Larry Baltz

Jobandtalent are breaking new ground in providing highly targeted employment solutions. I'm just getting settled in, but I plan to help drive their success through a combination of Agile and technical expertise.

I designed and implemented highly available software as part of a team of system architects responsible for the performance and availability of a high volume, diverse and distributed web application. The teams in Hamburg, Barcelona, Munich and Vienna engage in Agile projects. In addition to my system level responsibilities, I was embedded in team for several months to ensure the re-implementation and data migration were implemented successfully meeting performance and availability expectations.

Equal partner in the company with responsibilities for all aspects of management, software and technology development and customer consulting services. We focus on projects managed through Agile methods, Extreme Programming in particular, where our customers can see business value results early on and with continued confidence through periodic releases which continually build more value.

As CTO, I was responsible for the research, design, development and deployment of all technological aspects of the business, including client-side and back-office software and networks as well as internal and external IT. This involved directing and advising on technology at the senior management and board level, management and mentoring of a team of 17 software and network service engineers and personal, hands-on development and deployment of many of the companies software and network systems.

As a software architect on the Carrier Grade High-Availability Platform, I worked with customers and other Sun organizations to design an 99.999% availability architecture with remote management through SNMP on hot-swappable telco-grade cPCI components. This architecture provided the flexibility to integrate other management protocols and introduce new hardware and software components. || I was also the senior designer for Sun's contribution to the TeleMangement Forum (TMF) Mobile Service Quality Management

Internet & Networking Group: packet cable VoIP telephony - participated in IETF standards for high-availability telephony; video-phone set-top project software design and development. || iDEN Infrastructure: senior engineer for an iDEN high-availability platform; technical lead for on-line code distribution project; chair of software development process steering committee; department webmaster. || GSM Infrastructure: part of a 5 person team developing distributed, embedded telephony operating system.

In the Software Research and Design Engineering group, I developed software for two projects as part of a University of Michigan cooperative education program: software to to calibrate a plutonium detector via a RS-232 connection; embedded software for a dosimeter reader prototype

Federal System Division: During a University of Michigan cooperative education position, I worked in the Avionic Software Design group on a US Air Force helicopter project to design, code and test navigation map control software in Jovial.