Charles Rusk

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Living outside of Baltimore, MD. No longer working at Discover Books - it closed down in March 2024! Still piecing together a personal post-mortem. Currently looking for and applying to software engineering/development roles - would consider a product management role if it is more technical leaning; I want to build. This past summer I picked. up tennis, which I am really, really enjoying.

About

Hi, I am Charles, I enjoy building software to solve problems. From 2016 to 2024, I worked as a software developer at Discover Books, focused on identifying and coming up with technical solutions to issues/pain points across all domains of business; I built everything from mobile apps to dashboards to APIs to tools for accounts, customer relationship managers, warehouse associates, Friends of the Library orgs, and many, many more - even a couple of internal IT facing tools. In addition to my scope of responsibility as a software developer, I was accountable for many additional aspects of the Product development lifecycle such as: managing stakeholders, creating and maintaining project timelines, conducting market research, and ensuring successful roll-out of new features and products.

I deeply enjoying connecting problems with solutions and have an innate ability to communicate technocal ideas with the least technical person you know. If you need something explained reach out!

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