Timothy A. Heberling - White House Webmaster

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Tim was recruited to manage the implementation of White House Internet Services in December 1994. He administered whitehouse.gov, the White House EMail server, as well as socks.ostp.eop.gov, the Office of Science and Technology Policy's original WWW development system. He served as the first full-time White House Webmaster, responsible for production of material for the White House web server, which below is being browsed by the President himself.

Besides webmastering, Tim monitored whitehouse.gov EMail and assisted the Secret Service with electronic tracing of threats. On numerous occasions, Tim had to respond to attempts to overwhelm systems, such as an Internet-wide List Server attack that subscribed whitehouse.gov to hundreds of list servers. Tim engineered the physical move of whitehouse.gov and www.whitehouse.gov from off-site locations to the White House. On his own initiative, Tim convinced the First Lady's office to start receiving Electronic Mail. He automated the transfer of EMail from whitehouse.gov to the Presidential, Vice-Presidential and First Lady Correspondence offices.

Feedback from the public was initially compiled for statistical purposes and left unanswered. Tim began replying to the EMail and it became a public relations plus for the Administration. With the help of interns, Tim and other key members of White House Internet Services built a new site from scratch that served as the White House portal from January, 1996 to July, 2000. He left the White House in March, 1996 at the end of an extended sub-contract.