ClearSCM: Our People: Andrew DeFaria

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Andrew P. DeFaria

- 1676 Hope Drive #1915
- Santa Clara, California 95054-1721
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- Phone: 408-596-4937
- Email: Andrew@DeFaria.com
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Objective

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To work with state of the art operating systems and networks to - insure the smooth running of an organization's information flow.

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Hardware

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Workstations and servers from Sun, HP as well as various other manufactures - of Linux systems.

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Operating Systems

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Linux (Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu), - Windows, Unix - (Solaris, HP-UX), Cygwin

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Networking

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TCP/IP, Windows and Unix Networking, Active Directory/LDAP, Samba

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Software

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Version Control Systems	- Git, Perforce, - Clearcase -
Issue Tracking	- JIRA, Clearquest, - Bugzilla -
Languages	- Perl, Bash, - PHP, C++, - C, Ada, - TCL -
Middleware	- Apache, Tomcat, - Samba, Winbind, - LDAP, REST -
Web Apps	- JIRA, Confluence, - Swarm -
Databases	- MySQL, Oracle -
Coninuous Integration	- Build Forge, Electric Commander, - Jenkins -
Virtualization	- VMWare, VirtualBox, -

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Education

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- 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.

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References

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David Petro	(425)-391-4185	david.petro@ge.com	Manager, General Electric
Tom Connor	(512)-422-1172	tomhillconnor@yahoo.com	Coworker, Consultant
James Chen	(408)-845-5360	jchen@salira.com	Vice President of Engineering, Salira Optical Network Systems
Omair Ahmed	(224) 715-9786	omair.ahmed@ge.com	Coworker, General Electric
Shivdutt Jha	(408)-806-3476	shivdutt_jha@hotmail.com	Coworker, Consultant

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Clients

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A Knowles Company

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March 2014 - Present
- Contract
- Audience

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Served in the Devops group as admin for - JIRA, Perforce, - Swarm (code review tool), Git - Fusion, Linux (Centos/Ubuntu/Redhat Enterprise). - Maintained custom build system that utilized Perl/PHP/Apache/Linux/Windows - servers to allow engineers in the field to perform customized builds. Integrated - Bugzilla and Perforce (P4DTG). Wrote scripts to - import data from Bugzilla to JIRA, assisted with JIRA setup and integration of - Salesforce with JIRA. Assisted in the migration - for users to new Knowles domain.

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Tools used: Perforce, Jama, - JIRA, Git, Gerrit, - Bugzilla, Autobuilder, - Build Script, Jenkins, - Confluence and Swarm.

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July 2013 - Dec 2013
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- Axcient

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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.

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December 2011 - April 2013
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- Broadcom

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Clearquest Designer and hook code writer. The - Clearquest database used Visual Basic. Integrated - this Clearquest server by utilizing ClearSCM's Clearquest - module as well as Clearquest::Server, - Clearquest::Client - and Clearquest::REST - 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.

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Worked with Electric Commander - 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.

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March 2011 - December 2011
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- Tellabs - -

Automated various informational systems using Perl/ - MySQL/Oracle, and the web.

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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.

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January 2010 - October 2010
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- General Electric - -

Performed Clearcase/Clearquest UCM - administration. Developed an Evil Twin Finder - in Perl. Worked with Build Forge (IBM's CI tool - similar to Jenkins) jobs to automate work flow.

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June 2007 - October 2009
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- General Dynamics - -

Clearcase/Clearquest - Administrator, Build Release and Automation - using Perl scripts. Updated C++/Qt - application that integrates UCM/Clearquest - integrated environment into one tool and ported it to Linux.

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Instrumental in establishment of Perl standards and introduction of Perl - tools such as Perl::Critic and Perl::Tidy. - Worked at promoting usage of CPAN modules.

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Automated tests using NetHawk EAST Simulators to automate - all testing and store results into a MySQL database. - Also developed a PHP app to report/graph results.

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October 2006 - June 2007
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- Texas Instruments - -

Clearcase/Clearquest - Administrator. Wrote a Perl/Oracle - application to track information about projects worldwide. Automated Clearcase - license usage reporting and load balancing of Clearquest web servers.

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February 2006 - October 2006
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- Hewlett Packard

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Clearcase/Clearquest UCM - Administrator. Wrote triggers to notify users of deliveries. Baselined - official builds. Automated the build process to perform simple continuous - integration. Created a dynamic web page to show Junit - test history.

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September 2005 - January 2006
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- Broadcom

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Clearcase/Clearquest - Administrator and support of systems. Developed several triggers.

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Wrote Perl script to - merge Clearquest databases.

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Designed and developed another Clearquest database for the Mobile Multimedia - group.

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December 2004 - September 2005
- LynuxWorks

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Build engineer building LynxOS (Linux RTOS) - as well as tool chains, testing, releasing and process improvement. LynuxWorks - uses CVS for version control.

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Implemented full text search using Perl and Htdig (See ECRDig). - Developed CVS Utilities). - Automated nightly builds could be performed.

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March 2004 - December 2004
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- Ameriquest

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Served as Clearcase/Clearquest - administrator to this major mortgage company. Importing source code from file - systems, PVCS and VSS.

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August 2001 - February 2004
- Salira

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Served as Clearcase/Clearquest - Administrator and Release Engineer, employing - Cygwin to engineer a build environment using - GNU make. Analyzed Build - Performance and Build Stress - Testing.

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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.

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I designed and implemented a Clearquest - Daemon. Developed Release Reporting system. Automated branch merging.

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August 1999 - February 2001
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- Hewlett Packard

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Systems - Technology Division

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Enterprise Java Lab

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Performed Security Audit for the lab. Also migrated user data to HP NetStorage - 6000.

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Set up Netscape Enterprise Web Server and iPlanet 4.1 Web Server.

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