
717 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
719 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
720 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
723 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
725 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
726 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
727 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
728 and other such changes.</p>
730 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
734 <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
735 title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
737 <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
738 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
739 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
741 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
742 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
743 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
744 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
745 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
746 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
748 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
749 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
750 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
752 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
757 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
758 title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
760 <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
761 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
762 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
764 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
765 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
766 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
770 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
771 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
773 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
774 Systems Technology Division<br>
775 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
777 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
778 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
779 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
780 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
781 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
782 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
783 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
784 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
785 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
786 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
787 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
789 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
790 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
791 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
792 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
793 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
794 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
797 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
798 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
799 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
800 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
801 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
802 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
804 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
805 software packages without the need for individual system administration
806 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
808 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
809 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
810 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
811 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
812 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
814 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
815 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
816 language called edl.</p>
818 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
819 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
820 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
821 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
823 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
824 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
825 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
827 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
828 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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