User:TaylorSystems

TaylorSystems (Larry E. Taylor) is the owner of 'Taylor Systems and Software Design'. His original background was in electronics. He served 7 years with the U.S. Navy involved with and specializing in advanced electronics communications and electronics countermeasures during the Vietnam era. After the Navy, he worked with IBM for 10 years in 3 separate divisions. While at IBM, he developed an interest in software and gradually switched from computer hardware to computer software. After 10 years with IBM, he started a new career in freelance custom software development. The next couple of years he spent time developing and writing custom applications for local small businesses and organizations. BFGoodrich spotted his work and hired him to write a Production Scheduling system and Lab system for a new plastics plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. The resulting projects led to BFGoodrich offering him a position in writing custom software for other locations and eventually joining their Engineering division as a 'shared resource' between Engineering, the corporate IT department and most of the company's Production Plants. Over the next 15 years he developed software for and worked with 16 locations in the United States and Canada (with BFGoodrich, Geon and PolyOne corporations). During this time, he was extensively involved in working with computers, software development, systems analysis and design, networks, database design, web development, operations support, process control, business operations analysis and general computer support. In addition, during his 30-year corporate career, he spent about 13 years teaching college courses for Ivy Tech College (at nights) in the areas of computer programming languages, computer applications, computer operating systems and networking.