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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 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).</p>
-
- <h3>Networking</h3>
-
- <p>Knowledge of TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, <span
- class="standout">Active Directory/LDAP</span>, <span
- class="standout">Samba</span>.</p>
-
- <h3>Software</h3>
-
- <p><span class="standout">Clearcase</span>,
- <span class="standout">Clearquest</span>, <span class="standout">git</span>,
- <span class="standout">Perforce</span>, <span class="standout">Perl</span>,
- <span class="standout">Bash</span>, <span class="standout">PHP</span>,
- Apache, <span class="standout">Build Forge</span>, <span
- class="standout">VMWare</span>, <span class="standout">MySQL</span>,
- C++, <a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>.</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">Audience</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">Axcient</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">Broadcom</a></p>
-
- <p>Clearquest Designer and hook code writer. The Clearquest database used
- Visual Basic. Integrated this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's
- <a href="/php/scm_man.php?file=lib/Clearcase.pm">Clearquest</a>
- module as well as
- <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 so that systems that did not have Clearquest installed (e.g. Linux
- build machines) could talk to Clearquest to update defects when required. Used
- the, Clearquest::REST, to replace a Clearquest Daemon that was in use.
- Modified Perforce and Git triggers to use this REST interface.</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
- done 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>
-
- <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 Perl/MySQL/Oracle 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 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>
-
- <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 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.</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>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator, Build Release and Automation using Perl
- scripts. Updated C++/Qt application that integrates 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 test driver application that automated tests using
- <a href="https://www.nethawk.fi/products/nethawk_simulators/">NetHawk EAST
- Simulators</a>. Automated regression tests, official testing, 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.</p>
-
- <p>Worked on many enhancements to the extensive Clearquest system in use at
- GD including the required forms and action hook 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">Texas Instruments</a></font>
-
- <p>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator. Responsible for development and
- deployment of a Perl/Oracle 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>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator assisting with UCM streams, rebases and
- delivery issues. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined
- official builds as well as other release duties. Automated the build process
- to perform simple continuous integration. Created a dynamic web page to show
- Junit 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>Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator and support of systems. Developed
- several <a href="/clearcase/triggers.php">triggers</a>.</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>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>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">Ameriquest</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as Clearcase/Clearquest 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>After consulting briefly with Salira Optical Network Systems I joined this
- startup company serving in the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator for
- this mostly Windows shop.</p>
-
- <p>I was the Release Engineer, 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.</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>.
- 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>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.</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>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>
- <a href="#">Hewlett Packard</a></p>
-
- <p>Served as Clearcase/Unix Systems Administrator. Responsible for all
- Clearcase operations in CNS/AD</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>
- <a href="#">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://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>
- <a href="#">Sun Microsystems</a></p>
-
- <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/Multisite Administrator and System Administrator for a
- large Clearcase environment. Instituted policies and procedures to keep the
- network running smoothly. Participated in the design and restructuring the
- Clearcase network topology.</p>
-
- <p>Maintained a repository of software tools. Performed help desk activities.</p>
-
- <p>Served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML questions and
- design issues.</p>
-
- <p>I developed an <a href="http://cllweb.cup.hp.com/productivity/AppServer/">Application
- Server</a> 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 <a href="http://hpcll50.cup.hp.com/">HP
- Micro Focus COBOL</a> tools using C++ 3.0 and the SoftBench Encapsulator
- libraries.</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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