1. Richard A. Clapp Jr
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Email: raclapp@yahoo.com
LinkedIn profile: Richard Clapp
Experience Summary
Over 30 years of experience in hardware & software including analysis, design, development, testing, installation,
implementation, configuration and administration of various systems. Expertise with systems for businesses including, finance,
manufacturing, distribution, services, Healthcare, Insurance, POS, Telecommunications.
System related areas of experience includes: operating systems Data Modeling and Data Warehousing/Data Marts. Data
Security Consultant. Extensive experience in business systems implementations, software products designing and developing,
installation, configuration and administration of various systems, Database Design and Documentation of same.
Roles have included: Developer, Programmer / Analyst, DBA, Data Architect, Team Lead, Data Analyst, Data Mart Architect,
Data Warehouse Architect, Production DBA, Senior DBA, Designer, System Analyst, Consultant, Project Manager & Business
Analyst. Oracle Applications 11i experience. Databases from Desktop to Terabyte range. Octave/ Octave-S Methods
experience. HIPAA. SOX. Risk & Vulnerability assessment (White Hat and PENTEST). Author.
I bring diverse academic knowledge and professional leadership experience, strong confidence, a sense of humor and an
eagerness for mastery of new skills. Jan 2012, Certified Scrum Master.
Professional Skills Summary (Recent only)
 Major modeling packages: Erwin, Power Designer Suite
 Advanced Data Modeling/ Database Architect.
 ORACLE Warehouse Builder (OWB), ODI and related sub products.
 Oracle 6 - 10G, 11G & 12c; Supported Apps 11i, BMC Products experience. Many Conversions. NOSQL.
 Software Designing and Implementation using various Software Engineering Methodologies and languages including
Agile. Hadoop and Cassandra NOSQL design and modeling.
 Architect experience: HA & MAA, NOSQL, OLAP, OLTP, DSS, DataMart & Warehouse (Star and Snowflake), BI
Solutions.
 UNIX, Linux (Redhat & SuSe ) and Microsoft Server 2000/ 2003/ 2005 System Administration (Power User level)
 Auditor. Sarbanes Oxley (SARBOX/ SOX) HIPAA system evaluation and auditing. OCTAVE Auditing methods
 Technical writing, System and Application documentation, Disaster Recovery & Best Practice documents. SOX
scorecards and testing docs.
 Platform conversion/ migration specialist (upgrades of various RDBMS to Oracle)
 ORACLE 6 - 9i, 10g, 11g & 12c Tuning & “Firefighting” Specialist. RAC, RMAN, Golden Gate.
 Leadership, Corporate: both Team and Project level. Certified Scrum Master. Agile Coaching.
 Excellent communication and technical writing skills
Technical Skills Summary
Applications/Big Data/RDBMS
Oracle Server 12c, 11G, 10g (RAC) to v 6.x , MS SQL Server 2000 & later, IBM DB2. Cassandra, hBase.
Oracle Tools
• OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager), Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Developer 6 /2000, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL,
SQL, Warehouse Builder, Recovery Manager (RMAN), Replication Manager, Oracle Forms 6/ 2000,
Oracle Reports 6/ 2000, Oracle Developers Suite 9i. OEM Grid Control. Golden Gate, TOAD.
Languages
• Java, PL/ SQL, CQL, SQL, COBOL, HTML, Visual Basic 3 => 6, UNIX Shell Scripting (Korn et al), PERL,
Python, XML, Python
Developer/ Web Software
VB, Oracle Developer 6/2000 Server, Apache Server, MS FrontPage, Broadvision in DBA Support role.
ETL/ Data Warehouse
Informatica 7.1.2 against Oracle. Oracle Discoverer. OWB (Oracle Warehouse Builder), ODI.
Case/ Modeling Tools
• Oracle Designer/2000, Power Designer Suite, Erwin. Model Mart, Data Mart Suite and related sub products, TOAD
Data Modeler

2. Hardware
• Sun Servers, HP servers, IBM RS/6000 servers, DELL PowerEdge, IBM SP/2 Tower, Intel Microprocessors,
Distributed Architecture, IBM AS/400
Software (Operating Systems)
• Various Mainframe systems with TSO & CICS, HP-UX, Linux (Redhat and SuSe), AIX, Microsoft Server 2003/2005,
OS/2.,Solaris 10, VMWARE. OpenSuse 13.x., KALI and BACKTRACK 5 Linux/ Toolsets versions
Software (Misc)
• Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Pro, Paint Shop Pro, PC Anywhere, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP, Visio, DataStage,
BMC, PowerTerm Pro Suite, Informatica 7, Business Objects as supporting DBA.
Professional Experience
Note: Several recommendations and endorsements on LinkedIn. I strongly urge a close examination of the expanded
profile: www.linkedin.com/in/richardclapp/ Click on FULL PROFILE link to be directed to the site.
Clapp Custom Consulting, Inc.
Senior Oracle & DW/ BI Consultant & DBA, Developer and Author, CEO
October 2007 to present, Clients included IBM., OSG, BarclayCard (England), Oxford International, Robert Half and more.
Duties include multiple Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g & 12 Healthchecks. All IBM Oracle System DBA work was via remote to
their clients. 331 servers, 800 instances administered by team. Platforms included AIX, Linux and Windows 32/ 64 bit,
HP-UX. Senior System DBA duties/ Team Lead, Duties included: Performance & Tuning, Backups, RMan,, Patching,
Updates and connectivity issues. Golden Gate used on some sites. Advised on DR and OEM Grid. Multiple DB and
system level HealthChecks. Setup several new instances and migrations involving Linux, Oracle 10g and Oracle 10g/ 11g
RAC. Planning and support duties. Administered SuSe Linux, Solaris and Windows boxes as needed. Primary systems
support DBA for various clients. Remote Administration via VPN. 10g/ 11g OEM Grid design and Configuration.
Management level consulting on Off-Shore issues and resolution of same. Project Management of small short term
projects. Configured & implemented turn-key Oracle systems for small businesses. Emergency system restoration
services provider. Wrote and presented a whitepaper on the role of Data Steward. Silver Creek exposure. Data Quality
activities. Migration/ upgrades from 10g RAC to 11g RAC. Implemented Oracle security features. Cyber security/
Warfare issues, have been on multiple Red Teams. Wrote articles & whitepapers. Participated in multiple HP-UX
"upgrades" to Redhat Linux servers with 9i, 10g RAC & 11g versions of Oracle.
ETL and Oracle Development work in Forms and Reports as well as writing PL/ SQL modules to spec. Used ErWin and
Oracle Designer to create ERD and enterprise wide ODS and Meta Data Repositories for clients.
For BarclayCard (England) provided DBA project review, Data Architect Technical lead and Development skillsets on a new
customer reward system that was behind schedule. Duration was 3 Months. Worked onsite in England and via Remote.
Participated in daily Scrum by remote.
Hadoop & Related: Enterprise level Advocate. Admin: Have setup Hadoop standalone Sandbox for Demo & Training use by a
Team. Administered same at sandbox level and in multiple node environment for testing. Have installed and maintained
multiple Apache Cassandra nodes. Both clean Cassandra installs (v2.x) and DataStax packaged installs were used and
compared. Client project was to create a new DashBoard product to bring to market in 2016. Taught client staff in basics
of Cassandra maintenance, and have assisted since then as an on-call resource. Accomplished version upgrades as
requested since installs. Minor development in CQL as well as Data structure design. Installed HortonWorks Sandbox
for this client as well.
Persistent Systems, Inc.
Consultant & Solution Architect/ Certified Scrum Master/ DBA
October 2013 – May 2014, Central Ohio USA
Providing Business Analyst and Solution Architect services to clients across central Ohio. Provided a technology replacement
evaluation, documentation and possible solutions for it's replacement both Departmentally and Enterprise. Created multiple
Data and Program flow diagrams. Provided recommendations.
As Certified Scrum Master: trained company staff in Agile and setup needed Agile team services. Used Jira and other tools.
Hadoop: HortonWorks, HDP. Setup Hadoop (HortonWorks) Standalone sandbox for use by internal team in creating a proof
of concept demo and for general training in Hadoop related technologies. Administered same. Trained Teams in Agile
Methodology. Oracle DBA for 11g, 12c and Big Data. Setup Cassandra nodes (v2.0) for development team in virtual Linux
environment. Administered and maintained same. More.
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3. Performance Management Associates, Inc
Senior Oracle Consultant/ Systems Engineer/ DBA
April 2010 – November 2012 Columbus, Ohio Area
High End Oracle support for new and existing projects at Nationwide Insurance (a fortune 50 corporation). From 9i to 11g.
Major emphasis on Application side run team with Performance & Tuning. Systems DBA for some clients. On call rotation.
During On call, was responsible for 20+ Production instances and over 40 Test. All after hours tasks are performed by On Call
DBA. Was Production DBA and Development DBA as work tasks required it. Several projects, and user groups.
At same client was moved to System Engineer (Spring 2011) for a host of related applications. In this position, was in charge
of Server admin (windows) Multiple Databases of Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2005/ 2008 as the only DBA. OS included
zLinux and Windows. Provided all levels of support to large client base. Utilized Agile and Scrum. Supported ePowerCenter,
Symphony and Proficio along other smaller applications. Wrote system level documentation as needed. Wrote and maintained
Business Continuity Plans for multiple systems, including Critical applications. Created and maintained multiple plans within
LDRPS (Sungard: Living Disaster Recovery Planning System) Planned and tested Disaster Recovery plans. Setup and
maintained test environments for Oracle and Sql Server for use by Dev team (System and App DBA functions). Created new
Data Models. Installed and maintained a single node of Cassandra for use by team as a sandbox for development. Performed
system level Health Checks and evaluations for Departmental clients of Database Instances. Extensive use of Agile
techniques.
TUSC, “The Oracle Experts”
March 2007 to October 2007, Traveling position as Senior Consultant. Lombard, IL.
Duties include multiple Oracle 8i, 9i & 10g Tuning and audits, Multiple RAC install and tunings on various platforms.
Conducted training. Conducted multiple DataBase Healthchecks. Setup and maintained Streams on 9i and 10g. Implemented
Oracle MAA. Implemented and Tuned Oracle DataGuard. HA and MAA environments. Consulted on Disaster Recovery
Best Practices. Taught performance tuning & OWB courses.
Armstrong Computer Consulting, Inc. / Clapp Custom Consulting, Inc
Freelancing May 2001 to March 2007, Central Ohio.
Activity includes: coached & mentored Junior DBAs, wrote technical standards documents and an ORACLE Forms and
Reports application deconstruction and documentation. Wrote and tuned SQL and PL/ SQL for various Development teams.
Converted various 7.x, 8.x, 9i. Contractor:
☼R.Dorsey & Company (fall & Winter 2004): Worked on multiple SOX auditing projects. Worked for McGraw Hill
performing a project audit and Informatica/ Oracle DBA tuning engagement. Tuned Informatica 7.1.2 against Oracle 9i.
Designed (in ErWin) a DM and ODS and sections of DW. Documented undocumented databases. Sourced Data. Created
reports in Crystal Reports 11 and installed Crystal Server. Created Data warehouse project (MS Project), and implemented it.
Managed small team. Installed BizTalk for testing and training on company servers.
☼ Jefferson Wells Software Selection Project for client (Fall & Winter 2003)
☼Ross Group Clients (2004/ 2005) provided senior Oracle, SQL Server, Data warehouse & FoxPro DBA functions. Assisted
with Peoplesoft 7.5 to 8.8 upgrade along with Database upgrades. 19 concurrent Oracle instances. 30 SQL Server instances.
☼FOR VARIOUS CLIENTS: Authored Emergency and Disaster Recovery documents. Modeled and redesigned Data
Warehouse schema. Remote DBA for multiple clients. Performed Database HIPAA, SOX & System Audits. Ecommerce site
development. SAP Support. Implemented Oracle Financials and Manufacturing on Linux platform, Project Management.
Specification review for various sales staff. Business Analysis & specifications documents. Linux administration and setup
for Redhat and SuSe. Developed in VB 6 and created reports in Crystal. Normal DBA duties as needed. RAC Production
DBA duties.
Additional Resume material available from 1980 to 2001 upon request. This time frame was extensive development work in
COBOL DB2, Oracle Forms and Reports and Visual Basic. Began DBA in 1992. Other tools used were CICs, VSAM files,
wrote JCL and much more. Much occurred using RAD methods. This timeframe also included Military experience.
Fraternal & Professional Associations
Mensa International. Member since 1980. International ORACLE Users Group
American Legion AMVETS
ItWorks Panel Sitter and Stakeholder. Intertel since 1983
Education
B.S. Computer Science & Pre-Law, Ohio State University. In progress, currently on hold, examining possibility
of jumping direct to Masters/ PHD program. Due to constant travel with various consulting companies, several
colleges and credits at them, have accumulated - roughly equivalent to multiple BS and 2-3 MS degrees.
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4. United States Army, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. 74F20 Programmer/ Analyst course. Honor Graduate. Equivalent to
an Associates in Computer Science. ONG (Ohio National Guard) Jump School, NCO Academy. Ft McClellan, AL. 54E20
NBC Course, ONG Recruiters’ course, Advanced Course Army ROTC, Officer Candidate School. Active Army and Army
Reserve duty. Several additional military specialty courses.
MISC:
ORACLE DBA OCP 8 (third Party). 11g in progress. Additional college courses include Technical Writing, Accounting,
Business Management courses. Several seminars, including Borland, IBM, Microsoft, ORACLE. Variety of additional
College courses taken as workload permitted. MIT Open coursework. Goal is to complete all free online courses by end of
2017. Certified Scrum Master course and certification.
Hobbies & Interests
Flying (fixed wing), Renaissance Faires, Fencing, Kendo, SCUBA, Previously drove SCCA. movies, experimenting with a
variety of subjects within computers and other fields. Designing & Building gadgets. Writing. Active in Cub Scouts with son.
Horse ownership and riding. Gourmet cooking.
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