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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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87 <td valign="top" align center>
88 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
90 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
92 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
94 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
105 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
106 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
110 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
111 of Linux systems.</p>
113 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
115 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
116 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
117 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
121 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
122 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
123 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
127 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
130 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
132 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
133 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
137 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
139 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
140 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
146 <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
147 <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
148 <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
149 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
155 <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
156 <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
157 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
163 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
164 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
170 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
174 <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
176 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
177 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
181 <th>Virtualization</th>
183 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
187 <th>Cloud Computing</th>
189 <span class="standout">AWS: EC2</span>,
190 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
191 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
192 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
193 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
194 <span class="standout">Route53,
195 <span class="standout">VPC</span>
204 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
205 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
207 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
211 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
214 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
215 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
216 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
217 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
220 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
221 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
222 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
223 <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
226 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
227 <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
228 <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
229 <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
232 <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
233 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
234 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
235 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
248 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
250 <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
251 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
253 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
254 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
255 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
256 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
257 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
258 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
259 building and signing of executables.</p>
263 <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
264 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
266 <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
269 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
270 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
274 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
276 <p>March 2014 - April 2016<br>
277 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
278 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Audience">Audience</a></p>
280 <p><span class="standout">Devops Admin</span>: Initially wrote scripts to
281 import data from <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
282 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
283 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
284 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
285 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
286 managing VM images in vSphere,
287 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
288 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
290 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
291 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
292 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
293 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
294 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
295 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
296 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
297 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
301 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
303 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
304 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
305 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
307 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
308 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
309 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
310 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
311 performing builds.</p>
315 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
317 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
318 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
319 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
321 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
322 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
324 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
325 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
326 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
327 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
328 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
329 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
331 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
332 <span class="standout"><a
333 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
334 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
335 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
336 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
337 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
338 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
339 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
343 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
345 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
346 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
347 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Tellabs">Tellabs</a></font>
349 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
350 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
351 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
353 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
354 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
355 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
356 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
358 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
359 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
360 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
361 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
365 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
367 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
368 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
369 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Electric">General Electric</a></font>
371 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
372 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
373 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
374 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
375 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
379 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
381 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
382 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
383 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/General%20Dynamics">General Dynamics</a></font>
385 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
386 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
387 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
388 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
389 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
390 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
391 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
393 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
394 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
395 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
396 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
398 <p>Automated tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/">NetHawk EAST
399 Simulators</a> to automate all testing and store results into a <span
400 class="standout">MySQL</span> database. This reduced the time it took to certify
401 testing with the military several fold. Also developed a <span
402 class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
406 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
407 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
409 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
410 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
411 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Texas%20Instruments">Texas Instruments</a></font>
413 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
414 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
415 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
416 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
417 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
421 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
422 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
424 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
425 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
426 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/HP">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
428 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest
429 UCM</span> Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries.
430 Baselined official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span
431 class="standout">continuous integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to
432 show <span class="standout">Junit</span> test history.</p>
436 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
437 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
439 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
440 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
441 <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Broadcom">Broadcom</a></p>
443 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
444 Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
446 <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
447 merge Clearquest databases.</p>
449 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
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