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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, OpenSSLWork 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