Darrell Thobe Email & Phone Number

Bucyrus, OH, US

United States

United States

Upper Sandusky, Ohio, United States

• Lead software engineer responsible for refactoring a financial software application that is currently utilized by local governments.
• Architecting and developing financial applications on Microsoft Azure using PHP and MariaDB
• Creating and managing cloud platform for financial software applications
• Consults with stakeholders/subject matter experts to identify problems with user interface

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Led API architecture design and application development for the Digital Operations, Material Management and Indoor positioning service (IPS) platforms.
• Architected and developed backend services on the CloudFoundry platform using NodeJS, PostgreSQL, and Express to remove technical debt and reduce memory footprint
• Managed and Executed cloud platform migration of 50+ microservices and webapps from CloudFoundry to Microsoft Azure to meet divestiture timeline and cut costs by 30%.
• Created web components and dashboard features including KPI status bar, heatmap, snap-to-grid material path, and search bar.
• Consulted end users and stakeholders to identify problems with application user interface
• Developed backend and accompanying data visualization platform for our field engineers to access data from our Indoor Positioning System for over 3000 sites across the US

United States

- Completed 6-month rotations in various leadership roles- Attended five weeks of in-depth training ranging from leadership to public speaking to technological improvement

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Designed, Developed, and Enhanced backend microservices in java Spring.
• Improved performance, and readability for all microservices reducing downtime & increasing efficiency by 20%
• Refactored all microservices to obtain 100% on Veracode static code analysis
• Used Redis to develop new cost savings function for Authorization service which cut costs by over 50%
• Created new reporting service to give dock manager access to information regarding forklift utilization, efficiency and heatmaps. Enabling them to improve their shipping process.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Led initiative to create a simple and standardized product catalog moving from an on-premises solution to Hybris product catalog
• Created 2 standardized product spec sheets which improved spec sheet creation times by over 20% by eliminating redundant steps and reducing the number of people and departments needed to create it.
• Led application migration to AWS, prepared and executed project plan to meet an accelerated timeline to maximize cost savings.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Planned, Preped, and Executed network migration for all North American Lighting sites to meet divestiture timeline.
• Planned and executed 40-site network migrations to achieve 100% completion for all North American locations as part of a company divestiture.
• Coordinated migrations with divesting businesses and network providers (Verizon, AT&T) to almost eliminate any downtime.
• Led companywide Box.com migration initiative. Worked with all North American sites to create and execute a plan in order to migrate all on-premise data to Box to cut costs by +20%.
• Wrote Chrome extension for site audits, saving >750 manhours

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Led development for creating data connector between SAP HANA & Salesforce in order to create new reporting capabilities for the business.
• Developed C# application to connect Salesforce, SAP HANA, and SAP UI creating new reporting opportunities for the CEO of the newly created GE Current, powered by GE.
• Developed BI reports and in-house reporting tools for Salesforce
• Created mobile-friendly reports for users who

Bucyrus, Ohio

- Developed plant warning automation system, tied to fire/weather alarms, to send SMS and Email to all plant management- Enhanced warning system API with ability for live displays to pull in warning information- Enhanced warning system API with ability to pull clocked-in employees for roll call during alarms- Designed user interfaces (and correlating.