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116 <h2 align=center><a href="https://defaria.com">Andrew DeFaria</a></h2>
117 <address style="text-align:center">
119 Vista, California 92081<br>
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122 Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
123 Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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139 <font size=-1>For the most up to date copy of this resume see <a href="https://defaria.com/resume">http://defaria.com/resume</a></font>
146 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" border="0" align="center">
149 <td valign="center" align="center">
150 <a href="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.pdf" target="_blank">
151 <img src="AWS_Certified_Logo_SAA_294x230_Color.png" align="middle" alt="AWS Certified Solutions Architect"><br>
153 <img src="AWS_Certified_Tag__SAA_294x230-Color.png" alt="Associate">
155 <b>Validation Number:</b> 4Q2XDJDCK1EE1HC5
158 <td valign="top" align="center">
159 <a href="Docker Certified Associate.pdf" target="_blank">
160 <img src="Docker Certified Associate (DCA).png" alt="Docker Certified Associate (DCA)">
165 <td valign="top" align="center">
166 <a href="Jenkins Quick Start.pdf" target="_blank">
167 <img src="Jenkins Quick Start.png" alt="Jenkin Quick Start">
170 <td valign="top" align="center">
171 <a href="Jenkins Fundamentals.pdf" target="_blank">
172 <img src="Jenkins Fundamentals.png" alt="Jenkin Fundamentals">
181 <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
182 insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
186 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP, Microsoft Windows as well as various
187 other manufactures of Linux systems.</p>
189 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
191 <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
192 <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
193 (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
197 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
198 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
199 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
203 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
206 <th>Version Control Systems</th>
208 <span class="standout">Git</span>,
209 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
210 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
214 <th>Issue Tracking</th>
216 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>,
217 <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
218 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
224 <span class="standout">Perl</span>,
225 <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
226 <span class="standout">PHP</span>,
227 <span class="standout">C++</span>,
228 <span class="standout">C</span>,
229 <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
230 <span class="standout">TCL</span>
234 <th>Configuration Management</th>
236 <span class="standout">Puppet</span>,
237 <span class="standout">Ansible</span>
243 <span class="standout">Apache</span>,
244 <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
245 <span class="standout">Samba</span>,
246 <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
247 <span class="standout">LDAP</span>,
248 <span class="standout">REST</span>
254 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>,
255 <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
256 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
262 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>,
263 <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
269 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
270 <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>
274 <th>Virtualization</th>
276 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>,
277 <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
278 <span class="standout">vSphere</span>,
279 <span class="standout">vCenter</span>
283 <th>Cloud Computing (<span class="standout">Classroom Only</span>)</th>
285 <span class="standout">EC2</span>,
286 <span class="standout">IAM</span>,
287 <span class="standout">S3</span>,
288 <span class="standout">Glacier</span>,
289 <span class="standout">CloudFront</span>,
290 <span class="standout">Route53,
291 <span class="standout">VPC</span>,
292 <span class="standout">Docker</span>
301 A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
302 Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
304 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
308 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
311 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-clarke-30853132/">Charles Clarke</a></td>
312 <td>(770) 252-1500</td>
313 <td><a href="mailto:charles@abs-consulting.com">charles@abs-consulting.com</a></td>
314 <td>Owner ABS Consulting</td>
317 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-connor-285114/">Tom Connor</a></td>
318 <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
319 <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
320 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
323 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/specware/">James Chen</a></td>
324 <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
325 <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
326 <td>Consultant at Specware & 2Opp, LLC</td>
329 <td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivdutt-jha-032414/">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
330 <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
331 <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
332 <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
339 <h2>ClearSCM, Inc</h2>
341 <h3>Perl Developer</h3>
342 <p>July 2007 - Present<br>
344 <p>Responsible for maintaining a Perl application written using the Dancer
345 framework called UserPro. Tightened security by standardizing access to
346 database as well as implemented an auditing facility for changes made to
347 database records.</p>
349 <h3>Solaris Administrator, PuppetMaster</h3>
351 <p>For this technology refresh of over a decade ago, I was instrumental in
352 setting up and maintain dozens of Solaris 5.11 zone systems and served as the
353 primary Solaris System Administrator. This includes setup of many services
354 like NIS, DNS, NTP, SMTP, AutoFS as well as a standard set of tools.
356 <p>Introduced <span class="standout">Puppet</span> to the group and served as
357 the <span class="standout">Puppet Master</span>.</p>
359 <p>Created Windows based <span class="standout">VMs</span> for specific roles
360 such as <span class="standout"BuildForge Console</span>, Application server,
361 Domain Controllers, etc. These were managed under <span
362 class="standout">vCenter</span>.</p>
364 <p>Developed <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts for validation testing
365 of <span class="standout">Clearcase</span> and <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>.
366 Developed a Clearcase enhanced monitoring tool to monitor servers, loadavg and
367 filesystems as well as Clearcase objects like VOBs and views.</p>
369 <h3>Devops Engineer</h3>
371 <p>Converted an internal project from a <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>/
372 <span class="standout">Perforce</span> build system to the Broadcom/Avago
373 standard of <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>/
374 <span class="standout">Git</span>. Developed Perl scripts to sign executables
375 and remotely execute commands on Windows systems using <span
376 class="standout">Cygwin/ssh</span> thus streamlining and standardizing remote
377 building and signing of executables.</p>
379 <h3>Python Developer</h3>
382 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol">RDAP</a>
383 server for testing SLA compliance of various TLD registrars around the world.</p>
385 <h3>JIRA/Perforce/Linux Administrator</h3>
387 <p>Initially wrote scripts to import data from
388 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and other sources to
389 <span class="standout">JIRA</span> thus automating the migration of several
390 projects. Also administered <span class="standout">Linux</span> servers
391 (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span
392 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>)
393 managing VM images in vSphere,
394 <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Swarm</span>,
395 <span class="standout">Git Fusion</span>.</p>
397 <p>Added functionality to custom build system that utilized <span
398 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">PHP</span>/<span
399 class="standout">Apache</span>/<span class="standout">Linux</span>/<span
400 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to allow engineers in the field to
401 remotely perform customized builds. Integrated Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG).
402 Assisted with JIRA setup and integration of <span
403 class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
404 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
406 <h3>Build Release Engineer</h3>
408 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
409 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span
410 class="standout">Ubuntu</span>. The SCM system being used is <span
411 class="standout">git</span>. Developed and standardized procedures for
412 performing builds.</p>
414 <h3>Clearquest Administrator</h3>
416 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span>: Maintained Clearquest
417 instances implementing functionality with <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>.
419 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>,
420 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
421 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
422 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
423 modules created <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
424 triggers to automate builds updating Clearquest in the process.</p>
426 <p>Migrated a project from their unsupported build environment into the standard
427 <span class="standout"><a
428 href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
429 Commander</a></span>/<span class="standout">Perforce</span> based solution
430 using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>, <span class="standout">bash</span>
431 and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to farm builds out to a pool of <span
432 class="standout">Windows</span> servers to perform builds. Builds were done
433 using <span class="standout">Visual Studio</span> 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows
434 Servers triggered by Perforce triggers at code checkin.</p>
436 <h3>Perl Developer</h3>
437 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
438 <font class=dim>Contract</font></p>
440 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span
441 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span
442 class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
444 <p>Developed a command line debugger called <a
445 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=bin/raid">RAID</a> (a Real
446 Aid In Debugging) which provided a consistent interface with complete command
447 history and variable substitution courtesy of a Perl module that I wrote
449 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/CmdLine.pm">Cmdline.pm</a>.
450 This Perl process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to
451 interface to the developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for
452 the various command line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
454 <h3>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator</h3>
456 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
457 class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span> administration. Developed an <a
458 href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
459 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
460 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.
461 Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as component/composite
462 baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for conversions of Clearquest data
463 with other systems (Siebel).</p>
465 <h3>Clearcase/Clearquest/Release Engineer</h3>
467 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
468 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and
469 <span class="standout">Automation</span> using <span
470 class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span
471 class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span> application that
472 integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest integrated environment
473 into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
475 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
476 tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a>
477 and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
478 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
480 <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to interface and
481 drive tests using <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk
482 EAST Simulators</a> as well as interfacing to other simulators and external
483 hardware. The system automates the running of regression tests, official
484 testing before the customer, assists with validation of test results,
485 collecting of log files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status
486 into a MySQL database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various
487 forms including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of
488 reports. Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean.
489 This system was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the <a
490 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
491 program. This reduced the time it took to certify testing with the military several
494 <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
495 GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
496 Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
497 scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
499 <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
500 then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
501 from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
502 records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
508 <h3>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator</h3>
509 <p>February 2004 - June 2007<br>
511 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span
512 class="standout">Clearquest</span> Administrator. Wrote a <span
513 class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
514 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
515 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
517 <h3>Build Release Engineer</h3>
519 <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served as
520 <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator as well as
521 overall support of systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of
522 rebase and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process. Wrote
523 <span class="standout">UCM triggers</span> to notify users of deliveries from
524 UCM development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took over day
525 to day build and release duties. Created a build script that united the
526 various quick and dirty build scripts that were oriented per stream and per
527 build option. This standardized the build process. Augmented this build script
528 to be a daemon that continually builds software when deliveries are detected.
529 Wrote a build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
530 building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test history. Converted
531 Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks -> Cygwin and cron thus
532 making the build script identical on both Linux and Windows. Wrote triggers
533 to notify users of deliveries. Baselined official builds. Automated the build
534 process to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page
535 to show Junit test history.
537 <h3>Clearcase/Clearquest Administor</h3>
539 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest</span> Administrator
540 as well as overall support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>
541 as well as ported my <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
542 script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
544 <p>Developed a complex <a hef="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a>
545 to merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema changes.
546 This script handled all aspects of the conversion including changing non US
547 ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML equivalents, dynamic creation
548 of dynamic lists, field renaming and dynamically creating new stateless
549 records as needed.</p>
551 <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries and rebases
552 by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the process as well as
553 handle binary element merge. This process, written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to
554 present the user with a GUI dialog box to choose which version of the binary
557 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
558 Multimedia group.</p>
560 <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS (a defect
561 tracking system) recording the change set at commit time, a script to strip
562 out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects submitted to GNATS (another defect
563 tracking system). Also implemented several script to log Clearcase activity,
564 check Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts were
565 the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to encapsulate
566 Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in development).</p>
568 <h3>Build Engineer</h3>
570 <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible for
571 building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and
572 process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version control.</p>
574 <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the company's defect
575 database using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
576 Developed a web based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
577 related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS
578 Utilities</a>) as well as report on the differences between two CVS tags.</p>
580 <p>Automated the build process so that nightly builds could be performed.
581 Developed a web application that allows one to maintain CVS account
582 information including account creation, setting/resetting of password, etc.</p>
584 <h3>Clearcase Administrator</h3>
586 <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major mortgage
587 company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been busy with importing
588 source code from flat file systems as well as PVCS and Visual Source Safe.
589 Also setting up vobs and regions taking into account security restrictions
590 and concerns. Assisted with designing of the Multisite scheme to India.
591 Participated in design of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</p>
597 <h3>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator/Build Engineer</h3>
598 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
600 <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
601 startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
602 this mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
603 Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.</p>
605 <p>I also served in the role of Release Engineer managing the build process.
606 I employed wide usage of <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>, which is a
607 product that provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and
608 engineered a build environment around that using GNU make and other standard
609 Unix and GNU utilities. When users complained that building remotely was slow
610 I performed an analysis on build performance. I also performed Build Stress
611 Testing where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
612 performed on the server.</p>
614 <p>I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well
615 as served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching strategies,
616 labeling and release management.</p>
618 <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that packaged
619 the product into a more compact form.</p>
621 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
622 Daemon</a> which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest data.
623 This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in order to get and
624 validate data from Clearquest.</p>
626 <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced release
627 notes for every release.</p>
629 <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch merging
632 <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on Linux
633 (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing (Netscape).</p>
635 <p>Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.</p>
641 <h3>Unix Systems Administrator</h2>
642 <p>December 1998 - February 2001<br>
644 <p>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an internal
645 security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports are generated
646 automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and maintained security
647 related patch depots.</p>
649 <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including security
650 checks, automatic installation of line printer models, etc. This automation
651 was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
653 <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with HP
654 NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and interfacing with
657 <P>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to another.
659 <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times where the
660 team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure, including migration
661 to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user data to HP NetStorage 6000's
662 and other such changes.</p>
664 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
666 <h3>Clearcase Administrator</h3>
668 <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
669 Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
670 Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
671 balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
672 program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
673 Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
675 <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
676 Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
677 evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
679 <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
682 <h3>Build Engineer</h3>
684 <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
685 of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
686 improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
690 <h2>Hewlett Packard Company</p>
692 <h3>Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator</h3>
694 <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
695 Systems Technology Division<br>
696 Enterprise Java Lab</p>
698 <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
699 environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
700 multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
701 Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
702 approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
703 procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
704 design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
705 in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
706 Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
707 Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
708 handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
710 <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
711 print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
712 strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
713 evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
714 contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
715 many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
718 <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
719 and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
720 Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
721 several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
722 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
723 Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
725 <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
726 software packages without the need for individual system administration
727 utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
729 <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
730 which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
731 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
732 X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
733 both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
735 <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
736 COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
737 language called edl.</p>
739 <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
740 modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
741 and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
742 product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
744 <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
745 to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
746 Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
748 <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
749 stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
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