People: The single most significant asset for any project is people. We assemble the best, most cost effective project teams by augmenting out on staff project managers and modernization engineers with project specific engineering expertise and recruited talent.

Process: Our Project Methodology was designed to be a superstructure to insure quality yet with the flexibility to allow for individual processes of a project to be redesign, executed and monitored to mirror our customer's existing standards. Our philosophy is simple, if it isn't documented, it won't happen. Our project managers utilize industry leading project management, requirements management, version control tools to insure accurate and constant communication with the customers and project team.

Engineering: Our Senior Engineering Team of Ph.D. level software engineers have decades of experience in OS, real-time and embedded systems and have developed world class software tools that can be used to enhance any complex project solution. Our Senior Engineering Managers oversee every project. They insure architecture designs meet the customer's long-term objectives within the context or current technology limitations.

When you face IT personnel shortages in critical applications or advanced technologies, we can help you find the best IT talent to perform at the highest levels. We offer a talented pool of modernization consultants to handle the job. We will supply experienced resources to you immediately to fill any project need from Legacy, Java, C# programmers to senior System Architects, to strategic enterprise Management. We help you keep your projects on track, and on budget.

Why we can deliver the very best consulting resources!
Direct Hire

No one in the Midwest has the unique experience Kendall & Davis can bring to your Direct Hire process. Hundreds and hundreds of satisfied customers can attest to the thoroughness and commitment we bring to the recruiting and placement process. Our clients enjoy a 2:1 ratio of interview to hire, our methodologies insure over 90% of IT HR acquisitions are local to the customer we are serving. Fee paid, IT HR retention is important to us. We unconditionally guarantee every hire. The average tenure of a top IT professional is about 3 years. If you do not receive at least 3 years of return on your fee investment, let us know and we'll make it right. By working with hiring managers in the applicant selection process we can provide the right person for your organization. Kendall & Davis utilizes the Frederick Hertzburg "One more time How do you Motivate Employees" methodology to work with hiring managers in a refreshing way to approach the recruiting and acquisition process. Attracting Top Talent is our expertise. No matter what the technology, no matter what the skill set you may need, we deliver!

Centrally located, our corporate office in Fort Wayne, Indiana is within a short drive to our clients located in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Lansing and South Bend.

Our President and CEO, Richard Pulse joined Kendall and Davis, Inc in 1975. At the time Kendall and Davis, Inc was an employment agency based out of Saint Louis, Missouri. Richard quickly learned this business was about service and developed a simple motto: Serve customers by providing the talent managers need to accomplish more at less cost.

By 1980, the explosion in the Information Technology field had begun and Kendall and Davis, Inc Fort Wayne, Indiana focused all of its energies to serve this growing field. This unparalleled understanding of the IT Professionals and ability to train and transfer the knowledge to Human Resource Consultants became the envy of the industry. Many times former Kendall and Davis recruiters were hired by the Midwest's largest corporations and contract firms to reengineer their internal hiring process.

Today Kendall and Davis, Inc is independently owned and operated by Richard Pulse. We began providing contract IT Resources in 1991 and remain as one of the largest independent firms specializing in both direct and contract IT Human Resources.