Independent Consultant
Greater Philadelphia Area
- Current
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- President/Owner at ArdenTex, Inc.
- Independent Consultant at SDI
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Invite Media, Inc.
- Enterprise Architect at FullTilt Solutions
- Senior Software Developer at FullTilt Solutions
- Senior Architect / Advisory Product Developer at Platinum Technology, Inc.
- Senior Member of Engineering Staff at N2K
- Senior Member of Engineering Staff at Telebase Systems
- Senior Member of Technical Staff at Rabbit Software Corp.
- Senior Member of Technical Staff at Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
- Computer Scientist at Naval Air Development Center
- Navy Resident Affiliate at Software Engineering Institute
- Programmer/Analyst at Philadelphia Stock Exchange
- Education
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- Temple University
- Upper Moreland High School
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Brian Clapper’s Summary
Best summary of my expertise is my resume, located here:
http://www.ardentex.com/resumes.html
Brian Clapper’s Experience
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President/Owner
ArdenTex, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Umbrella company under which I do independent computer software consulting.
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Independent Consultant
SDI
(Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
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, currently include:
* Tuning and reverse-engineering existing legacy systems
* Designing and implementing new data normalization software
* Participating in the rearchitecture of an internal data warehouse
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Senior Software Engineer
Invite Media, Inc.
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Invite Media builds technology to facilitate Internet advertising. As one of the senior developers, I am a member of a small team that's responsible for specification, design, and implementation of large-scale, real-time advertising technology. The system is still under development; it is being written in Python and Java, and it is being designed as a highly scalable system capable of handling very large numbers of transactions.
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Enterprise Architect
FullTilt Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — January 2008 (9 months)
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 streamlines the management of product data. The product embodies a work flow process that enables 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 is written entirely in Java, allowing it to be deployed on a variety of different platforms. Perfect Product Suite's user interfaces consist of browser-based HTML screens that interact with server-side Java servlets.
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Senior Software Developer
FullTilt Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — May 2007 (8 years )
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 streamlines the management of product data. The product embodies a work flow process that enables 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 is written entirely in Java, allowing it to be deployed on a variety of different platforms. Perfect Product Suite's user interfaces consist of browser-based HTML screens that interact with server-side Java servlets.
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Senior Architect / Advisory Product Developer
Platinum Technology, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PLAT; Computer Software industry)
April 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 3 months)
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.
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Senior Member of Engineering Staff
N2K
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 1993 — April 1997 (3 years 7 months)
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.
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Senior Member of Engineering Staff
Telebase Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
October 1993 — April 1997 (3 years 7 months)
Senior developer, computer security professional, and internal staff consultant for Telebase Systems, Inc., a provider of online reference material. Telebase was acquired by N2K in 1995.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Rabbit Software Corp.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1991 — October 1993 (2 years 9 months)
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. Rabbit eventually merged with Tangram Enterprise Solutions.
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Tangram Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1993 (2 years )
Tangram acquired Rabbit Software
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Computer Scientist
Naval Air Development Center
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Military industry)
May 1985 — February 1991 (5 years 10 months)
Senior developer and researcher for a department that focused primarily on defining, standardizing and building software engineering environments.
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Navy Resident Affiliate
Software Engineering Institute
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
February 1989 — February 1990 (1 year 1 month)
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.
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Programmer/Analyst
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)
May 1983 — May 1985 (2 years 1 month)
Member of the technical staff at Financial Automation Corporation (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) responsible for maintaining and developing on-line stock trading system software.
Brian Clapper’s Education
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Temple University
B.A. , Computer and Information Sciences , 1979 — 1983
Graduated magna cum laude
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa
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Upper Moreland High School
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Brian Clapper’s Honors:
Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (1983)
