William Davis Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, IA, US

Bayport, Minnesota, US

Contractor through Dexian. Helped bring a new assembly line into production, on-time and under budget, on a short-term contract as a software engineer working on their Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Developed and tested software for monitoring & controlling a new product assembly line being set up for a new Andersen retractable screen door product.

Urbandale, IA, US

Helped stabilize, maintain and enhance BTS’s PrintUtil policy document print/email/fax/archive management workflow web app after major department staff attrition; almost all subject matter experts had left before I started (and all had left shortly after I started.) Myself and another replacement worked with the available documentation and minimal training.

San Francisco, California, US

Working for Wells Fargo Image Repository Support as a contractor through Apex System to resolve user and system problems with Wells Fargo’s Image Content Management Platform, a huge document repository containing billions of documents and adding millions of new documents every day, based on IBM’s Filenet. Tools used: SQL, Splunk, AppD, Oracle SQL.

Tampa, Florida, US

Working as a contractor through Dynamo for Trility Consulting. Trility had a contract with Masonite, a large nationwide architectural door manufacturing company to learn, document and maintain a mission-critical legacy order-entry system after most of the development staff familiar with it had left, while it was being replaced with a cloud-based system..

US

• OCIO - Office of the Chief Information Officer -I/3 Bureau (Integrated Information for Iowa)(Formerly DAS-ITE (Department of Administrative Services - Information Technology Enterprise)
• Maintained and enhanced the Online Payroll Warrants web site (Java/JSP, WebSphere CE, Web services, Eclipse) used by state employees to view their paycheck stubs. Moved site from WebSphere 5.1 on AIX (Unix) to.
• Maintained and enhanced the back-end COBOL-based mainframe Web Service for the Online Payroll Warrants system database.
• Assisted occasionally with COBOL programming projects on the mainframe-based (z/OS) State Human Resources Information System (HRIS).
• Enhanced Income Offset project (Java, Mule ESB, Ruby & Rails), which reclaims thousands of dollars of money owed to the state annually.
• Many other programming projects using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications in Excel, Word, and Outlook.

New York, NY, US

• (formerly Standard & Poors)
• Recreated (under a tight time deadline) a TCP/IP data capture program in Visual Basic 6. It extracted data from the NASDAQ mutual funds ticker data streamed via the Internet and fed it to a HP OpenVMS system for.
• Made additional small changes occasionally over the next several years as the NASDAQ data feed record structure changed.
• Supported them after Hurricane Sandy took out their data center in Manhattan. Set up NASDAQ data capture program on a new server and fixed problems running it under the newer Windows version due to missing DLLs.
• Worked to re-implement the NASDAQ program in Java to comply with their changing corporate standards.

Chicago, IL, US

Standard & Poor's Fund Services was purchased by competitor Morningstar and then the whole Des Moines division of S&P FS was laid off. Development staff stayed on until the layoff date to transition data feeds and clients over to Morningstar's systems.

New York, NY, US

• (formerly Standard & Poor’s Fund Services)
• Created new and modified existing programs for data entry, processing and report production using Visual Basic 6, Microsoft Access, VBA, SQL Server 2000, FTP to OpenVMS and SunOS systems, and COM to control other.
• Created new and maintained existing entry screens, reports, and processing jobs using DEC (later HP) VMS BASIC & DCL on DEC VAX and HP Alpha minicomputers running OpenVMS.
• Automated formerly manual data entry from dozens of spreadsheets received via e-mail using VB6, saving hours each day, freeing staff for other products and letting staff handle more company’s data and improve quality.
• Automated another manual data entry task that used to take several people two full days monthly; automated system handled the entire task in under a minute, allowing the staff to handle other tasks requiring human.
• Used VB6 and WinSock TCP/IP API to automate capture of mutual fund data feed from the Nasdaq stock market, resulting in more reliable and accurate delivery of data, saving hours of manual data entry daily. This also.

• Created company web site including several CGI-backed web forms using JavaScript. CGI scripts written in Perl on a Digital Unix system for surveys, signup for seminars, product registration, etc.
• Built translated versions of software in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish allowing it to be sold in multiple countries and bundled with scanners & cameras sold worldwide using a single package.
• Built software distribution installers, allowing sales via web and online services not just mail and stores.
• Created software design specifications for several new products and updates.
• Wrote tutorials for product manuals and transformed product manuals into HTML for use on product CDs.
• Managed Quality Assurance testing of software products on Macintosh and Windows, freeing up programmers to concentrate on coding and reducing number of bugs in shipping products.

• Developed Prairie Group's Web site,, improving customer technical support and improving pre-sales information available to customers.
• Responsible for telephone, e-mail and online forum technical support, freeing up other staff to focus on their jobs. Developed FileMaker Pro databases to track technical support contacts, bug reports, suggestions, and.
• Created technical specifications for many product upgrades based on experience with technical support issues and customer feedback, greatly improving product capabilities and reliability.
• Coordinated quality assurance testing and external beta testing for new products and upgrades, reducing number of bugs in shipping products and increasing product quality due to feedback from testers.

• Software Engineer:
• Member of programming teams for award-winning software products QuickMail, QuicKeys, and CalendarMaker for Macintosh and Windows platforms.
• Created gateways for QuickMail so it could work with many other electronic mail systems.
• Worked with translators and enhanced source code to support proper operation in multiple human languages, enabling software to be translated into Japanese, French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Danish, allowing the.
• Established CE’s technical support department and managed four tech support staff members. Department given several awards by IT professional/user groups and computer trade magazines for support quality.
• Wrote user documentation for QuickMail Client, QM Forms e-mail form design, and QM Remote access programs.

• Software Engineer - Farm Information Management Services Division:
• Developed applications for use by farmers and for information services provided to farmers.
• Programmed Digital VAX minicomputers in VMS Pascal & DCL, and MS-DOS compatible personal computers in Microsoft C and Lattice C.Software Engineer – Data Systems Division, Payroll Department:
• Programmed payroll applications and reports in COBOL on IBM 3090-compatible mainframe. W-2 printing programs had to allow for employees working in multiple states and/or countries in a single tax year.

• Developed new and modified existing Medical Office Management System software written in Business BASIC to meet customer needs.
• Provided hardware and software installation, preventative maintenance, and technical support to customers, including on-site support and phone support.

• Trained customers in programming in BASIC, using TRSDOS and using application software.
• Created Computer Sales Quote system in Microsoft BASIC, used by local staff and later by other Radio Shack stores in the district to produce price quotes for computer systems sales.
• Wrote promotional "customized shopping list" software using Microsoft BASIC that was used during Christmas holidays in Radio Shack stores around the country to help shoppers find appropriate gifts.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science

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