Garry Lawrence
Senior Administrative Specialist
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarry Lawrence is an adaptable finance and administration professional with 12 years of experience spanning hospitality operations, payroll and P&L analysis, database management, and international finance roles with Club Med. Currently a Senior Administrative Specialist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, he combines MS-level finance training with dual BS degrees in Actuarial Science and Economics to translate complex numbers into operational decisions. His background includes hands-on experience in culinary, retail, and licensed massage therapy, reflecting a practical, service-oriented approach to team leadership and guest-facing operations. Comfortable in fast-moving, multicultural environments, Garry has managed finance functions across resorts in Asia, the Caribbean, and the U.S., driving forecasting and process improvements. He also contributes to open-source software, having improved resiliency and failover logic in a Python etcd3 client, demonstrating a technical curiosity beyond his core finance skillset. Based in Tallahassee, he seeks to keep learning and adding diverse capabilities to an already broad repertoire.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Actuarial Science, B.S., Actuarial Science at Florida State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Finance, General, Master of Science - MS, Finance, General at Florida State University - College of Business
Github Skills (8)
etcd10
python10
grpc10
server-client9
apidoc9
client-server9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kragniz/python-etcd3
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Python client for the etcd API v3
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Garry primarily contributed to the Python client for etcd API v3 by implementing and refactoring core functionalities. Their work focused on improving client stability and features, including endpoint failover and the management of gRPC channels. Significant changes involved modifying the client's structure and behavior for connection management and incorporating better error handling for resilience, evident in commit messages like "Close existing watcher on failover" and "Fix failover logic". The user also updated the project's documentation and tests.
api-clientetcdapipythonapi-v3
InvalidInterrupt/celery
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
rqmultiprocessingtask-queueworkerdistributed-systems
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