APPLIED SOLUTIONS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the Oracle Database Management Team
• Is Timing Everything? Yes

Applied Solutions, Inc. CEO Larry Wallace recently got a laugh from a YouTube parody of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey…only featuring the voice of Alexa in place of the menacing robot HAL. "Whoever saw Alexa coming? Or an internet-wired stove? Or the Cloud?" he asks. If Larry has adapted to these innovations, it's because has a great instinct for timing. Larry arrived in Washington, DC in a period that offered professional and cultural growth. He earned a degree in information science on the cusp of the digital revolution. And he seized the right moment to take the reins of ASI with President Mark Anderson. The outcome? "My money's where my mouth is. I'm managing development of technology we never dreamed of, and I have more control over my own life." The son of an Army Air Corps veteran and a teacher's aide, Larry grew up in Jacksonville, FL. He was the first person in his family to graduate from college, with a degree in Political Science from the University of Florida. A plan to earn a master's degree in urban and regional planning in Washington, DC, lost traction, but Larry took advantage of the city's cultural landscape to appreciate theater and dance, enjoy the now-legendary DC 1980s music scene, and work at the Smithsonian Institution. The constellation of associations and agencies around the DC area provided Larry with opportunities to sharpen his organizational and research skills. He followed a progressively information-focused path with positions at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, at a consulting firm that provided legal research, and within a legislative branch of the Department of Transportation. Seeing his career take direction, Larry committed to the research field and got his master's degree in library and information science in 1993.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Oracle Database Management Team
• President