Resume of
Curtis Frantz
(919) 859-2701
(919) 649-9129 (cell)
May 2006
Team Leader / Project Manager
Objective: To join a
vibrant, enlightened organization that is proud of the quality of its products,
Customer oriented, respectful of its employees, and in which I can make
considerable contributions and demonstrate leadership in the areas of project
management and as a team lead.
5/05 to 4/06: ThinkPad
Products Lenovo
As strategic
planner and planning project manager for IBM's, then Lenovo’s,
new Z-Series ThinkPad product line, I was responsible for all planning aspects
of the first 14” and 15.4” widescreen ThinkPads. These were the first of the new cleansheet family of Thinkpads
and the first to include integrated cameras, integrated WWAN, titanium top
covers and other industrial design and functional improvements. I helped design and define these products
from their pre-concept phase and was responsible for presenting these new product
plans to executives on the Integrated Portfolio Management Team (IPMT) for funding
approval.
8/01 to 5/05: Personal
Computing Division (PCD) ThinkPad Products
IBM
As
planning project manager for IBM's industry leading T-Series ThinkPad product
line, I was responsible for defining, creating and maintaining product offering
definitions and plans of record and ensuring accurate and timely announcements
for dozens of product RFAs (Release For
Announcement). These announcements spanned the T23, T30, T40, and T41 ThinkPad
families. As strategic planner for the T-Series, T and R-Series workstations,
and new ThinkPad port replicator and docking
stations, I helped design and define these products from their pre-concept
phase. I was responsible for presenting these product plans to executives on
the Integrated Portfolio Management Team for approval. I was the ThinkPad
planning representative on the PCD Customer Value Relationship Model (CVRM)
enablement team. In October 2003, I assumed strategic planner and planning
project manager responsibilities for the G-Series ThinkPad product line. I was
in these roles for four program announcements. In June 2004, I additionally
assumed strategic planner and planning project manager responsibilities for the
first of the next generation docking and ThinkPad product offerings.
8/99 to 8/01:
As System
Verification Test (SVT) lead of a 25 person cross-site (Austin / Tucson / RTP /
Yamato, Japan) test effort for the first release of Tivoli Kernel Services
(TKS), I defined the test plans, led the effort to define the SVT content, and
helped ensure our ship date would be contained even though the SVT cycle was
reduced from five months to two. I was the RTP test lead during Functional
Verification Test (FVT) and wrote test plans and automated test cases (in Java)
for TKS subsystems. I contributed to re-structuring, staffing, and educating
the test team helping it to become a high performing, high energy team. My
accomplishments include: leading TKS education sessions for more than 80 people
in information development, marketing, support, development, and test teams,
developing a test tracking tool that led to the submission of four invention
disclosures, and budgeting for and ordering the equipment to build the TKS test
lab in RTP. After TKS 1.1 shipped, I assumed team lead responsibility for
testing TKS patches. In four months in that position, we shipped six patches
containing fixes for more than 300 defects.
1/99 to 8/99: Nways Management Application
Products IBM
As Test
Team leader of the Nways Management Application suite
of products I was responsible for developing the functional, system, and
product verification test plans and test cases, ensuring their successful
execution, collecting and reporting test status--highlighting hot problems and
bottlenecks, and acquiring all hardware and software needed for test. When
function was delivered late, I executed the Deployment Manager testcases to enable all our products
to meet their planned 5/99 availability. I also ensured the more than 200
workstations and devices in our test lab were Y2K compliant. I defined and put
in place a process to ensure they remained so.
1/98 to 1/99: e-Network
Wireless and
As
Performance Team leader of the new e-Network
9/95 to 1/98: Portable Systems
Network
Architecture
IBM
Portable
SNA (PSNA) code is an implementation of the Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
(APPN) architecture consisting of more than 500 KLOC of C written portably to
run on a variety of platforms. Its development and test platform is OS/2. My
roles included team lead of the Test Technology Team (5 people, 9/95-7/96),
team lead of the Automated Regression Test Team (7 business partners from
4/93 to 9/95: Nways Switch Management
Application IBM
The Nways Switch Management Application was 70 KLOC of C and
C++ code written for the NetView 6000 platform (AIX)
to manage BroadBand Networking Services (BBNS)
resources implemented in Nways switches developed in
La Gaude, France. As one of the original two and then
final member of what had been a 12 person team, my accomplishments included:
gathering requirements, participating in the development of a "validation
of concept" prototype, creating the accounting management architecture
(OSI/CMIP based), designing, developing, and testing the accounting manager,
participating in various design, development, and review efforts, and providing
extensive skills transfer. I spent most of the time from 10/94 to 9/95 in La Gaude where I supported the team's code during product and
system verification tests, gave demonstrations of the application to Customers,
isolated test floor problems to application component, agent, or hardware, and
ran the test floor for a two week period during which we uncovered over 100
defects in La Gaude supplied code and hardware.
1/91 to 4/93: OSI Systems
Management
Architecture
IBM
As a
network and systems management architect my accomplishments included:
participated in the development of the CMIP (object oriented technology) Log
Control and Event Reporting international standards, extended the
standards to enable IBM value-add, and educated IBM network management product
designers and developers about these and other OSI Systems Management
Architecture standards. During this period I also had sole responsibility for
testing the Topology Integration Manager, a NetView
6000 utility.
9/89 to 6/92: SystemView Configuration
Management
IBM
Member of
the SystemView task force that created the technical
base for IBM's SystemView strategy and team lead for
a cross-division team responsible for defining SystemView
Configuration Management. Accomplishments included: gathered requirements,
designed, and documented SystemView Configuration
Management and participated in the high-level design and detailed review of the
other SystemView systems management disciplines.
8/83 to 9/87: SNA Management
Services
Architecture
IBM
As a
network management architect, my accomplishments included: created the APPN
management services and Centralized Network Management (CNM) architectures and
extended SNA/MS architecture particularly in the area of problem management.
09/84 to 05/91: Duke University
PhD program Duke University Durham, NC
Full-time student for two years, part-time for 5 years
working towards a doctorate in computer science with a thesis in the field of
automated theorem proving. Course work
completed (GPA 3.6/4.0) and oral exams passed, however I did not complete my
dissertation work due largely to changes in life goals.
1/92 to present: Alternate
Healthier Choices Home business
Cary, NC
Co-owner
of home business that researches life's significant decision points and
collects, synthesizes, and distributes information to help people make
alternate, healthier, choices in their lives. Co-author of the book, Have
the Wedding You Want for Less Than $500, and of the audiotape program Healthy,
Pain Free, Drug Free Childbirth.
3/78 to 9/81: Unionbank Audit Department Unionbank
Junior auditor responsible for Electronic Data Processing
(EDP) auditing.
Degrees and Awards Received
M.A. in
Computer Science from The
Personal
Married for 16 years to the former Jacalyn
"Missy" Leslie. A son, Eric, age 13, a daughter Cara, age 2. Enjoy
parenting, painting, reading, writing, learning, programming, traveling, Taekwondo (2nd degree black belt), Hapkido (1st degree black belt), street hockey, understanding
people, and problem solving.