Buddy Glazner:
CLASS OF 1966
Syosset High SchoolClass of 1966
Syosset, NY
Buddy's Story
After High School i attended Sullivan County Community College in South Fallsburg, NY. After 2 years i went to visit my Mother in Mississippi and decided to transfer south. Got BBA from Delta State University, got drafted the next month and spent 3 years in the Army in Stuttgart, Germany. Came back and obtain an MBA at Delta State. Came to Atlanta to look for job in September, 1975. Got a job at Georgia Power Company in the Methods and Computer Services department. Basically we were converting the payroll and human resources system from punched cards to magnetic tape!!! Way back then. Was on loan to a sister company that obtained a contract thru the World Bank to develop an Accounting and Financial reporting system for the Turkish Electric Compa...Expand for more
ny in Ankara, Turkey. Stayed there 18 months.
Returned to Georgia Power in 1986 and supervised a group of analysts attempting to standardize the hardware and software that was proliferating within the company. Basically trying to ensure that all the computers that departments were purchasing would talk to each other. Did that for about 5 years and then spent the next 20 years in the Community and Economic Development. Here we teamed with the State of Georgia's Economic Development Department to recruit new manufacturing companies to Georgia. Traveled to S. Korea and Japan frequently.
Took an early Voluntary Attrition Plan in April 2009 and been happily retired every since! Currently living in Peachtree City, GA, about 25 miles SW of Atlanta.
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