Summary Resume: Brian M. Clapper

Professional Experience

June, 2009, to date
Independent Consultant, through ArdenTex, Inc.
Hozzle Rocket, LLC, 1123 Ashbridge Dr., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Hozzle Rocket is developing a web-enabled, subscription-based site for customers with multiple residences. (A non-disclosure agreement precludes further elaboration on the nature of the system.) The software is developed using [Ruby on Rails][], with a jQuery-based user interface.

March, 2009, to date
Independent Consultant, through ArdenTex, Inc.
SDI Health, LLC, 220 West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

SDI Health provides health care data solutions to various companies in the health care business space. SDI processes data from a variety of sources, produces master databases of patient, pharmacy, practitioner, payer, and product data. With that master data in place, SDI can then scrub client-supplied data, analyze health care trends, and perform a variety of other data-related tasks.
My duties, as an independent consultant for SDI, include:
Tuning and reverse-engineering existing legacy systems
Designing and implementing new data normalization software
Participating in the rearchitecture of the internal data warehouse
Providing software technical advice and direction
The data warehouse rearchitecture effort requires consuming, normalizing, mastering and maintaining millions of rows of health care-related data records from disparate sources. We chose to write the data handling framework using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and the effort has required that we write custom SSIS components, in addition to using the stock SSIS ETL transforms.
This is a 40-hour-a-week contract.

February, 2010, to date
Independent Consultant, through ArdenTex, Inc.
Technology CoPilot, LLC, 6743 E. Tyndall Circle, Mesa, Arizona 85215

Technology CoPilot provides custom integration and software development for, among other things, the Stone Edge Order Manager ecommerce order management software suite. I have done some integration work for Technology CoPilot, mostly PHP/Linux-based. I maintain an open contract with Technology CoPilot, allowing them to subcontract work to me, as necessary.

February, 2008, to March, 2009
Senior Software Engineer
Invite Media, Inc., 1716 Chestnut Street, Suite 4, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Invite Media builds technology and provides network services to facilitate Internet optimized advertising. As one of the senior developers, I was a member of a small team that was responsible for specification, design, and implementation of large-scale, real-time advertising technology. As of March, 2009, Invite Media's systems were providing optimized advertising solutions to a number of customers.
The system was written primarily in Python with some components in Java. It consisted of various Internet-visible servers and several back-end databases, and it is designed to scale to very large numbers of connections and transactions.
Technologies and techniques used included:
Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) services
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3)
The Hadoop map/reduce framework
The Twisted Python framework
The RabbitMQ messaging framework
PostgreSQL
Django
SQLAlchemy
These, and other, technologies were tied together with proprietary ad-serving software that provided highly optimized ad delivery.

June, 1999, to February, 2008
Enterprise Architect / Senior Developer
FullTilt Solutions, Inc., 1400 Liberty Ridge Drive, Suite 100, Wayne, PA 19087

I was one of a handful of senior-level developers of the FullTilt Perfect Product Suite product information management tool. We developed, from scratch, a business-to-business ecommerce product that streamlined the management of product data. The product embodied a work flow process that enabled a company to process, classify, attribute, search, maintain, and deploy large volumes of product data without requiring armies of data entry personnel. The product's server-side software was written entirely in Java, allowing it to be deployed on a variety of different platforms. Perfect Product Suite's user interfaces consisted of browser-based HTML screens that interacted with server-side Java servlets.
Perfect Product Suite was able to import product data in a variety of formats, including spreadsheet data and Perfect Product Suite's XML format. Once the data was been normalized and attributed, Perfect Product Suite stored it in a relational database, where it was organized according a powerful, proprietary data model.
Perfect Product Suite performed all database access solely via JDBC; consequently, it ran against any robust, full-featured relational database that supports JDBC access. We explicitly supported and tested against Oracle, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server.
Perfect Product Suite is patented; I am listed as a co-inventor.
As a senior developer, my duties included architecture, design, development, and, occasionally, sales support. I have worked on every component of Perfect Product Suite; among these components are:
the UIs and servlets
the database API, which mapped the relational database view to an object-oriented one
the utility library
the proprietary back-end Import Manager process that automatically classified and processed imported product data
the XML parsing engine
In March, 2007, I assumed the position of Enterprise Architect, putting me in charge of the overall architectural direction of the product.
The members of our team were located all across the country, and many of us (including me) worked from home offices. Producing a quality product required us to master the challenges of collaborating across large distances and several time zones.

April, 1997 to June, 1999
Senior Architect / Senior Software Developer
PLATINUM technology International, inc., (acquired by Computer Associates in 1999), Three Valley Square, 512 Township Line Road, Suite 300, Blue Bell, PA 19422

One of two architects responsible for overall design of PLATINUM's Open Enterprise Management System (POEMS), a unified infrastructure into which all PLATINUM products were integrating, to provide seamless operation, administration, and look-and-feel across the PLATINUM product line. As architect, my duties included:
Reviewing designs to ensure consistency with existing POEMS architecture, future POEMS and PLATINUM product directions, and current development methods.
Keeping abreast of architectural changes to POEMS software.
Staying current with competing products and with industry trends.
Designing components that reach across the internal POEMS teams.
Participating in management decisions for current and future software releases.
Analyzing requirements for internal POEMS consumers and external customers, and to help design and plan POEMS/product integration.
Serving as internal senior consultant for other software developers.
Engaging in short-term research and prototyping. In this capacity, I built a working Java prototype of the POEMS back-end IPC services. This prototype bcame the basis for our internal Java IPC solution.
Assisting in software development and production (e.g., filling in on development teams when necessary).
Participating in PLATINUM-wide architecture meetings.
Shortly after PLATINUM was acquired by Computer Associates, I left the company to join FullTilt Solutions.

October, 1993, to April, 1997
Senior Member of Engineering Staff
N2K Inc., 435 Devon Park Drive, Suite 600, Wayne, PA 19087-1943

Senior developer, computer security professional, and internal staff consultant for N2K Inc, an Internet-oriented entertainment company and an on-line music retailer that ultimately merged with CDNow.
During my tenure at N2K, my duties included:
Designing and implementing a UNIX development environment.
Designing and implementing a UNIX-based corporate firewall.
Building and maintaining an in-house C++ tool library consisting of more than 200 reusable C++ classes.
Designing and implementing a C++ network-based server to field credit card transactions and forward them through Visa-supplied hardware to a clearing bank.
Building a C++ lex- and yacc-driven command shell for a proprietary full-text database system.
Designing and partially implementing an NFS proxy to permit tunneling NFS traffic safely from behind the corporate firewall to machines in the firewall's DMZ. (See document entitled Notes on a Proxy for Securely Tunnelling NFS through Firewalls for details.)
Investigating new technologies.
Evaluating full-text database retrieval software.
Informally training other employees on Unix and the Internet.
Filling in for and training our Unix system administrators.

February, 1991, to October, 1993
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Tangram Enterprise Solutions (formerly, Rabbit Software Corp.), 7 Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, PA 19355

Senior developer and team leader for Rabbit Software, a small company that developed PC-based SNA networking software, primarily for the UNIX, DOS and Windows environments.

February, 1990, to February, 1991
Computer Scientist
Naval Air Development Center (now the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent River, MD), Warminster, PA 18974-5000

Senior developer and researcher for a department that focused primarily on defining, standardizing and building software engineering environments.

February, 1989, to February, 1990
Navy Resident Affiliate
Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Selected to serve as NADC's Resident Affiliate to the SEI for one year. Served primarily as a Navy representative on the User Interface Prototyping Project, helping to build a UNIX-based user interface management system (UIMS) called Serpent.

May, 1985, to February, 1989
Computer Scientist
Naval Air Development Center (now the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent River, MD), Warminster, PA 18974-5000

I initially served as a principal member of a team who developed a software engineering environment for System V UNIX.
I also served as system manager for a network of UNIX-based workstations.

May, 1983, to May, 1985
Programmer/Analyst
Financial Automation Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, 1900 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Member of the technical staff responsible for maintaining and developing on-line trading system software.

January, 1983, to May, 1983
Adjunct Instructor
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

As an undergraduate, I taught an introductory Fortran programming course in the College of Engineering.

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