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- <h2 align=center><a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew P. DeFaria</a></h2>
- <address style="text-align:center">
- 1676 Hope Drive #1915<br>
- Santa Clara, California 95054-1721<br>
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- Phone: 408-596-4937</a><br>
- Email: <a href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">Andrew@DeFaria.com</a><br>
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- <h3>Objective</h3>
-
- <p>To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to
- insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.</p>
-
- <h3>Hardware</h3>
-
- <p>Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures
- of Linux systems.</p>
-
- <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu),
- <span class="standout">Windows</span>, <span class="standout">Unix</span>
- (Solaris, HP-UX), <span class="standout"><a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a></span></p>
-
- <h3>Networking</h3>
-
- <p>TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
- class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
- class="standout">Samba</span></p>
-
- <h3>Software</h3>
-
- <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="60%">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>Version Control Systems</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
- <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Issue Tracking</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>,
- <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Languages</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">Perl</span>, <span class="standout">Bash</span>,
- <span class="standout">PHP</span>, <span class="standout">C++</span>,
- <span class="standout">C</span>, <span class="standout">Ada</span>,
- <span class="standout">TCL</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Middleware</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">Apache</span>, <span class="standout">Tomcat</span>,
- <span class="standout">Samba</span>, <span class="standout">Winbind</span>,
- <span class="standout">LDAP</span>, <span class="standout">REST</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Web Apps</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Confluence</span>,
- <span class="standout">Swarm</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Databases</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">MySQL</span>, <span class="standout">Oracle</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Coninuous Integration</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span class="standout">Electric Commander</span>,
- <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>Virtualization</td>
- <td>
- <span class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">VirtualBox</span>,
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <h3>Education</h3>
-
- <p>
- A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch Plains, New
- Jersey. Continued studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University, San Jose State
-
- University, Mission College and Chico State in pursuit of my degree.</p>
-
- <h3>References</h3>
-
- <table align=center border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="90%">
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14959116">David Petro</a></td>
- <td>(425)-391-4185</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:david.petro@ge.com">david.petro@ge.com</a></td>
- <td>Manager, General Electric</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276869">Tom Connor</a></td>
- <td>(512)-422-1172</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:tomhillconnor@yahoo.com">tomhillconnor@yahoo.com</a></td>
- <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=700521">James Chen</a></td>
- <td>(408)-845-5360</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:jchen@salira.com">jchen@salira.com</a></td>
- <td>Vice President of Engineering,<br>Salira Optical Network Systems</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12113821">Omair Ahmed</a></td>
- <td>(224) 715-9786</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:Omair.Ahmed@ge.com">omair.ahmed@ge.com</a></td>
- <td>Coworker, General Electric</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1023014">Shivdutt Jha</a></td>
- <td>(408)-806-3476</td>
- <td><a href="mailto:shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com">shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com</a></td>
- <td>Coworker, Consultant</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
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- <hr noshade>
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- <h2>Clients</h2>
-
- <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a><br><b>A Knowles Company</b></p>
-
- <p>March 2014 - Present<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Audience</a></p>
-
- <p>Served in the <span class="standout">Devops</span> group as admin for
- <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Perforce</span>,
- <span class="standout">Swarm</span> (code review tool), <span class="standout">Git
- Fusion</span>, <span class="standout">Linux</span> (<span class="standout">Centos</span>/<span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>/<span class="standout">Redhat Enterprise</span>).
- 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>
- servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated
- <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span> and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to
- import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of
- <span class="standout">Salesforce</span> with JIRA. Assisted in the migration
- for users to new Knowles domain.</p>
-
- <p>Tools used: <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Jama</span>,
- <span class="standout">JIRA</span>, <span class="standout">Git</span>, <span class="standout">Gerrit</span>,
- <span class="standout">Bugzilla</span>, <span class="standout">Autobuilder</span>,
- <span class="standout">Build Script</span>, <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>,
- <span class="standout">Confluence</span> and <span class="standout">Swarm</span>.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.axcient.com"><img src="Axcient.png" alt="Axcient" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>July 2013 - Dec 2013<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_axcient.html">Axcient</a></p>
-
- <p>Worked as a <span class="standout">Build and Release Engineer</span> for
- AxOS. The Axcient product is a customized derivative of <span class="standout">Ubuntu</span>.
- The SCM system being used is <span class="standout">git</span>. Developed and
- standardized procedures for performing builds.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif" alt="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>December 2011 - April 2013<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearquest Designer</span> and hook code writer. The
- Clearquest database used <span class="standout">Visual Basic</span>. Integrated
- this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
- module as well as <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server</a>,
- <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
- and <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>
- modules so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. <span class="standout">Linux</span>
- build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
- the, <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a>,
- to replace a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd/">Clearquest Daemon</a>
- that was in use. Modified <span class="standout">Perforce</span> and <span class="standout">Git</span>
- triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
-
- <p>Worked with <span class="standout"><a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric Commander</a></span>
- migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into the standard
- Electric Commander based solution. This involved using <span class="standout">Cygwin</span>,
- <span class="standout">bash</span> and <span class="standout">LSF</span> to
- farm builds out to a pool of <span class="standout">Windows</span> servers to
- perform builds. Builds were done using <span class="standout">Visual Studio 8.0</span>,
- 9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds
- as the engineers checked in code.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.tellabs.com"><img src="Tellabs.gif" alt="Tellabs" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>March 2011 - December 2011<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="#">Tellabs</a></font>
-
- <p>Automated various informational systems using <span class="standout">Perl</span>/
- <span class="standout">MySQL</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>, and the web.</p>
-
- <p>Developed a command line debugger called raid which provided a consistent
- interface with complete command history and variable substitution. This Perl
- process utilized <span class="standout">Inline::C</span> to interface to the
- developer libraries and provide a consistent interface for the various command
- line debuggers developed by various different groups.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="https://www2.gehealthcare.com/portal/site/usen"><img src="GEHealthcare.gif" alt="General Electric" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>January 2010 - October 2010<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_electric.html">General Electric</a></font>
-
- <p>Performed <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
- administration. Developed an <a href="http://clearscm.com/php/cvs_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin Finder</a>
- in Perl. Worked with <span class="standout">Build Forge</span> (IBM's CI tool
- similar to <span class="standout">Jenkins</span>) jobs to automate work flow.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.gdc4s.com"><img src="General_Dynamics_logo.jpg" alt="General Dynamics" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>June 2007 - October 2009<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_general_dynamics.html">General Dynamics</a></font>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
- Administrator, <span class="standout">Build Release</span> and <span class="standout">Automation</span>
- using <span class="standout">Perl</span> scripts. Updated <span class="standout">C++</span>/<span class="standout">Qt</span>
- application that integrates <span class="standout">UCM</span>/Clearquest
- integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.</p>
-
- <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl
- tools such as <a href="v">Perl::Critic</a> and <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>.
- Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.</p>
-
- <p>Automated tests using <a href="">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a> to automate
- all testing and store results into a <span class="standout">MySQL</span> database.
- Also developed a <span class="standout">PHP</span> app to report/graph results.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://ti.com"><img src="TexasInstruments.jpg"
- alt="Texas Instruments" title="Texas Instruments" border=0></a></p>
-
- <p>October 2006 - June 2007<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_texas_instruments.html">Texas Instruments</a></font>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
- Administrator. Wrote a <span class="standout">Perl</span>/<span class="standout">Oracle</span>
- application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase
- license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.</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 2006 - October 2006<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_hewlett_packard.html">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest UCM</span>
- Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
- official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple <span class="standout">continuous
- integration</span>. Created a dynamic web page to show <span class="standout">Junit</span>
- test history.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.broadcom.com"><img src="Broadcom.gif"
- alt="Broadcom" title="Broadcom" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>September 2005 - January 2006<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_broadcom.html">Broadcom</a></p>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
- Administrator and support of systems. Developed several <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Wrote <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
- merge Clearquest databases.</p>
-
- <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia
- group.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://lynuxworks.com"><img src="LynuxWorks.gif"
- alt="LynuxWorks" title="LynuxWorks" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>December 2004 - September 2005<br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_lynuxworks.html">LynuxWorks</a></p>
-
- <p>Build engineer building <span class="standout">LynxOS</span> (Linux RTOS)
- as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks
- uses <span class="standout">CVS</span> for version control.</p>
-
- <p>Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See <a href="http://clearscm.com/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>).
- Developed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>).
- Automated nightly builds could be performed.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://ameriquest.net"><img src="Ameriquest.gif"
- alt="Ameriquest Mortgage Company" title="Ameriquest Mortgage
- Company" border=0></a></p>
-
- <p>March 2004 - December 2004<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_ameriquest.html">Ameriquest</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
- administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file
- systems, PVCS and VSS.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.salira.com"><img src="Salira.gif" alt="Salira
- Optical Network Systems" title="Salira Optical Network Systems"
- border=0></a></p>
-
- <p>August 2001 - February 2004<br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_salira.html">Salira</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as <span class="standout">Clearcase</span>/<span class="standout">Clearquest</span>
- Administrator and <span class="standout">Release Engineer</span>, employing
- <a href="http://Cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a> to engineer a build environment using
- GNU make. Analyzed <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">Build
- Performance</a> and <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress
- Testing</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Setup Clearquest and bug tracking system as well as served as an advisor/expert
- on Clearcase issues, branching strategies, labeling and release management.
- Wrote C application for product packaging.</p>
-
- <p>I designed and implemented a <a href="http://clearscm.com/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest
- Daemon</a>. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
- Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
-
- <p>August 1999 - February 2001<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="#">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
-
- <h3><a href="http://hprasmg.cup.hp.com/Org/STD.html"> Systems
- Technology Division</a></h3>
-
- <h4><a href="http://pdlweb.cup.hp.com">Enterprise Java Lab</a></h4>
-
- <p>Performed Security Audit for the lab. Also migrated user data to HP NetStorage
- 6000.</p>
-
- <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.</p>
-
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