Summary
Scott Garner is an Application Development Engineer with 14 years of professional software experience and a foundation in systems engineering dating back to the 1990s. He transitioned from building and repairing PCs into server administration and earned an MSCE before moving into application development in the early 2000s, specializing in C#, .NET, JavaScript, SQL and spatial programming. His career spans public sector and private roles—most recently at Chesterfield County after leading development at Salem Church Products—demonstrating an ability to deliver practical, maintainable solutions across GIS-aware and enterprise web applications. Scott combines object-oriented design discipline with hands-on debugging and infrastructure know-how, a blend rooted in his early systems work and DIY tinkering. Colleagues would describe him simply as someone who makes things: pragmatic, dependable, and quietly expert at turning operational needs into working software.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Virginia Tech