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