Charles B. Shirer

** **** ****** *****

Newport News Va, 23607

Phone: 757-***-****

Email: abnzwu@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a challenging and fulfilling position in the field

of Information Technology

SUMMARY: Highly adaptable Systems Engineer with Ten years of experience

working with Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux (as well as experience with some

enterprise Windows platforms) in intranet and Internet environments, with

an emphasis on uptime/reliability, support in a 24/7 production

environment, and experience with shell scripting (Bash), (Korn) Shell,

Python, And Perl scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Operating Systems: Solaris 8, 9, 10, Linux (Ubuntu, Suse RedHat),

FreeBSD, OpenBsd Windows /XP/Vista/7/2k3/2k8, Novell Netware 4.11,

Netware 6.5 Mac OSX (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion)

. Programming Languages: - Java, Perl, Unix Shells (Bash), Bourne, Korn,

sed, awk python, perl

. Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 10g

. Web: Apache Web Server, IIS 6.0, Apache Tomcat, WordPress, Joomla,

Django, LAMP

. Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, VPN, SSH, SSL, NIS, NFS, DNS,

DHCP, Firewalls

. Email: Sendmail, Postfix, Novell GroupWise, Spam Assassin

. System and network monitoring: - OpenNMS, MRTG, RTG, Opmanager, Splunk

Syslog, Nagios, IBM Netcool

. Virtualization: Vmware ESX Server 3.5, Xen Source, Sun Hypervisor,

VirtualBox.

. Hardware: Dell Power Edge, Sun Sparc M5000, Sun Blade T6340, T2150,

T5140, T2000, T2250, HP Proliant, Raid 5, Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 10

EDUCATION

. B.S in Computer Information Systems Virginia State University

Petersburg, Virginia December 2003

. Certifications: Comp Tia Network+, Security+, Linux +,

CLA(Certified Linux Admin) Suse Enterprise Linux 11, LPIC-1 (Linux

Profession Institute Certification)

. Secret Security Clearence

EXPERIENCE

Global Wave Consulting, Suffolk, VA (June 2012 - October 2012)

Linux Web (LAMP) Administrator

. Setup and Configured and Maintained Linux LAMP Servers.

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, and Upgrading Wordpress,

Django, Mysql and Ruby on Rails.

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, Solaris 9 and 10

Servers.

Analytical Services & Materials, Hampton, VA (March 2011 - June 2012 )

Systems Engineer

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring

Security Checks on all Solaris 8,9,10 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5,

and 6 Servers.

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, and Upgrading NetIQ Agents.

. Monitor network alerts using Nagios Monitoring Software.

Harris IT, Fort Lee, VA (August 2010 - February 2011)

Unix Systems Engineer

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring

Security Checks on all Solaris 8,9,10 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5

Servers.

. Upgraded Systems from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using Solaris

Liveupgrade.

. Migrated Solaris 10 systems from UFS to the ZFS filesystem.

. Migrated Servers from Physical hardware over to Solaris 10 virtual

zone containers.

. Migrated Solaris 9 and 10 Servers from sun4u to sun4v platform.

. Maintained and Monitor network alerts using IBM Netcool Software.

Northrop Gruman, Newport News, VA (April 2008 - August 2010)

Unix Systems Administrator

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring

Security Checks on all Solaris 8,9,10, Vmware Esx 3.5 Servers,

RedHat, and Suse Enterprise Linux Servers.

. Upgraded Systems from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using Solaris

Liveupgrade.

. Migrated Solaris 10 systems from UFS to the ZFS filesystem.

. Migrated Servers from Physical hardware over to Solaris 10 virtual

zone containers.

. Migrated Solaris 9 and 10 Servers from sun4u to sun4v platform.

. Installed, Configured, Upgraded, and Maintained Solaris 10 Ldoms.

SAIC Science Application International Corporation, Virginia Beach, VA

(May2007- April 2008)

Systems Engineer

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring of

Sun Solaris 8 /10, Windows 2000 Servers. Setup and Maintained the

network VPN running Openvpn software under the Openbsd UNIX

operating system. Routinely providing software and network

troubleshooting for IIS 5.0, Apache Tomcat 5.0. Responsible for

Backing up Oracle 10g using VERITAS Backup Exec 11d.

SunGard Higher Education, Petersburg, VA (August 2004 - May2007)

Systems Administrator

. Responsible for Installing, Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring of

Novell Netware, Windows 2003, Sun Solaris and Linux Servers. Routinely

providing Windows desktop software and network troubleshooting

support. Migrated from Novell GroupWise version 5.5 to version 6.5.

Also Setup, Secured and Maintained Windows 2003 Active Directory

Services.

Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA (November 2003 - August 2004)

Systems Administrator

. Managed The network for the Virginia State University Mobile

Computer Lab which had a mixture of

Windows 2000 Servers, Cisco catalyst 3550 and Windows xp clients.

Coordinated, Planned, Implemented, Tested, And Troubleshoot

Cooperative Extensions electronic resources.

Oversee the daily operations and provided technical support and

assistance in the production and broadcast of video conferencing and

down link satellite programs.

. Built and Maintained the network for Haven Solutions which consisted

of 20 Unix/Linux Servers

A Cisco Catalyst 2950 and a Mixture of Windows 2000 and Windows xp

clients.

. Maintained Red Hat Linux file servers, which used Samba to serve files

to mostly Windows 2000 clients.

. Sendmail configuration, including mail virus protection.

. Formulating purchasing requests for new hardware.

. Installation and upgrading of Solaris 8/9 and Linux servers.

Haven Solutions, Yonkers, NY (August 2002 - September 2003)

Systems Administrator

. Setup, Configured and Maintained Red Hat Linux file servers, using

Samba

. Formulating purchasing requests for new hardware.

. Installation and upgrading of Solaris 8/9 and Linux servers.

. Setup, Configured and Maintainted Red Hat Linux Apache Web Server.

References are available

upon request.

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