Larry Clapp
26504 Whirlaway Terrace
Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
larry@theclapp.org

Mobile Phone: 813-765-5537

 

Problem Solver Seeks Interesting Challenges

OBJECTIVE

To help an organization do what it needs to do, and do it better, drawing on my wide variety of skills and over a decade of programming experience on a variety of platforms, languages, and systems. I learn quickly, and have a history of building useful tools and developing working back-end systems to accomplish this.

 

TARGET JOB

Target Job Title:

Senior Analyst; Architect

 

 

Desired Job Type:

Employee or Consultant

 

 

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

 

Desired Salary:

$100/hr, 401(k), medical

 

 

Site Location:

Tampa, Florida area, or telecommute

 

 

Description of my perfect job:
Work on interesting, challenging projects with interesting, motivated people. Design tools to help others do their jobs faster and more efficiently.

 

 

Career Level:

Senior Developer/Architect

 

 

Date of Availability:

Four weeks notice

 

EXPERIENCE

9/2005 - present

Pomeroy IT Solutions

Hebron, KY

 

Consultant, IBM Global Services (Disney)

 

 

 

·        With another team member, architected and implemented Tivoli monitoring hierarchy for 3500 servers.

·        Designed and implemented T/EC “fact file” generation and T/EC event routing

·        Headed rollout of full disk monitoring throughout Disney

·        Designed and implemented Tivoli agent and monitoring engine monitor.  Automated automatic fixer script; reduced on-call paging by at least 50%.

·        Wrote, maintained, and documented numerous scripts to automate and support team activities.

·        Developed and documented several procedures to streamline team use of client tools (Service Center, Remote Desktop, etc).

·        Saved the Openview team several person-months of work by automating parsing of Openview monitoring templates

·        Worked remotely, from home, 100% of the time.

·        Worked with AIX 5.3, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP, Tivoli Monitoring (ITM 5.1), Tivoli Inventory (ITCM 4.1), Tivoli tasks, Perl, ksh, zsh, Perl “yacc”, Service Center

 

 

 

2/2003 – 8/2005

Telecom Management Consulting Group

New York

 

 

Consultant, Verizon Data Services

 

 

·        Helped design and write VzWorks, a web-based, trackable, auditable form-based instant messaging client written in Java and JavaScript, using an XML message format, and IBM/Lotus SameTime for message delivery.  VzWorks eliminates the communication overhead between front-line customer service representatives and rear-line repair dispatchers, while prohibiting an interaction from degenerating into non-business-related chatter.

·        Developed a configurable metrics generator for VzWorks in Java, which automatically creates & populates tables, and generates XML reports, showing specific performance and system metrics for the VzWorks system.

·         Learned, advocated, implemented, and taught Test Driven Development and Automated Unit Testing.

·        Worked with AIX 4.3/5.1, DB2, Informix, SQL, Continuus, JSPs, XML, XSL, and Debian GNU/Linux

 

 

12/1998 – 12/2002

Gandalf Development

Birmingham, Alabama

 

 

Tivoli Professional Support, BankOne and Marriott

 

 

·        Automated Tivoli gateway assignment via Perl scripting of Endpoint Policy scripts

·        Documented and debugged Tivoli Server Performance Prediction tools

·        Developed and documented an automated Tivoli Endpoint upgrading system in Perl.

·        Automated and documented many tasks involving inventorying, deleting, and renaming Endpoints, and logging in new Endpoints, in Perl and shell script

·        Lead engineer in successful deployment of Tivoli's Remote Control product to 20,000 users across the US

·        Developed instructional material and taught class on Remote Control to Help Desk personnel.

·        Developed an endpoint tracking system in Perl.  This system included an endpoint database, maintenance utilities, and associated processes to keep the data in the Tivoli system accurate.

 

 

8/1995 - 9/1998

Shark Technologies, formerly The Graydon Corporation

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

 

Consultant, Salomon Smith Barney Holdings, GTE TelOps (now Verizon)

 

 

·         Maintained and extended Oasys, a large, multi-user, Object-Oriented (C++) Trade Capture/Management system

·         On my own initiative, fixed window resizing for several commonly used windows in Oasys. Many users commented that that was their favorite feature of that release.

·        Designed and wrote the Mass Order Generator prototype in TaskMate, a proprietary 3270 scripting language

·        Was pivotal in the MOG requirements gathering meetings; received many compliments from meeting participants

·        Operated well autonomously with little managerial input or supervision

·        Directly supported a 10 person reporting team using the BusinessObjects report writer and a Sybase database system

·        Trained users on BusinessObjects and Paradox

·        Automated several complex reports using WinBatch and Borland Paradox

 

 

1/1993 - 7/1995

GTE Data Services (now Verizon Data Services)

Tampa, Florida

 

Software Analyst

 

 

 

·        Helped design and implement several new revisions of CMSS, a multi-tier, distributed, client/server order collection tool

·        Supervised a 4 person development team and an 8 person maintenance team

·        Developed many shell/awk/Perl scripts; functionality included report generation, data gathering, system administration, etc.

 

9/1991 - 12/1992

Origin Technology In Business

Tampa, Florida

 

 

Consultant, GTE Data Services (Now Verizon Data Services)

 

 

·        Wrote the Automated Testing System, a multi-user program to automate program testing.  Seven years later, in May 1999, ATS was still in use at GTEDS, virtually unchanged.

·        Wrote a code generator for Embedded SQL in awk.

 

EDUCATION

1991

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida

 

Bachelor’s Degree

 

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science