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  54       <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
  55       <address style="text-align:center">
  56       4139 Via Marina #709<br>
  57       Marina del Rey, California 90292-5395<br>
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  60       Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
  61       Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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  84   <h3>Objective</h3>
  85
  86   <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
  87   insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
  88
  89   <h3>Hardware</h3>
  90
  91   <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
  92   of Linux systems.</p>
  93
  94   <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
  95
  96   <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
  97   <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
  98   (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
  99
 100   <h3>Networking</h3>
 101
 102   <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
 103   class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
 104   class="standout">Samba</span></p>
 105
 106   <h3>Software</h3>
 107
 108   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
 109     <tbody>
 110       <tr>
 111         <td>Version Control Systems</td>
 112         <td>
 113           <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 114           <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
 115         </td>
 116       </tr>
 117       <tr>
 118         <td>Issue Tracking</td>
 119         <td>
 120           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
 121           <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
 122         </td>
 123       </tr>
 124       <tr>
 125         <td>Languages</td>
 126         <td>
 127           <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
 128           <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
 129           <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
 130           <span class="standout">TCL</span>
 131         </td>
 132       </tr>
 133       <tr>
 134         <td>Middleware</td>
 135         <td>
 136           <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
 137           <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
 138           <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
 139         </td>
 140       </tr>
 141       <tr>
 142         <td>Web Apps</td>
 143         <td>
 144           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
 145           <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
 146         </td>
 147       </tr>
 148       <tr>
 149         <td>Databases</td>
 150         <td>
 151           <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 152         </td>
 153       </tr>
 154       <tr>
 155         <td>Coninuous Integration</td>
 156         <td>
 157           <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
 158           <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
 159         </td>
 160       </tr>
 161       <tr>
 162         <td>Virtualization</td>
 163         <td>
 164           <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
 165         </td>
 166       </tr>
 167     </tbody>
 168   </table>
 169
 170   <h3>Education</h3>
 171
 172   <p>
 173     A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
 174     Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University,  San Jose State
 175
 176     University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
 177
 178   <h3>References</h3>
 179
 180   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
 181     <tbody>
 182       <tr>
 183         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14959116">David Petro</a></td>
 184         <td>(425)-391-4185</td>
 185         <td><a href="mailto:david.petro@ge.com">david.petro@ge.com</a></td>
 186         <td>Manager, General Electric</td>
 187       </tr>
 188       <tr>
 189         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
 190         <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
 191         <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
 192         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 193       </tr>
 194       <tr>
 195         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
 196         <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
 197         <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
 198         <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
 199       </tr>
 200       <tr>
 201         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
 202         <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
 203         <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
 204         <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
 205       </tr>
 206       <tr>
 207         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
 208         <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
 209         <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
 210         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 211       </tr>
 212     </tbody>
 213   </table>
 214
 215   <br>
 216
 217   <hr noshade>
 218
 219   <h2>Clients</h2>
 220
 221   <p>May 2016 - Present<br>
 222   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 223
 224   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
 225
 226   <p>Working on keeping the Internet from exploding! ;-)</p>
 227
 228   <p>Working on creating servers to implement protocols such as RDAP (pretty
 229   much the new whois(1)) and the like for testing SLA compliance of various TLD
 230   registrars around the world.</p>
 231
 232   <hr noshade>
 233
 234   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
 235
 236   <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
 237   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 238   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
 239
 240   <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
 241   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 242   <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
 243   Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
 244   Maintained custom build system that utilized <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span class="standout">Windows</span>
 245   servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
 246   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
 247   import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
 248   <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
 249   for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
 250
 251   <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
 252   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
 253   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
 254   <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
 255   <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
 256
 257   <hr noshade>
 258
 259   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
 260
 261   <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
 262   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 263   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
 264
 265   <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
 266   AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
 267   The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
 268   standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
 269
 270   <hr noshade>
 271
 272   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 273
 274   <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
 275   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 276   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 277
 278   <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
 279   Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
 280   this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
 281   module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
 282   <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
 283   and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
 284   modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
 285   build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
 286   the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
 287   to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
 288   that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
 289   triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
 290
 291   <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
 292   migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
 293   Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
 294   <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
 295   farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
 296   perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
 297   9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
 298   as the engineers checked in code.</p>
 299
 300   <hr noshade>
 301
 302   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
 303
 304   <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
 305   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 306   <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
 307
 308   <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
 309   <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
 310
 311   <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
 312   interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
 313   process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
 314   developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
 315   line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
 316
 317   <hr noshade>
 318
 319   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
 320
 321   <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
 322   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 323   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
 324
 325   <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 326   administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
 327   in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
 328   similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
 329
 330   <hr noshade>
 331
 332   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
 333
 334   <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
 335   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 336   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
 337
 338   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 339   Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
 340   using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
 341   application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
 342   integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
 343
 344   <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
 345   tools such as <a href="v">Perl::Critic</a> and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
 346   Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
 347
 348   <p>Automated tests using <a href="">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
 349   all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
 350   Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
 351
 352   <hr noshade>
 353
 354   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
 355   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
 356
 357   <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
 358   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 359   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
 360
 361   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 362   Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 363   application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
 364   license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
 365
 366   <hr noshade>
 367
 368   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
 369   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
 370
 371   <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
 372   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 373   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
 374
 375   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 376   Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
 377   official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
 378   integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
 379   test history.</p>
 380
 381   <hr noshade>
 382
 383   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
 384   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 385
 386   <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
 387   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 388   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 389
 390   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 391   Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
 392
 393   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
 394   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
 395
 396   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
 397   group.</p>
 398
 399   <hr noshade>
 400
 401   <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
 402   alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
 403
 404   <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
 405   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
 406
 407   <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
 408   as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
 409   uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
 410
 411   <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
 412   Developed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>).
 413   Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
 414
 415   <hr noshade>
 416
 417   <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
 418   alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
 419   Company" border=0></a></p>
 420
 421   <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
 422   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 423   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
 424
 425   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 426   administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
 427   systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
 428
 429   <hr noshade>
 430
 431   <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
 432   Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
 433   border=0></a></p>
 434
 435   <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
 436   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
 437
 438   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 439   Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
 440   <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
 441   GNU make. Analyzed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">Build
 442   Performance</a> and <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress
 443   Testing</a>.</p>
 444
 445   <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
 446   on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
 447   Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
 448
 449   <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
 450   Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
 451
 452   <hr noshade>
 453
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