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116 <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
117 <address style="text-align:center">
118 14435 South 48th Street #2083<br>
119 Phoenix, Arizona 85044-6448<br>
121 <p style="text-align:center">
122 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
123 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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132 <font size=-1 class="dim">Sorry for the blink but for some reason recruiters can't find this link!</font></p>
139 <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>
146 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" border="0" align="center">
149 <td valign="top" align center>
150 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
152 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
154 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
156 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
166 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
167 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
171 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP, Microsoft Windows as well as various
172 other manufactures of Linux systems.</p>
174 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
176 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
177 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
178 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
182 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
183 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
184 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
188 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
191 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
193 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
194 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
198 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
200 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
201 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
207 <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
208 <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
209 <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
210 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
214 <th>Configuration Management</th>
216 <span class="standout">Puppet</span>, <span class="standout">Ansible</span>
222 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
223 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
224 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
230 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
231 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
237 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
241 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
243 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
244 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
248 <th>Virtualization</th>
250 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
251 <span class="standout">vSphere</span>, <span class="standout">vCenter</span>
255 <th>Cloud Computing (<span class="standout">Classroom Only</span>)</th>
257 <span class="standout">EC2</span>,
258 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
259 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
260 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
261 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
262 <span class="standout">Route53,
263 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
269 <p><span class="standout">Important Note:</span> While I am AWS certified, I
270 currently do not have actual on the job experience with AWS. Training for obtaining
271 an AWS Certificate does require hands on with various AWS services as listed above
272 in order to properly prepare for the test. I have been working in the computer
273 field all my life and specialize in coming up to speed with new technologies
274 very quickly and feel confident that I can learn any AWS services in use at
275 your company in a short period of time. Please take this into account while
276 evaluating my skills. Thanks.</p>
281 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
282 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
284 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
288 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
291 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-clarke-30853132/">Charles Clarke</a></td>
292 <td>(770) 252-1500</td>
293 <td><a href="mailto:charles@abs-consulting.com">charles@abs-consulting.com</a></td>
294 <td>Owner ABS Consulting</td>
297 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-connor-285114/">Tom Connor</a></td>
298 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
299 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
300 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
303 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/specware/">James Chen</a></td>
304 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
305 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
306 <td>Consultant at Specware & 2Opp, LLC</td>
309 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivdutt-jha-032414/">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
310 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
311 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
312 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
323 <p><a href="https://gdmissionsystems.com/en/satellite-ground-systems/mobile-user-objective-system">
324 <img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
326 <p>March 2018 - Present<br>
327 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
328 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
330 <p>For this technology refresh of over a decade ago, I was instrumental in
331 setting up and maintain dozens of Solaris 5.11 zone systems and served as the
332 primary Solaris System Administrator. This includes setup of many services
333 like NIS, DNS, NTP, SMTP, AutoFS as well as a standard set of tools.
335 <p>Introduced <span class="standout">Puppet</span> to the group and served as
336 the <span class="standout">Puppet Master</span>.</p>
338 <p>Created Windows based <span class="standout">VMs</span> for specific roles
339 such as <span class="standout"BuildForge Console</span>, Application server,
340 Domain Controllers, etc. These were managed under <span
341 class="standout">vCenter</span>.</p>
343 <p>Developed <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts for validation testing
344 of <span class="standout">Clearcase</span> and <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>.
345 Developed a Clearcase enhanced monitoring tool to monitor servers, loadavg and
346 filesystems as well as Clearcase objects like VOBs and views.</p>
350 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
352 <p>August 2016 - January 2018<br>
353 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
355 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
356 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
357 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
358 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
359 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
360 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
361 building and signing of executables.</p>
365 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
367 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
368 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
371 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
372 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
376 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
378 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
379 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
380 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
382 <p>Initially wrote scripts to import data from
383 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
384 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
385 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
386 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
387 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
388 managing VM images in vSphere,
389 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
390 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
392 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
393 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
394 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
395 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
396 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
397 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
398 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
399 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
403 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
405 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
406 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
407 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
409 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
410 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
411 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
412 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
413 performing builds.</p>
417 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
419 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
420 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
421 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
423 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
424 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
426 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
427 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
428 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
429 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
430 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
431 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
433 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
434 <span class="standout"><a
435 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
436 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
437 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
438 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
439 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
440 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
441 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
445 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
447 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
448 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
449 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
451 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
452 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
453 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
455 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
456 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
457 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
458 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
460 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
461 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
462 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
463 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
467 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
469 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
470 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
471 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
473 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
474 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
475 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
476 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
477 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
478 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
479 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
480 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
484 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
486 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
487 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
488 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
490 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
491 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
492 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
493 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
494 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
495 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
496 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
498 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
499 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
500 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
501 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
503 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
504 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
505 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
506 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
507 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
508 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
509 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
510 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
511 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
512 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
513 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
514 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
517 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
518 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
519 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
520 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
522 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
523 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
524 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
525 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
529 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
530 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
532 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
533 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
534 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
536 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
537 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
538 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
539 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
540 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
544 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
545 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
547 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
548 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
549 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
551 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
552 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
553 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
554 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
555 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
556 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
557 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
558 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
559 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
560 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
561 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
562 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
563 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
564 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
565 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
566 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
567 to show Junit test history.
571 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
572 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
574 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
575 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
576 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
578 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
579 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
580 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
581 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
583 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
584 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
585 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
586 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
587 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
588 records as needed.</p>
590 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
591 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
592 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
593 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
596 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
597 Multimedia group.</p>
599 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
600 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
601 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
602 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
603 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
604 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
605 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
609 <p><a href="http://www.lynuxworks.com"><img src="Lynuxworks.png"
610 alt="Lynuxworks" title="Lynuxworks" border="0"></a></p>
612 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
613 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/LynuxWorks">LynuxWorks</a></p>
615 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
616 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
617 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
619 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
620 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
621 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
622 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
623 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
625 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
626 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
627 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
631 <p><a href="https://www.ameriquestcorp.com/"><img src="Ameriquest.png"
632 alt="Ameriquest" title="Ameriquest" border="0"></a></p>
634 <p>March 2004 - December 2005<br>
635 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
636 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Ameriquest">Ameriquest</a></p>
638 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
639 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
640 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
641 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
642 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
643 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
647 <p><a href="http://krldesign.com/saliraweb/"><img src="Salira.png"
648 alt="Salira" title="Salira" border="0"></a></p>
650 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
651 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Salira">Salira</a></p>
653 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
654 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
655 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
656 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
658 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
659 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
660 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
661 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
662 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
663 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
664 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
665 performed on the server.</p>
667 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
668 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
669 labeling and release management.</p>
671 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
672 the product into a more compact form.</p>
674 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
675 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
676 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
677 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
679 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
680 notes for every release.</p>
682 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
685 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
686 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
688 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
692 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
693 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
695 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
696 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
697 Systems Technology Division<br>
698 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
700 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
701 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
702 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
703 related patch depots.</p>
705 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
706 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
707 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
709 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
710 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
713 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
715 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
716 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
717 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
718 and other such changes.</p>
720 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
724 <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
725 title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
727 <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
728 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
729 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
731 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
732 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
733 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
734 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
735 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
736 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
738 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
739 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
740 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
742 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
747 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
748 title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
750 <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
751 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
752 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
754 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
755 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
756 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
760 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
761 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
763 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
764 Systems Technology Division<br>
765 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
767 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
768 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
769 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
770 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
771 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
772 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
773 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
774 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
775 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
776 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
777 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
779 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
780 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
781 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
782 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
783 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
784 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
787 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
788 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
789 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
790 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
791 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
792 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
794 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
795 software packages without the need for individual system administration
796 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
798 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
799 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
800 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
801 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
802 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
804 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
805 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
806 language called edl.</p>
808 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
809 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
810 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
811 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
813 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
814 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
815 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
817 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
818 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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