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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 1676 Hope Drive #1915<br>
57 Santa Clara, California 95054-1721<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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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>
91 <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
94 <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
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>
102 <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
103 class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
104 class="standout">Samba</span></p>
108 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
111 <td>Version Control Systems</td>
113 <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
114 <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
118 <td>Issue Tracking</td>
120 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
121 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
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>
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>
144 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
145 <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
151 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
155 <td>Coninuous Integration</td>
157 <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
158 <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
162 <td>Virtualization</td>
164 <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
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
176 University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
180 <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
221 <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
223 <p>March 2014 - Present<br>
224 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
225 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
227 <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
228 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
229 <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
230 Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
231 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>
232 servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
233 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
234 import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
235 <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
236 for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
238 <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
239 <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
240 <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
241 <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
242 <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
246 <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
248 <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
249 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
250 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
252 <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
253 AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
254 The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
255 standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
259 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
261 <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
262 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
263 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
265 <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
266 Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
267 this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
268 module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
269 <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
270 and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
271 modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
272 build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
273 the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
274 to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
275 that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
276 triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
278 <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
279 migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
280 Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
281 <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
282 farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
283 perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
284 9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
285 as the engineers checked in code.</p>
289 <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
291 <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
292 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
293 <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
295 <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
296 <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
298 <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
299 interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
300 process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
301 developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
302 line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
306 <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
308 <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
309 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
310 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
312 <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
313 administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
314 in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
315 similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
319 <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
321 <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
322 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
323 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
325 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
326 Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
327 using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
328 application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
329 integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
331 <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
332 tools such as <a href="v">Perl::Critic</a> and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
333 Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
335 <p>Automated tests using <a href="">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
336 all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
337 Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
341 <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
342 alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
344 <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
345 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
346 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
348 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
349 Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
350 application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
351 license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</p>
355 <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
356 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
358 <p>February 2006 - October 2006<br>
359 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
360 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
362 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
363 Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
364 official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
365 integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
370 <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
371 alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
373 <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
374 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
375 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
377 <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
378 Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
380 <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
381 merge Clearquest databases.</p>
383 <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
388 <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
389 alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
391 <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
392 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
394 <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
395 as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
396 uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
398 <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
399 Developed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>).
400 Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
404 <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
405 alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
406 Company" border=0></a></p>
408 <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
409 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
410 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
412 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
413 administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
414 systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
418 <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
419 Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
422 <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
423 <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
425 <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
426 Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
427 <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
428 GNU make. Analyzed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">Build
429 Performance</a> and <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress
432 <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
433 on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
434 Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
436 <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
437 Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
441 <p><a href="http://www.hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
442 Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
444 <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
445 <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
446 <a href="#">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
448 <h3><a href="http://hprasmg.cup.hp.com/Org/STD.html"> Systems
449 Technology Division</a></h3>
451 <h4><a href="http://pdlweb.cup.hp.com">Enterprise Java Lab</a></h4>
453 <p>Performed Security Audit for the lab. Also migrated user data to HP NetStorage
456 <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
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