Jeff Berry

Education:

• MPhil, University of York, Yorkshire (2017) - Thesis - The Medieval English Urban Cook
• M.A. Medieval Studies, Columbia University, NYC (2012) - Thesis: Curye for Whom? Profiling the Reader of Early English Cookery Books
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder (1990)

Papers, et cetera:

• Medieval Food Porn: Forme of Cury and Du fait de cuisine, presented at the Columbia University Medieval Guild 21st annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, "What is bettre than gold?", 22 October 2010.
• NCAR Tech Note TN-396+STR Vertical Interpolation and Truncation of Model-Coordinate Data; Kevin E. Trenberth, Jeffery C. Berry, and Lawrence E. Buja, CGD, 150 pp., October 1993.
• Review. The Medieval Cookbook (Revised Edition): By Maggie Black, Food, Culture & Society, 16:4, 698-700, DOI: 10.2752/175174413X13758634982362, 2013.
• Review. The Original Meditererranean Cuisine (Second Edition): By Barbara Santich, Food, Culture & Society, DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2020.1728987, 2020.

Work Experience:

• Computer Officer, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 2016 - present
• IT Manager/Systems Administrator, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC, 2000 - 2013
• UNIX Systems Administrator, Associated Press Multimedia, NYC, 1998 - 2000
  
• UNIX Systems Administrator, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC 1995 - 1998
• Scientific Applications Programmer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 1990 - 1994

Related Experience:

• Managing Director, The Deptford Players Theatre Company, NYC, 1999 - 2005
• Liberal Studies MA Student Advisory Board, Columbia University, NYC, Fall 2009 - Spring 2011

Fiction, Plays, et cetera:

• Fiction:
  • "Mall Ranger," THEMA 17, no. 3 (2005): 71-74.
  • "Espresso Time," THEMA 19, no. 2 (2007): 17-22.
• Plays:
  • Forest for the Trees, full length verse play, produced by The Deptford Players, NYC, October 2003
  • Oooh, Vicar! Where's Your Trousers?, one-act farce, produced by:
    • The Deptford Players, NYC, October 2003
    • Summerplay, Collaborative Artists Ensemble, Hollywood, CA, August 2008
  • Time Bomb, one-act comedy, produced by Turtle Shell Productions, NYC, August 2007
  • Vita Sanctae Margaritae, short verse play, produced as part of Drunks and Dragons, by The Lords of Misrule, York, March 2014

Languages:

• Programming: BASIC, c, java, FORTRAN, Pascal, perl, python
• Shell scripting: bash, csh/tcsh, ksh and sh
• OS: AIX, CRAY JCL, Linux (numerous distributions), IRIX, Mac OS X, SunOS/Solaris, UNICOS, Windows
• Dead: Old English, Latin
• Living: French

Memberships

• Actors' Equity Association
• Equity (UK)
• Association for the Study of Food and Society
• Medieval Academy of America