Jon Charles Lane
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Professional Experience -
Extensive
experience in system administration, networking, hardware/software installation
and evaluation with a wide variety of systems including Sun, DEC, Apple
Macintosh, IBM PCs and RISC Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Symbolics. Certified in Apple Macintosh and Symbolics
maintenance.
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Employment History -
Sr. Systems
Administrator
Responsible for the setup
and administration of Sun E220R, E420, and E250 servers running Solaris 7 and
Solaris 8. Responsible for the updating of Solaris, Java, Jreport Enterprise
Server, apache and Weblogic applications on the Solaris servers. Configure and
maintain backups utilizing Veritas NetBackup on Solaris. Work with Veritas HA
Clustering and Veritas Volume Manager on various servers. Configure apache for
multiple internal web servers and maintain the apache configuration files.
Maintain Red Hat Linux proxy server running apache. Designed
and maintain the intranet web site for Platform Operations (IT web page).
Produce and maintain a set of Standard Operating Procedures that are available
on the intranet web site. Gather competitive quotes for new hardware, software,
and annual maintenance agreements for Unix servers.
October 1997 – February 2001
Manager, Dulles IT Department/Senior
System Administrator
Manage the Dulles Office IT department and staff. Gather and analyze the annual hardware and
software requirements for the Dulles IT budget. Submit the Dulles IT budget
requirements to the VP of Information Technology. Coordinate with the Cary, NC, London, England and California IT
Departments to achieve IT goals for the entire company. Responsible for the day-to-day operation of
the LAN. This includes the
administration and maintenance of a wide variety of Unix servers and
workstations, Windows NT server and workstations. Windows NT systems include two Backup Domain Controllers (BDC’s)
and one Microsoft Exchange Server. The
BDC’s include secondary DNS and WINS servers and a primary DHCP server. Windows Operating Systems (OS) include
Windows NT Server and Workstation and Windows 2000 Professional. Unix systems
include Sun (Ultra 10 and Enterprise 250), HP (B2000), IBM (RS6000.), DEC
Alpha’s (AlphaServer 800, 5000 and AlphaStation 255) and Gateway Pentiums
running Red Hat Linux (6.2, 7.0).
Responsible for the backups (daily, weekly and monthly) on all Unix and
Windows NT Servers. Configure and tune
system parameters on servers and workstations to be integrated on a
network. Perform upgrades to all
operating systems and application software. Gather competitive quotes for new
hardware, software, annual maintenance agreements, and lease agreements for
Unix servers. Redesigned the intranet web site for Computer Facilities (IT web
page). Produce and maintain a set of Standard Operating Procedures that are
available on the intranet web site. Maintain and update the Dulles office
intranet web site. Responsible for the
maintenance and the day-to-day operation of the Dulles firewall system. Maintain two SMTP servers, one apache
server, an anonymous FTP server and one SSH (secure shell) server.
November 1993 - October 1997
Senior System Administrator
Responsibilities
included the day-to-day operations of three integrated networks containing SUN
SPARCstation’s (Solaris 2.5.1), DEC Alphas (DEC Unix 3.2g, 4.0b), Apple
Macintoshes (MacOS 7.5.5), and Intel PC’s (Windows 3.X, Windows95, and WinNT
4.0 workstation and server). Responsible for designing, integrating and
maintaining the Force Integration MasterPlanner (FIM) network, the
Graphics/Multimedia network and the Models and Simulations network. The FIM
network includes two WinNT4.0 Server Systems, one Solaris Server, two Symbolics
servers and one DEC AlphaStation server, as well as 55 workstations. The
Graphics/Multimedia network includes Intel PCs and Apple Macintoshes. The Models and Simulations network includes
Intel PCs, SUN SPARCstation’s and DEC VMS systems. Maintained the NIS, DNS, and NFS servers. Implemented automount on Solaris and DEC
Unix NFS servers on the FIM network.
Configured and tuned system parameters on servers and workstations to be
integrated on a network. Performed
upgrades to all operating systems and application software. Designed, developed and maintained an
inventory database for the hardware and software products for the FIM
project. Gathered competitive quotes
for new hardware, software and annual maintenance agreements. Processed ODC and purchase order (PO) forms
for hardware and software purchases for the FIM project. Gathered and consolidated the annual
hardware and software requirements for each of the projects under the AIMP
contract. Worked directly with the AIMP
Program Manager update and maintain the program spend plan. During budget drills, coordinated with
project leaders to determine the priority of each of their hardware/software
requirements to recommend to the AIMP Program Manager possible cuts to the
spend plan. Produced and maintained a
set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the FIM System Administrator
position in Word 6.0. Converted the
SOPs into HTML code on the FIM Intranet.
Institute for
Defense Analyses (IDA)
December 1993 - June 1996
Network Engineer
Responsible
for the administration of Sun workstations within IDA. Installed and updated all OS and
applications software for all system types.
Developed and maintained a hardware inventory spreadsheet in MS Excel on
the Macintosh. Responsible for network
setup and administration for AppleTalk, NFS, fibernet and ethernet.
System Engineer
Responsible
for the administration of Sun, Hewlett-Packard, DECstation 3100 and Alpha
workstation, Macintosh, IBM RS6000, Symbolics, and T.I. Explorer systems. Installed and updated all OS and
applications software for all system types.
Tested and evaluated new hardware and software products. Designed, implemented, and maintained the
Tape Library System using 4th Dimension.
Responsible for maintaining hardware and software tracking database.
Configured systems to user specifications.
Produced Standard Operating Procedures for system administration on the
Symbolics and Macintosh systems. Responsible for network setup and
administration for AppleTalk and Ethernet. Researched quotes for new hardware
and software and for annual maintenance agreements.
February 1986 - August 1990
Field Engineer
Responsible
for installation, deinstallation, preventive and corrective maintenance of
Symbolics 3600 family, Ivory family and Apple systems. Responsible for installation of distribution
and layered software on Symbolics 3600 and Ivory systems and the installation of
operating systems on Symbolics and Apple systems. Created databases on a Compaq Portable System and an Apple
Macintosh consisting of site information to help service engineers locate
customers.
December 1982 - February 1986
Field Engineer
Responsible for
corrective and preventive maintenance on six PDP11/70's and three PDP11/40's
along with their associated peripheral equipment.
1st Information Systems Group
The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310
Responsible for
corrective and preventive maintenance on a variety of electronic computer
equipment that include the Digital TeleVision Equipment (DTVE), DISSIDS,
CompuPro Microprocessor and other related equipment. Utilized an AFIT 3000 to help troubleshoot circuit cards to find
faulty integrated circuits.
January
1978 - May 1982
2101st Communications Squadron
Blytheville A.F.B., AR 72315
Responsible
for corrective and preventive maintenance on the SAC Automated Command and
Control System (SACCS) and its related peripherals and specialized test
equipment for this system.
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Computer Experience -
Hardware:
IBM PC (clones), IBM RS6000, DEC station 3100, DEC Alpha, Sun Enterprise
Servers, Sun SPARCstation’s, Sun 4, Apple Macintosh, Apple Quadra, Symbolics, Hewlett-Packard
Apollo, Texas Instruments Explorer, DEC PDP11,
UNIX Operating Systems:
SunOS 4.1.X, Solaris 1.X, Solaris 2.X, DEC Unix, HP-Unix, DEC Ultrix, DEC OSF1,
IBM AIX
Other Operating Systems:
MacOS 7.X, Windows2000 Professional, WindowsNT 4.0 Server, WindowsNT 4.0
Workstation, Windows95, Windows 3.X, Symbolics, MS-DOS
Languages:
Symbolics Lisp, Harlequin Lispworks, Macintosh Common Lisp, Franz Allegro
Common Lisp, and Lucid Common Lisp
Software:
Netscape Browser (Macintosh, Windows, and Unix flavors), MS Office 97/2000, MS
FrontPage, MS Project, White Pines Exodus for Macintosh, Macintosh Application
Environment for Solaris, Norton Utilities for Macintosh and Windows, Virex,
SAM, MacWrite II, MacDraw, MacDraw Pro, WingZ, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word,
MacX, EtherPeek, LocalPeek, Retrospect, Microphone, Cayman Systems GatorKeeper
and GatorShare, Generic Blackboard Systems GBB
Database Management Systems: MS Access2.0, 4th Dimension, FileMaker Pro, and FileMaker
II
Networks:
Ethernet, TCP/IP, NFS, AppleTalk
- Education -
Georgia Military College, Blytheville
A.F.B., AR (15 Credits)
Solaris 2.X System Administration
Course