Todd Davis (@tjdavis3)
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About
Todd Davis has been in IT for over two decades. His experience covers all facets of technology including data center layout and management, systems administration, configuration management, programming, and management of both administrators and developers. As a programmer he's used a variety of languages such as Java, Javascript, Python, C, PHP, Golang, and even COBOL. These days when he writes code it is typically Go or shell scripts.
Todd has excelled at designing systems, procedures, and documentation for a variety of systems, development environments, and software architectures.
Aside from technology work, Todd extensive experience in disaster preparedness and response as a volunteer fireman, a former paramedic, and a current CERT volunteer. He and his wife have four children and five grandchildren. He lives in Texas with his wife of 30+ years. Together they enjoy traveling and running.
Todd has excelled at designing systems, procedures, and documentation for a variety of systems, development environments, and software architectures.
Aside from technology work, Todd extensive experience in disaster preparedness and response as a volunteer fireman, a former paramedic, and a current CERT volunteer. He and his wife have four children and five grandchildren. He lives in Texas with his wife of 30+ years. Together they enjoy traveling and running.
Experience
Director of Platform Development
Magna5 (acquired by RingSquared) ringsquared.com
Jun 2019 to Present ⋅ Frisco, TX
* Designed a circuit inventory tracking system - Automatically updated revenue amounts from billing system - Automatically updated cost amounts from electronic vendor invoices - Facilitated the identification of significant cost increases and missed disconnects, allowing the company to adjust and realize significant savings. * Designed a distributed, event-driven CDR retrieval and archival system - cloud-based system allowing 7 years of retained CDR - Allowed support personnel to query call details in near real-time. * Built various smaller automation systems and APIs * Documented new and existing software architectures * Coordinated offshore and domestic development teams * Implemented devops procedures and observability platforms
Director Of Software Development
Teliax, Inc. teliax.com
Aug 2017 to Jun 2019 ⋅ Denver,CO
Led the development and systems operations teams in the re-engineering of infrastructure and systems. Facilitated communications and development processes with offshore developers and managed the development roadmap.
- Designed highly available systems and infrastructure.
- Implemented a microservices architecture along with continuous integration (CI) and automated deployment
- Implemented policies, procedures, and tooling to enable the development team to take on agile processes to increase productivity and decrease system issues.
Director of Systems Operations
ANPI / Onvoy
Feb 2005 to Feb 2017
Responsible for managing the corporate computing infrastructure covering 3 data centers and 6 offices. Coordinated a team of motivated professionals to support the company’s employees and the computing environment the use. * After a corporate merger, led the integration of corporate systems into a single cohesive system with no outages. * Built out a corporate PBX using open source Asterisk platform with typical enterprise features and an automatically generated set of systems documentation based on the configuration. * Implemented open source systems to monitor the state of the network and systems to provide visibility and alerting. * Created systems to handle inventory and archiving. * Built automation around user management, systems deployment and configuration to take provisioning from days to under an hour. * Implemented a fully-redundant split-horizon DNS system. * Designed a centralized logging and authentication system.
Projects
problems
RFC7807 problem details implementation
Go
sonus_exporter
Exporter for Sonus/Ribbon SBC Metrics
DockerfileGo
sansay_exporter
Metrics exporter for Sansay VSXi
DockerfileGo
The sansay exporter allows sansay probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS. Much of this code is based on snmp_exporter.
gonetstat
Exposes listening ports to node_exporter on linux systems
Go
wakafy
Simple program to pull time entries from Wakafy and add them to Clockify
Go
kanbn2md
Renders a kanbn board as a markdown table
Go
Illinois E-PAY
ePAY is a full-service electronic payment program specifically designed for Illinois governments so they can quickly and securely receive monies through convenient, customized payment channels that offer constituents easier, faster payment choices to pay fees 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
IBM WebsphereJava
Epay offers local governments and state agencies the ability to safely accept credit card, bankcard and electronic check (ACH) payments at an affordable cost.
Skills
golang ⋅ Advanced
python ⋅ Advanced
Java
COBOL
JavaScript
TCP/IP
SIP
Linux System Administration
VMware Infrastructure
Security
Network Engineering
Disaster Recovery
Education
Lincoln Land Community College
AAS, Data Processing
Certificates
RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
RedHat
May 25, 2001
Solaris Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Sun Microsystems
Aug 14, 2005
Solaris 9
Volunteer
References
Ray Lewis (Vice President of IT at Horace Mann)
I interviewed and hired Todd Davis as a system administrator at ANPI. I was Todd’s manager for several years but would certainly use the term "manage" very loosely because Todd is a very organized and driven employee. He loves his profession and is always striving to move the infrastructure forward. Todd's attention to detail and technical expertise made my job considerably easier. Todd has many talents including razor sharp focus, solid system administrator skills and the ability to execute the plan as designed. I highly recommend Todd to anyone looking for a skilled IT professional.