David Davis Email & Phone Number

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Olathe, Ks

Lenexa, Kansas

I was hired to be responsible for creating, building and structuring the very first Technical Engineering Support role and team for Rhythm Engineering from the ground up to alleviate much of the burden on the company’s engineers so that they can focus primarily on developing traffic signal plans and configurations for our adaptive traffic system. I have built a team based on training methods and operating procedures to efficiently support thousands of intersections in over 30 different states as well as Toronto and Montreal Canada that are dedicated to our company’s mission which is to “Bring loved ones to their destinations safer and faster”. In addition to developing a support team I was brought on to assist in production and installation of our equipment and take over the Salesforce responsibilities which included maintaining, updating and improving the layout of the company’s Salesforce page such as adding new fields, creating reports, creating workflow rules, assigning permissions to new and old users and improving on the existing pages functionality and layout. Other responsibilities included assisting in assembly of all Rhythm equipment such as radar units, equipment panels, junction boxes, CPU’s, camera units, POE injectors, wiring all of the assembled equipment together and testing its functionality as well as making sure it has the correct polarity and terminating Cat5 & Cat6 cables for transmitting data and power.• Assist in the RMA and repair department making sure the equipment that needs servicing is done to company standards and shipped back to partner as fast as possible.• Perform quality assurance on computer boards shipped in from our distribution centers such as voltage testing and proper data transmission before assembling into the final components.There are many other aspects to this job and I would love to share them with you. Ask me for my resume or any number of specifics and I will happily answer your request.

Overland Park, Kansas

Jack of all trades responsible for repair work, maintenance duties and handling all kinds of repair and addition requests for both residential and commercial clients. Meet clients to understand their needs for repair, additions or maintenance. Meetings with clients allowed me to provide clients with a tentative quote of costs and information regarding procurement of materials, estimated time for project and the opportunity to draw up work contracts, and discuss the possibility of permits needing to be pulled.

Overland Park

Responsible for testing internal development and project releases, as well as manual testing efforts of mobile, web, and server platforms by troubleshooting internal development and production issues. Interact and collaborate with other QA, Development and Technical Support team members to ensure testing completely covered all aspects of the software and hardware while ensuring that all tests were designed to improve overall product quality. Deal directly with SCRUM Master, as well as the Product Manager to ensure that all tests are prioritized and completed in timely fashion to ensure software is deployed on time and with minimal bugs. Responsible for prioritizing all customer enhancement requests and bug fixes with the goals and vision of the company’s stakeholders to insure that all development time, costs and resources were kept as low as possible while still having the maximum potential for continuous improvement on the user experience. Additional essential job responsibilities include:• Identifying defects and documenting step to reproduce • Defining, developing, updating, and executing test cases for manual tests in an Agile environment• Execute tests in a regression workflow as part of pre-release activities• Responsible for all POSIM branded product releases• Working in a fast-paced, Agile development environment• Lead release day test activities• Troubleshooting data integrity, performance, and usability issues in software applications• Testing and troubleshooting across various staged and deployed environments• Proactively communicate test-blocking and release-blocking issues• Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate• Set up and monitor VPN’s on our RDS servers• Set up and schedule ETL jobs on our central network• Experience with using various SSH clients, such as MobaXterm and PUTTY• Daily use and knowledge of pulling simple queries using MySQL Workbench

Overland Park, Ks

Responsible for ensuring customer technical issues were addressed and resolved in a timely and professional manner. Diagnosed and resolved technical hardware and software issues with customers via remote connection. Provided answers to customers by identifying problems, researching answers and guiding them through corrective steps via phone, chat and email. Handled trouble tickets with support interventions for urgent issues. Identified and escalated priority issues for customers by documenting bug and enhancement requests from the customer into JIRA. Specialized in setting up multi-site cloud-based data storage environments for customers to ensure communication and data sharing such as customer info, inventory, product costs, vendor information, sales, special events, etc. was possible and reliable between all retail and e-commerce locations. A key component to allow data transfer from one location to another was the configuration of a unique VPN for customers to allow a secure channel of communication to our central servers so that I could set up ETL jobs to extract data from the local databases of each retail location and transfer the information to a central cloud based server where it would be transferred again back to all of the other retail and e-commerce locations providing each store that was connected in this way to share real time data about all aspects of there business.

Leawood Kansas

Responsible for daily maintenance of the church and the school. This included basic building repairs, ground keeping maintenance, custodial duties, set up and take down of equipment for various church and school functions.

Kansas City, Kansas

Responsible for assisting the store manager in overall operational excellence, exceeding store financial and key performance metrics. Responsibilities also included assisting in recruiting, hiring, and developing a very talented team of individuals. Also responsible for providing leadership and direction regarding engaging people, promoting product, exciting presentation, and sound store operations, analyzes the business and then using tools and insights to increase sales and service.

Lenexa, Ks

Responsibilities included helping in the manufacture of foam products to be used in various applications, as well as making sure that the machines and equipment were in working condition and continuously operating.

Overland Park, Ks

Created an eight-person sales team to oversee a section of the store and ensure that all customers were being assisted and provided exceptional service. Controlled and ensured availability of inventory levels by conducting physical counts and then reconciling with monthly on hand inventory lists. Provided each customer a service plan option and attempted to sell at least one more product than they originally were seeking to increase revenue. Provided a safe shopping experience for customers by greeting customers through direct eye contact and a verbal welcoming, as well as monitored merchandise entering and leaving the store entrance and exits. Maintained professional and asset protection knowledge by attending educational training courses provided by Circuit City. Computer Technical Support:• Assisted ‘FireDog’ Computer Technical Support team to help fix customer computers / equipment at their homes, as well as other tech support duties such as removing unwanted files, setting up home wireless networks, & backup and recovery• Conversed electronically and personally with computer end users experiencing trouble in order to verify and document problem• Checked with user guides, technical manuals and additional documents to research and put solutions into practiceSales Accomplishments:• Consistently achieved highest net sales average by up-selling products/services and suggesting add-ons and additional products. Achieved and exceeded financial revenue objectives by 200% of budget• Proved the ability to multitask, handle crowds of up to 100+ people, resolve customer issues, and excel within a demanding, high-volume setting• Determined marketing strategy changes by reviewing warehouse inventory versus floor sales• Recognized for ability to quickly establish rapport with customers, up-sell products, and build a loyal customer base

Gardner, Ks

Documented, measured, and unloaded steel from the trailers of semi trucks into the warehouse. Maintained and used overhead gantry cranes to offload the steel into its designated spots in one of two warehouses.

Continued At Umkc, Entrepreneurship, Business Management And Economics

Activities and Societies: University Family Housing CommitteeStudied Entrepreneurship and Business Management as well as Economics.

Entrepreneurship And Business Management

Studied Entrepreneurship and Business Management.