+ <p><a href="http://cisco.com"><img src="Cisco.gif" alt="Cisco Systems"
+ title="Cisco Systems" border=0></a></p>
+
+ <p>March 1999 - August 1999<br>
+ <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
+ <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Cisco">Cisco</a></p>
+
+ <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
+ Clearcase operations in CNS/AD on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and
+ Windows 2000. Assisted in creating additional View and Vob servers and
+ balancing the Clearcase load amongst them. Participated in Rational's Beta
+ program for Windows 2000. Installed, tested and documented Clearcase on
+ Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT 4.0.</p>
+
+ <p>Assisted in recovery of a catastrophic disk failure in a critical vob.
+ Assisted with implementing a backup strategy with Arcserve Open. Helped
+ evaluate system monitoring packages.</p>
+
+ <p>As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and assisted users
+ with ssh/scp.</p>
+
+ <hr noshade>
+
+ <a href="https://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html"><img src="Sun.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems"
+ title="Sun Microsystems" border=0></a></p>
+
+ <p>December 1998 - March 1999<br>
+ <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
+ <a href="https://defaria-status.blogspot.com/search/label/Sun">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
+
+ <p>Worked on the Sunpeak Configuration Management team performing promotions
+ of code updates into test and production environments. Also worked on
+ improving the process flow of promotions utilizing make and rdist.</p>
+
+ <hr noshade>
+
+ <p><a href="http://hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
+ Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
+
+ <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
+ Systems Technology Division<br>
+ Enterprise Java Lab</p>
+
+ <p>Primary Clearcase and Multisite Administrator for a large Clearcase
+ environment with approximately 1400 views and 180 vobs. Most vobs are
+ multisited between several other labs and I am responsible for resolving
+ Multisite problems. I also serve as general System Administrator, overseeing
+ approximately 400 machines in the lab. I help institute policies and
+ procedures to keep the network running smoothly. Also participate in the
+ design and restructuring the network topology and Clearcase topology by bring
+ in many Kittyhawks, Mohawks and Bravehawks (about 40 of them) for use as
+ Clearcase Vob, View and Build, Mail, Application, X Terminal and Web servers.
+ Assist in documenting setup and configuration as well as trouble shooting and
+ handling of patches for all lab wide shared resources.</p>
+
+ <p>Responsible for setup and running of Windows NT domain, account setup and
+ print serving. Setup and evaluated Clearcase 3.2 on NT. Developed backup
+ strategy for NT systems. Maintain a repository of software tools as well as
+ evaluated and recommended several PC packages for lab usage. Main point of
+ contact for Windows 95/NT problem solving in the lab. Also sought after by
+ many people in Hewlett Packard relating to both PC and Unix configurations and
+ problem solving.</p>
+
+ <p>Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions
+ and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the <a href="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape</a>
+ Suitespot Servers including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed
+ several web pages and forms for the lab as well as run
+ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20001109171100/http://defaria.com/Quicken">The
+ Unofficial Quicken® Web Page.</a></p>
+
+ <p>I developed an Application Server providing many machines with many
+ software packages without the need for individual system administration
+ utilizing scripting and NFS heavily.</p>
+
+ <p>Prior to the Productivity Project I worked on COBOL/SoftBench product
+ which consists of encapsulating some core HP Micro Focus COBOL tools using C++
+ 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator libraries. Also, working on porting an
+ X/Motif application to MS Windows 3.1. The code is written using C++ 3.0 on
+ both the HP workstation and the PC (Borland C++ 3.1).</p>
+
+ <p>Worked in the Ada project on Ada/SoftBench. This project was similar to
+ COBOL/SoftBench in that it involved some SoftBench encapsulations using a
+ language called edl.</p>
+
+ <p>Worked producing Ada Bindings to Xlib, Xt and Motif. This involved using a
+ modified C compiler to translate C header and source files to Ada declarations
+ and function prototypes. Using this methodology we were able to migrate our
+ product from X11 R3 and Motif 1.0 to X11 R4 and Motif 1.1 in one week!</p>
+
+ <p>Worked on a project that produced Ada Bindings to HP-UX, which enabled me
+ to get good breath knowledge into all system calls, and another binding to
+ Starbase graphical subsystem.</p>
+
+ <p>Performed destructive testing on MPE/XL 1.0-1.3. Wrote several programs to
+ stress the OS. Submitted 300+ Service Requests many of which appeared on Must
+ Fix lists.</p>
+
+ <hr noshade>
+