Rusty Davis Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, Us

We provide critical infrastructure software to the utility industry. I lead 11 software engineers on the Mobile Workbench team. At one point, I led two engineering teams focused on developing distinct products, including a critical 3-month stretch overseeing the entire Platform and Workbench engineering teams with 18 direct reports. My team also includes 3 product owners/managers, and 6 QA engineers. I am not their people manager, but work closely with them daily and assign work to the QA personnel.2023 Participant of Vista Equity Partners Engineering Manager Accelerate program2023 Participant of ARCOS Leadership AcademyI champion Agile methodologies, leading core scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. I also actively participate in the backlog refinement and sprint review meetings that the product owners run. We updated the hiring process and development of team members, providing mentorship and technical guidance, resulting in a highly skilled and motivated engineering workforce.Observed and corrected employee performance concerns. Participate in quarterly reviews and bi-weekly 1:1s, providing praise and critique where warranted and tailored action items for each employee.Collaborate with the product team to develop and implement product roadmaps that align with customer needs and business strategy while identifying and advocating the technical roadmap items.Established and refined technical processes and procedures, including coding standards and code reviews, and navigated the engineering teams through tight project deadlines amidst competing and shifting priorities.Utilized a solid technical background in software development to provide leadership and strategic direction, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.Built and maintained strong relationships with team members, effectively communicating complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Full-stack developer on the RosterApps product providing scheduling and shift management services to enterprise workforces through a custom website. Worked to modernize the code base, introduce clean coding practices, SOLID principlesIntroduced a CI/CD process, and improve the architectural structure of the system while balancing new features, tech debt, and the Jira backlog.Awarded the 2020 Core Value Champion for exemplifying exceptional teamwork and leadership within the organization.Accepted Full-Time offer as Sr Software Engineer in April 2020

Honolulu, Hi, Us

Repeat client that started out as a part-time side gig turned full-timeC# developer working for a remote client developing ETL processing between new Home, Auto, Property & Casualty, and Life legacy system.

Urbandale, Iowa, Us

Part of a small remote team put together in the Des Moines market, providing remote API development for a large shipping organization. My daily work involves:C# development in Visual Studio 2017 building Web API micro servicesSQL Server databases with connections from the applications using Dapper. Version control was handled through Git and integrated into Azure DevOps CI/CD process.Participated in an Agile process including a daily scrum, a bi-weekly retro, and planning

Part of a small team (5 developers, scrum master, BA, QA, Auto QA) that is part of a larger team (10 small teams) for the Connex project. This project provides a combination of CRM and Point-of-Sale for their seed line. The team I specifically work on handles the agency, agency customer relationship, and compliance in a formal Agile Scrum environment. My daily work consisted of me using Visual Studio, AngularJS, Angular Material, REST API built using the .NET Web API connecting to a SQL Server 2016 database with Git as the version control source.

Honolulu, Hi, Us

Short term contract as a C# developer working for a remote client developing an ETL process between a proprietary .NET insurance system and a legacy mainframe system.

Remote client on an in-house, end-to-end, crop insurance software package. We worked with C#, Silverlight, WPF, XAML, RESTful API, and NHibernate 3.0 in an Agile Scrum environment. During the two years, we implemented four successful project roll outs including Compliance, Crop Hail, Crop Hail Loss, and Crop Hail Accounting.

West Des Moines, Ia, Us

A large-scale project to replace their existing VB application. The front end used Web Forms, Twitter Bootstrap, and jQuery. The back end was Spring ORM connected to an Oracle database. I received TDD training from a 3rd Party vendor. Transitioned from the Policy team to the Financials team and implemented performance gains by refactoring some of the core financial processes, as well as contributing to the commission project.

Us

The Information Technology Enterprise (ITE) division of the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) provides market services to other State of Iowa agencies. Development was done using ASP.NET C# with a SQL Server backend. The shop used a homegrown MVC framework for web development and NHibernate for the data access layer. We implemented a new ASP.NET MVC 3.0 project template for use on all new projects across the State of Iowa. Worked on five end-to-end projects, leading the development efforts on four of those projects. Provided support for each of them, plus additional projects that already existed.Some of my work at the State includes: - Waste Water Permit Information Exchange (https://programs.iowadnr.gov/wwpie) Dept of Natural Resources site to manage wastewater permits. - Email Notification Service – (https://dpsemailnotify.iowa.gov/) Site monitoring for modifications and send out notifications. - Local Government Budgets (https://www.iowaonline.state.ia.us/localbudgets/default.aspx) website set up to streamline the intake and certification of roughly 4,000 budgets. - Veteran’s Benefits Enrollment is an application I provided the technical assistance during requirements gathering and created the data model, high-level design document, and the detail design documents. - ARRA/I-JOBS (https://reporting.iowa.gov) a site to report the use of federal grant dollars and jobs funded.

San Francisco, California, Us

Merchant Payment Solutions division is the business unit responsible for the onboarding and maintenance of merchants accepting credit and debit card transactions. Primary responsibility was the maintenance of the M2 product. The application development used ASP, Visual Basic 6, and several side applications in ASP.NET.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

An inventory management software company specializing in retail stores selling shoes, apparel, athletic, and western outfitters. Development tools included Visual Basic 6 and Access. Converted legacy code to VB.Net and SQL Server. Implemented the company’s first version control system using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, replacing the previous method of zipping up a directory and renaming it.

An agribusiness company specializing in grain elevator management. New and maintenance development of DOS-based accounting applications. Moved to newer technology project using a product called Centura.