Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)

Current

• Social Media Consultant at SocialMediaAZ.org
• Managing Partner at PlaySystemsDirect.com
• Managing Partner at Amicabilter Media, LLC

• Sr. Consultant at FWF Productions, LLC

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Past

• VP of Technology at International Web Marketing, Inc.
• Business Development Manager at Avnet
• Technical Manager & Senior Architect at Intel / TMG CAS

• Technical Manager at Intel / TMG SCA
• Senior Architect / Technical Manager at Arizona Department of Transportation - Consultant through Boeing MDTSC
• Sr. Consultant at Sprint Paranet
• President / Architect at Virtually There, LLC

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Social Media AZ

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Summary

(@fvongraf) - Helping companies succeed using technologies, by bringing in the best based on your needs. While you get the best, you only have one point of contact that manages your projects. From infrastructure, analysis, research, architecture and servers to aligning your marketing plan with your Social Media strategy and executing with measurable results. We know technology and have the right people that can help.

I have also just become an officer on the board of the Phoenix Chapter of the Business Marketing Association. A great organization, consider joining: http://bmaphoenix.org/

Personal BIO: My introduction to technology really started when my mom bought my first computer at age 8 (a VIC20) and with my constant tinkering with electronics prior to that. I’m a principle driven person, with a passion (overused but true) for business, people, communications and technology.

I have been fortunate to have met so many amazing people over the years and gotten my hands dirty on so many different projects and technologies. From running a BBS back in the day, helping get several ISPs started from the ground up (you get to do and learn everything there), setting up commercial network for government, security (both physical and data), managing tier 1 mission critical application teams in a Fortune 50, owning R&D labs worldwide, large scale server farms, multi-million dollar budgets...

I have always enjoyed pushing myself and taking on challenges – hate being bored, so I don’t.

Born in Sweden, grew up in the US (visiting Sweden in the Summers), I’m a Naturalized US Citizen. Enjoy traveling, biking, hiking, blogging, social media, water sports, snowboarding, photography, videography, reading, SCUBA, continuous improvement / learning and especially spending time with my awesome family.

I also get to (do fun things like) blow things up while I work for Burningman on the Pyro Team. That's right, I get paid to blow up the man each year, be jealous!

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Specialties:

Have 15+ years professional experience & 10+ years in management, from project management, people management to executive management. System and Network Architecture, Marketing, Business Development, Social Media, People & Project Management, Communications, Team building, Storage Architecture, SAN, System Administration, Software Development, Database, UNIX, IT, Networking, SQL design, Outsourcing, Integration Technology with Business Strategy and web development along with many other skills.

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Experience

• Social Media Consultant

  SocialMediaAZ.org

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Helping businesses understand and learn Social Media, both internal and external, managing, monitoring, policies and best practices that get results. Aligning with marketing, branding and business plans to assure maximum efficiency by doing it the right way. If you're business needs help take a look at our site: SocialMediaAZ.org or contact me directly and we'll get you in touch with the right experts for your needs! Unlike some agencies that hire a young guy that uses twitter and suddenly is an expert in Social Media we bring in the best based on project needs.

• Managing Partner

  PlaySystemsDirect.com

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Play Systems Direct sell high end environmentally contentious Kids Play Systems. Made and manufactured in the USA using green techniques and materials. See our web site for more information, we also run an affiliate program where you can make 10% on sales of a superior product.
  
  - It feels good to be part of a company that makes superior products and is truly Green.

• Managing Partner

  Amicabilter Media, LLC

  (Entertainment industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Amicabilter develops online entertainment. We are focused on developing for Facebook, mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry, WM and Android) and Web.
  
  - We like to partner with companies that need help developing their mobile applications and create their solutions.
  - We are customer focused and love the social aspects and locations based offerings.
  - We have an internal project we're working on, think lots of fun, interactive (socially) and addictive.

• Sr. Consultant

  FWF Productions, LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  FWF helps small to medium companies through our consultants. Offering experts in technologies and social media, running special projects, troubled projects that need to be turned around, company acquisitions, tiger team activities, socially aware projects, project management, technology management, application development and some recruiting.
  
  If you need to assure success on your next project FWF can help.

• VP of Technology

  International Web Marketing, Inc.

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for all technologies and assuring alignment with corporate objectives and plans. We are currently developing enhanced processes and documenting all technical systems so we can expand the technical teams. We intend to become one of the preeminent providers in our market segment.

• Business Development Manager

  Avnet

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AVT; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years )

  * Responsible for growth of integration solutions business though customer engagements, internal and external marketing.
  * Owner of multiple events at the Avnet Tech Games (.com), including game development efforts with professors from Colleges (utilized as class curriculum), creation of judging criteria, managing supplier relations.
  * Owner of the new Avnet Tech Games social media initiative, including the web site, social networks, BLOG and online contests.
  * Representing the corporation on live TV, Radio and Print interviews
  * Primary owner of the Technology Showcase, engaging suppliers, internal business units and customers, setting architectural standards for the showcase including assuring both technical and business alignment.
  * Member of multiple process reengineering efforts to optimize business processes.
  * Lead for HR taskforce responsible for classification of job categories and employee survey actions.
  * Won four ACE awards and Harbour Hero award for FY 2007.

• Technical Manager & Senior Architect

  Intel / TMG CAS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; intc; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  * Managed technical team of direct reports responsible for engineering, evaluating products, assuring compatibility, driving road maps and supporting factories worldwide.
  * Responsible for three environments consisting of over 40 servers per environment and over 30TB of SAN storage. Represented all architecture, engineering, troubleshooting, monitoring and test data result in to the appropriate forums. Conducted analysis to tune network traffic, resulting NIC card optimization settings, that were used world wide. Led an effort to identify and correct middleware performance issues in environments.
  * Managed teams responsible for transferring 80% of the technology from the development factory in to next generation production factories. First CAS member to be assigned a Domain team lead position (windows domain). Then assigned as the lead for a second domain team (storage) due to success in running (windows) domain team.
  * Core team member of an internal Security / Audit team.

• Technical Manager

  Intel / TMG SCA

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; intc; Computer Software industry)

  August 2000 — July 2002 (2 years )

  * Manager of a technical team within eBG TMG SCA. Responsible for a suite of tier one mission critical applications.
  * Management sponsor for the ISET Next Generation project (ING). ING replaced the current environment / data model with new infrastructure and a new optimized data model. Leveraged relationships with external groups to provide resources in key areas (data model design and database optimization).
  * Created the ROI and Capital Review to obtaining ratification for the ING project.
  * Primary point of contact for Automation Emergency Response Team (AERT) issues. Presented before the virtual factory management forum numerous times.
  * Reduced production support calls by over 50% within three months of taking on the task. Helped design and managed the release of an innovative client based logging system to report on actual client timing.
  * Designed and marketed (internally) an revolutionary method of distributing software using databases.

• Senior Architect / Technical Manager

  Arizona Department of Transportation - Consultant through Boeing MDTSC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1998 — August 2000 (2 years 5 months)

  * Managed Special Project Architecture Infrastructure & Support Team
  * Architected the MVD 3rd party network, defined client & server standards, installation of over 75 circuits, auditing network & firewall security, developed custom monitoring tools (PERL & SQL 7) for network & workstations to work in conjunction with SNMP network monitoring tools
  * Worked with vendors for testing of new architectural changes (including hardware, software, peripherals, network equipment, security systems and more)
  * Designed and implemented the ADOT pilot VPN solution.
  * Lead for MVD Printer Replacement Project, ADOT R&D projects, Digital Drivers License (DDL) replacement project, DPS mug-shot project, MVD Digital Credit Card project, MVD Drivers License Initiative, ADOT Virtual Private Networking (VPN) project, ADOT Domain Admin.
  * Member of Security Access Control Team (SACT) & Security Network Architecture Helped to set client, server, network, architectural and physical security standards.

• Sr. Consultant

  Sprint Paranet

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; S; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1995 — January 1998 (2 years 8 months)

  * Internet & Intranet solutions, network architecture design, firewall design & implementations, desktop migrations planning & implementation, NOS installations, Metaphase, Sendmail, NT, Novell & UNIX administration, WAN/LAN monitoring & management, IP tracking, Email conversions, custom development, database development, SQL Server installations and configuration, training, documentation, policy development, network and system security, lead for the Electronic Commerce Integration Team (ECIT), network configuration (Cisco & Bay), Business Resumption Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, project management, vendor relations.
  * Co-founder of Building and Enhancing Solidified Teams (BEST).
  
  Consulted for the following corporations: AG Communications, Allied Signal, American Express, Charles Schwab, ECAdvantage, Microage, Orbital Sciences, Paranet Internal IS.

• President / Architect

  Virtually There, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  December 1993 — June 1995 (1 year 7 months)

  * Ran first commercial web site in Arizona
  * Owned Music.net and Anime.com
  * Met with clients to present Internet design concepts and strategies. Coordinated contract artists and programmers to fill clients’ needs in a timely manner.
  * Developed custom applications in Perl, Delphi, Pascal, Assembly, and C. Design, layout, and graphics for HTML design.
  * Coordination with in-house IS departments to provide Internet services. Designed and Implemented strategies for integration of IP into existing network environments. Installed and programmed Frame Relay and leased line services in customer locations. Administered heterogeneous network and database environments.
  * Basically wore every hat and did what it took to make it happen.

Additional Information

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Websites:

• Social Media AZ

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Interests:

Being a productive member of society, giving back and helping others. SCUBA diving, Burningman, Photography & Digital video, creating digital (noise) music, Traveling; Languages: I Speak Swedish fluently.

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Groups:

BMA Board of Directors
AZIMA
PMI Member
Burningman Pyro Team
Black Rock Rangers

•    Executive Suite
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Global Foresight
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs
•    OpenNetworker.com
•    Intel Alumni Association
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Information Security Community
•    Consultants Network
•    PMI Certified PMPs
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Black Rock Rangers
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    Arizona Professional Networkers
•    Arizona Technology Council
•    Open Source Universe
•    Paranet Alumni
•    Private Equity Investment Group
•    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Homeland Security
•    Startup Specialists
•    Digital Marketing
•    Social Media Today
•    Social Media Marketing
•    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
•    Business Marketing Association - Phoenix
•    Phoenix Professionals
•    Boeing Alumni
•    Global MIT Enterprise Forum
•    Ex-Microage
•    High Tech Burners
•    Intel Network
•    SEMPOAZ
•    Gangplank
•    FI/CO Consultant Opportunities
•    Entrepreneur 2.0 (maxiwill.com)
•    Ignite Phoenix
•    Social Media Caffé
•    Social Media Recruiting Group
•    SocialMediaAZ
•    Purple Cow Training
•    Social Game Developers
•    Social TV Group - Television 2.0 - Convergence and Community

Fred von Graf, PMP (LinkedIn@vongraf.com)’s Honors:

* PMP - Project Management Professional
* Microsoft MCP+, Windows MCSE
* Managing Through People Certified
* Intel Project Management


* AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers Instructor
* AHA Heartsaver First Aid Instructor
* PADI Open Water Diver
* TDI NITROX Diver

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