Rob Richard

Current

Director of Retail Websites at Furniture First
Managing Member at Futurity, LLC (www.futurityllc.com)

Past

Senior Sales Engineer at Xtiva Financial Systems
Senior Sales Engineer at Tacit Software
Senior IT Consultant at Delta Development Group

Founder & CTO at Cogent Business Applications
CTO at SendSecurely.com
Senior Sales Engineer at MapQuest.com / AOL
Project Manager at KnowledgeSoft
Senior Developer / Project Manager at Ajilon
Support Analyst at Continental Medical Systems
Security Police / Special Response at US Air Force

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Education

Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University

Recommended

12 people have recommended Rob

Connections

184 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

www.robrichard.com

Rob Richard’s Summary

Richard is currently the Director of Retail Websites for Furniture First, a buying coop for approximately 170 independent furniture stores across the country, and is responsible for the web technologies that members use.

Before joining Furniture First, Richard was a Senior Sales Engineer for Xtiva Financial Systems in New York, NY. Richard provided sales support and marketing strategy for the suite of commission, licensing and billing software from Xtiva, all focused on the financial services industry.

Prior to Xtiva, Richard was a Senior IT Consultant at Delta Development Group. In this role, he worked closely with clients to define and create value-added IT solutions. Richard also consulted and helped clients define strategic initiatives and long-term plans for leveraging information technology.

Richard endeavored into entrepreneurism when he founded Cogent Business Applications, a company that developed and marketed a web-based content management solution targeted to sales organizations, designed to decrease sales cycle times and increase sales volume.

In the 1990's, Richard was heavily involved in software and application development, creating innovative and value-added solutions for many clients. Richard also worked to help companies analyze and re-engineer many of their key processes, based primarily on his ability to analyze a situation, create a solution, and continually seek excellence. Richard specializes in development environments from Microsoft, including ASP .NET, MS SQL Server and Windows servers. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Richard earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Pennsylvania State University, as well as a B.S. in Information Systems, also from the Pennsylvania State University, both with honors. Richard is a United States Air Force veteran having served during Operation Just Cause (Panama) and Operation Desert Storm.

Rob Richard’s Specialties:

Business and management consulting, process improvement, web development, strategic planning, real estate investment, marketing.

Rob Richard’s Experience

Director of Retail Websites

Furniture First

(Furniture industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Furniture First is a buying coop for approximately 170 independent furniture stores across the country. As Director of Retail Websites, Rob is responsible for the web technologies that members use, from a centrally-managed website and content delivery system to Web 2.0 tools to help drive traffic and business to member stores. Rob is responsible for the strategic direction of the department and the overall tactical execution of the overall plan.
Managing Member

Futurity, LLC (www.futurityllc.com)

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Real Estate industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

Real Estate holding firm which manages and maintains a growing portfolio of residential properties in the Central PA area.
Senior Sales Engineer

Xtiva Financial Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Provides close sales support and marketing strategy for the suite of commission, licensing and billing software from Xtiva, all focused on the financial services industry.
Senior Sales Engineer

Tacit Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — November 2007 (11 months)

Supporting sales and marketing efforts of Tacit Software's (www.tacit.com) products, including ActiveNet and Illumio (www.illumio.com), which were both subsequently acquired by Oracle.
Senior IT Consultant

Delta Development Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 4 months)

Rob Richard is a Senior Information Technology Consultant at Delta Development Group. In this role, he works closely with clients to help identify, create, implement, and refine useful and value-added information technology solutions. Richard also consults and helps clients define strategic initiatives and long-term plans for leveraging information technology in order to maximize the benefit to the client.

Richard specializes in development environments from Microsoft, including the latest .NET development framework and Windows 2003. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
Founder & CTO

Cogent Business Applications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 10 months)

Cogent Business Applications was a small company that developed and marketed a web-based content management solution targeted to sales organizations, designed to decrease sales cycle times and increase sales volume.
CTO

SendSecurely.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years)
Senior Sales Engineer

MapQuest.com / AOL

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — February 2001 (4 years)

Provided critical sales engineering support globally for MapQuest.com services and products.
Project Manager

KnowledgeSoft

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)
Senior Developer / Project Manager

Ajilon

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1997 (4 years)
Support Analyst

Continental Medical Systems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years)
Security Police / Special Response

US Air Force

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

June 1988 — February 1993 (4 years 9 months)

Operation Just Cause (Pannama) and Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War I)