Thomas M Berry
Facsimile: 818-718-1298
Email: thomas <at> siryl <dot> com
System and Software Development Engineer
Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, and Support: Email, Directory, and Related Systems and Services
HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE
Systems Administrator - 7 years
Software Developer - 9 years
Systems Developer - 11 years
Technical Support - 15 years
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Systems Developer
- Develop Requirements, Architecture, Design, and Testing
- Email Architecture: Transport, Filter, Router, Gateway, Mailing Lists, and Account Management
- Directory Architecture: X.500 and LDAP
- RPM (RedHat Package Manager) development
- Documentation and Procedures: End User and Technical
- Provide Presentations, Training, and Support
- Email Clients: Eudora, Outlook, Communicator
- Directory Clients: Finger, Ph (phonebook), LDAP, HTTP, and Whois
- Systems Applications: Sendmail, Lyris, Syntegra, Sympa
Programmer
- Experienced Perl programmer
- From simple, quickly written scripts to large, Object-Oriented applications
- Debugging and enhancing legacy code while maintaining the original code's methodologies
- Debugging and enhancing large Perl applications.
- Development of tools to perform tests, analysis, and reports
- Administration interfaces in the form of command line utilities and web interfaces (CGI)
- Integration (glue) of directories (LDAP and X.500) and databases (SQL and XBase)
- Developement of tools to perform recovery of systems, applications, and data
- Working with XML and HTML (CGI)
- Some experience with TK/Tcl, PHP, JavaScript, Python, C, and C++
Systems Administrator
- Sendmail, Inc. Messaging Suite: Sendmail Switch, Content Manager, and Messaging Server
- Install and upgrade application
- Implementation of Configuration and filter Policies
- Analyze application operation and processing of enterprise messages
- Coordinate reporting of bugs and issues with Sendmail support/developers
- Sympa (an open source list manager):
- Responsible for the server design
- RPM build
- Implementation of a turn-key system installation
- Custom integration with Sendmail
- Application customization
- Development of extensions to application features
- Extensive troubleshooting
- Development of application monitoring and maintenance
- Development of utilities to transition lists and members from Lyris to Sympa
- Implementation of upgrades and patches
- Custom extension of Sympa extend its message archive capability
- Linux: Red Hat Enterprise (redhat) and Ubuntu (debian)
- Lyris List Manager
- Sun Solaris
- Syntegra Mail*Hub 2000 and Global Directory Server (X.500/LDAP)
- iPlanet Messaging, LDAP Directory, Messaging and Enterprise Web Servers
ANCILLARY SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
- Microsoft Windows 98, ME, XP, and Vista
- Productivity: Microsoft Vista, Office, Sharepoint
- E-mail Clients: Eudora, Outlook, Thunderbird
- Linux - Debian: Ubuntu; Red Hat: Enterprise and Fedora
- Vi
- E-mail Clients: Thunderbird
- OpenOffice Suite
- Other
- AFS - shared file system
- MHonArc - email archive
WORK HISTORY
September 2003 - present
Email Development Engineer
Employer: Computer Sciences Corporation - Pasadena, CA
Contract: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
June 1999 - September 2003
Email Development Engineer
Employer: Data Synectics, Inc. - Agoura, CA
Contract: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
March 1998 - June 1999
Email Development Engineer
Federal Data Corp. - Pasadena, CA
Contract: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
June 1996 - March 1998
Email Development Support
Telos - Pasadena, CA
Contract: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech
June 1993 - June 1996
Senior Product Support Technician
Employer: Reveal Computer Products - Woodland Hills, CA
February 1992 - June 1993
Product Support Technician
Employer: Practical Peripherals - Westlake Village, CA
EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND CONFERENCES
Open Source Conference attendee,
2007, 2006, 2005, 2002, 2001, 2000
CATALYST Conference attendee,
2004, 2003, 2002
USENIX Conference attendee,
2002
System Analyst Certification,
Learning Tree University, Chatsworth, CA, 2002
iPlanet Directory Server: Analysis and Planning,
iPlanet Learning Solutions, Universal City, CA, 2001
iPlanet Messaging Server: Analysis and Planning,
iPlanet Learning Solutions, Melpitas, CA, 2001
Advanced Messaging,
Syntegra Technical Training, Arden Hills, MN, 2001
Messaging and Directory,
Syntegra Technical Training, JPL, 2000
C/C++ Programming Certification,
Learning Tree University, Chatsworth, CA, 2000.
Unix/Linux System & Network Administration Certification,
Learning Tree University, Chatsworth, CA, 2000
Perl Programming,
Information Technology Education and Training, JPL, 1999
Awards
- Team Award for deploying LDAP Directory, June 2001
- Team Award for implementing Public Key Infrastructure, July 2000
- NASA Group Achievement Award for EIS Project, May 1999
Miscellaneous
- Actively working towards a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with emphasis on Information Systems
| Last Revised: March 22, 2007 |