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117 <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
118 <address style="text-align:center">
120 Vista, California 92081<br>
122 <p style="text-align:center">
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>,
195 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
196 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
200 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
202 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>,
203 <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
204 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
210 <span class="standout">Perl</span>,
211 <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
212 <span class="standout">PHP</span>,
213 <span class="standout">C++</span>,
214 <span class="standout">C</span>,
215 <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
216 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
220 <th>Configuration Management</th>
222 <span class="standout">Puppet</span>,
223 <span class="standout">Ansible</span>
229 <span class="standout">Apache</span>,
230 <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
231 <span class="standout">Samba</span>,
232 <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
233 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>,
234 <span class="standout">REST</span>
240 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>,
241 <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
242 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
248 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>,
249 <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
255 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
256 <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
260 <th>Virtualization</th>
262 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>,
263 <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
264 <span class="standout">vSphere</span>,
265 <span class="standout">vCenter</span>
269 <th>Cloud Computing (<span class="standout">Classroom Only</span>)</th>
271 <span class="standout">EC2</span>,
272 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
273 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
274 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
275 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
276 <span class="standout">Route53,
277 <span class="standout">VPC</span>,
278 <span class="standout">Docker</span>
287 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
288 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
290 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
294 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
297 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-clarke-30853132/">Charles Clarke</a></td>
298 <td>(770) 252-1500</td>
299 <td><a href="mailto:charles@abs-consulting.com">charles@abs-consulting.com</a></td>
300 <td>Owner ABS Consulting</td>
303 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-connor-285114/">Tom Connor</a></td>
304 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
305 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
306 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
309 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/specware/">James Chen</a></td>
310 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
311 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
312 <td>Consultant at Specware & 2Opp, LLC</td>
315 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivdutt-jha-032414/">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
316 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
317 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
318 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
329 <p><a href="https://www.wellsfargo.com/">
330 <img src="WellsFargo.png" alt="Wells Fargo" border="0"></a></p>
332 <h2>Perl Developer</h2>
333 <p>July 2019 - Present<br>
334 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
336 <p>Responsible for maintaining a Perl application written using the Dancer framework called UserPro. Tightened security by standardizing access to database as well as implemented an auditing facility for changes made to database records.</p>
340 <p><a href="https://gdmissionsystems.com/en/satellite-ground-systems/mobile-user-objective-system">
341 <img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
343 <h2>Solaris Administrator, PuppetMaster</h2>
344 <p>March 2018 - April 2019<br>
345 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
347 <p>For this technology refresh of over a decade ago, I was instrumental in
348 setting up and maintain dozens of Solaris 5.11 zone systems and served as the
349 primary Solaris System Administrator. This includes setup of many services
350 like NIS, DNS, NTP, SMTP, AutoFS as well as a standard set of tools.
352 <p>Introduced <span class="standout">Puppet</span> to the group and served as
353 the <span class="standout">Puppet Master</span>.</p>
355 <p>Created Windows based <span class="standout">VMs</span> for specific roles
356 such as <span class="standout"BuildForge Console</span>, Application server,
357 Domain Controllers, etc. These were managed under <span
358 class="standout">vCenter</span>.</p>
360 <p>Developed <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts for validation testing
361 of <span class="standout">Clearcase</span> and <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>.
362 Developed a Clearcase enhanced monitoring tool to monitor servers, loadavg and
363 filesystems as well as Clearcase objects like VOBs and views.</p>
367 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
368 <h2>Devops Engineer</h2>
369 <p>August 2016 - January 2018<br>
370 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
372 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
373 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
374 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
375 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
376 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
377 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
378 building and signing of executables.</p>
382 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
384 <h2>Python Developer</h2>
385 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
386 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
389 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
390 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
394 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
395 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
397 <h2>JIRA/Perforce/Linux Administrator</h2>
398 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
399 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
401 <p>Initially wrote scripts to import data from
402 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
403 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
404 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
405 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
406 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
407 managing VM images in vSphere,
408 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
409 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
411 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
412 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
413 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
414 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
415 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
416 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
417 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
418 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
422 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
423 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
424 <h2>Build Release Engineer</h2>
425 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
426 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
428 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
429 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
430 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
431 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
432 performing builds.</p>
436 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
437 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
438 <h2>Clearquest Administrator</h2>
439 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
440 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
442 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
443 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
445 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
446 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
447 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
448 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
449 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
450 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
452 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
453 <span class="standout"><a
454 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
455 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
456 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
457 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
458 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
459 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
460 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
464 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
465 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
466 <h2>Perl Developer</h2>
467 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
468 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
470 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
471 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
472 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
474 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
475 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
476 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
477 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
479 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
480 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
481 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
482 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
486 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
487 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
488 <h2>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator</h2>
489 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
490 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
492 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
493 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
494 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
495 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
496 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
497 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
498 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
499 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
503 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
504 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
505 <h2>Clearcase/Clearquest/Release Engineer</h2>
506 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
507 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
509 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
510 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
511 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
512 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
513 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
514 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
515 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
517 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
518 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
519 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
520 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
522 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
523 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
524 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
525 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
526 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
527 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
528 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
529 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
530 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
531 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
532 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
533 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
536 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
537 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
538 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
539 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
541 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
542 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
543 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
544 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
548 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
549 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
550 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
551 <h2>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator</h2>
552 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
553 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
555 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
556 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
557 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
558 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
559 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
563 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
564 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
565 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
566 <h2>Build Release Engineer</h2>
567 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
568 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
570 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
571 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
572 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
573 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
574 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
575 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
576 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
577 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
578 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
579 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
580 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
581 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
582 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
583 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
584 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
585 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
586 to show Junit test history.
590 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
591 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
592 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
593 <h2>Clearcase/Clearquest Administor</h2>
594 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
595 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
597 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
598 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
599 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
600 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
602 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
603 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
604 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
605 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
606 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
607 records as needed.</p>
609 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
610 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
611 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
612 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
615 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
616 Multimedia group.</p>
618 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
619 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
620 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
621 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
622 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
623 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
624 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
628 <p><a href="http://www.lynuxworks.com"><img src="Lynuxworks.png"
629 alt="Lynuxworks" title="Lynuxworks" border="0"></a></p>
630 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/LynuxWorks">LynuxWorks</a></p>
631 <h2>Build Engineer</h2>
632 <p>December 2004 - September 2005</p>
634 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
635 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
636 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
638 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
639 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
640 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
641 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
642 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
644 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
645 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
646 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
650 <p><a href="https://www.ameriquestcorp.com/"><img src="Ameriquest.png"
651 alt="Ameriquest" title="Ameriquest" border="0"></a></p>
652 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Ameriquest">Ameriquest</a></p>
653 <h2>Clearcase Administrator</h2>
654 <p>March 2004 - December 2005<br>
655 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
657 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
658 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
659 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
660 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
661 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
662 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
666 <p><a href="http://krldesign.com/saliraweb/"><img src="Salira.png"
667 alt="Salira" title="Salira" border="0"></a></p>
668 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Salira">Salira</a></p>
669 <h2>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator/Build Engineer</h2>
670 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
672 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
673 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
674 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
675 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
677 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
678 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
679 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
680 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
681 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
682 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
683 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
684 performed on the server.</p>
686 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
687 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
688 labeling and release management.</p>
690 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
691 the product into a more compact form.</p>
693 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
694 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
695 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
696 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
698 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
699 notes for every release.</p>
701 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
704 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
705 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
707 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
711 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
712 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
713 <h2>Unix Systems Administrator</h2>
714 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
715 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
716 Systems Technology Division<br>
717 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
719 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
720 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
721 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
722 related patch depots.</p>
724 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
725 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
726 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
728 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
729 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
732 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
734 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
735 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
736 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
737 and other such changes.</p>
739 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
743 <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
744 title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
745 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
746 <h2>Clearcase Administrator</h2>
747 <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
748 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
750 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
751 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
752 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
753 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
754 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
755 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
757 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
758 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
759 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
761 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
766 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
767 title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
768 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
769 <h2>Build Engineer</h2>
770 <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
771 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
773 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
774 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
775 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
779 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
780 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
781 <h2>Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator</h2>
782 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
783 Systems Technology Division<br>
784 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
786 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
787 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
788 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
789 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
790 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
791 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
792 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
793 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
794 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
795 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
796 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
798 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
799 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
800 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
801 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
802 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
803 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
806 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
807 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
808 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
809 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
810 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
811 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
813 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
814 software packages without the need for individual system administration
815 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
817 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
818 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
819 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
820 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
821 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
823 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
824 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
825 language called edl.</p>
827 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
828 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
829 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
830 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
832 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
833 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
834 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
836 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
837 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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