William E. Ward Jr.

wward@warddevelopment.com +1 (817) 648-6230 github.com/willseward bitbucket.org/willseward linkedin.com/in/willsward warddevelopment.com Fort Worth, Texas

Summary

Web, mobile, and desktop application developer for over 8 years with systems administration experience in Linux, Unix, Windows, and Cloud Computing with emphasis in DevOps. Currently, William contributes to several open source software projects including Rancher, Lego/ACME, Django security libraries, and Docker tools. He maintains a few projects himself ranging from Django plugins to Systems Administration tools. Since then, William has attended Texas Christian University where he sold WillWorks, developed sev-plenty new applications, and acquired several new skills. His main competencies and interests include hybrid and fully-virtualized server environments, cloud com- computing, containerization and related technologies. In his spare time, William enjoys playing piano, researching new technologies, and growing tropical plants. He also volunteers his time and technology resources at Simple Sending, EasyBites by Meals On Wheels, Inc. of Tarrant County, Shine Therapy, and Snappfund.

Experience

GivePay Commerce, LLC Fort Worth, Texas, USA Chief Information Officer June ’17 – present GivePay Commerce is an innovative FinTech company with a focus on connecting people, places, and community through commerce. The company successfully completed its Series A funding cycle to support monetizing payments via an innovative new flat-rate payments solution and crowdfunding platform (under development). At GivePay Commerce, William is responsible for the high-level planning of GivePay Commerce’s technology efforts and manages its talented development team. William makes direct contributions to the development efforts and expressly determines the direction of company’s strategic technological goals. Technologies: Go, C♯, ASP.Net Core, NATS, Cassandra.

Ward Development Fort Worth, Texas, USA Senior Developer August ’14 – present Ward Development is a full-stack development firm serving clients across the globe. William manages the Cloud infrastructure, the container orchestration services, and DevOps technologies. He also serves as lead developer, account relationships manager, and contracting lead. Technologies: Various web development stacks.

Macrobits Fort Worth, Texas, USA CIO & Systems Administrator November ’13 – August ’14 William directed client relationships and managed projects while serving as CIO. He leveraged Cisco and HP technologies to construct a hybrid network with various virtualization technologies.

Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas, USA Application Developer & Cloud Computing Advocate October ’13 – June ’17 William reengineered both iOS and Android mobile applications while introducing and implementing an on-premises Docker infrastructure. Technologies: Docker, Rancher, Python/Django, .Net MVC, ASP.Net Core, PHP, iOS, Android.

WillWorks Aledo, Texas, USA Solutions Manager November ’07 – March ’14 WillWorks began as a small project to learn Microsoft .Net technologies. William founded and operated the company until it was bought by Macrobits in 2014.

Education

Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas, USA Degrees 2013 – 2017 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Technology Minor in Music Performance – Piano Involvement App Club, President Upsilon Pi Epsilon—Computing and Information Honor Society, Member

Skills

Technical expertise: Programming Languages: Java, C♯, Objective-C, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Bash scripting, Visual Basic, C++, C, JavaScript, Arduino. Data Technologies: MySQL, MariaDB + Galera, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Redis. Frameworks: iOS SDK, APNS, OS X, Android, GCM, Microsoft .Net, ASP.Net, ASP.Net Core, .Net MVC 4–6, Django, Bottle, SQL Alchemy, Flight, JQuery, Bootstrap, Wagtail. Computing: Educated in Cisco Routing and Switching; familiar with HP, Dell, and IBM servers; research on Docker, containerization, cloud computing, DevOps, and resource utilization efficiency; great amount of experience with Linux/Unix system administration; makes heavy use of several AWS products including: EC2, S3, SNS, and Route53; experienced with IoT technologies including Arduino.

Certifications

Development Google Certified Associate Android Developer December 1st, 2017

Interests

Horticulture, Classical Music, Cleanliness and Organization, Jeeps, Piano, Arm-chair psychology/sociology.