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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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- <p style="text-align:center">
- 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, x86 class machines, dual core,
- quad core, 32 and 64 bit.
-
- <h3>Operating Systems</h3>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Unix</span> (Solaris, HP-UX),
- <span class="standout">Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7</span>,
- <span class="standout">Linux</span> (Redhat, Ubuntu Desktop/Server,
- Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, LynuxOS).</p>
-
- <h3>Networking</h3>
-
- <p>Knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, XP Firewall, DSL Routers, Windows
- and Unix Networking (NIS/Automount/ftp/ping/etc), some <span
- class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span> experience and <span
- class="standout">Samba</span> experience.</p>
-
- <h3>Software</h3>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>, <span
- class="standout">Clearquest</span>, CVS, Apache, <span
- class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span
- class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">MySQL</span>,
- Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, <span class="standout">Perl</span>,
- <span class="standout">Bash</span>, <span
- class="standout">PHP</span>, Emacs, CDE, C++, VUE 3.0 (Alpha
- Tester), <a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>. Also, various tools
- and applications on Microsoft Windows too numerous to mention.</p>
-
- <h3>Education</h3>
-
- <p>A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch
- Plains, New Jersey.</p>
-
- <p>Attended approximately one year at Fairleigh Dickenson
- University, Rutherford, New Jersey, in pursuit of BS in Computer
- Science, concentrating on computer courses. Have also attended 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>
-
- <br>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <h2>Clients</h2>
-
- <p><a href="http://audience.com"><img alt="Audience" src="Audience.png" border="0"></a></p>
-
- <p>March 2014 - Present<br>
- <font class=dim>Contract</font><br>
- <a href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/cat_audience.html">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Worked in the Devops group performing Linux Admin, Perforce Admin and
- maintaining an inhouse developed build system that utilizes Perl/PHP/Apache/Linux/Windows
- servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds around the
- world. Helped set up and establish Perforce Swarm installation, integration between
- Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG) on various vituralized hardware. Established and
- maintained documentation of various Dev/Test/Prod environments throughout the
- organization. Wrote scripts to import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with
- JIRA setup and integration of Salesforce with JIRA.</p>
-
- <p>Also helped administer and support a wide array of engineering tools such as Perforce, Jama, Jira, Git, Gerrit, Bugzilla, Autobuilder, Build Script, Jenkins, Confluence and Swarm.</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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Worked as a Build and Release Engineer for AxOS. The Axcient product is
- a customized derivative of Ubuntu. The SCM system being used is git. 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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Worked as a Clearquest Designer and hook code writer. The Clearquest
- database used Visual Basic. Implemented fixed and feature development for
- Clearquest as well as wrote several Perl scripts to perform data maintenance as
- required by utilizing ClearSCM's <a href="/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
- module. Also utilized <a href="/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Server.pm">Clearquest::Server<a/>,
- <a href="/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/Client.pm">Clearquest::Client</a>
- and <a href="/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearquest/REST.pm">Clearquest::REST</a> modules.</p>
-
- <p>Worked with <a href="http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php">Electric
- Commander</a> migrating a group from their unsupported build environment into
- the standard Electric Commander based solution. This involved using Cygwin,
- bash and LSF to farm builds out to a pool of Windows servers to perform builds.
- Builds were down using Visual Studio 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0. Build system also used
- Perforce and Perforce trigger to fire builds as the engineers checked in code.</p>
-
- <p>Implemented Perl module, <a href="/php/scm_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 so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g.
- Linux build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required.
- Modified Perforce and Git triggers to use this REST interface.</p>
-
- <p>Served as a mentor to the group on issues of programming in Perl as well as
- using and configuring Eclipse IDE.</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>
-
- <p>Automated various informational systems using Perl/MySQL/Oracle and the
- web. This often involved transforming data from far away databases to more
- local data structures for presentation on the local Intranet.</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 Inline::C to interface to the developer libraries and provide
- a consistent interface for the various command line debuggers developed by
- various different groups.</p>
-
- <p>Modified and extended a serious of web pages and graphs to extend the
- functionality of Mercury Quality Center, interfacing to Test Directory's
- SQL database to the web giving project manager's drill down functionality
- regarding testing activities to an unprecedended level.</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">Workblog</a></font>
-
- <p>Performed Clearcase/Clearquest administration with an emphasis on
- UCM administration. Wrote several Perl scripts including an <a
- href="http://clearscm.com/php/scm_man.php?file=cc/etf.pl">Evil Twin
- Finder</a>. Created UCM Projects and streams as appropriate as well
- as created and updated Build Forge jobs to automate work
- flow. Assisted in consultations with UCM concepts such as
- component/composite baselines and projects. Wrote Perl scripts for
- conversions of Clearquest data with other systems (Siebel).</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">Workblog</a></font>
-
- <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator, Build Release and
- Automation using Perl scripts. Implemented several enhancements and
- new functionality with a C++/Qt application that integrates the highly
- specialized UCM/Clearquest integrated environment into one tool.</p>
-
- <p>Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of
- Perl tools such as <a href="http://perlcritic.com/">Perl::Critic</a> and
- <a href="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/">Perl::Tidy</a>. Worked at promoting
- usage of CPAN modules.</p>
-
- <p>Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to
- interface and drive tests using <a
- href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk EAST Simulators</a>
- as well as interfacing to other simulators and external hardware. The
- system automates the running of regression tests, official testing before
- the customer, assists with validation of test results, collecting of log
- files, checking log files into Clearcase and records status into a MySQL
- database. Developed a PHP web page to present the data in various forms
- including graphs, reports, exporting to CSV files and emailing of reports.
- Implemented maintenance programs to scrub and keep the data clean. This system
- was instrumental in Functional Quality Testing for the
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System">MUOS</a>
- program.</p>
-
- <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use
- at GD. Designed and developed the record set implementing node configurations.
- Implemented required forms and action hook code. Designed and developed Perl
- scripts to initially load data into the new records.</p>
-
- <p>Developed a server process (daemon) to process baseline records that were
- then tracked by Clearquest. Implemented scripts to create baseline records
- from other automated process such as Build Forge. Tied together baseline
- records with node configurations through action hook code.</p>
-
- <p>Participated in code reviews for all production code.</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">Workblog</a></font>
-
- <p>Serving as Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator working with Perl
- scripts and Clearquest schemas. Responsible for development and
- deployment of a Perl/Oracle application to track information about
- projects worldwide. Also wrote, modified and maintained several
- scripts for tracking Clearcase license usage 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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Managed and executed day to day build and release duties. Served
- as Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator as well as overall support of
- systems. Assisted with creating UCM streams and handling of rebase
- and delivery issues for engineers and the build/release process.
- Wrote UCM triggers to notify users of deliveries from UCM
- development streams. Created baselines for official builds. Took
- over day to day build and release duties. Created a build script
- that united the various quick and dirty build scripts that were
- oriented per stream and per build option. This standardized the
- build process. Augmented this build script to be a daemon that
- continually builds software when deliveries are detected. Wrote a
- build status web page that tracks and monitors the continuous
- building. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit test
- history. Converted Windows build from bat files and scheduled tasks
- -> Cygwin and cron thus making the build script identical on both
- Linux and Windows.</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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator as well as overall
- support of systems. Developed several <a
- href="/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a> as
- well as ported my <a
- href="/clearcase/triggers.php">mktriggers</a>
- script which automates the maintenance of triggers.</p>
-
- <p>Developed a complex <a
- href="/clearquest/db.php">Perl script</a> to
- merge two Clearquest databases to a new database with many schema
- changes. This script handled all aspects of the conversion including
- changing non US ASCII characters found in the data to their HTML
- equivalents, dynamic creation of dynamic lists, field renaming and
- dynamically creating new stateless records as needed.</p>
-
- <p>Developed a script to better handle merging from UCM deliveries
- and rebases by delaying any non automatic merges to the end of the
- process as well as handle binary element merge. This process,
- written in Perl, utilized PerlTk to present the user with a GUI
- dialog box to choose which version of the binary file to merge.</p>
-
- <p>Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile
- Multimedia group.</p>
-
- <p>Wrote several other scripts including one to interface CVS to IMS
- (a defect tracking system) recording the change set at commit time,
- a script to strip out MIME/HTML and attachments for defects
- submitted to GNATS (another defect tracking system). Also
- implemented several script to log Clearcase activity, check
- Clearcase's pulse and gather site and vob statistics. These scripts
- were the start for creation of a set Object Oriented Perl modules to
- encapsulate Clearcase in a Perl like manner (still in
- development).</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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as a build engineer in the Integration Group responsible
- for building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) as well as tool chains, testing,
- releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks uses CVS for version
- control.</p>
-
- <p>Developed a process of providing full text search of the
- company's defect database using Perl and Htdig (See <a
- href="/scripts/ecrd">ECRDig</a>). Developed a web
- based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS
- related utilities(See <a href="http://defaria.com/Resume/cvs_utilities">CVS Utilities</a>) as
- well as report on the differences between two CVS tags. Automated
- the build process so that nightly builds could be
- performed. Developed a web application that allows one to maintain
- CVS account information including account creation,
- setting/resetting of password, etc.</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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest administrator to this major
- mortgage company. As Ameriquest is just starting out I have been
- busy with importing source code from flat file systems as well as
- PVCS and Visual Source Safe. Also setting up vobs and regions taking
- into account security restrictions and concerns. Assisted with
- designing of the Multisite scheme to India. Participated in design
- of UCM model to be used for Ameriquest.</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">Workblog</a></p>
-
- <p>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I
- joined this startup company serving in the role of <span
- class="standout">Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator</span> for this
- mostly Windows shop. I helped others in setting up the
- Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided <a
- href="http://defaria.com/Resume/Training">Training</a>.</p>
-
- <p>I also served in the role of <span class="standout">Release
- Engineer</span> managing the build process. I employed wide usage of
- <a href="http://Cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>, which is a product that
- provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and engineered
- a build environment around that using <span class="standout">GNU
- make</span> and other standard Unix and GNU utilities. When users
- complained that building remotely was slow I performed <a
- href="http://defaria.com/Resume/SmakeOpt">an analysis on build
- performance</a>. I also performed <a
- href="http://defaria.com/Resume/BuildPerf">Build Stress Testing</a>
- where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds
- performed on the server.</p>
-
- <p>I also setup and developed their <span
- class="standout">Clearquest</span> bug tracking system as well as
- served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching
- strategies, labeling and release management.</p>
-
- <p>While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that
- packaged the product into a more compact form.</p>
-
- <p>I designed and implemented a <a
- href="/clearquest/cqd">Clearquest Daemon</a>
- which served as an interface between processes and Clearquest
- data. This daemon serviced requests from web pages and triggers in
- order to get and validate data from Clearquest.</p>
-
- <p>Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced
- release notes for every release.</p>
-
- <p>Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch
- merging and syncing.</p>
-
- <p>Performed product installation testing for the web component on
- <span class="standout">Linux (SuSE)</span> and <span
- class="standout">Solaris</span> as well as browser testing
- (Netscape).</p>
-
- <p>Implemented test scaffolding in <span
- class="standout">TCL/TK</span> for test automation.</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>
-
- <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>Setup security system automating the running of Medusa (an
- internal security audit tool) on approximately 100 machines. Reports
- are generated automatically and are viewable on the web. Setup and
- maintained security related patch depots.</p>
-
- <p>Implemented nightly automation for the lab's machines including
- security checks, automatic installation of line printer models,
- etc. This automation was bundled into an SD-UX bundle.</p>
-
- <p>Migrated user data to HP NetStorage 6000. Worked extensively with
- HP NetStorage 6000 Support on problems with this machines OS and
- interfacing with Windows 2000.</p>
-
- <p>Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to
- another.</p>
-
- <p>Participated in several critical planned networked down times
- where the team was able to implement changes to the infrastructure,
- including migration to Clearcase 4.0, migration of project and user
- data to HP NetStorage 6000's and other such changes.</p>
-
- <p>Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web
- Server.</p>
-
- <hr noshade>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.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>
-
- <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>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.sun.com"><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>
-
- <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://www.hp.com"><img src="HPLogo.gif" alt="Hewlett
- Packard Company" title="Hewlett Packard Company" border=0></a></p>
-
- <p>February 1988 - November 1998<br>
- <font class="dim">(60-Level Software Engineer)</font>
-
- <h3><a href="http://hprasmg.cup.hp.com/Org/STD.html">Systems
- Technology Division</a></h3>
-
- <h4><a href="http://cllweb.cup.hp.com">California Language
- Labs</a></h4>
-
- <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>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="http://defaria.com/q/">The Unofficial Quicken® Web
- Page</a>.</p>
-
- <p>I developed an <i><a
- href="http://cllweb.cup.hp.com/productivity/AppServer/"> Application
- Server</a> </i> 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 <i><a
- href="http://hpcll50.cup.hp.com/"> HP Micro Focus COBOL</a> </i>
- 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>
-
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