Mark Frazier

land (734) 327-4761

cellular (630) 258-6840

 

mark@solvtech.com

FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY

Strategic Planning: Evaluate organization's situation and goals to recommend plans for marketing, development, procurement, technology, staffing and partnership.
Fit Analysis: Compare current technology to organization needs and assign priorities to findings.
Requirements Gathering: Design and direct requirements gathering activities. Gather requirements using forms, interviews, support requests.
Project Management: Staffing, progress reporting, profit / loss responsibility, writing business plans, making formal presentation, training, contract negotiation, interfacing with other teams.
Systems Architecture: Recommend and design software development architecture such as multi-tiered client server, web based technology, data warehousing or distributed objects.
Sales & Marketing: Create and deliver presentation, analyze competition, assess customer motivation, manage accounts, develop business, close sales.
Industries: Total (16 years), Business Systems (8 years), Manufacturing (4 years), Commercial Software (6 years),
Financial (2 years), Health Care (1 year)

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Languages: Visual Basic 3, 4, 5 & 6 Enterprise (7 years); C (8 years); Visual C++ 5 (2 years); SQL (5 years); HTML (2 years) Lotus Script (1 year)
Databases: Oracle 7,  MS-SQL Server, MS-Access, Lotus Notes, Andyne GQL
Platforms: MS-Windows 3.1/95/NT (7 years); UNIX (8 years), HP-UX, SunOS, BSD, Linux
Technologies: ODBC, OLE, DAO, ADO, RDO, MCI, DLL, OCX, ActiveX, Active Server Pages (ASP), MFC, DCOM, COM, CGI
Methodologies: Use Cases, UML, RAD, VITAL, SDLC, OOD, OOP, N-Tier Client/Server Design, XP
Software: FrontPage, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, PVCS, Source Safe, Exchange, Outlook, Rational Rose, Visual Modeler, Visio, Lotus 123, Interdev, Peachtree, Corel Draw, Netscape Navigator

EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY

Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Windows 95, Visual Basic 4.0
Lotus Notes Certified Courses Application Development I & II, System Administration I & II
Graduate Studies Attended University of Michigan pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering 1991 - 1992
Bachelor of Business Administration Graduated Cum Laude with a Major in Management Information Systems from Cleary College, Howell, MI, 1991
Associate of Science Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Major in Computer Science from Oakland Community College, Farmington, MI, 1989
EXPERIENCE
Solvtech, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Howell, MI

6/94 - Current

CEO

Founded the consulting firm in 1994 to offer high level expertise in software development. Heavy emphasis on web based technology. Customers are commercial software vendors and corporate information systems departments and investors in software ventures. Serve in an executive and technical role.
  • Create and deliver sales and informational presentations for technical and executive audiences.
  • Negotiate contracts with clients, vendors and business partners.
  • Exercise financial responsibilities including accounting, cash flow and maintaining a 40.6% operating margin.
  • Perform sales and marketing duties including determining marketing focus, advertising, image and strategy, account management and business development.
  • Determine staff requirements and exercise final hiring approval.
  • Assist consultants and customer in assessing solution approaches based on technical and non-technical considerations. Assist in gathering requirements and performing fit analysis. Correlate tactical and strategic decisions.
  • Direct teams to design, develop and implement solutions.

Specific projects include:

  • Directed a nine member team of consultants and client's staff in developing the architecture for the Immigration & Naturalization Service's enterprise wide n-tiered client server finger printing system. Project direct budget exceeded $1.5M. Personally responsible for eliminating $3M in waste.
  • Directed a team designing a corporate Internet/intranet/extranet for Clark Hill, LLP. The system improved utilization of resources across the five regional offices.
  • Designed and developed web based business to business system for Chicago Rawhide Serves to allow vendors directly manage inventory and order fulfillment to reduce inefficiency.
  • Served as subject matter expert on business management to BrainBench.com, authoring the on-line exam for certification in general business management.
  • Designed and developed KempFlex Internet/intranet application for Scudder/Kemper Mutual Funds, providing customers access to their plan data, lowered maintenance costs, and improved user interface over the existing internal mainframe application.
  • Established and wrote the corporate policy on Visual Basic & ASP Development for Alliance Food Services. Created standards for programming, training, installation and usage. All the documentation was published on the corporate intranet.
  • Appointed acting CEO by founder of Innovative Devices, a specialty electronics company, to develop international marketing strategies and new products for the mass market.

Additional clients: IBM-ISSC, Union Pacific Railroad, LogicCorp, Charles Schwab, Sybase, Genstar, MacroMedia, Martec Group, Scudder/Kemper Mutual Funds, ABN Amro Bank.
Visa International, Belmont, CA

2/95 - 6/95

Independent Consultant

Developed an IBM / NT client server data warehouse and tools for analyzing Visa Gold Card transaction information.
QuadraMed, Larkspur, CA

9/94 - 1/95

Independent Consultant

Contracted by CIO to lead team in creating the MS-Windows version of ClaimStar, which was the leading Electronic Data Interchange software for medical billing at the time. I expanded the project to allow the company to sell data analysis services in addition to the original software. The improved design reduced maintenance costs and provided two additional revenue sources.

Served as architect of the entire system including a specialized scripting language & compiler, Visual Basic front end & C++ back end with a distributed SQL client server architecture.

Spectrum Holobyte, Alameda, CA

4/94 - 10/94

Independent Consultant

Designed and developed a platform independent 3D distributed processing virtual reality engine and application programming interface (API). The API allowed new games to be created in half the time. First use of the API was "Top Gun, Fire At Will", a multi-media fighter pilot simulation. Additionally, the API will be used in Falcon 4.0.
Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA

2/94 - 6/94

Contract Engineer

Implemented a corporate wide on-line news service with real time satellite feed. News articles are filtered using full text searching. Selected articles are automatically e-mailed to subscribers. Used HP-UX, MS-Windows, C, Korne Shell, AWK, Perl, Topic Real-Time & Lotus Notes

Coordinated with first implementation of Web technology.

Hewlett Packard, Santa Clara, CA

7/93 - 10/93

Contract Engineer

Standardized HP-UX UNIX /X window server administration at Santa Clara Site.

Performed system support and final implementation for real time automated assembly line. System developed on a HP-UX UNIX SQL client server database with MS-DOS, MS-Windows & Allen Bradley PLC clients. Wrote embedded SQL/C tools. Wrote documentation.

Visual Database Systems, Scotts Valley, CA

12/92 - 7/93

Contract Software Engineer

Designed and maintained interactive Laserdisc multi-media systems and software used world wide. The system was the only point-of-purchase kiosk system that directly increased sales for Nintendo.
SMPS USA, Ann Arbor, MI

5/92 - 12/92

Independent Consultant
Assisted international consulting conglomerate established US software service branch.
Thuridion Software Engineering, Scotts Valley, CA

5/92 - 8/92

Contract Software Engineer
Developed commercial Microsoft Windows application for clients including Norton Desktop for MS-Windows, CoStar Label Maker, Prodigy, PowerMouse.
Apple Computer Company, Cupertino, CA

1/92 - 5/92

Graduate Intern
Performed analysis and development of prototypes for a client server data warehousing executive information system (EIS). Solution required clear migration path from VMS to UNIX.
  • Developed prototype using Pªblo, an internal Macintosh On-Line Analysis Processing (OLAP) tool, Andyne's GQL, a graphical SQL generator, and VAX Ingres. Wrote Macintosh and VAX based programs for reformatting data imported from AS/400. Created hyper cubes using MacDSS. Designed data model.
  • Presented functioning prototype to management team including performing live data warehouse queries routine and in response to from audience requests.
  • Contributed to VITAL, an n-tiered client server information system development methodology.
  • Developed and presented technology briefing that led to protocols such as  CORBA & ActiveX.
Air Gage Company, Livonia, MI

5/90 - 6/91

Software Engineer
Developed 3D Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) Statistical Process Control (SPC) systems. Worked with mechanical engineers, machinists, technicians, sales people and customers from requirements gathering through installation and support. Customers included Ford Motors, General Motors, Nissan, Saturn, Dana Corporation, Caterpillar and other manufactures world wide.
WALTOM Services Inc., Pontiac, MI

12/88 - 7/89

Consulting CFO
Converted an industrial cleaning company from a cash accounting & paper based office system to accrual accounting system and computerized office. Duties included analyzing and auditing paper based system to ensure proper accounting procedure, supervising and training staff of three, evaluating and purchasing software.
Custom Computer Products, Farmington Hills, MI

9/86 - 1/89

Lead Programmer / Partner
Manage three programmers developing a 2.5D adventure gaming system. Developed a scripting language and interpreter for game design. Promoted to partner within 1 year.
SoftPort, Inc., Brighton, MI

12/84 - 9/86

Programmer
Developed DMR, a commercial Statistical Process Control system. Wrote the interrupt driven communications of DMR in Pascal and BASIC. Wrote command interpreter for DataMyte data collectors.