Rob Bush Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida Area

Software Engineer - Lead / Senior .NET Developer (June, 2002 - August, 2016) Development Lead / Project Manager using Agile / Scrum methodologies • Lead developer responsible for managing the daily activity of a team of 5 to 10 Visual Basic and C++ developers. • Change request manager responsible for managing the queue of defects and enhancement requests. • Development Lead for the migration of the UI from Visual Basic to .NET (C# / WPF) to expand functionality… Show more Software Engineer - Lead / Senior .NET Developer (June, 2002 - August, 2016) Development Lead / Project Manager using Agile / Scrum methodologies • Lead developer responsible for managing the daily activity of a team of 5 to 10 Visual Basic and C++ developers. • Change request manager responsible for managing the queue of defects and enhancement requests. • Development Lead for the migration of the UI from Visual Basic to .NET (C# / WPF) to expand functionality and move the UI to a more sustainable code base for the future. • Championed and then prototyped several existing Visual Basic screens in C# / WPF to demonstrate viability of the new technology to senior leadership and to prove the changes could be made to move from Visual Basic to .NET without an increase in development time, an increase in risk, and without major changes to our C++ backend and the build / deployment processes.• Project Manager and operations lead for team of thirty on the data collection project coordinating daily cross-functional meetings on requirements, design, development, build, and deployment.• Lead Architect and development manager on project to add Partnership and S-Corporation functionality. Managed a team of 10 Visual Basic and C++ developers for two years while the project went from initial design through build out and delivery to the customers. Also coordinated the integration of the new project with the content, build, installation teams. Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Application Development Manager (August, 1999 - June, 2002) Lead for the client-side development team for tax software products• Lead Visual Basic developer responsible for defining coding standards, organizing code reviews, and training as well as managing the day to day activities of a team of six developers.• Led an initiative to move common tasks into reusable code modules to reduce duplication of effort. This saved development and testing time while improving quality… Show more Application Development Manager (August, 1999 - June, 2002) Lead for the client-side development team for tax software products• Lead Visual Basic developer responsible for defining coding standards, organizing code reviews, and training as well as managing the day to day activities of a team of six developers.• Led an initiative to move common tasks into reusable code modules to reduce duplication of effort. This saved development and testing time while improving quality and allowing junior developers to be much more productive.Senior Application Developer (August, 1997 - August, 1999) Senior Visual Basic and Access developer for internal tools team• Created several processes to allow content developers to specify changes in Excel files that were converted to meta files in the build process verses having to enter change requests and have an application developer make multiple changes in the code base.• Designed and created an Access database to manage the product’s system incident (defect) reports including data entry screens, searching functionality, and reporting. Application Developer (January, 1996 - August, 1997) State Tax Content Developer / Tax Analyst• Tracked tax law changes and applied those changes to the state tax forms and tax calculations. Show less

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management Information Systems, Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems

Master'S Of Taxation, Taxation / Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting