SCOTT WALTERS
. Solutions Architect . Visionary Leader . Creative Technologist
About Me
I love to solve problems and architect solutions! Experienced with a wide array of skills and business areas, humbly listens to specific details and passionately solves diverse problems effectively and efficiently. Builds and grows talented teams to have fun while exceeding goals.
Over 20 years of information technology experience at Fortune 500 companies and several years with small businesses.
Proven management success and high energy hands-on expertise leading teams ranging from skilled developers, data and system gurus to directing teams of business analysts, customer experience specialists and tech teams on enterprise implementations and critical ops on fast paced projects and continuously growing business environments.
Purpose Driven
Focused on working with companies that provide great products and services to customers at a fair price. At CarMax, helped revolutionize the car buying business by providing no-haggle quality vehicles to customers with great service and credit opportunities while growing the business from one location to hundreds of stores.
For smaller businesses, worked with Jelderi to provide a better way to buy and sell small businesses and give quality advice to local business owners and buyers.
And before those companies, fresh out of college, worked with Circuit City to bring technology to a massive number of customers.
Visionary Leader
Experienced leader of small and large sized teams implementing projects across diverse business areas. From customer facing store and on-line systems to financial system ERP implementations, enterprise systems, credit, call ops, dev ops, mobile devices, crisis management, enterprise monitoring, etc...
Passionately finds, develops and humbly inspires quality teams of skilled people with a common vision to grow the business and themselves while having fun and exceeding personal, team and company business goals.
Creative Technologist
Diverse set of skills in solving complex business problems through discovering, designing, developing and implementing business solutions using technology and process improvements.
Starting with a Computer Science degree from Va Tech, gained development and leadership experience spanning several decades across multiple paradigm shifts of technologies.
Provided sustainable systems for large growth companies as well as small businesses. A perpetual learner with a solid understanding of businesses and technology with more than 1,000 hours post-college technical, leadership and business training.
Independent Work
As part of continuous education with the latest technologies, below are some independent
projects I completed as part of coursework or working with startups or non-profits
MERN eCommerce Site
Below is a link to a site I created while working through several MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS) stack courses. It is an eCommerce site using React to develop the front-end and MongoDB as the backend database.
(Please note that it is hosted on a dev heroku site so it may take a minute to load the first time and it will open in a new tab)
MERN eCommerce Site
GatsbyJS Recipe Blog with Netlify CMS
A recipe blog created with GatsbyJS for the front end and Netlify for the content and continuous deployment. When changes are pushed to the github repo master branch, Netlify pushes the changes to the live site. Gatsby is a React SSG (static site generator) which creates fast and secure websites.
Gatsby Blog Site
Sample Gym Website
Here's a sample gym website created using basic html, css, tailwind and some animations using AOS (animate on scroll). It will open the site in a new tab.
Sample Gym Website
Animated Open Bounce Splash Page
A very simple intro page with a button that opens a page with a quick circular open animation and a bounce, then reverses when closing by clicking the X. Created using html, css and GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform). This effect would make a nice addition to a splash page opening to a SPA (single page application).
Animated Open Bounce Splash Page
Random Quote Generator
Basic web page with a random quote and a button to retrieve another random quote. Uses an api to forismatic for quote content. Inspirational quotes make a nice addition to one's day. Initial connection may take a few seconds to open.
Random Quote Generator Page
Sample Coffee Shop with GatsbyJS
A website created with GatsbyJS and Netlify for a sample coffee shop. Content and deployment on Netlfy with GatsbyJS and React library code for the front end.
Sample Coffee Shop with GatsbyJS
DialogFlow Web Bot
This is a test site that uses a web interface with a DialogFlow bot I created. Pressing the microphone will allow voice interaction (from desktop). The intents and responses were created for answering questions about buying and selling small businesses. This is one of several interfaces with this Dialogflow code; there are much better interfaces with it on Slack and Facebook which require logins to view and have been removed at this time.
Test DialogFlow Web Bot
Screenshots
