Software Executive, Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Past
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- Vice President of Engineering Operations at Verint
- Vice President of Engineering Operations at Witness Systems
- Development Director at Exametric
- Founder at Sea State 1 Software
- VP Engineering at Blue Pumpkin Software
- Director, Manager at PeopleSoft (Red Pepper Software)
- Manager, Principle Investigator at Recom Technologies (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Engineer at IntelliCorp
- Education
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- Illinois Institute of Technology
- National university
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Rich Frainier’s Summary
25 years management experience in a wide variety of settings: US Navy, Electronics Manufacturing, Computer Research, Software Engineering.
20 years software engineering experience, including enterprise software development using Microsoft COM/MFC, Sun Java/J2EE, and Microsoft .NET technologies.
10 years enterprise software startup experience (5 startups).
Rich Frainier’s Specialties:
Enterprise software development expert.
Rich Frainier’s Experience
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Vice President of Engineering Operations
Verint
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRNT; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
Continued in a similar position after my previous employer, Witness Systems, was acquired by Verint at the end of May, 2007.
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Vice President of Engineering Operations
Witness Systems
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; WITS; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)
Responsible for world-wide Engineering Operations organization (primarily Quality Assurance). Approx. 100 engineers in team at numerous sites (Atlanta; San Diego; Santa Clara; Bangalore, India; Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam).
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Development Director
Exametric
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)
Led team of 12 development engineers in creating forecasting, planning and scheduling solutions for Retail Banking market. Company was acquired by Witness Systems in October, 2006. I assumed a new role with Witness Systems.
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Founder
Sea State 1 Software
(Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — May 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Responsible for software development, operations, business planning, and marketing.
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VP Engineering
Blue Pumpkin Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — June 2003 (3 years 9 months)
Joined mid-stage startup - 80 employees; $5M sales. Peaked at 330 employees with nearly $40M sales.
As Vice President of Engineering, led team of 40 in building J2EE-based multi-tier web Workforce Management product suite. Managed use of consultants, off-shore developers, and quality assurance engineers. Delivered dozens of software releases.
As Director of Development Engineering (18 months), built team of engineers in demanding recruiting environment to launch new product and extend existing products. Led numerous software product releases. Led effort to dramatically improve development processes and resulting quality. Led effort to develop repeatable process for creating localized (foreign-language) versions of client/server product. Led effort to improve communication with peer teams. Web/Server, Client/Server, forecasting, planning & scheduling, workforce management workflow. -
Director, Manager
PeopleSoft (Red Pepper Software)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1994 — November 1998 (4 years 4 months)
Recruited to early-stage (6 employees, no sales) Supply Chain Management software startup. Acquired by PeopleSoft for $225 million (150 employees, $10M sales). Left two years after acquisition.
As Product Manager, reported to Vice President of Engineering. Built team of engineers (from 3 to 10) and launched new Demand Planning product (OLAP, 3-tier Client/Server, statistical & causal forecasting, workflow). Met very aggressive schedule to launch product in step with PeopleSoft release 7.5.
As Engineering Director, led 12 engineers in custom implementations of enterprise supply-chain optimization software. Led development of training courses, customization methodology, project estimation methodology.
As Project Manager, led complex enterprise supply-chain optimization software implementation projects for marquee accounts (Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, 3Com). Co-managed development of SDK for services group. -
Manager, Principle Investigator
Recom Technologies (NASA Ames Research Center)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1989 — August 1994 (5 years 8 months)
Joined group of 5 engineers/scientists in computer science consulting services project. Helped grow immediate group to 39, and entire project to 68.
Led 39 (Artificial Intelligence Research Branch), assisted in leading 68 (Information Sciences Research Division) scientists & engineers.
Also led own research group in development of software system used on Space Shuttle (real-time control of life-science experiment). Coordinated the activities of team members in California, Texas, and Massachusetts. Project won two NASA Space Act Awards. Data acquisition/analysis, rule-based reasoning, advanced human-computer interface. Previously, developed program for use with prototype Space Station. Code for real-time control of closed-loop thermal balance system. Advanced color human-computer interface, Object Oriented Design/Programming, Model-based reasoning, telemetry data acquisition & analysis. -
Engineer
IntelliCorp
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; INAI; Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1989 (2 years )
Rich Frainier’s Education
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Illinois Institute of Technology
BS , Physics
With Honors
- Activities and Societies:
- Editor in Chief, campus newspaper
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National university
MBA , Business Information Systems
With Distinction (top 10%)
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