Bill Davis

Current

Information Technology Specialist at State of Iowa DAS-ITE, I/3 Project Team

Past

Programmer Analyst at Morningstar
Programmer/Analyst at Standard & Poor's
Director of Tech Support / Webmaster at MicroFrontier, Inc.

Director of Tech Support/ Webmaster at Prairie Group, Inc.
Software Engineer/Director of Tech Support at CE Software, Inc.
Computer Programmer/Analyst at Pioneer Hi-Bred

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Education

Drake University

Connections

69 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Bill Davis’s Summary

I am a computer programmer/analyst with over 25 years of experience (my first software job was writing educational software for my high school math teacher during the summer while I was still in high school in 1979.) I have programmed everything from mainframes to minis to microcomputers in a variety of languages (C, Pascal, BASIC, COBOL, Java, Ruby, assembler, etc.) on operating systems such as OpenVMS, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, and more.

I also have experience supporting users, writing user and technical documentation, managing groups of technical support people and doing contract programming.

Bill Davis’s Specialties:

Windows development, OpenVMS development, Mac OS X

Bill Davis’s Experience

Information Technology Specialist

State of Iowa DAS-ITE, I/3 Project Team

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Programmer/analyst on the Integrated Information for Iowa project of the Information Technology Enterprise of the State of Iowa's Department of Administrative Services. Responsible for maintaining and developing the State of Iowa's ERP system and related projects using Java, JSP, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Websphere, AIX, Windows, and more.
Programmer Analyst

Morningstar

(Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

Standard & Poor's Fund Services was purchased by Morningstar and then the whole Des Moines division of S&P FS was laid off.
Programmer/Analyst

Standard & Poor's

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MHP; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 2007 (9 years )
Director of Tech Support / Webmaster

MicroFrontier, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Director of Tech Support/ Webmaster

Prairie Group, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years )
Software Engineer/Director of Tech Support

CE Software, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1993 (6 years )
Computer Programmer/Analyst

Pioneer Hi-Bred

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Farming industry)

1984 — 1987 (3 years )

Bill Davis’s Education

Drake University

B.A. , Computer Science , 1980 — 1984

Additional Information

Bill Davis’s Websites:

Bill Davis’s Interests:

Science Fiction, Reading, Listening to Music, Jazz, Motion Picture Soundtracks, Classical, Bluegrass, Rock, Japanese, Chinese & Egyptian Art, Bonsai, Apple Computer, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, Palm, Palm PDAs, PDAs, Gadgets, Software Development, Java, Unix, Cocoa, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, JavaScript, OpenVMS, DCL, Visual Basic, Visual Studio

Bill Davis’s Groups:

Central Iowa Java Users Group, Iowa .NET Users Group, Iowa Dot Net Users Group, Central Iowa PHP Users Group, Central Iowa Linux Users Group, Iowa Ruby Brigade, Des Moines Science Fiction Society, NewtonTalk mailing list, Des Moines Cocoaheads