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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=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
 184         <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
 185         <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
 186         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 187       </tr>
 188       <tr>
 189         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
 190         <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
 191         <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
 192         <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
 193       </tr>
 194       <tr>
 195         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
 196         <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
 197         <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
 198         <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
 199       </tr>
 200       <tr>
 201         <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
 202         <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
 203         <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
 204         <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
 205       </tr>
 206     </tbody>
 207   </table>
 208
 209   <br>
 210
 211   <hr noshade>
 212
 213   <h2>Clients</h2>
 214
 215   <hr noshade>
 216
 217   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
 218
 219   <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
 220   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 221
 222   <p>Working on converting an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span>
 223   build system to the Broadcom/Avago standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
 224   and <span class="standout">Git</span>. Wrote a Perl script to driving signing of
 225   executables. Wrote a Perl script to remotely execute commands remotely on Windows
 226   systems using Cygwin/ssh. This script also supplied username/password so that
 227   when logged into the Windows system, Windows could access remote filesystems.</p>
 228
 229   <hr noshade>
 230
 231   <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
 232   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 233
 234   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
 235
 236   <p>Working on keeping the Internet from exploding! ;-)</p>
 237
 238   <p>Working on creating servers to implement protocols such as RDAP (pretty
 239   much the new whois(1)) and the like for testing SLA compliance of various TLD
 240   registrars around the world.</p>
 241
 242   <hr noshade>
 243
 244   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
 245
 246   <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
 247   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 248   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
 249
 250   <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
 251   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 252   <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
 253   Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
 254   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>
 255   servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
 256   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
 257   import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
 258   <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
 259   for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
 260
 261   <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
 262   <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
 263   <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
 264   <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
 265   <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
 266
 267   <hr noshade>
 268
 269   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
 270
 271   <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
 272   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 273   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
 274
 275   <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
 276   AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
 277   The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
 278   standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
 279
 280   <hr noshade>
 281
 282   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 283
 284   <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
 285   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 286   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 287
 288   <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
 289   Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
 290   this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
 291   module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
 292   <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
 293   and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
 294   modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
 295   build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
 296   the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
 297   to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
 298   that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
 299   triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
 300
 301   <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
 302   migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
 303   Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
 304   <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
 305   farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
 306   perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
 307   9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
 308   as the engineers checked in code.</p>
 309
 310   <hr noshade>
 311
 312   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
 313
 314   <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
 315   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 316   <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
 317
 318   <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
 319   <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
 320
 321   <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
 322   interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
 323   process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
 324   developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
 325   line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
 326
 327   <hr noshade>
 328
 329   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
 330
 331   <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
 332   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 333   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
 334
 335   <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 336   administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
 337   in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
 338   similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
 339
 340   <hr noshade>
 341
 342   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
 343
 344   <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
 345   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 346   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
 347
 348   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 349   Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
 350   using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
 351   application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
 352   integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
 353
 354   <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
 355   tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
 356   and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
 357   Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
 358
 359   <p>Automated tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
 360   all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
 361   Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
 362
 363   <hr noshade>
 364
 365   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
 366   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
 367
 368   <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
 369   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 370   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
 371
 372   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 373   Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 374   application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
 375   license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
 376
 377   <hr noshade>
 378
 379   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
 380   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
 381
 382   <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
 383   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 384   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
 385
 386   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
 387   Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
 388   official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
 389   integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
 390   test history.</p>
 391
 392   <hr noshade>
 393
 394   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
 395   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 396
 397   <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
 398   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 399   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
 400
 401   <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 402   Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
 403
 404   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
 405   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
 406
 407   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
 408   group.</p>
 409
 410   <hr noshade>
 411
 412   <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
 413   alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
 414
 415   <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
 416   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
 417
 418   <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
 419   as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
 420   uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
 421
 422   <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
 423   Developed CVS Utilities).
 424   Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
 425
 426   <hr noshade>
 427
 428   <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
 429   alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
 430   Company" border=0></a></p>
 431
 432   <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
 433   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 434   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
 435
 436   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 437   administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
 438   systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
 439
 440   <hr noshade>
 441
 442   <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
 443   Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
 444   border=0></a></p>
 445
 446   <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
 447   <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
 448
 449   <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
 450   Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
 451   <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
 452   GNU make. Analyzed Build Performance and Build Stress Testing.</p>
 453
 454   <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
 455   on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
 456   Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
 457
 458   <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
 459   Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
 460
 461   <hr noshade>
 462
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