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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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 101
 102
 103   <h3>Objective</h3>
 104
 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>
 107
 108   <h3>Hardware</h3>
 109
 110   <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
 111   of Linux systems.</p>
 112
 113   <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
 114
 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>
 118
 119   <h3>Networking</h3>
 120
 121   <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
 122   class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
 123   class="standout">Samba</span></p>
 124
 125   <h3>Software</h3>
 126
 127   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
 128     <tbody>
 129       <tr>
 130         <th>Version Control Systems</th>
 131         <td>
 132           <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
 133           <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
 134         </td>
 135       </tr>
 136       <tr>
 137         <th>Issue Tracking</th>
 138         <td>
 139           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
 140           <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
 141         </td>
 142       </tr>
 143       <tr>
 144         <th>Languages</th>
 145         <td>
 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>
 150         </td>
 151       </tr>
 152       <tr>
 153         <th>Middleware</th>
 154         <td>
 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>
 158         </td>
 159       </tr>
 160       <tr>
 161         <th>Web Apps</th>
 162         <td>
 163           <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
 164           <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
 165         </td>
 166       </tr>
 167       <tr>
 168         <th>Databases</th>
 169         <td>
 170           <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
 171         </td>
 172       </tr>
 173       <tr>
 174         <th>Coninuous Integration</th>
 175         <td>
 176           <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
 177           <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
 178         </td>
 179       </tr>
 180       <tr>
 181         <th>Virtualization</th>
 182         <td>
 183           <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
 184         </td>
 185       </tr>
 186       <tr>
 187         <th>Cloud Computing</th>
 188         <td>
 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>
 196         </td>
 197       </tr>
 198     </tbody>
 199   </table>
 200
 201   <h3>Education</h3>
 202
 203   <p>
 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
 206
 207     University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
 208
 209   <h3>References</h3>
 210
 211   <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
 212     <tbody>
 213       <tr>
 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>
 218       </tr>
 219       <tr>
 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>
 224       </tr>
 225       <tr>
 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>
 230       </tr>
 231       <tr>
 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>
 236       </tr>
 237     </tbody>
 238   </table>
 239
 240   <br>
 241
 242   <hr noshade>
 243
 244   <h2>Clients</h2>
 245
 246   <hr noshade>
 247
 248   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom/Avago" border="0"></a></p>
 249
 250   <p>August 2016 - Present<br>
 251   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 252
 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>
 260
 261   <hr noshade>
 262
 263   <p>May 2016 - July 2016<br>
 264   <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
 265
 266   <p><a href="http://icann.org"><img alt="ICANN" src="ICANN.png" border="0"></a><br></p>
 267
 268   <p>Developed <a
 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>
 271
 272   <hr noshade>
 273
 274   <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
 275
 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>
 279
 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>
 289
 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>
 298
 299   <hr noshade>
 300
 301   <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
 302
 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>
 306
 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>
 312
 313   <hr noshade>
 314
 315   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 316
 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>
 320
 321   <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
 322   instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
 323   Using ClearSCM's <a
 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>
 330
 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>
 340
 341   <hr noshade>
 342
 343   <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
 344
 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>
 348
 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>
 352
 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
 357   called <a
 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>
 362
 363   <hr noshade>
 364
 365   <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
 366
 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>
 370
 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>
 376
 377   <hr noshade>
 378
 379   <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
 380
 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>
 384
 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>
 392
 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>
 397
 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>
 403
 404   <hr noshade>
 405
 406   <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
 407   alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
 408
 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>
 412
 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>
 418
 419   <hr noshade>
 420
 421   <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
 422   Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
 423
 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>
 427
 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>
 433
 434   <hr noshade>
 435
 436   <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
 437   alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
 438
 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>
 442
 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>
 445
 446   <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
 447   merge Clearquest databases.</p>
 448
 449   <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
 450   group.</p>
 451
 452   <hr noshade>
 453
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