Walter Traylor
Decatur,GA
Summary
With a career focused on supporting outside plant engineering and IT groups in the private telephone industry and local governmental controlled utilities, extensive expertise has been gained in mapping, engineering and business rules, data conversion services, feature object models, and geographic information systems. Starting as a telephone records drafter, rapid advancement occurred to become an expert in these areas. Leveraging skills as a software developer, a full stack of products and tools have been built and maintained to enable the seamless exchange of information between server databases and user communities. In addition to technical abilities, experience includes serving as a trainer, team leader, sales support, and project implementation expert.
Overview
42
42
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Byers Engineering Company
05.1980 - 09.2018
- Designed, developed, tested and maintained software used for Geographic Information System (GIS) databases
- These applications allow users to view, extract, analyze, edit, create and delete features represented in the databases
- Served as a subject-matter expert in the upkeep and adherence of business rules for outside plant engineering data
- Advised management teams within the Byers company and clients
- Provided technical support for production work groups
- Assisted major industry service providers including AT&T, Verizon, and Century-Link with large scale data conversions, data migration implementations, and special projects
- Coded in C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, and scripting languages to build applications and for data manipulation
Retail Sales
Kmart Corporation
06.1976 - 05.1981
- Supervised the customer service desk and check-out operations
- Led teams of employees, ensured that customer transactions were processed accurately and efficiently
- Assisted customers in every department within the store including toys, electronics sales, camera and jewelry, clothing, patio and gardening, home improvement, and the stockroom
- Made nightly bank deposit drop-off
Intern
AT&T Long Lines
06.1979 - 08.1979
- Interned for the Long-term Switching Equipment Planning group
- Learned about different aspects of the telecommunications field and trunk/toll switching equipment usage studies
- Sorted, filed, and reorganized documents for the entire staff
Intern
John Deere Company
06.1978 - 08.1978
- Picked and packaged customer orders
- Labored efficiently to meet production goals and ensure that orders were shipped on time
- Focused on order details to ensure inventory accuracy and fulfillment of customer orders
Education
Computer Science -
Georgia State University
05.1994
Mechanical Engineering -
Georgia Institute of Technology
05.1980
Skills
- C
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Data analysis
- DBASE
- Document Object Model (DOM)
- Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
- INFORMIX
- Java
- JavaScript
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
- ORACLE
- Python
- Problem-solving
- Restructured Extended Executor (REXX)
- Structure Query Language (SQL)
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Byers Engineering Company
05.1980 - 09.2018
Intern
AT&T Long Lines
06.1979 - 08.1979
Intern
John Deere Company
06.1978 - 08.1978
Retail Sales
Kmart Corporation
06.1976 - 05.1981
Mechanical Engineering -
Georgia Institute of Technology
Computer Science -
Georgia State University
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