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Over his 27 year information technology and management career, Frank has held various executive management and consulting positions ranging from City Government to Retail Management. His background includes deep experience in IT outsourcing, network and systems management, configuration management, design and implementation of network security software, system acquisitions and conversions, technology infrastructure design and implementation. His leadership with these organizations has produced valuable results, cutting costs, improving customer satisfaction, and substantially improving internal processes.
Frank founded F. Schumacher Business Solutions llc, with the unique needs of small businesses as the primary focus. By leveraging Frank's depth of experience in IT, a small business can outsource the technical aspects of their IT management and equipment acquisitions, allowing them to focus their expertise on the income producing aspects of their business.
Before starting F. Schumacher Business Solutions llc, Frank was President and Chief Operating Officer for Gerdt Furniture and Interiors, Inc., a multi-location fine furniture retailer. Frank managed the implementation of a new integrated inventory, accounting and CRM system. Prior to his tenure with Gerdt, Frank developed a scheduled IT equipment renewal plan for small businesses that leveraged use of off-lease equipment scheduled for short cycle replacement implementation. By using only the second half of IT equipment life cycles, businesses were able to slash their technology hardware budgets by 50% to 75%. The resulting efficiencies permitted increased training and software budgets to attain increased productivity.
Frank began his IT career while serving as the Director of Planning for the City of Franklin, where he introduced personal computers in the management of permitting and subdivision control. The resulting efficiencies allowed the local government to increase State and Federal reimbursement for road maintenance, resulting in a 100% ROI in the first year of implementation. It was this experience in IT that lead Frank to start his first venture geared specifically to the use of personal computers in small business. Soft-Temp, Inc. founded in 1984 developed financing applications, and later merged into Data Connections, Inc., which provided network design and implementation services, as well as, the software applications.
As Data Connections began working with the K-12 education market, Frank realized the current security of network and PC operating systems was insufficient for the specialized needs of the educational environment. Frank led the design and managed the development of an application interface, marketed as LANClass, which allowed teachers and administrators to control the applications presented to students, and to keep the students from accessing administrative data.
Frank is a published author, contributing to various industry publications in the 1980s and 90s, and as a contributing author to QUE corporations “Using NetWare 3.12”. Frank has received sales and technical certifications from various vendors over the years, including IBM, Gateway Communications, Bernoulli, Novell, Microsoft and many others. Over the years, his clients have included: Green Owens Insurance, Gerdt Furniture & Interiors, City of Franklin, GM Truck and Bus, Allison Transmission, Federal Mogul, Indiana Bell, Merchants National Bank Indiana, and K-12 School Districts from New Hampshire to California.
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