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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>
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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   <hr noshade>
 222
 223   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
 224
 225   <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
 226   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 227
 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>
 234
 235   <hr noshade>
 236
 237   <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
 238   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 239
 240   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
 241
 242   <p>Working on keeping the Internet from exploding! ;-)</p>
 243
 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>
 247
 248   <hr noshade>
 249
 250   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
 251
 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>
 255
 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>
 266
 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>
 272
 273   <hr noshade>
 274
 275   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
 276
 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>
 280
 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>
 285
 286   <hr noshade>
 287
 288   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 289
 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>
 293
 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>
 306
 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>
 315
 316   <hr noshade>
 317
 318   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
 319
 320   <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
 321   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 322   <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
 323
 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>
 326
 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>
 332
 333   <hr noshade>
 334
 335   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
 336
 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>
 340
 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>
 345
 346   <hr noshade>
 347
 348   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
 349
 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>
 353
 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>
 359
 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>
 363
 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>
 367
 368   <hr noshade>
 369
 370   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
 371   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
 372
 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>
 376
 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>
 381
 382   <hr noshade>
 383
 384   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
 385   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
 386
 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>
 390
 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>
 395   test history.</p>
 396
 397   <hr noshade>
 398
 399   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
 400   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 401
 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>
 405
 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>
 408
 409   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
 410   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
 411
 412   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
 413   group.</p>
 414
 415   <hr noshade>
 416
 417   <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
 418   alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
 419
 420   <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
 421   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
 422
 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>
 426
 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>
 430
 431   <hr noshade>
 432
 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>
 436
 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>
 440
 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>
 444
 445   <hr noshade>
 446
 447   <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
 448   Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
 449   border=0></a></p>
 450
 451   <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
 452   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
 453
 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
 459   Testing</a>.</p>
 460
 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>
 464
 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>
 467
 468   <hr noshade>
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