Elliott White III

mojoLive
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
June 2011 - Present

• Setting the technical direction of the company
• Building the initial web architecture (hardware & software)

HiiDef Inc. / Goodsie.com
Lead Developer & Chief Architect
February 2010 - November 2010

• Architect for http://goodsie.com/
• Hired PHP & jQuery development team and managed them through multiple iterations of codebase
• Made heavy use of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, & RDS in particular)
• Interfaced with numerous 3rd party APIs (Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments, FetchApp, GetClicky, etc)

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 Technical Blog
• Sole programmer for DevZone, a Zend Framework based project
• Author for numerous technical articles
• Conference Chair for ZendCon, Zend's premier PHP Conference

TravelPod Labs / TripAdvisor
Lead Engineer & Architect
August 2008 - January 2009

• Managed a programming team making experimental Web 2.0 travel applications using PHP and Javascript (jQuery & Prototype)
• Architected one of the leading Meta Flight Search engines: http://flights.tripadvisor.com/

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

• One of the first 3 programmers and saw the company grow from 7 people to 60+, and from 30,000 users, to almost 3 million.
• Scaled website to handle 10's of millions of page views a day on PHP, MySQL, and Memcached
• Provided technical guidance directly to senior management & participated in Project Management
• Worked on all aspects of the website, took lead in prominent aspects 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

• Managed multiple large web application projects with varying size teams
• Wrote software in PHP that talked to multiple database backends (Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQLServer, and PostgreSQL)
• 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.

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

• Served the roles of Production Manager, Site Architect, Usability Expert, and Technical Lead on many web projects.
• Managed a team on a 3 year long 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.
• Architected the original version of http://hubblesite.org/, which would receive over 10 million page views a month.
• Wrote web applications using combinations of PHP, Perl, Javascript, and Java.

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 in C, including custom servers and proxies for ftp and http.
• Performed UNIX and Windows NT system administration tasks, including web server maintenance.
• Architected a custom software package for scanning/analyzing websites for standards and SEO in Perl
• Collaborated on the writing of government contract proposals.
• Wrote educational web games in Java with Perl backends.

Other Related Work Experience:

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for West Virginia University: Taught two classes of Computer Science lab.
• Webmaster/Systems Staff for the Department of Computer Science at West Virginia University: Redesigned the intranet website and performed unix systems administration.
• Data Processing Programmer Intern for State Farm Insurance: Developed database applications and gave training on them.
• Computer Lab Supervisor for West Virginia University: Supervised 12 employees and maintained computers.