Software Development Executive and Entrepreneur
Greater New Orleans Area
- Current
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- President at Applied Talent
- Vice President of Engineering at TurboSquid
- Chairman at Xylim, Inc
- Co-Founder and Producer at Scybrid Studios
- Past
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- Director of Engineering at Convenos, LLC
- Chairman and CEO at Synchron Networks
- Senior Development Manager at Borland
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of California, Santa Cruz
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Carl Fravel’s Summary
Proven experience in building and managing multiple high-performance teams in both startups and larger public companies, creating efficient operations, assembling advanced technology research and architecture groups, writing business plans, defining and developing new products and services, providing architectural leadership, and successfully launching into new markets.
· 30 years technical and technology management experience, in both software and hardware
· Sharply-honed skills in implementing effective structure within highly creative teams
· Early stage high-tech company executive experience – vision, strategy, business plans, funding, staffing, product management, architecture, R&D, operations, marketing, product launches, boards of directors
· Angel and VC fund raising successfully closed, capitalization, investor relations
· On-time and on-budget product development and IT project management
· Multiple successes with 1.0 and mature products, many full-life-cycle experiences
· Requirements-driven architecture, design, implementation, QA, usability, feature control
· Management of co-development partnerships and OEM licensing, trade shows, and technical collateral
· Domain knowledge in software and service architecture, distributed computing infrastructure, ecommerce, community and collaborative web applications, development tools, IDEs, frameworks, components, public APIs, web services, digital media technologies, software-hardware interfacing, electronics manufacturing, Windows, LAMP, Java, C++, C, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, Web 2.0
· Leadership style of open communications, consultative decision making, trust, grooming contributors for higher productivity and managers for excellence
Carl Fravel’s Specialties:
Senior executive, engineering management, business strategy, business planning, VC and Angel financing, coaching & advising early stage startup teams, general management, startup management, 1.0 products, architecture, advanced R&D, business development, management consulting, private and public companies
Carl Fravel’s Experience
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President
Applied Talent
(Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Applied Talent is a software development and project management company focused on solving business problems that need software development solutions. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana area, Applied Talent is a distributed team and can provide solutions anywhere.
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Vice President of Engineering
TurboSquid
(Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Turbo Squid is the largest library and marketplace for 3D products in the world, revolutionizing the way that 3D products are bought, sold and delivered.
Turbo Squid has also launched the GameFlood offering, allowing online game players to customize every aspect of their online gaming experience and to share these customizations with the entire online gaming community.
Vice President of Engineering, responsible for software development, online service management, quality assurance, and engineering organizational development. -
Chairman
Xylim, Inc
(Semiconductors industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Fabless semiconductor spin-off from the University of California Santa Cruz producing a unique massively-parallel explicitly-programmable array coprocessor. Served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and temporarily as acting COO and CFO during the inception of the company. Performed various business planning, investor presentation, and business development tasks for the company as needed, including the hiring of a CEO. Currently continuing to serve as Chairman.
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Co-Founder and Producer
Scybrid Studios
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Scybrid Studios produces movies, entertainment IP, cinematic services, and media technology, with a focus on popular franchises and proprietary titles in the scifi/fantasy genre, and technical properties in support of new approaches to filmmaking.
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Director of Engineering
Convenos, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)
Convenos is a venture dedicated to delivering online collaboration tools that are simple and convenient, cost-effective, and continue to advance the web-based collaboration and conferencing industries.
Served in roles of Director of Architecture and Director of Engineering during a critical transition period of stabilizing the first version of the Convenos Meeting Center collaboration service, and launching the architecture and design of the next generation service. -
Chairman and CEO
Synchron Networks
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1999 — April 2004 (5 years 2 months)
Synchron developed infrastructure software for secure, reliable, auditable, scalable delivery of digital assets and system management services to servers, desktops and laptops. Customers were Enterprise IT, Government, and OEMs.
Co-Founded and created Synchron from its inception.
Served in roles of VP Engineering and Product Dev., President, COO, CEO, Chairman.
· Wrote the business plans
· Raised angel and 2 rounds VC funding $14M from 3i and Onset
· Hands-on role in early design and implementation
· Recruited exec and development teams and interim CEO
· Managed early development effort
· Created culture of communication and productivity
· Market research - Gartner and McKenna groups
· Launched 1.0 and 2.0 products
· Assisted sales in closing enterprise and OEM deals
· Negotiated acquisition and management buyout
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Senior Development Manager
Borland
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)
July 1992 — January 1999 (6 years 7 months)
--- EIP / EAI
Created a new R&D team for Enterprise Integration Products. Middleware frameworks (CORBA, messaging, and DCE, in C and Java), IDE and Tools products for distributed application development and integration, and a new EAI product line.
--- JBuilder
Responsible for the following product development efforts:
· JBuilder 1.0 Professional (Compiler, Debugger, Database, CORBA/RMI)
· JBuilder 1.0 Client Server
· JBuilder/400 IBM alliance
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· Led teams in core technology and languages R&D.
· Computer Based Training technology
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Founder, President, Board of Directors
AFI
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
1986 — 1996 (10 years)
Licensed the Gentle Electric pitch extraction technology to AFI in 1988, for a hardware and embedded software product sold OEM into the music education industry. Architected and designed the hardware and software systems, led the implementation. Served on the AFI Board of Directors 1988-1997.
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Application Software Manager
WaveFrame Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1986 — July 1992 (6 years 4 months)
Application Software Manager – The senior software engineer, employee 7, in a $12M Kleiner Perkins-funded startup venture. Architect of the audio editing and management client applications for a real-time digital audio workstation (hardware and embedded real-time software) product sold into the television and movie post-production industry. Promoted to Applications Software Manager for R&D and created the QA team. Customers included Columbia/Sony and leading post-production and recording studios. Also led the early phases of design, specification, and prototyping of a new audio editing software product for Silicon Graphics workstations.
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Founder and Principal
Gentle Electric
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1976 — 1988 (12 years)
Founded and operated Gentle Electric. Created a Pitch Follower product for use with analog synthesizers. Invented an original pitch extraction algorithm. Designed the analog and digital electronics and the mechanical packaging. Oversaw all aspects of company operation, including staffing, engineering, manufacturing, QA, technical publications, trade shows, marketing, direct sales, and distribution. Successfully negotiated OEM contracts for the incorporation of this technology into synthesizers manufactured by Serge Modular Systems and Aries.
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Faculty, Director, Electronic Music Studio
UCSC
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1977 — 1980 (3 years)
Co-founder and first Director of the UCSC Electronic Music Studio. Faculty member. Created and taught courses in electronic and computer music.
Carl Fravel’s Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Graduate Studies , CS and Math , 1974 — 1975
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University of California, Santa Cruz
BA , Music and CS , 1970 — 1974
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- Graduated with Honors
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Carl Fravel’s Interests:
· Management Consultant - business plan, fund raising, organizational development, product development and management, market research and segmentation. · Independent Digital Cinema. Co-founder of Scybrid Studios, an independent digital cinema and video post-production, editing, 3D CG, music and sound studio (www.scybrid.com), and of Created Noble, a web-based indie film distributor (www.creatednoble.com).
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