1. Zachary Lawson
10314 Loving Trail Drive
Frisco, TX. 75035
469-226-0194
Zebo_bigz@yahoo.com
EMPLOYMENT:
Experience: Southwest Airlines
Date: July 2002 – present
Title: Oracle Database Administrator/Sr. UNIX System Engineer
• Responsible for building and performing maintenance on all Solaris, SUSE, Red Hat, HP-UX
platforms.
• Day to day duties include configuring/re-configuring development, qa and production systems and
daily backups of each environment.
• Assist with various engineering projects as required which include allocation of storage (NetApp),
DNS administration, Oracle 9iRAC and Linux 10/11G build and deployment and other engineering
projects.
• Lead engineer for system tuning (kernel and TCP/IP stacks) on our Solaris/Linux environments.
• One of two lead engineers for backup administration (Legato/VERITAS/SMO)
• Assist with builds/support of all application Teams at Southwest Airlines
• One of the lead engineers for root cause analysis on trouble tickets and problem environments
• Manage trouble tickets via Remedy System
• Lead Engineer on multiple projects – Rapid Rewards transition, Oracle 9iRAC, Linux 10/11G and
system/kernel tuning for the entire UNIX environment.
• Coordinate efforts with other engineers to have a consistent build and create standard procedures for
deployment and other work related issues.
• Operational Database Administrator on the Oracle Team
• Perform daily maintenance, backups, exports/imports and database upkeep
• 9i/10g/11r1/11r2 database support
• Prime Cluster and Linux CRS database administration including all DBA work
Experience: Verizon
Date: August 2000 – July 2002
Title: Advance Systems Engineer/Sr. UNIX Administrator
• Lead engineer for duties that include NT administration and Unix Administration
• Responsible for partial programming of T1 switches/Cisco routers
• Loading/backups of all operating systems ranging from Microsoft Windows NT, Win 2000
Server/Professional, and SUN Solaris, SCO Unix, UnixWare and all related applications and patches
associated with each product.
• Integrator for Iplanet Messenger/Calendar and Iplanet Portal Server responsible for the
installation/maintenance and functionality of all Iplanet and Weblogic Servers.
• Day to day duties include configuring/re-configuring desktop development systems and daily
backups of each, also constant network and system configuration and monitoring.
• Assist network administrator on routing, DNS entries and system configuration for demos and new
equipment
• Responsible for adding/removing and modifying users, permissions and access levels as they relate to
current job duties and responsibilities.
• Assist with various projects that primarily focus on E-business unified messaging, media/video
streaming development teams.
• Responsible for setting up the development environment.
• Secure source code utilizing VSS
• Manage Veritas Cluster servers
• Assist and build LDAP servers
• Implement various Web Servers, Application Servers and Directory Servers (Java, WebLogic, Jrun,
Iplanet and Netscape)

2. Experience: Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.
Date: February 1999 – August 2000
Title: SCO UNIX Administrator
• Duties include Project Coordinator for implementation, install of all POS systems in a SCO UNIX
environment for Pizza Hut Corporation stores.
• Monitor and maintain present in-house lab and systems, which includes AIX, SCO, and Solaris boxes.
• Work on major projects that impact the overall operation of the domestic restaurants (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell,
Kentucky Fried).
• Work with other departments within Tricon to find functional and timely solutions to client problems.
• Assist consulting firms in building client product and train on administering client account.
• Project Management and product implementation duties. Act as team lead on various projects, which included
rebuilding critical production servers, store/unit system configuration and testing the functionality of those
builds.
Experience: Medical Manager Southwest
Date: May 98 - January 99:
Title: Technical Analyst (HW Technician, Help Desk Coordinator and System Administrator)
• Duties include perform system maintenance, hardware/software upgrades, administer passwords and perform
system tuning and troubleshooting.
• Also, act as Help Desk Coordinator, which involves scheduling technician for onsite hardware/software
troubleshooting.
• Install and configure SCO UNIX systems troubleshoot Windows 95/98, AIX, Solaris and some Windows NT
system problems.
• Act as System Administrator for clients via dial-up modem perform all system maintenance and upgrades
including adding users and modifying system files to maintain the systems effectiveness.
• Also, assist other technicians in building the servers by adding all system components and installing all other
network peripherals.
Experience: The Software Group
Date: May 97 - May 98:
Title: System Analyst/Administrator
• Duties included software installation and training managing system accounts and users.
• Project Manager for all upgrades and system changes for the entire Texas client database.
• Worked with county government agencies by modifying their system files and servers to comply with the new
legislative changes passed by the Texas Legislature.
• Worked in a SCO UNIX, SUN, AIX and HP UX environment loading and tuning the client system to perform
effectively.
• As Project Manager Duties also included scheduling upgrades and software personnel to perform the project
successfully.
Experience: Texas Department of Public Safety
Date: January 92 - May 97:
Title: Technical Analyst/ Field Criminal Justice Information Agencies for North and Southeast
Texas.
• Lead Field Trainer for all judicial and criminal agencies throughout Texas (Southeast, and Northern Counties).
• Taught District Attorneys, County/District Courts, all Police/Sheriffs department and all Prison Units
throughout my assign area about computer based reporting to the State.
• Worked with other trainers to interpret Legislative changes to the penal code in order to create criminal
offenses for the state. Created forms, reports and offenses for each of the judicial and criminal agencies to use
for reporting.
• Planned and coordinated the first ever CJIS conference in the history of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
• Worked with various systems including SCO UNIX, AIX, SUN, Windows, HP UX and AS400 mainframe
databases.
• Perform system administrator functions for county government agencies to assist them with and maintain their

3. local computer systems and all software programs associated with those systems.
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE
Hardware:
• Netfinity, HP DL 385/585, IBM RISC 6000, SUN Sparc (E250, V880, 440, 480R, 120, 4300, 280R, 420, 1280
etc.), HP Class A, L and K Series, Intel, Compact, Dell, PowerEdge (2300, 4400, 4300, 6300), Dell DL series
servers (dl380/385), Blades (m605/610/710), (SCSI, EIDE) Hard drives, CDROMS, tape-drives, Stallion Pod,
Terminal Servers, Console Servers, T1 Switches, Hubs, CSU/DSU, NICS, Alliance Systems, Wyse, Cisco (3600,
AS5300, Netservers (E50, LXR), DigiBoards, mulitiport cards, memory, Flashdisk, Yukon, Frads, DLT tape
devices, Summafore switch, cabling, dialogic cards/dongles and multiple other hardware related functions.
Software:
• SUN Solaris (2.6, 2.7 & 2.8); IBM AIX, HP-UX 9,10 and, 11i, Linux Red Hat, SuSE, SGI, IRIX, TRU64,
Windows 95/98, Windows NT (Enterprise, Server and Workstation), Windows 2000 Server/Professional, SCO
5.0.0 – 5.0.6 (including UnixWare), Iplanet Calendar, Iplanet Messenger, Iplanet Delegated Admin, Iplanet
Enterprise Server, Iplanet Portal Server, IIS, MS Backoffice, MS Suite, Exchange/Outlook, Lone Tar,
BackupEdge, ARCserveIt and VERITAS, Facet term, MultiView, TERM, MirrorUX, DiskSuite, Tiny Term,
Exceed, SCO Vision and Ice 10 and Samba. Multiple Web/Application Servers (Java, WebLogic, iPlanet,
Apache/Tomcat, IBM, Netscape, WebSphere 4.0/5.0, and Jrun). ClearCase, VSS, Perl, LDAP, VERITAS
Cluster Software, PrimeCluster, SRM (Solaris Resource Management), Legato, Cognos, DiskSuite, Tibco
Product suite and PRM (Process Resource Management), Oracle 9iRAC, Linux 10/11G, CRS, Prime Cluster,
SMO, Replication Manager (RM),
Education:
• Ranger Junior College Ranger, Texas - 1985-1987 Associates Arts
• Lamar University Beaumont, Texas - 1987-88 Criminal Justice – Political Science Major
• St. Mary’s University San Antonio, Texas -1988-89 Criminal Justice Major
Reference: Available upon request