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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 11727 Stoney Peak Dr #65<br>
57 San Diego, California 92128-6440<br>
59 <p style="text-align:center">
60 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
61 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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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>
91 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
94 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
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>
102 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
103 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
104 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
108 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
111 <td>Version Control Systems</td>
113 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
114 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
118 <td>Issue Tracking</td>
120 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
121 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
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>
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>
144 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
145 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
151 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
155 <td>Coninuous Integration</td>
157 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
158 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
162 <td>Virtualization</td>
164 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
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
176 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
180 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
223 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
225 <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
226 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
228 <p>Working on converting an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span>
229 build system to the Broadcom/Avago standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
230 and <span class="standout">Git</span>. Wrote a Perl script to driving signing of
231 executables. Wrote a Perl script to remotely execute commands remotely on Windows
232 systems using Cygwin/ssh. This script also supplied username/password so that
233 when logged into the Windows system, Windows could access remote filesystems.</p>
237 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
238 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
240 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
242 <p>Working on keeping the Internet from exploding! ;-)</p>
244 <p>Working on creating servers to implement protocols such as RDAP (pretty
245 much the new whois(1)) and the like for testing SLA compliance of various TLD
246 registrars around the world.</p>
250 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
252 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
253 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
254 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
256 <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
257 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
258 <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
259 Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
260 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>
261 servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
262 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
263 import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
264 <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
265 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
267 <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
268 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
269 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
270 <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
271 <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
275 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
277 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
278 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
279 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
281 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
282 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
283 The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
284 standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
288 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
290 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
291 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
292 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
294 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
295 Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
296 this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
297 module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
298 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
299 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
300 modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
301 build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
302 the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
303 to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
304 that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
305 triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
307 <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
308 migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
309 Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
310 <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
311 farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
312 perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
313 9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
314 as the engineers checked in code.</p>
318 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
320 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
321 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
322 <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
324 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
325 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
327 <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
328 interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
329 process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
330 developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
331 line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
335 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
337 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
338 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
339 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
341 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
342 administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
343 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
344 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
348 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
350 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
351 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
352 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
354 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
355 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
356 using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
357 application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
358 integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
360 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
361 tools such as <a href="v">Perl::Critic</a> and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
362 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
364 <p>Automated tests using <a href="">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
365 all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
366 Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
370 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
371 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
373 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
374 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
375 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
377 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
378 Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
379 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
380 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
384 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
385 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
387 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
388 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
389 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
391 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
392 Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
393 official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
394 integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
399 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
400 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
402 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
403 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
404 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
406 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
407 Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
409 <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
410 merge Clearquest databases.</p>
412 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
417 <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
418 alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
420 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
421 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
423 <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
424 as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
425 uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
427 <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
428 Developed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>).
429 Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
433 <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
434 alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
435 Company" border=0></a></p>
437 <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
438 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
439 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
441 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
442 administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
443 systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
447 <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
448 Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
451 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
452 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
454 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
455 Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
456 <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
457 GNU make. Analyzed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">Build
458 Performance</a> and <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress
461 <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
462 on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
463 Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
465 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
466 Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
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