Kim Scarborough


    611 W. Briar Pl., Apt 204
    Chicago, IL 60657

   (312) 343-7241
   kim@scarborough.kim
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Profile:

Experienced senior Linux system administrator

   Extremely knowledgeable and responsible Linux / Unix administrator.
   Responsive, articulate, and intelligent, with both a vast backlog of
   experience and strong research ability. Long used to being on-call at
   all hours; never far from a computer. Possesses United States Secret
   Clearance.

Skills:

     * Linux (Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS, Fedora, Arch)
     * Apache httpd
     * Apache Tomcat
     * Oracle VM Manager
     * MySQL
     * Oracle Exalogic
     * VMware vCenter
     * Puppet
     * OpenSSL
     * cPanel
     * PHP
     * Git
     * Subversion
     * BIND
     * OpenSSH
     * OpenLDAP
     * Sendmail
     * Postfix
     * Mailman
     * Red Hat Satellite
     * BigIP load balancers
     * NetApp disk arrays
     * Oracle ZFS disk arrays
     * Oracle Enterprise Manager
     * RAID
     * HTML
     * CSS
     * X11
     * Oracle hardware
     * PXE / kickstart boot configurations
     * NFS
     * BASH scripting
     * rsync
     * Plesk
     * Samba
     * Solaris
     * Linux kernel configuration and compilation
     * Icecast
     * FreeBSD

Notable Experience:

Technical Expert

Atos
February 2020 - October 2020

   Solaris administrator for multiple state government agencies.
   Responsible for organizing Exadata upgrades. Part of emergency on-call
   rotation.

Senior Principal Consultant

NTT Data
January 2013 - December 2019

   Member of American division's unit specializing in Oracle hardware and
   software solutions. Worked with many government and medical clients to
   engineer, configure, and maintain complete systems. Responsible for
   several state government health exchange roll-outs, improvement, and
   maintenance.

Dev / Ops Administrator

Verizon / Redbox Joint Venture
June 2012 - September 2012

   Responsible for installing, securing, and maintaining new web and
   application servers for then-pending streaming video project.
   Established high-availability, secure, and reliable httpd and Tomcat
   installations. Configured Red Hat Satellite for custom-built failover
   clusters. Set up templates and precedents for the company to use going
   forward.

Senior System Administrator

Tribune Co.
August 2011 - May 2012

   Part of small team maintaining over 1500 Linux, Solaris, and AIX
   servers. Built, configured, and deployed CentOS and RedHat virtual
   servers in a VMware vCenter environment. Responsible for upgrades,
   configuration, and deployment of Apache Tomcat, httpd, PostgreSQL, and
   several other software packages. Part of 24-hour on-call rotation.

Trading Systems Analyst

Chicago Trading Co.
November 2010 - August 2011

   Second-shift systems maintainer for international trading firm.
   Responsible for implementation, configuration, and monitoring of
   system-critical, custom applications on Red Hat servers. Sole technical
   liaison for Asian market traders.

System Administrator

Gelber Group
May 2009 - September 2010

   Maintained and installed OpenSUSE Linux servers. Worked closely with
   developers and traders to implement time- and mission-critical trading
   applications. Kept hundreds of servers' configurations in sync using
   cfengine and locally-developed solutions. Responsible for redundant
   MySQL installations across many servers. On-call at all hours.

Streaming Administrator

WHPK-FM
May 2005 - January 2018

   Initiated the University of Chicago's radio station's online streaming
   presence. Set up Icecast and Apache server for station. Monitored and
   administered streaming servers. Ensured station was in compliance with
   web-streaming regulations.