Don White has been involved in the computer field for over thirty years.   He has been eager to learn new systems and technologies since college and the time with IBM. 

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Donald L. White

Donald White was the lead architect and designer for many web and Windows based applications that are used world-wide at IBM.   He has over thirty years experience in the field of information systems, networking, application and web design.  His expertise in the design, coding and production of very complex web sites and Notes/Domino applications enables him to assist with large application systems. 

The latest project involved integrating three dozen systems to provide our customers with a portal for searching, displaying documents and complex problem management handling from authors to responders in a complex environment.  The three dozen systems included, OS/390, VM, DB2, AIX, UNIX and Windows Server systems.   This interface including complex Java applications, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS and Lotus Script languages.   This system is used by 60,000+ users world-wide within IBM and by IBM's Business Partner community.   This web site also support a dozen NLS languages, including DBCS languages, such as Japanese.

His expertise in local and wide area networking, open systems, and end user environments enables him to assist corporations in identifying their security needs and the communications networking approach to meet those needs in a secured structured environment.

Mr. White has in-depth experience supporting Fortune 100 to small-scale clients in a wide range of industries. 

Mr. White has extensive experience Notes/Domino web-based applications.  He has been through the concept, design, coding and production issues with both Windows and Unix systems.   This includes intranet and internet security systems, code management and National Language Support (NLS).  He also integrated machine translation systems to automatically translate to seven different languages, using multiple tools, including three double byte character set (DBCS) languages.  He has completed the majority of the code and testing for these systems, which involved the coding in seven different languages.  He also architect, designed and coded a complex Windows based application.   For reporting, he designed a complex DB/2 system using Approach and Access.

Mr. White has been involved in several corporate solution teams to work on all aspects of product support, including knowledge systems, registration and profiling systems.   This included end user architecture design to produce the requirements for this system.

Mr. White has extensive experience in the design and implementation of both local area networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN).  This experience includes token ring, Ethernet, Novell, OS/2 LAN Server, T1, SNA, TCP/IP, X.25, BSC, async and wireless networks.  Mr. White also has extensive experience in network and system security; network capacity planning, network management and system design. Some of these products are: NetView, ANO/MVS, NetCenter, VTAM, NCP, MVS, RACF, VM, DIRMAINT, VSE, AS400, Personal Computers, PC/DOS, Novell, OS/2, OS/2 Lan Server, Windows, token ring, PC Network, Ethernet and RF networks.  Mr. White also has extensive experience in over thirty programming languages.

Mr. Write has designed, coded and implemented two major networking applications, pharmacy adjudication and point of sales batch transfer system.  This included writing CICS TCP/IP applications and NCR UNIX applications.  The client expects this to increase productivity by 15%.

Mr. Write has designed, coded and implemented a TCP/IP connection with Telxon handheld units to communicate with a MVS CICS TCP/IP system for retail operations.  This will change the way this retail client operates in the store.

For a credit card broker, Mr. White designed, coded and implemented a TCP/IP connection so that the clients customers could process credit cards in real-time.  This involved coding on MVS CICS TCP/IP, DOS and OS/2 systems.  The client is extremely pleased with this implementation and currently has 6 major customers using this interface for high volume of credit card transactions.

For a client with seven hospitals, Mr. White provided alternatives, design considerations, and recommendations for a three tier platform-based networking project.  This included network and system security for all three tiers.  This allowed information access and network management capability, and increased system availability and user productivity by 20%.

Mr. White designed and implemented a wireless network application, for a major rental car company, using the radio frequency (ARDIS) network.  Based on the results seen thus far, this client is projecting much higher customer satisfaction and reduced operations cost.

Mr. White worked with two clients on a project that involved minicomputers, a value added network and a large handheld computer vendor.  Mr. White designed, prototyped and implemented a specialized data transfer protocol for client-server applications.  The project involves 1600 handheld devices accessing the host computer through this value added network.  Results will save both clients about 50% in operations costs and increase data turnaround by 400%.

During a recent engagement, Mr. White designed, and installed a large local area network with a Novell server and trained its users.  Both physical and logical security at multiple levels was very important to this customer.  This included user access to two other minicomputer different architectures.  The users were more productive by a new bi-directional fax server, an outbound modem pool and an inbound async server for remote access.  This increased productivity and gave the client a way to safeguard their corporate data.

Working with a manufacturing client, Mr. White designed, coded and implemented a secured protocol that enabled any vendor's computer to remotely execute programs on any other computer across a TCP/IP Ethernet network.  This work was very important for the client to provide a client-server network for multiple applications on the manufacturing floor.

Mr. White was a security administrator for a large-scale project on a MVS host.  This included terminal and data security for the entire project.

Mr. White is well recognized for his multi-vendor networking expertise and has spoken to client audiences at business shows, seminars and as a key note speaker for a national health organization.

Mr. White earned his B.S. in computer science at Florida Atlantic University with a minor in business.  Mr. White received his A.A. in engineering at Palm Beach Community College.  Mr. White also attended IBM's System Research Institute (15 master credits) in New York City, specializing in telecommunications and databases.  In addition to his formal business education, Mr. White has completed about 2000 hours of formal IBM training.

Systems that Mr. White has worked on:

- Lotus Notes / Domino V8, V7

- Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003

- OS/390 - System z

- OS/400 - System i

- VM    - System z

- AIX    - System p

- Unix   - NCR and other version

Languages that Mr. White has done extensive coding in:

- C, C++

- Lotus Script, Formula Language

- HTML, CSS

- JavaScript / AJAX

- Java

- Visual Basic

- COBOL

- Fortran

- PL/I

- Script/VS

- REXX