Our People
Andrew DeFaria
Specialities: Clearcase, Clearquest, Build & Release, Test Automation, Web Applications
Andrew has approximately 30 years of experience in the computer field and has been working with Clearcase since ~1993. His initial exposure to Clearcase was at Hewlett Packard's Language Lab where he become the Clearcase adminstrator as well as general Unix administrator. Andrew has continued to work with Clearcase, Clearquest as well as Unix and Windows administration, Build & Release processes, Test Automation and has added on various Web Applications at numbers Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies such as HP, Sun, Cisco, Ameriquest, Broadcom and Texas Instruments.
Andrew is the president of ClearSCM, Inc. and it the principal writer, designer and implementor of this web site. He also runs his own domain at defaria.com where he keeps his administration skills sharp and develops web applications. For example, Andrew has developed a personal spam filtering system known as Mail Authorization and Permission System or MAPS that filters the some 2000-5000 emails he receives a day! Andrew also keeps active on various mail lists and forums regarding topics from SCM to ones of a personal nature.
For more detailed information see Andrew's Resume.
Tom Connor
Specialities Clearcase, UCM, Clearquest, Build/Release, Perl
Tom is a Sr. Software Engineer with over 20 years of varied experience as a software developer. Specializations in Software Configuration Management, Release Engineering, Build Engineering, workflow automation, Installer Development, and Deployment Engineering. Creative problem solver with strong analytical and communication skills.
For more information see Tom's Resume.
Kevin Haralson
Specialities System Adminstration, Managing vendor relationships, IT Tech/Helpdesk expertise
19 years experience in the IT field. 5 years as a manager, overseeing projects, and/or budgets. 4 years in a technical sales capacity, and 10 years as a Technician (Tech Support/Helpdesk to Desktop/Hardware/Config Tech to System Admin to Network Admin).
In the last 3 years I have been involved in building the infrastructure for medical, legal and financial offices, including installing most/ all of their industry specific software. I've worked in three large organizations (over 2000 employees) as an IT Tech, and a number of smaller organizations (20 - 200 employees) from help desk to director of IT.
For more information see Kevin's Resume.
Don Skanes
Specialities Clearcase, Clearquest, Windows, Project Management
Don, originally from Canada, is a highly skilled senior software engineer with over 27 years of experience. Special strengths in the areas of design and implementation of Software Configuration Management tools, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, databases, system validation tools, build and deployment automation.
Don has been working with Clearcase since the early 90's. He has a firm grasp of the Rational Toolset including the Team Unifying Platorm, UCM, Clearquest, Test Director. Don is equally comfortable in a management role as he is in a role of designer and developer. Whether writing project plans, training material or coding Clearcase triggers or build automation tools,
For more information see Don's Resume.
Ron Van Sherpe
Specialities: Windows Administration, Unix/Linux Administration and advocate
Ron is one of those people who loves technology and loves to put different technological ideas together building solutions for clients. He is a strong advocate of Linux and has put together many packages for small companies to use Open Source packages with Linux backends to solve their corporate business needs as cheaply as possible.
For more information see Ron's Resume.
Mohammed Ansari
Specialities: With more than 15 years experience Mohammed specializes as a Configuration Management Program and Project Lead.
Mohammed's experience is one who's breath is about as broad as his depth. Mohammed specializes in Configuration management from a project and program perspective but has years of depth in the trenches as well.
For more information see Mohammed's Resume.