James Stauffer Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I am focused on recreating Fulfillment services to be more modular, expand the scope and impact of features, make it easier for others to maintain, and position it for the next decade of growth!

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

SPS Commerce helps businesses trade electronic documents (EDI) such as purchase orders and invoices. In the late 1990's, SPS started with a few retailers and now have grown to work with virtually every retailer and currently have tens of thousands of suppliers in their customer base.I primarily work on SPS's web EDI product (WebForms), but have also worked on scheduling for a catalog, and an ETL for a BI service. I have worked on small teams, and led small teams, but normally work alone. Because of this, I handle everything from architecture, design, coding, debugging, and research to working with quality assurance, customer support, and product management. We use a process similar to iterative and agile.Early on I was responsible for production development and led a small team. Because I have a long-term focus, and don't want to get the same problem twice, I was able to eventually handle production without a team while handling new features.I have been a part of helping WebForms grow, re-architecteding with a new version, adding many major features, and handling 1,000 times more documents/month than when I started.

Right out of college my career at SPS Commerce started with a "baptism by fire". About a month after I started, my boss assigned me to a production problem that happened rarely and wasn't reproducible, then he left for a week to go to a conference. After five iterations of adding a state inspection servlet to production, I finally found the problem. The code cached the same DB row in multiple places, therefore the state could become stale. I then implemented a central caching scheme where code would always pull from the cache each time a row was needed, ensuring that there weren't multiple objects for each row. Soon after, I was put in charge of handling all production problems instead of doing new development for new customers. I wasn't sure if I would like that, but I dove in to see what I would encounter. I flourished and, a year later, I was promoted to a Senior Software Engineer.When I started, the company was named Saint Paul Software, and I worked in the Commerce division. Later, the other divisions were sold and the company was renamed to SPS Commerce.

Baldwin, Wisconsin, United States

Representing Town of Hammond, Village of Hammond, Town of Pleasant Valley, Town of Rush River, and Town of Eau Galle Ward 1 (approximately the southern half)

Administered networks for the Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science department.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

In I.S. and Safety departments. Summer job. I created a complex, dynamic Java applet for job applicants.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

In Human Resources Systems department.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

In the Safety department, I mostly created websites.

I worked most weekends at a camp guiding groups through winter activities.

I served food, washed dishes, and cleaned the kitchen and dining room.

Computer Science

I took two master-level classes Computer Security I, Distributed Systems. I don't plan to do a complete master's degree.

B.S., Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Stout Sudent Association SenatorGPA: 3.88/4.0 Concentration: Software Development Computer Classes: C.S. I-II.