Thomas Belote

Past

• Software Engineer at Untangle, Inc.
• Software Developer at DigiSense, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Uptilt, Inc. dba EmailLabs

• Software Developer at Cryptine Networks
• Grader at San Jose State University
• Web Developer, System Administrator at Tarantella, Inc.
• SysAdmin, Programmer, Consultant at Premier Consulting
• Reader, Grader at University of California Santa Cruz

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Education

• San Jose State University
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• Mississippi State University

• Mississippi School for Math and Science

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Industry

Computer Software

Thomas Belote’s Summary

Software developer with a significant amount of system administration experience. Interested in being involved with startups.

Thomas Belote’s Specialties:

Preferred: PHP, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, Linux, XHTML, HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP, Web Development, Security, Database Administration, System Administration

Also experienced in: Ruby, Perl, Oracle, C, C++, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows

Thomas Belote’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Untangle, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 8 months)

• Software Developer

  DigiSense, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

• Software Engineer

  Uptilt, Inc. dba EmailLabs

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; JLHY; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

• Software Developer

  Cryptine Networks

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  One of three software developers in a security software startup. Also performed system administration, technical sales engineer functions and pitched to VCs. Worked on web and network based projects in PHP, Python, Perl, and C++.

• Grader

  San Jose State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)

  Grader for CS158A Undergraduate Networking (TCP/IP, Routing, Cisco IOS, Sockets programming, etc.)

• Web Developer, System Administrator

  Tarantella, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; TTLA; Computer Software industry)

  November 2003 — September 2004 (11 months)

  Maintained customer facing as well as internal PHP and Perl applications with MySQL database including http://www.tarantella.com/ and http://buy.tarantella.com/

• SysAdmin, Programmer, Consultant

  Premier Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 3 months)

  Contracted mostly to Tarantella, Inc. where I automated their user account administration by developing a program to link the HR DB (Humanics/Oracle) to LDAP. And then moving all the servers to LDAP authentication.

• Reader, Grader

  University of California Santa Cruz

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  Graded and tutored for a Motorola HC11 and MIPS (SPIM) assembly language class and a databases class.

Thomas Belote’s Education

• San Jose State University

  Graduate Coursework , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008

  Masters project work in wireless mesh networking, mobile ad hoc networks, and how reputation systems apply to these networks.
  
  Also some course work in user interaction and interface design.

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  BS , Computer Science , 2000 — 2003

  Emphasis on databases and web applications. See a narrative evaluation at: http://belote.biz/cs183.pdf

• Mississippi State University

  Computer Science August 1999 — May 2000

• Mississippi School for Math and Science

  High School Diploma , 1997 — 1999

Additional Information

Thomas Belote’s Interests:

high-tech startups, bike riding,

Thomas Belote’s Honors:

Eagle Scout

Thomas Belote’s Contact Settings

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