Dan Stokes

Director of Software Development at MidwayUSA

Columbia, Missouri, United States

About

Director responsible for design, development, and improvement of MidwayUSA's internally developed software as well as three software development teams.

Experience

  • MidwayUSA (19 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director of Software Development - Product
      Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

      Due to promotions out of the department, and continued business growth, MidwayUSA split role into 2 teams. In my current role, I am responsible for systems and teams related to product.

    • Director of Software Development
      Jul 2017 - Jul 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Responsible for design, development, and improvement of Midway's Application Platform, managing 6 teams and managers. (Logistics, Customer Service, Marketing, Merchandising, Support, and System Services) Assist senior leaders with strategic planning, capacity planning, forecasting, budgeting and integration with other departments. Changes: 2017: More detailed time tracking for strategic plan and support/enhancements, 2018: In-house system alerting/monitoring(lowered call out numbers from 750 a month to 140), new department measures that align with business desires, CIS security controls and scorecard, project based teams, SonarQube/App dynamics alerting instead of monitoring, mid-project updates down to team level instead of entire project, useful system speed metrics, code quality initiative with metrics, revamp Technical training(Knowledge management, directed technical, self-directed technical), Code review metrics, Code coverage metrics, Deployment pipeline metrics. 2019: Strategic Planning for architecture, service staging capabilities, specialized team member roles, leadership book club, DevSecOps in CI/CD pipeline, OWASP dependency checker, move to Azure DevOps. 2020: CyberSecurity initiatives, CI/CD, continue DevOps roadmap. Systems handled unprecedented sales growth gracefully. Project fishing pole(just ask) 2021: New $100 million Distribution Center. Project Manager for technical integrations with our in-house WMS(Warehouse Management Solution) and transition plan. 3rd parties include: BoxWorks Opex PerfectPick Opex SureSort PackSize Stanley-Vidmar Jungheinrich Rocla 2022: Continue new Distribution Center transition. Book clubs: Phoenix Project, Extreme Ownership, Dichotomy of Leadership, Unicorn Project, The Disruption Mindset.

    • Database Administrator Manager
      Oct 2016 - Jul 2017 · 10 mos

      Manager of 7 Database Administrators. Accomplishments include new measures and upgrading production boxes to SQLServer 2016. Other changes include: Object auditing and deprecation and aligning processes and measures to business needs.

  • Electronic Banking Rep at Landmark Bank
    Mar 2006 - Apr 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

    ACH, debit/credit cards, Internet Banking and Billpay.