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Elliott White III

2914 Timber Ridge Drive • Mount Airy, MD 21771 • (570) 227-0205 • resume@eliw.com

Professional Accomplishments:
  • Over 11 years experience working in Internet Programming & Technologies.
  • Almost 5 years of part-time Internet Project Management experience.
  • Co-autho of the PHP 5 Developer's Cookbook for Sam's Publishing.
  • Performed tech editing for Sam's Publishing on various PHP & Database books.
  • Accepted to teach a session on Apache & PHP at the PHP Quebec 2005 conference in Montreal, Canada.
  • Accepted to teach 2 sessions on PHP at the 2004 International PHP conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Accepted to teach 3 sessions on PHP, CSS, and XHTML at the 2004 PAWScon conference in Manchester, England.
  • Helped Brainbench Inc. develop certification tests, including the Dreamweaver 4 test.
Skills:
  • Languages: PHP, Perl, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Flash, CSS, XML, XHTML, Unix Shell, Ada, familiar with many more.
  • Operating systems: UNIX (Solaris, Linux, etc.), Windows (XP, 2000, etc), VMS, OS/2, Macintosh OS/X (and older)
  • Database: Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQLserver, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite Microsoft Access.
Experience:

digg.com Inc.
PHP Hacker
February 2006 - Present

  • Began working at the startup as programmer #3 (1 month earlier and would have been #2)
  • Helped grow the website via programming and technical guidance from the small tech centric website to what it is today.
  • Participated in Project and Release Management processes.

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.
  • 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

  • Took on Project Management responsibillities for 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, Geocaching, and Console/Computer gaming.