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Resume

Elliott White III

Mount Airy, MD • (570) 227-0205 • resumeeliw.com

Personal Statement:

After developing and managing Web projects for over 16 years, I have a deep understanding of the online world and how to design, implement, and maintain high traffic websites with emphasis on security, performance, and scalability. I have become a leader in the PHP community, an accomplished conference presenter and author, and a champion for best practices.

Professional Accomplishments:

  • Over 16 years experience working in Internet Programming & Web Technologies.
  • Over 9 years of Web Project Management & Team Lead experience.
  • Co-author of PHP 5 in Practice for Sam's Publishing.
  • Performed tech editing for Sam's Publishing on various PHP & Database books.
  • Presenter for 38 sessions at 22 conferences.

Skills:

  • Languages: PHP, Javascript, CSS, XML, XHTML, Perl, C, C++, Java, Unix Shell, familiar with many more.
  • Operating systems: Macintosh OS/X, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and others.
  • Database: MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQLserver, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft Access.

Experience:

HiiDef Inc.
Lead Developer
February 2010 - Present

  • Lead developer for goodsie.com

Zend Technologies Inc.
PHP Community Relations Manager and DevZone Editor-in-Chief
January 2009 - January 2010

  • Maintained good community relations between Zend & PHP Community.
  • Editor-in-Chief for DevZone, Zend's Techinical Blog
  • Sole programmer for DevZone, maintaining and adding new features
  • Author for numerous technical articles.
  • Conference Chair for ZendCon, Zend's premier PHP Conference

TravelPod Labs / TripAdvisor
Lead Engineer
August 2008 - January 2009

  • Led a team of 4 programmers on making experimental Web 2.0 travel applications.
  • Architected and developed one of the leading Meta Flight Search engines, flights.tripadvisor.com

digg.com Inc.
PHP Hacker
(aka: Senior PHP Programmer / Release Manager / Small Projects Team Lead / Maintenance Team Lead / Administrative Development Team Lead)
February 2006 - July 2008

  • Began working at the startup as programmer #3 (1 month earlier and would have been #2), and saw the company grow from 7 people to 60+, and from 30,000 users, to almost 3 million. Handling multi-millions of pageviews a day.
  • Grew the website via programming and technical guidance from the small tech centric website to what it is today.
  • Actively participated in Project Management.
  • Worked on all aspects of the website, took lead in prominent aspets like Web Security, Performance / Scalability, Memcached & APC usage, Advertisement Systems, Promotional Spot System, and 3rd party integration (Diggthis button, iGoogle module, Facebook widget, Automated Blog Posting).
  • Champion of best practices within the programming department specifically, and the company as a whole.

Fieldstone Mortgage Company
Senior Web Programmer
December 2004 - February 2006

  • Developed a complete web-based contact management and mortgage lead tracking system.
  • Detected & fixed bugs in custom software written by a previous employee that caused contact information to be lost. Untold money had been lost due to this.
  • Used my programming and project management experience to help guide various large projects in best directions.

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) - Under contract to NASA
Space Telescope Science Institute - Office of Public Outreach
Senior Web Programmer
January 1998 - December 2004

  • Performed Project Management duties for numerous proects, including a 3 year project to develop a PHP based dynamic system for the storage and retrieval of 10 years worth of Hubble Space Telescope press releases and images.
  • Directly responsible for maintaining production procedures for the department, including technology standards.
  • Regularly assisted in strategic planning for the future of the public outreach department.
  • Directly responsible for ensuring the uptime, stability, and functionality of the public outreach departments' web infrastructure. Includes interfacing with other departments and other companies.
  • Assumed the task of creating numerous server-side programs for increasing productivity, monitoring websites, managing web development workflow, and other goals as needed by co-workers.
  • Served the roles of Production Manager, Site Architect, Usability Expert, and Technical Lead on many web projects.
  • Used my knowledge of PHP, Perl, Javascript, Java, CSS, and XHTML to help develop many web projects and entire websites, including hubblesite.org, which can receive over 10 million pageviews a month.

BDM Federal Inc.
Internet/Web Developer
December 1996 - January 1998

  • Held a Top Secret clearance level with NSA.
  • Participated in writing a B2 secure firewall, including writing custom servers and proxies for ftp and http.
  • Performed UNIX and Windows NT system administration tasks, including web server configuration & maintenance.
  • Retooled a custom software package for analyzing Web sites remotely to give greater functionality.
  • Collaborated on the writing of government contract proposals.

Other Related Work Experience:

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant for West Virginia University, teaching two sections of Computer Science lab.
  • Webmaster/Systems Staff for the Dept. of Computer Science at West Virginia University, redesigning the intranet website and doing unix systems administration.
  • Data Processing Programmer Intern for State Farm Insurance, developing and giving classes on databases.
  • Computer Lab Supervisor for West Virginia University, supervising 12 employees and maintaining software & hardware.

Education:

West Virginia University
Graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 1996
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with additional graduate level work
Minors in Communication Studies and Philosophy (with a concentration in logic)

Interests:

Medieval reenactment (Society for Creative Anachronism), Crafting & shooting reproduction medieval crossbows, Golfing, Geocaching, Home Brewing, and Video Games.
Rock Band skills: Expert Guitar, Expert Bass, Hard Vocals, Medium Drums