Larry Spackman
Manager of Technology and Innovation at Innovate! Inc. The person who ran the Cloud Advisory Services team, organized the Developers Showcase, led EPA Salesforce programs, and gave Glen his performance reviews. My manager at Innovate.
The Arc
Larry Spackman is the kind of manager you don't fully appreciate until you've worked for a few bad ones. He ran the Cloud Advisory Services team at Innovate! Inc. — the Salesforce development practice that built and maintained systems for the EPA, Georgia State University, and other complex clients. Manager of Technology and Innovation isn't just a title. It's what Larry actually did.
At Innovate, Larry managed the people who built the things. He organized the CAS Monthly Developers Showcase — a recurring forum where the Salesforce team presented their work and learned from each other. He ran performance reviews. He connected developers with requirements. He organized the working sessions that turned vague EPA program office requests into deployed Salesforce applications.
229 shared calendar events across seven years. That number includes daily standups, sprint meetings, program plan rebuilds, developer showcases, performance reviews, and working sessions. Larry was in every one of them — organizing, facilitating, and keeping the team moving forward.
Career Timeline
~2014
Manager, Cloud Advisory Services
Innovate! Inc.
Joined Innovate! and took on management of the Cloud Advisory Services team working on EPA Salesforce projects. From day one, Larry was in the thick of it — BMC weekly check-ins, OSA repository discussions, Salesforce development planning kickoffs. He helped organize the team’s early Salesforce Development Showcases alongside Jordon Schulman and brought structure to a growing practice.
2014 - 2016
EPA Program Leadership — DfE, BMC, OPPT, OSA
Innovate! Inc. / EPA
Led the Cloud Advisory team through a wave of EPA Salesforce programs. Design for Environment (DfE) daily standups, BMC planning and requirements, OSA repository development, and the massive OPPT Program Plan build. Larry organized working sessions, connected developers with requirements, and kept the technical team aligned with EPA program offices. When the OPPT Program Plan deployed in May 2016, Larry was at the center of it.
2016 - 2017
OPPT Program Plan Rebuild & OSCP
Innovate! Inc. / EPA
After the initial OPPT Program Plan deployment, Larry led the rebuild effort. Calendar events tell the story: "Glen + Larry + Mark connect Program Plan Rebuild," "Glen + Larry + Mark connect Program Plan Rebuild — Loop in Catherine?" He organized OPPT & OSCP profiles and permission set discussions, sharing settings follow-ups, and email data cleanup working sessions. The kind of meticulous, sustained technical management that keeps federal programs running.
2017 - 2018
CAS Developers Showcase & HSRAP
Innovate! Inc. / EPA
Took over organizing the CAS Monthly Developers Showcase — the internal forum where the Salesforce development team demonstrated their work, shared knowledge, and leveled up together. Simultaneously managed HSRAP (Hazardous Substance Release and Assessment Program) work including emails testing, actions follow-ups, and document working sessions. Larry was the connective tissue between multiple EPA program offices.
2018 - 2019
GSU & Cross-Program Management
Innovate! Inc.
Expanded into Georgia State University Salesforce work, organizing GSU portal case visibility walk-throughs, SSO for Marketing Cloud reviews, and the GCIC (Georgia Career Information Center) app discussion. While continuing EPA program oversight, Larry bridged the gap between government and higher education Salesforce implementations — managing developers across both domains.
2019 - 2021+
Manager, Technology and Innovation
Innovate! Inc.
Continued leading the technology and innovation practice at Innovate! through HSRRO walk-throughs, OPEEE sprint check-ins, and CAS/BMC team coordination. His current LinkedIn title — Manager, Technology and Innovation — reflects the breadth of what Larry brought to the role: not just managing existing programs, but pushing the team to innovate within the Salesforce ecosystem.
What Larry Brings
Technical Team Management
Larry managed the Cloud Advisory Services team at Innovate! — Salesforce developers, BAs, and technical leads working across multiple EPA program offices. He ran performance reviews, organized showcases, and kept the team aligned and growing.
EPA Salesforce Programs
Deep experience across EPA Salesforce programs: OPPT Program Plan, HSRAP, DfE, BMC, OSA, OSCP, HSRRO, EAD, OPEEE, and CROMERR. Larry understood the federal compliance landscape and the technical requirements that came with it.
Salesforce & Cloud Advisory
Salesforce.com platform expertise combined with broader cloud advisory capabilities. Larry brought technical depth in Salesforce alongside skills in data analysis, Java, databases, and SQL Server — the full stack needed for complex integrations.
Developer Enablement
Organized the CAS Monthly Developers Showcase for years — a recurring forum where developers presented their work, shared techniques, and learned from each other. The kind of investment in people that compounds over time.
Cross-Program Coordination
Managed developers and programs across EPA, GSU, and other clients simultaneously. Larry was the person who connected the right people at the right time — organizing working sessions, looping in PMs, and making sure nothing fell through the cracks.
By the Numbers
229
Shared Calendar Events
39
Meetings Larry Organized
10+
EPA Programs Managed
~7
Years Working Together
How I Know Larry
He was my manager at Innovate! Inc.
Larry was my manager at Innovate! Inc. for the better part of seven years. He ran my performance reviews — “Glen/Larry Performance Review 2016 Annual,” “Glen 2019 Performance Review,” “Glen + Larry Mid-year Review.” Those are calendar events that tell you a lot about a working relationship. He wasn't a distant manager sending status requests over email. He was in the meetings, in the working sessions, in the code reviews.
Our earliest shared events go back to July 2014 — BMC weekly check-ins and OSA repository discussions. From there, we went through DfE daily standups, the entire OPPT Program Plan build and deployment, the Program Plan Rebuild, HSRAP, OSCP, GSU, and more. Larry organized the working sessions that mattered: “Glen + Larry working session, q&a, and review in progress items,” “Larry + Glen walk-through OSCP new entry interface,” “OPPT Standard Reports Clean-up Working Session.”
He organized the CAS Monthly Developers Showcase — the forum where our Salesforce team presented work, shared knowledge, and held each other accountable. He connected people: “Introduction — Racquelia & Glen,” “Glen + Larry + Mark connect Program Plan Rebuild — Loop in Catherine?” That last one is classic Larry — making sure the right people are in the room at the right time.
Working alongside Josh Long, Catherine Nolan, Jordon Schulman, Mark Filpus, Matt Brumberger, Chris Burge, Nancy Vosburgh, and the rest of the Innovate team — Larry was the manager who held it together. He wasn't the one writing APEX at midnight. He was the one making sure the developer writing APEX at midnight had the requirements, the access, and the support they needed.
Why He Matters
Good managers are invisible in the best way. They don't get credit for the system that shipped or the integration that worked. They get credit for building the team that built it. Larry built and managed the Cloud Advisory Services team at Innovate during its most productive years — when the team was delivering Salesforce solutions for the EPA, GSU, and beyond.
He organized the showcases. He ran the reviews. He connected the developers to the PMs to the clients. He made sure the Program Plan got rebuilt when it needed rebuilding and deployed when it needed deploying. That's management. Not the kind you read about in business books — the kind that actually works.
Innovate was a great place to work. Larry was a big part of why.
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