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, x86 class machines, dual core, - quad core, 32 and 64 bit. - -

Operating Systems

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Unix (Solaris, HP-UX), - Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, - Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu Desktop/Server, - Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat, LynuxOS).

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Networking

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Knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, XP Firewall, DSL Routers, Windows - and Unix Networking (NIS/Automount/ftp/ping/etc), some Active Directory/LDAP experience and Samba experience.

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Software

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Clearcase, Clearquest, CVS, Apache, Build Forge, VMWare, MySQL, - Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Perl, - Bash, PHP, Emacs, CDE, C++, VUE 3.0 (Alpha - Tester), Cygwin. Also, various tools - and applications on Microsoft Windows too numerous to mention.

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Education

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A.A.S. in Computer Science from Union County College in Scotch - Plains, New Jersey.

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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.

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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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July 2013 - Present
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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. - -

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December 2011 - April 2013
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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 Clearquest - module. Also utilized Clearquest::Server , - Clearquest::Client - and Clearquest::REST modules.

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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 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.

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Implemented Perl module, Clearquest::REST, - to replace a Clearquest Daemon - 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.

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Served as a mentor to the group on issues of programming in Perl as well as - using and configuring Eclipse IDE.

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March 2011 - December 2011
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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.

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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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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.

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January 2010 - October 2010
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Performed Clearcase/Clearquest administration with an emphasis on - UCM administration. Wrote several Perl scripts including an Evil Twin - Finder. 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).

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June 2007 - October 2009
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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.

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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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Developed an extensive test driver application in Perl to - interface and drive tests using NetHawk EAST Simulators - 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 - MUOS - program.

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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.

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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.

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Participated in code reviews for all production code.

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October 2006 - June 2007
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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.

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February 2006 - October 2006
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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.

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September 2005 - January 2006
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Served as Clearcase/Clearquest Administrator as well as overall - support of systems. Developed several triggers as - well as ported my mktriggers - script which automates the maintenance of triggers.

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Developed a complex Perl script 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.

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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.

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

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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).

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December 2004 - September 2005
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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.

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Developed a process of providing full text search of the - company's defect database using Perl and Htdig (See ECRDig). Developed a web - based report to show CVS activity as well as several other CVS - related utilities(See CVS Utilities) 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.

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March 2004 - December 2004
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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.

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August 2001 - February 2004
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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. I helped others in setting up the - Clearcase/Clearquest environment as well as provided Training.

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I also served in the role of Release - Engineer managing the build process. I employed wide usage of - Cygwin, which is a product that - provides an extremely workable Unix like environment and engineered - a build environment around that using GNU - make and other standard Unix and GNU utilities. When users - complained that building remotely was slow I performed an analysis on build - performance. I also performed Build Stress Testing - where I characterized the effect of multiple simultaneous builds - performed on the server.

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I also setup and developed their Clearquest bug tracking system as well as - served as an advisor/expert on Clearcase issues, branching - strategies, labeling and release management.

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While working at Salira I designed and developed a tool in C that - packaged the product into a more compact form.

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I designed and implemented a Clearquest Daemon - 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.

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Developed release web pages that managed releases and produced - release notes for every release.

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Developed process automation scripts to perform automatic branch - merging and syncing.

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Performed product installation testing for the web component on - Linux (SuSE) and Solaris as well as browser testing - (Netscape).

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Implemented test scaffolding in TCL/TK for test automation.

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August 1999 - February 2001
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Systems - Technology Division

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Enterprise Java Lab

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Migrated HP-UX applications from one application server to - another.

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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.

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

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March 1999 - August 1999
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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.

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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.

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As CNS/AD was in a secured and isolated network, learned and - assisted users with ssh/scp.

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December 1998 - March 1999
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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.

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February 1988 - November 1998
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Systems - Technology Division

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California Language - Labs

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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. - -

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.

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Also served as webmaster for the lab as well as consult on HTML - questions and design issues. Installed, configured and maintain the - Netscape Suitespot Servers - including the Enterprise and Directory servers. Developed several - web pages and forms for the lab as well as run The Unofficial Quicken® Web - Page.

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I developed an Application - Server providing many machines with many software packages - without the need for individual system administration utilizing - scripting and NFS heavily.

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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).

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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