Rich Frost

Current

Global Director of Systems Development 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

210 connections

Industry

Automotive

Rich Frost’s Summary

Senior IT executive experienced in transforming complex, global, IT departments into high performance delivery organizations. Demonstrated record of technical leadership, systems development, project delivery, IT Strategy, and business leadership to drive innovation, reduce costs, and deliver on short and long term objectives. Extensive experience leading all aspects of IT organizations (development, delivery, outsourcing, operations, budgeting, finance) in a variety of industries. An action oriented, high energy, strategic leader with the demonstrated ability to contribute broad-based perspectives, envision pragmatic IT solutions, and build cross-functional teams to deliver business results.

Rich Frost’s Specialties:

- Leadership, IT Strategy, Organizational Development, and Budget Management
- IT-Business Alignment, Business Innovation, and Process Optimization
- Application Development, SDLC, Enterprise Architecture, Project Delivery, Call Center, and PMO
- Global Sourcing, IT Acquisition, and Contract Negotiations & Management
Domains: Manufacturing, Retail, COTS Product Development, Marketing, Financial
Expertise: SaaS, SOA, OOD, ERP, Web 2.0, CMMI, ERP, COBiT, Sox, Agile, Lean

Rich Frost’s Experience

Global Director of Systems Development

General Motors

(Public Company; GM; Automotive industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)

Global Director of Systems Development, IS&S,
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; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years)

Director of Systems Development for gedas USA. This is the wholly owned IT company of Volkswagen AG.

Selected to create a new systems development and support organization for Volkswagen of America and transition all IT work to the new organization. Upon completion, transitioned back into executive IT leadership at Volkswagen.
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

Additional Information

Rich Frost’s Groups:

Executive Suite
University of Michigan Alumni
CIO Forum
Michigan Agile Enthusiasts Group
CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
SEPG Conference Series
EVC Leaders - Practitioners of IT Economic Value Creation (Only for CIOs, IT & PMO Managers)