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William Wharton
"The best way to predict the future is to implement it" - David Heinemeier Hansson
Education
- Undergraduate @ University of North Carolina Wilmington - 2012 Graduation
Studying Computer Science, with a minor in Digital Arts.
- RJ Reynolds High School Winston-Salem, NC
- Team Sports: Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Rugby
- Organizations: ACM , IEEE, TSA
Field of Study
- Independent Research: Automata Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Caching, Compilers, Distributed Systems, Encryption, Garbage Collection, Human Computer Interaction, Image Processing, Operating Systems, Virtual Machines
- Operating Systems: Android, BSD, Redhat/Fedora, Linux/*nix embedded, OSX, Windows, IBM z/OS
- Programing (Versed): Bash, C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
- Programing (Unpolished): ASM, COBOL, Erlang, Prolog
- Standards: CSS, JSON, SQL, WPF, XHTML, XML
- Tools: Apache,Adobe Creative Suit, Eclipse,Google App Engine, MATLAB, Microsoft Office/ Visual Studio/ Project Server,nginx, OpenSSL
Work Experience
- (2010 - Present) Kudzu Mobile Work in design and development of mobile applacations and web sites. As well as built a cross platform help & support system called
Roots.
- (2010 - Present) Bottle Freaker Designing interactive displays and ecommerce solutions. Currently designing the new store front and Bottle Freakers.
- (2010 - Present) Mix Grotto Buildt custom and interactive CMS for managing music and band production, and organizing fund raising events.
- (2005 - Present) Wharton Computer My main role is to build and deploy Windows servers either physical or in a virtual machines. This has given me very broad experience with a lot of Microsoft server applications.
- (2005 - Present) Freelancing to pay the bills Mostly consisted of designing and deploying web sites for clients in various fields. I've done a lot of work in various open source PHP projects such as Drupal, Wordpress & OSCommerce. But now use an in shop web framework that has allowed me to nearly quadruple the speed at which I can build websites.
- (2010 - Internship) City of Wilmington IT & Spectrum Bridge As an Intern for both Spectrum Bridge and the City of Wilmington I was working with White Space
Wi-Fi technology. Some duties included configuring network topology and installing White Space transceivers on radio towers.
- (2007 - 2008) Reserve Harbor Marina Brought on board to setup networked surveillance cameras, as well as repair & maintain legacy boat database.
Awards & Recognitions
- (2009) Finalist in IBM's Master The Mainframe 2009 This was a lot of fun, as well as a massive learning experience. IBM introduced me to many new technologies as well as their Z/OS Mainframe System. We had to debug JCL Code, configure streams of data, COBOL, as well and build a new interface among things.
- (2004) Recognitions for Playstation Portable Hacking and development. I wrote a HTTP server in C that ran on the PSP. Was featured on many of the top tech news sites. (Slashdot, Engadget....)
- (2003) Most Creative Mod from Moddb.com. I was the lead developer on a game modification for the Half-Life engine. This is where most of my C++ experience started.