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Ian Kirby Berry
1955 Ritner Highway
Shippensburg, PA 17257
(717) 776-4448

JOB HISTORY AND CAREER
Cumberland Technologies June 2002-August 2004
  • Designed and implemented a web-based interface used by the entire organization to store circuit, network status, and equipment information.
  • Constructed a web-based system to report, index, and ultimately stop unsolicited email from reaching customers.
  • Worked as a network engineer to design a completely new mail architecture emphasizing scalability, redundancy, and reliability.
  • Gained experience in virtually all areas of network/system engineering from an ISP's perspective including critical server management, WAN device configuration, and network programming.
IntelliMark January 2003-May 2003
  • Headed up the design on a web-based management application for the Pennsylvania state CyberStart day care system.
  • Worked with several developers to maintain the application and fulfill user requests during deployment.
Big Spring School District June 2000-June 2002
  • Configuration and maintenance of the district web site/Intranet and its web server.
  • Working along side the network administrator to install, configure and troubleshoot new computer hardware.
  • Configuration of new networking hardware such as servers, routers, and switches.
Cacti October 2001-Present
  • Developed a web-based network graphing application, 'Cacti' from the ground up in 2001.
  • Worked with multiple developers to maintain testing and release schedules making use various real world co-concurrent development strategies.
  • Implemented by thousands of large companies today such as Bell South, Sprint, General Motors, M&T Bank, Purdue University, IBM and Toyota Europe.
  • Included in many mainstream operating systems such as Gentoo Linux, Debian Linux, FreeBSD, and Sentinix.
SDF Consulting August 2001-April 2002
  • Design and implementation of a dynamic web site to be used by local businesses to display their information in a web-based format
Shippensburg University June 2001-Aug 2001
  • Created a new, modern-looking layout for the College of Business web site.
Provion/PlanetCable June 2000-June 2001
  • Performed phone-based technical support for dialup and cable modem customers.
  • Worked with Provion designing and implementing web-based solutions for local businesses.

EDUCATION
Shippensburg University 2002-2006
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering concentration
  • Member of the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, Upsilon Pi Epsilon
  • Graduating GPA: 3.8
Big Spring High School 1998-2002
  • Graduated with honors
Cisco Networking Academy 1999-2001
  • Completed four semesters of network academy training.
  • Covered local area and wide are network technologies, network design, and TCP/IP protocol fundamentals.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Windows System Administration
Windows NT4, Windows 2000, IIS, Microsoft SQL server, WMI

Unix System Administration
Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, Bind, MyDNS, Postfix, Sendmail, MySQL, Nagios, Courier-IMAP, Courier-Maildrop, Server-based e-mail SPAM/virus scanning, Pro-FTPD, TPOP3D, Network monitoring with SNMP

Programming
Visual Basic, Perl, C, C++, Java, PHP, ASP, SQL, Bash

Network Administration
Cisco router and switch configuration, local area network cabling, OSPF and BGP routing, Lucent network access server configuration, advanced TCP/IP protocol analysis, TCP/IP implementations under Windows and Unix, LAN protocols (Ethernet), WAN protocols (SONET, ATM, PPP, HDLC, GRE, Frame Relay)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2006: Recognized for outstanding senior grade point average
2005: Inducted into the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society
2002: Received first place in the Pennsylvania Regional Computer Fair for Cacti
2001: Was accepted into the Pennsylvania governor’s school for information technology
2001: Received first place in the Pennsylvania State Computer Fair for the Big Spring web site
2001: Received first place in the Pennsylvania Regional Computer Fair for the Big Spring web site
1998-2002: Maintained a distinguished and first honor role status during my entire high school career