Carl Frappaolo

Current

Co-founder and Principal at Information Architected, Inc.

Past

Vice President Market Intelligence at AIIM International
Founder and EVP at Delphi
CEO at Conversion Technologies

Product Marketing Manager at PSDI
Product Manager at Honeywell Bull
Educator, Consultant, Sales at Henco Software

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Education

Western New England College School of Law
SUNY Buffalo

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Carl Frappaolo’s Summary

After a career in the litigation support industry, Carl became a certified Cobol, Fortran, Assembler and PLI programmer. This led him to a career in database design. He was a pioneer in application design, development and instruction in RDBMS.

After several years in sales, sales support, technical support and product management, Mr. Frappaolo founded and was CEO of Conversion Technologies, one of the first companies to develop automated products to help organizations migrating from 3rd generation programming languages to 4th generation languages.

Carl then founded the Delphi Group. He was fundamental in establishing this firms market research, consulting and education practices. He designed the knowledge management, information and workflow process solutions (including information architectures) for many Fortune 1000 and branches of state and federal government offices around the globe.

After Delphi was acquired by Perot Systems, Mr. Frappaolo staid on for three years, until leaving to establish the AIIM Market Intelligence division, within AIIM International, where he created the AIIM Market IQ series. After a year at AIIM, he founded another consultancy, Information Architected.

He is the author of four books on electronic document management systems and knowledge management: EDMS: A Portable Consultant, Smart Things to Know About Knowledge Management and ExecExpress on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management.

Carl had presented the keynote address at hundreds of industry tradeshows, user conventions and national and international symposium.

Carl Frappaolo’s Specialties:

Project management, knowledge management, knowledge audits, information architecture, interviewing, process design, needs assessment solution design, executive education, keynote presentations, business process redesign, outsourcing, management consulting, portal design

Carl Frappaolo’s Experience

Co-founder and Principal

Information Architected, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

Founder and Principal of this consultancy focused on the intelligent use of content, knowledge and processes to drive innovation and thrive in a digital world. We provide market research, education and strategy consulting to facilitate the successful creation and leveraging of business practices such as:

* Business Intelligence
* Collaboration
* Compliance
* E-Discovery
* Enterprise Content Management
* Information Architecture
* Innovation Management
* Knowledge Management
* Market Intelligence
By strategically positioning technologies such as:

* Business Process Management/Workflow
* Content Security
* Document Management
* Electronic Records Management
* Email Management
* Enterprise 2.0 (wikis, blogs, mashups)
* Findability (Taxonomy, Navigation, Search)
* Imaging
* Metadata
* Portals
* Social Media
* Taxonomy
* Web Content Management
Vice President Market Intelligence

AIIM International

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Head Market Intelligence division of this industry association. Provide market research, analysis and consulting to providers and users of information, knowledge, innovation and process management systems.
Founder and EVP

Delphi

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1988 — May 2007 (19 years 1 month)

Founder of Delphi Group. Carl heads up the business/technology managment consulting practice.
CEO

Conversion Technologies

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

April 1987 — May 1988 (1 year 2 months)

Founded and developed the software provided by the organziation. Conversion Technologies, one of the first companies to develop automated products to help organizations migrating from 3rd generation programming languages to 4th generation languages.
Product Marketing Manager

PSDI

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1987 — May 1988 (1 year 3 months)

Managed and promoted the relational database component of PSDI’s project management software. This included the ongoing management of the VAR relationship with Oracle Corporation, whose Oracle RDBMS was the foundation of the PSDI offering.

- Provided yearly budget and business plan.
- Managed business relationship with Oracle.
- Established marketing programs, contributed to the development of marketing collateral.
- Conducted sales presentations and sales training
Product Manager

Honeywell Bull

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year)

Managed and promoted the entire line of RDBMS and Document Management products offered by this systems solutions provider. Developed a strategic new direction for Honeywell Bull in the area of Document Management and became the lead spokesperson for the corporation with regards to its offerings in this area.
Educator, Consultant, Sales

Henco Software

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1983 — 1985 (2 years)

Within my three year tenure with this provider of RDBMS and Document Management software tools, I quickly grew in stature and responsibility. This provided me with experience ranging from group presentations/training to high-level sales and personnel management.