Joel Davis
I'm Software Engineer
About Me
Howdy! It's Joel,
I'm a software engineer in Northeast Ohio.
Having 11+ years experience with a variety of technical applications, programming languages, web services, and operating systems. My passion in learning to increase my skills has elivated numerous companies growth, efficiency, and profitability.
My language of choice is C#, but I like to keep my other languages sharp through code exercises on Codewars and LinkedIn Learning.
Very passionate about connecting with people and technology—to learn, mentor, achieve success, and foster collective progress. Believing that writing good quality software should be accomplished through solid patterns and practices, regardless of the platform. Preferably simplistic, loosely coupled, and reusability. Most happy when delivering business value through the creation of well researched and developed technology.
Capable of working with several customers per month determining project scope, deliverables,
budgetary restrictions, and deadlines.
Led a team of 4+ developers with various skill sets, successfully managing multiple complex
projects per month within budget and on time.
Successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and direct software
development team to exceed customer expectations.
Developed and implemented real-time data-driven solutions that reduced customer operational
costs by 30%.
I recently served as a full-stack software engineering team lead at Seifert Technologies, LLC. During my time there, I worked with numerous clients on multiple projects such as:
- A vehicle fleet tracking application.
- An industrial pipe-cleaning app.
- A WPF image editor.
- Custom CRM and ERP systems.
- Custom E-Commerce websites.
- QuickBook API Integrations
- Salesforce API Integrations
- Samsara API Development
- Various internal automation and reporting applications.
Skills
Resume (View Pdf)
Education
Associates Computer Science and Engineering
with Distinction
2016 - 2018
Stark State College, Canton, OH
GPA: 3.6
Activities:
- National Honor Society
- Dean's List
- President's List
- Fortisure Foundation Scholarship Recipient
Learning Courses: Generative AI
2025
LinkedIn Learning, online
- Completed 10 hours of coursework, earning a Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft certification.
Learning Courses: Developing Executive Presence
2025
LinkedIn Learning, online
- In progress.
Professional Experience
Software Engineer, Team Lead
2024 -
Seifert Technologies, Massillion, OH
- Led a team of four full-stack software developers in supporting multiple client projects while coordinating with clients for quality assurance testing.
- Improved customer base by generating project quotes for customer work and managed team projects to deliver within scope, schedule, and budget while coordinating with team members and stakeholders.
- Engineered client's custom tube cleaning and fleet tracking applications utilizing PLC MQTT, Azure IoT Hub, Mapbox API and Samsara device data, enabling real-time cleaning and vehicle metrics monitoring with data storage in Azure SQL Server database.
- Improved Seifert's internal billing processes by developing an ASP.NET export worksheet form, improving the efficiency of time and expense approval workflows for managers and their Controller.
.NET Developer
2020 - 2022
Empire Die Casting, Macedonia, OH
- Designed, developed and maintained multiple web-based and Windows-based applications utilizing C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, MQTT, Azure IoT Hub, Kepware, Entity Framework, SQL Server, MS Azure, BitBucket/GitKraken, etc.
- Maintained company EDI system while integrating IIoT functions with Power BI services - increasing factory efficiency by 60%.
- Created SQL Server stored procedures, tables, functions, indexes, etc. utilizing T-SQL to take a data-first approach towards the DANA project via real-time PLC MQTT transactions - enabling many business applications to interface with EDI system and reporting services.
- Gathered software requirements via interviews with Engineers to plan and analyze system/user requirements for various projects.
- Key player in DANA project to revolutionize production assembly line by designing, deploying, and testing databases, intranet websites, and monitoring systems - improving profits by 35%.
Software Developer
2018 - 2020
Classic Optical, Youngstown, OH
- Developed over 150 web-based and console .NET applications for Human Resources, Operations, Customer Service and Accounting that increased company productivity by 75% and sales by 40%.
- Utilized C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Bootstrap, Web API’s/Web Services, SQL Server, Entity Framework, BitBucket/GitKraken, etc. per company policy.
- Implemented improvements including reCAPTCHA to the company’s global website and Intranet sites eliminating phishing attacks by 80% and increased company website security by 60%.
- Uncovered numerous previously undetected bugs through comprehensive manual functional testing.
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