Larry began his career working and IBM and NCR mainframes in 1977, and has been working on IBM midrange systems since 1993. He has spent most of his career as an application systems developer and has been developing web site applications on IBM systems since 1999.He is currently Director of Application Development with the Greater Regional Alliance of REALTORS® (GRAR) in Grand Rapids, MI where he has been involved in all aspects of system development since 2008.Larry and the team at GRAR were the 2017 Common/IBM Innovation Award winner for the modernization of their public website (GRAR.COM), using a combination of RPG, SQL, DB2, PHP and open source tools on the IBM i.