While this resum is specific to one of the

Consultant/Trainers at Penguin Computing, Inc., it is a fine example of the

types of experience that each of our Consultant/Trainers possess.

Eric D. PiattPenguin Computing, Inc.

87 East Broadway

Derry, New Hampshire 03038-2019

Phone: 603-***-**** x77

Email: abpkxr@r.postjobfree.com

http://penguin-inc.com/

Title:

Software Configuration Management (SCM) Architect / ClearCase Architect Administrator /

ClearQuest Architect Administrator / Build & Release Engineer / Consulting & Training Specialist

CM Tools: ClearCase NT: 7.1.x, 7.0.x, 6.16, 6.15, 6.14, 6.0, 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.2.1, 3.2, 3.11 & 3.1;

ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC): 7.1.x & 7.0.x;

ClearCase UNIX: 7.1.x, 7.0.x, 6.15, 6.0, 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.2.1, 3.2 & 3.0;

ClearQuest: 7.1.x, 7.0.x, 6.16, 6.14 & 6.12;

PVCS, SourceSafe, Dimensions, Remedy, Quality Center, Subversion (SVN), Rational Team Concert (RTC), Team Foundation Server (TFS), RCS, CMS, CVS, SCCS, MKS Source Integrity, Summit CM.

Build Forge: 7.1.1.4; Clearmake; ClearCase UCM (Unified Change Management); MultiSite;

Languages: Perl, Javascript, HTML, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, TMS320C30 Assembly, C, C++, C#, AWK, tcl/tk/itcl, SED, Shell (sh, bash, ksh, csh), Pascal, 65C02, XWindows, Motif, POSIX, COBOL, Visual Basic (VB), ARSPerl, BASIC, DOS Batch Scripts, x86 Assembly.

Conversant with data compression techniques, particularly LZW.

OS:

MS Windows: Vista, 2008, 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4.0, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1 & 3.0; Solaris: 2.10, 2.9, 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, 2.4 & 2.3; HP-UX: 11 & 10.20; AIX 5.3 & 5L; Linux; Digital UNIX 4.0e, Ultrix, MS-DOS, OS/2, VMS.

Experience:

Aetna - Middletown, CT; Hartford, CT; Minnetonka, MN; Pittsburgh, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Tempe, AZ;

Austin, TX, South Portland, ME; Blue Bell, PA; & Plantation, FL

L.L. Bean - Freeport, ME

MOOG - East Aurora, NY; Salt Lake City, UT

PJM Interconnection - Audubon, PA

Lockheed Martin - Moorestown, NJ

Dnutch Associates - New York, NY (NYC)

ComHouse Wireless - Chelmsford, MA

Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Sunnyvale, CA

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fidelity Investments - Smithfield, Rhode Island

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ITD & OSC - Boston, MA; Chelsea MA

Fidelity Investments - Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Boston, Massachusetts

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company - Boston; Toronto, ON; Milwaukee, WI; Clearwater, FL

Omgeo (formerly Thomson Financial - Electronic Settlements Group (ESG)) - Boston, MA & NYC

Intersystems Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Verizon Communications - Waltham, Massachusetts

Edocs, Inc. - Natick, Massachusetts

OrderTrust, Inc. - Lowell, Massachusetts

Stratus Computer Systems - Maynard, Massachusetts

Trellix Corporation - Concord, Massachusetts

ClearCase UCM, Base ClearCase, ClearQuest, SCM, and Build & Release Engineering Automation Architect / Administrator / Consultant / Trainer / Coach / Mentor

(February 2000 - present)

Provided day-to-day hands-on ClearCase UCM, Base ClearCase, ClearQuest, SCM, SDLC and Build & Release Engineering, Architectural Consulting, Administration, Programming and End User Coaching & Guidance, for the following:

Initial ClearCase & ClearQuest implementations

Upgrades & redesigns to existing ClearCase & ClearQuest environments including:

Data Import & Conversions; Backup & Recovery

Branching & Stream models, triggers, Perl scripting, & security

Schema design/redesign, coding of Perl hooks and scripts

Development Tool (IDE) Integrations (Eclipse, Visual Studio, RAD, Powerbuilder, ... )

Troubleshooting & Performance Enhancements

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Scrum, Agile, Best Practices & full Project Lifecycle support, including: SAS 70, NERC CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Compliance, Version Control & Source Control Methodologies

Project Planning, Technical Design & Architecture

Taught upwards of 200, one & two day hands-on Training Courses ranging in size from 3 to 22 students:

ClearCase Training Courses:

Topics including Base ClearCase, ClearCase UCM, ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC), ClearCase Administration, SCM using ClearCase, & ClearCase Meta-Data

ClearQuest Training Courses:

Topics including ClearQuest User Basics (using both ClearQuest Custom Schemas & the Default ClearQuest Schemas), ClearQuest Administration (including the ClearQuest Designer, the ClearQuest API, and Hook & script coding).

Other Training Courses: Build Forge, Perl, Clearmake & Unix User Basics

Designed, Developed & Maintained Build & Release Engineering environments (including automated production deployment) for hundreds of applications/products/projects, including several, high availability Financial Trade Settlement related applications

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston,

Massachusetts

ClearCase / Clearmake Product Specialist (April 1999 –

February 2000)

Individually Coached/Trained several engineers on effective use of

ClearCase, and methods of converting from various source control tools

to ClearCase.

Quickly Researched and Educated Team members on issues with

Clearmake & Java interoperability.

Enlightened developers on the ClearCase/Clearmake/Omake/Visual

Studio integration.

Enhanced & Verified the build process conversion to Clearmake,

for several large projects.

Successfully Lead a team of up to 9 SCM engineers for the rapid

conversion & implementation of ClearCase.

Intersystems Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

ClearCase Optimization & Upgrade Engineer (April 1999 –

August 1999)

Quickly identified ClearCase environment & hardware

optimizations, drastically improving ClearCase performance &

reliability.

Efficiently upgraded ClearCase from v3.0 to v3.2.1

Banta Integrated Media, Cambridge, Massachusetts

ClearCase Design Engineer (December 1998 – March 1999)

Effectively proposed & specified high-end Unix Hardware and

Network upgrades, for optimal ClearCase performance and availability,

supporting Unix & NT based Java development.

Meticulously created and presented: 1) ClearCase Conversion &

Training Project Plan. 2) ClearCase Return on Investment (ROI)

documentation.

GTE-Internetworking (Formerly BBN) / Domain Manufacturing, Cambridge

& Burlington, Mass.

ClearCase Design & Conversion Engineer (April 1998 –

December 1998)

Defined, installed & configured, high-end Unix & NT

Hardware, for optimal ClearCase performance, supporting cross-platform

development and multi-platform builds; including OS patches, hardware

upgrades, and both client and server software installation and patching.

Attained significant ClearCase Administration experience, including

system optimization, NFS configuration, system wide trouble-shooting,

and critical data backup.

Converted 5 major multi-platform projects to ClearCase, from:

SourceSafe, RCS, PVCS, CVS, CMS, as well as a homegrown source control

model.

Trained, Supported and Coached 50 developers on ClearCase

fundamentals, helping them to discover the best ClearCase/CM solution

for their development environment.

Comverse Network Systems (Formerly Boston Technology), Andover,

Massachusetts

Lead ClearCase Release Engineer (June 1997 – April 1998).

Swiftly gained Perl, NT, VB script, & VC++ 5.0 experience while

expanding & converting a large set of Build/Release Tools, designed

to work in conjunction with ClearCase NT.

Meticulously developed and implemented several HTML Web pages,

containing up to the minute information on Build and Release Status,

FAQ’s, & Developer Resources.

Effectively prepared and taught several training courses, &

supported the developers on the Build/Release Tools' usage, including

specifics on ClearCase for NT & UNIX.

Expertly Streamlined/Automated the Build & Release Process from

1 day, to 1 hour.

Capably delegated tasks, supervised and reviewed both performance

and quality, while contributing to task completion, as Lead Engineer of

a 2 to 4 person team.

Paragon Imaging, Woburn, Massachusetts

Senior Software Engineer (February 1996 - June 1997). Secret

clearance transferred

Quickly gained C++, POSIX, and multi-platform experience while

implementing a Tag Editor for a COTS Electronic Light-Table Imaging

product.

Easily learned tcl/tk/itcl and implemented several GUI's for various

automated configuration and installation programs, including a

postscript debugger.

Created a ClearCase process, using triggers, to synchronize source

code from various projects.

M/A-Com CTC, Lowell, Massachusetts

Staff Engineer (November 1994 - February 1996). TS/SCI

clearance

Attained X Windows, ClearCase, Widget Writing, Motif GUI, IEEE-488,

and UNIX programming experience, through design, and development of

multiple device drivers and HMI's, on Sun SPARCstation 20's, for a

remoted systems Government contract.

Favorably presented system design and implementation to the customer

throughout the extensive formal design and development process.

IDE Associates, Billerica, Massachusetts

Release / Software Engineer (July 1993 - November 1994).

Acquired MS Windows/DOS GUI programming experience, through code

debugging and feature implementation on a large MS Windows project,

providing terminal emulation for PCs attached to midrange hosts via

Twinax, Network, SUR, and APPC connectivities.

Efficiently redesigned and managed the build/make/source control

process for a large MS Windows project, thus reducing the process time

from 2 days to 4 hours.

Itran Corporation (Now called Acquity Imaging), Manchester, New

Hampshire

Firmware / Software Engineer (1990 - June 1993).

Thoughtfully designed and completed a firmware interface allowing

data communications between a proprietary hardware platform and a

ModBus+ Token Ring Network.

Successfully developed and programmed several speed critical

firmware routines for a Machine Vision Product, specifically:

Application Change Over, Message I/O, Hardware Debugging, Bootup, Result

Management, and User Control Switch.

Attentively coded / implemented several shape drawing constraint

routines with MS Windows SDK.

Created a bulletproof, menu driven installation program for a MS

Windows software package, including graphics and detailed explanations.

Free-lance Computer Consulting, Sales and Service, Derry, NH

(1988-Present).

Energetically designed, configured and installed several IBM PC

compatible systems and upgrades for New England area colleges,

businesses and private individuals.

Mindfully resolved hardware and software system failure and

compatibility problems on both business and privately used IBM PC

compatibles and Apple family computers, typically dealing with device

drivers, address conflicts, IRQ's, memory, modems, LANs, printers, and

hard drives.

Easily generated sales of IBM PC compatibles and peripherals by

custom fitting the system to the client's specific computer needs.

Hardware:

Sun: E10K, E4000, E3500, E3000, E450, E250, E220, Ultra 1, SPARC 20, 10, & 2; PC compatibles: Pentiums & x86 s; IBM: p5 590, Cluster, Blade, AS400, & S36; HP 800, 735, & 700; Digital Alpha 4100, VAX 8600, TI TMS320C30 DSP; IEEE-488, SCN2861 DUART; BT471 RAMDAC; WJ Receivers & Demodulators, Olektron Audio/Video Switches, HP Signal Generators/Analyzers, Apple: Macintosh & II family.

Dev Tools Etc:

WebLogic, WebSphere, WSAD, .NET, Tomcat, Eclipse, RAD, Oracle, SQL Server, J2EE, JBoss, Crystal Reports, RequisitePro (ReqPro), CMM, make, Ant, Maven, omake, nmake, Citrix, PowerBuilder, Sybase, GNU tools, MS Visual Studio, MS Developers Studio, Visual Caf 4, VC++ 5.0, RationalRose, Tibco, XFaceMaker, Polymake, MS Windows SDK, C6-C8, Purify, Soft-ICE, VI, Vim, Brief, SPE, MF Cobol, EasyCASE, RFFlow, InstallShield.

Software:

Syntax TAS, Samba, Hummingbird Maestro, MKS Toolkit, MS Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Word, Excel, Visio, OneNote, SharePoint), Confluence, MS Exchange, Hummingbird Docs, Lotus Notes, Eudora Pro, Firefox, Unfuddle, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Meeting Maker, AmiPro, Act 3.0, OpenMail.

Education: Bachelor of Arts Computer Science with Business, May 1990

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire.

Self-financed 60% of college education.

Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges, 1990.

Other: Co-Founder of the BMRCCUG (Boston Metro Rational ClearCase User Group)

Ask about: Arizona (AZ), California (CA), New Mexico (NM), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Kentucky (KY), Nevada (NV), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), & Virginia (VA).

While this resum is specific to one of the Consultant/Trainers at Penguin

Computing, Inc., it is a fine example of the types of experience that each of

our Consultant/Trainers possess.

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Copyright 1999-2011 Penguin Computing, Inc.

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