Dispatch

Ruckit Dispatch is a platform that allows companies in the heavy construction and materials industry to collaborate and track all of their owned and third-party trucks. The platform reduces manual tasks like phone calls to drivers and paper ticket submissions. It also streamlines data entry for easy billing and invoicing.

The Ruckit App, built on a solid Angular foundation, was already fully featured by the time I came onbaord the team, with many of the basic workflows already developed. With my design and dev background I was tasked with identifying and implementing improvements where I could find them in addition to typical maintenance and upgrade work, as well as expanding heavily on our front-end tests. Many of these improvements optimized our core dispatching flow heavily, adding features such as scheduled starting and timeline views which allow accountants to properly pay our drivers accurately based on our extensive GPS and driver submitted data.

Internally, our core goal was keeping the expansive and feature heavy app as efficient as possible, so we strived to continue making components as reusable as possible, both as they were being made, and retroactively with help from our design team which allowed us to modify specific components as needed so we could trim down our codebase and make the website perform optimally even on older machines. To that end, we continually upgraded Angular and relavant libraries as improvements were rolled out, as well as strived to keep our testing code coverage as complete as possible with all scenarios accounted for.