David Williams
17 Sunset Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22301
(703) 684-5430
davewill@kayakero.net

Projects:

  • Managed matrixed team migrating static HTML intranet into Drupal CMS.
  • Team migrated on-premise infrastructure to AWS with no downtime.
  • Provided oversight and technical direction to staff and contract team replacing Documentum Web Publisher with Drupal while implementing a responsive web design and provisioning geographically dispersed web servers.
  • Provided oversight and technical direction to staff replacing a 14 year old intranet server for PTO's 10,000 staff with modern, load-balanced hardware. In the process removed Unix accounts for content owners and implemented Subversion for version control and authorization solving long standing security and operations challenges.
  • Managed contractors to support a high profile, quick turnaround project to implement Corda CenterView for the public facing USPTO dashboard.
  • Quickly stood up MediaWiki for a high profile project at USPTO which was subsequently slowed (with master-master MySQL replication).
  • Quickly stood up Roller blogging software for high profile project at USPTO (with master-master MySQL replication).
  • I was a late addition to the team which implemented Documentum's Web Publisher as WCMS for www.uspto.gov.
  • Led a team of Internet Application Developers in improving uptime for AARP.org; while we regressed to 99.993% uptime for 2006 we achieved 5 nines for 2005: 99.99905%, in 2004: 99.98827% and in 2003: 99.95937%.
  • Led the implementation and subsequent upgrade of Zope Content Management System which provided distributed, role-based web authoring and publishing within an approved design and navigation scheme for multiple web sites.
  • Customized and integrated an MIT Media Lab developed Java-based electronic publishing system as community publishing tool.
  • Migrated multiple web sites from a single Alpha (Tru64) server to geographically dispersed web farms of Intel (Linux) servers providing increased scalability, increased reliability and increased disaster tolerance.
  • Webmaster, www.aarp.org, AARP's Webplace, and research.aarp.org, AARP's Research Center; added new features and functionality as requested by internal clients.
  • Added "recommended link" functionality to ht://Dig, an open source, C++-based web search engine to provide editorial control over search results.
  • Using HTML, PostgreSQL & Perl, designed and implemented a work flow, tasking and assignment tracking system used by a team of 50 web specialists for daily work assignments.
  • Wrote server monitoring, logging and reporting program in Perl used to report problems and plan upgrades to servers.
  • System administration of SGI, Tru64 and Linux Unix servers providing reliable service to clients and web site users.
  • Using HTML, PostgreSQL & Perl, designed and implemented a document tracking system for the Research Center web site which allowed knowledge workers to track publications through the process of web publishing.
  • Using HTML, Visual Basic & Perl, designed and implemented a search engine for AARP's Research Group Internet and intranet web sites providing relevant keyword search functionality.
  • Designed and implemented a custom Content Management System in Visual Basic for AARP's Research Center which provided distributed access for content creators and consistent design and navigation for that web site.
  • Integrated Real Audio and Real Media content for AARP's Research Group web site providing rich content to site visitors.
  • Designed and implemented UNIX utility programs in the C language for web form handling, making HTML content more dynamic for AARP's Research Division.
  • Designed Broadcast Department's web pages for AARP Web site including integration of audio and video content.
  • Designed and implemented a C++ program, FileProc, to provide global search and replace on the Windows platform in support of web site development.
  • Co-designed and implemented a Lotus Approach-based intern tracking database for The Marriott Foundation providing program managers standardized data entry, query and reporting functions.
  • Designed and implemented a Microsoft Access-based Freelancer database for AARP's Broadcast Department, providing distributed quick access to individual and organization contact information.
  • Designed and implemented a C++-based program, Ami Report, which provided additional functionality for a Windows-based word processor.
  • Revisions to the C-based program Animate, a UNIX file processing program used in the Chemical field to allow more flexibility for the users.
  • Co-designed and implemented the C++-based program AutoCorrelate, a DOS program to analyze geologic drilling data.
  • Taught English to Spanish speaking Costa Ricans.
  • Designed and implemented the C++-based program FileConv, a DOS program to convert columnar data files into linear data files.
  • Designed and implemented a video tape library system in KnowledgeMan providing quick access to information about video tape clips.

Continuing Education:

Recognition:

  • 2023 "On-The-Spot award" for cross Agency collaboration with NRC's web team
  • 2022 Bronze Medal group award for intranet redesign and rearchitect
  • 2022 Service Execellence award for superior federal service
  • 2021 Special Act Award for USPTO Website Cloud Migration
  • 2020 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2019 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2019 One of 13 finalists for Supervisor of the Year at USPTO
  • 2018 One of ten finalists for Supervisor of the Year at USPTO
  • 2018 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2018 Certificate of Appreciation from USPTO CIO for 10 million patent support
  • 2017 Bronze Medal for Superior Federal Service from USPTO
  • 2017 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2016 One of eight finalists for Supervisor of the Year at USPTO
  • 2016 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2016 24 hour Time Off Award
  • 2015 group Bronze Medal for relaunch of www.uspto.gov
  • 2015 Personal thank you from the Chief Information Officer
  • 2015 Personal thank you from the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
  • 2014 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2013 Leadership in Action award from USPTO
  • 2011 Silver Medal from Department of Commerce for Meritorious Federal Service
  • Certificate of Appreciation from Department of Commerce for work on USPTO's support of the federal Open Government initiative
  • "On-The-Spot" award for extraordinary effort from USPTO
  • 11 Certificates of Recognition for extraordinary effort or creativity from AARP
  • 3 nominations for outstanding achievement/sustained excellence from AARP
  • 1st place 1989 White House News Photographers Association
Summary, Highlights, Work Experience, Education and Hobbies