Dave Whittle

Current

• Systems Engineer 4 at CherryRoad Technologies

Past

• Senior Systems Programmer at AOL LLC
• Systems Programmer at AOL LLC
• Software Engineer at AOL LLC

• Junior Software Engineer at AOL LLC
• Technical Support Representative at AOL LLC
• Technical Support Representative at AOL LLC

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Dave Whittle’s Summary

Senior Systems Programmer with a focus on system automation and operational tools. Strengths in analyzing and improving workflow, integration with third party systems, and an exceptional ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Dave Whittle’s Specialties:

Platforms:
Mac OS/X (Client and Server), Linux (Redhat), UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX), VOS, Tandem (Guardian, OSS), Irix, Windows (98, XP, NT 4)

Languages:
Perl, PHP, Objective-C, Python/Jython, Java, Tcl, C, PL/1, Javascript

Tools:
Xcode, eclipse, CVS, SVN, gcc, Apache, WebLogic, JBoss, AOLserver, SSH, HTML, XML, XSD

Protocols/APIs:
Cocoa, OpenLDAP, WLST, SAPI (AOL internal API), HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP

Databases:
Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLLite

Dave Whittle’s Experience

• Systems Engineer 4

  CherryRoad Technologies

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — Present (11 months)

  Responsible for host administration of US Army public web properties that fall under the Army Knowledge Online (AKO) organization. As well as monitoring and maintaining Mac OS X Server systems, I am also responsible for developing new tools and techniques to improve our daily workflow based on my past experience with large scale systems.

• Senior Systems Programmer

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Primarily responsible for automating repetitive tasks for System Operations to maintain more than twenty-five thousand hosts and hundreds of thousands of processes. This included maintaining legacy tools as well as designing and implementing new tools that are scalable and improve operational efficiency.

• Systems Programmer

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — July 2005 (3 years 11 months)

  Responsible for administering the AOL Test Systems used by the Development and QA organizations. Primarily focused on building tools to assist customers with requesting work and tools to help better meet customer needs.

• Software Engineer

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  March 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 7 months)

  Supported the day-to-day Member Billing process by building tools and processes that streamlined the billing process as well as performing the recovery of critical errors.

• Junior Software Engineer

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  August 1995 — March 1997 (1 year 8 months)

  Built and maintained tools that allowed the Content Producers to manage the Digital City properties on the AOL client and the Digital City web site. Responsible for administrating the Digital City web site.

• Technical Support Representative

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  January 1995 — August 1995 (8 months)

  Supported users of NaviPress and NaviServer (later AOLpress and AOLserver). This included minor programming tasks to assist NaviServer users.

• Technical Support Representative

  AOL LLC

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; twx; Computer Software industry)

  March 1994 — January 1995 (11 months)

  Provided phone and online support for AOL customers experiencing technical issues with the client or service.