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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
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>
217 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
218 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
219 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
225 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
226 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
232 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
236 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
238 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
239 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
243 <th>Virtualization</th>
245 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
246 <span class="standout">vSphere</span>, <span class="standout">vCenter</span>
250 <th>Cloud Computing</th>
252 <span class="standout">AWS: EC2</span>,
253 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
254 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
255 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
256 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
257 <span class="standout">Route53,
258 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
267 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
268 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
270 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
274 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
277 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
278 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
279 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
280 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
283 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
284 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
285 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
286 <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
289 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
290 <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
291 <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
292 <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
295 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
296 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
297 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
298 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
309 <p><a href="https://gdmissionsystems.com/en/satellite-ground-systems/mobile-user-objective-system">
310 <img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
312 <p>March 2018 - Present<br>
313 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
314 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
316 <p>For this technology refresh of over a decade ago, I was instrumental in
317 setting up and maintain dozens of Solaris 5.11 zone systems and served as the
318 primary Solaris System Administrator. This includes setup of many services
319 like NIS, DNS, NTP, SMTP, AutoFS as well as a standard set of tools.
321 <p>Introduced <span class="standout">Puppet</span> to the group and served as
322 the <span class="standout">Puppet Master</span>.</p>
324 <p>Created Windows based <span class="standout">VMs</span> for specific roles
325 such as <span class="standout"BuildForge Console</span>, Application server,
326 Domain Controllers, etc. These were managed under <span
327 class="standout">vCenter</span>.</p>
329 <p>Developed <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts for validation testing
330 of <span class="standout">Clearcase</span> and <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>.
331 Developed a Clearcase enhanced monitoring tool to monitor servers, loadavg and
332 filesystems as well as Clearcase objects like VOBs and views.</p>
336 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
338 <p>August 2016 - January 2018<br>
339 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
341 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
342 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
343 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
344 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
345 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
346 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
347 building and signing of executables.</p>
351 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
353 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
354 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
357 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
358 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
362 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
364 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
365 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
366 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
368 <p><span class="standout">Devops Admin</span>: Initially wrote scripts to
369 import data from <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
370 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
371 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
372 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
373 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
374 managing VM images in vSphere,
375 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
376 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
378 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
379 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
380 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
381 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
382 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
383 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
384 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
385 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
389 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
391 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
392 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
393 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
395 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
396 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
397 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
398 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
399 performing builds.</p>
403 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
405 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
406 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
407 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
409 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
410 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
412 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
413 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
414 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
415 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
416 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
417 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
419 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
420 <span class="standout"><a
421 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
422 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
423 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
424 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
425 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
426 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
427 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
431 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
433 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
434 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
435 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
437 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
438 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
439 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
441 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
442 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
443 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
444 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
446 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
447 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
448 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
449 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
453 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
455 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
456 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
457 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
459 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
460 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
461 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
462 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
463 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
464 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
465 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
466 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
470 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
472 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
473 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
474 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
476 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
477 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
478 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
479 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
480 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
481 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
482 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
484 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
485 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
486 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
487 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
489 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
490 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
491 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
492 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
493 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
494 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
495 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
496 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
497 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
498 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
499 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
500 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
503 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
504 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
505 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
506 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
508 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
509 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
510 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
511 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
515 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
516 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
518 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
519 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
520 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
522 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
523 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
524 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
525 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
526 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
530 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
531 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
533 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
534 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
535 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
537 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
538 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
539 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
540 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
541 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
542 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
543 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
544 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
545 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
546 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
547 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
548 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
549 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
550 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
551 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
552 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
553 to show Junit test history.
557 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
558 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
560 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
561 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
562 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
564 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
565 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
566 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
567 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
569 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
570 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
571 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
572 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
573 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
574 records as needed.</p>
576 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
577 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
578 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
579 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
582 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
583 Multimedia group.</p>
585 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
586 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
587 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
588 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
589 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
590 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
591 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
595 <p><a href="http://www.lynuxworks.com"><img src="Lynuxworks.gif"
596 alt="Lynuxworks" title="Lynuxworks" border="0"></a></p>
598 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
599 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/LynuxWorks">LynuxWorks</a></p>
601 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
602 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
603 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
605 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
606 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
607 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
608 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
609 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
611 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
612 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
613 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
617 <p><a href="https://www.ameriquestcorp.com/"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
618 alt="Ameriquest" title="Ameriquest" border="0"></a></p>
620 <p>March 2004 - December 2005<br>
621 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
622 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Ameriquest">Ameriquest</a></p>
624 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
625 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
626 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
627 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
628 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
629 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
633 <p><a href="http://krldesign.com/saliraweb/"><img src="Salira.gif"
634 alt="Salira" title="Salira" border="0"></a></p>
636 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
637 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Salira">Salira</a></p>
639 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
640 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
641 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
642 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
644 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
645 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
646 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
647 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
648 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
649 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
650 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
651 performed on the server.</p>
653 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
654 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
655 labeling and release management.</p>
657 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
658 the product into a more compact form.</p>
660 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
661 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
662 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
663 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
665 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
666 notes for every release.</p>
668 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
671 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
672 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
674 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
678 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
679 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
681 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
682 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
683 Systems Technology Division<br>
684 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
686 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
687 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
688 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
689 related patch depots.</p>
691 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
692 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
693 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
695 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
696 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
699 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
701 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
702 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
703 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
704 and other such changes.</p>
706 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
710 <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
711 title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
713 <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
714 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
715 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
717 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
718 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
719 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
720 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
721 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
722 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
724 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
725 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
726 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
728 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
733 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
734 title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
736 <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
737 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
738 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
740 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
741 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
742 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
746 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
747 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
749 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
750 Systems Technology Division<br>
751 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
753 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
754 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
755 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
756 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
757 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
758 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
759 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
760 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
761 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
762 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
763 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
765 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
766 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
767 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
768 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
769 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
770 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
773 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
774 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
775 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
776 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
777 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
778 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
780 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
781 software packages without the need for individual system administration
782 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
784 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
785 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
786 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
787 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
788 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
790 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
791 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
792 language called edl.</p>
794 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
795 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
796 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
797 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
799 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
800 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
801 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
803 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
804 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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