Rich Frost

Current

• Global Director IS&S at General Motors

Past

• Director Software Development at Volkswagen of America
• Director of Systems Development and Delivery at gedas
• Manger, Software Develoment at Cubix

• Senior Technical Specialist at Merit Systems
• Software Engineer at Nastec

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Education

• Oakland University
• University of Michigan
• University of Michigan

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Connections

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Industry

Automotive

Rich Frost’s Experience

• Global Director IS&S

  General Motors

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

  2006 — Present (2 years)

  Global Director, Information Systems and Services,
  Advisory Board Member for CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) - SEI Carnegie Mellon

• Director Software Development

  Volkswagen of America

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

  1998 — 2006 (8 years)

• Director of Systems Development and Delivery

  gedas

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years)

  Director of Systems Development for gedas USA. This is the information technology and services company of Volkswagen of America.
  
  Responsible for building and operating the systems development and support organization for Volkswagen of America. This included building an IT organization from the ground up, in-sourcing the IT knowledge and operation from an sole source out-sourcing agreement, and building project delivery, production support, quality, and PMO organizations.
  
  Volkswagen later created an internal IT department and sold this company to Deutsch Telecom in 2006. I returned to Volkswagen the internal IT in 2003, before the sale.

• Manger, Software Develoment

  Cubix

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  1992 — 1995 (3 years)

  Manager and senior architect for remote access, clustering, and fault tolerant network products.

• Senior Technical Specialist

  Merit Systems

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  1985 — 1991 (6 years)

  Senior staff architect for devlopment of network, real-time, and fault tolerant systems. Developed ISO standards for network protocols and consulted to Fortune-50 organiztions for product strategy and development.

• Software Engineer

  Nastec

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1983 — 1985 (2 years)

Rich Frost’s Education

• Oakland University

  PhD, Systems Engineering -Computer Science, 2003 — 2006

  Dissertation focus: Disaster recovery for large scale grid computing platforms

• University of Michigan

  MS, Computer Science, 1981 — 1982

• University of Michigan

  BS, Computer Science, 1977 — 1981

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Rich Frost’s Groups:

•    Executive Suite
•    Michigan Agile Enthusiasts Group
•    SEPG Conference Series

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