Stanislav (Stasa) Fritz

Stanislav Fritz 6717 46th Avenue SW Home (206) 932-2156 Seattle, WA 98136 Email: [email protected]

Summary Large and Small General Management Experience Qualifications: All aspects of Software Product Development All aspects of Corporate IT Department Management Cross Divisional Strategy and Team Management International Market Development Strategic Planning, Business Planning, Business Development

Executive Experience 2001 to Present Self Employed Retired from CCC Information Systems to focus on personal goal of writing fiction. Two books in progress.

2000 to 2001 CCC Information Systems, Inc. – Chicago, Illinois Executive Vice President Reporting to CEO. In charge of all internal IT and of Product Development. CIO reported to this position. Staff of 450. Budget of $60 million. Company produced software and services for the insurance industry. Involved in contract negotiations, outsourcing decisions, purchase and license decisions.

Heavily involved in strategic planning and growth planning.

Heavily involved in business development planning.

Interfaced with other senior executives, especially sales, to improve the technical to sales and service relationship.

CCC rolled its DriveLogic “dot com” subsidiary back into main company, impacting primarily the Product Development group.

1998 to 2000 UNIMAX SYSTEMS, Inc. – Minneapolis, Minnesota Number 4 in the Deloitte and Touche Minnesota Fast 50 Technology Companies—1999, with a cumulative 5 year revenue growth rate of over 2000%. A $4 million (revenue) private software company with 45 employees, specializing in management software for telephony devices.

Chief Technical Officer Reporting to CEO. CEO was past CTO. Brought on board to address the lack of a long term strategic plan that allows company to break free of slow profits and slow market penetration.

Primary duties included: New product area definition, proposal writing, business plan development, process definition, strategic direction, new opportunity assessment.

Solidified strategic plan focusing on Enterprise Management, Directory Services, Business-to- Business E-commerce, and tactics for market penetration. Development market analysis and business plan. Sold ideas to board of directors who approved the plan.

Created and owned the Professional Services organization: process creation, proposals, offering definition, business model.

Directly involved in face to face meetings with investment groups and corporate partners to close deals and articulate vision. Relationship building. Developed new product strategy and feasibility, including market and business analysis.

1997 to 1998 EDVIEW CORPORATION – Minneapolis, Minnesota A privately held startup Internet software & service company focusing on content for the K-12 market and Internet safety/security for that market. Loss of investment capital has caused company to restructure—technology sold to Apple Computer.

Chief Technology Officer Reporting to COO. Brought on board to take the product from proof of concept to reality. Additionally, chartered with developing life cycle strategy, diversification strategy.

Delivered commercial products within 8 months of starting on both a Macintosh and Windows platform. EdView concept was only product to ever be endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and other associations. Internet site also won the "Internet Site of the Week" from Ziff-Davis.

Delivered strategic plan for lifecycle of product, which features to implement when, and upgrade process.

Delivered strategic and business plan outlining future markets in medicine and law leveraging existing technology.

Co-developed marketing materials, such as product positioning, FAQs geared toward market, and press releases.

Co-developed strategic alliance business plans with other software companies, such as N2H2.

Managed product development, including online service and Ecommerce.

1994 to 1997 CERIDIAN CORPORATION - Bloomington, MN

A $1.3Billion (revenues) Information Services, Defense Electronics and Human Resources Management Corporation

Ceridian is the information services company that was formed out of the breakup of Control Data Corporation. Its primary businesses are focused on HR, Payroll services and software. Ceridian runs its business as a portfolio of companies with varying degrees of interaction between them.

Strategic Business and Technology Officer - Computing Devices International (CDI) Government services group. CDI was Ceridian company (recently sold to Raytheon) focusing on government services, both hardware and software. Government Services group was a “startup” within the company.

Reported to VP of Business Development. The Government Services Group was formed to investigate business opportunities across multiple Ceridian Companies aimed at the federal government agencies as they moved toward outsourcing non core businesses. Initial focus was on HR and Payroll services, with data warehousing, document management, and other services secondarily examined.

Significant portions of role were developing very high level architectures for proof of concept with government CIOs and CFOs. Deliverables included architectures and business cases for each market situation with particular US and Canadian government agencies in mind.

Tangible result was the creation and transfer of a Canadian implementation team to Ceridian Employer Services to execute the business. This unit is still part of Ceridian, post CDI sell off.

2 Director of Strategic Planning - Ceridian Employer Services (CES) Division. Reported to VP, Business Development. CES does outsourcing payroll and tax filing for a significant portion of the Fortune 500— handling billions of dollars in transactions per year. Ceridians Tesseract software is used by most large organizations that do their payroll internally. Smaller divisions concentrate on workflow and HR self service software. CES grew and continues to grow significantly through acquisitions.

Recruited from Microsoft to lead a major $150M reengineering effort for this $400M division —ran a cross divisional slice of entire organization.

Acted as a “closer” on major outsourcing deals.

Matrix managed 5 directors (marketing, sales, service, development) and acted as liaison with subsidiaries. Total of 350 reporting to project—which represented an entire cross section of Ceridian’s functional areas.

Acted as the primary liaison between senior executive management and project.

Within two months identified, and brought to the attention of senior executive management technical and business issues that were key to success or failure of project. Later in depth analysis by IBM’s consulting arm confirmed initial analysis.

Guided overall new process planning, architecture, product development, productivity enhancements, life cycle and rollout planning that survived the demise of new product line.

Acted as the CIO/MIS director during period where role was unfilled.

Developed transition plans to ensure customer base was not impacted by new technology.

Other Experience

1990 - 1994 MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond, WA

Program Manager, Advanced Consumer Technology (ACT) Group Advanced Consumer Technology Group was focused on taking new technologies from the Advanced Technology group and external technologies and creating viable products from those technologies.

Program Manager, International Systems

Responsible for the development of the Middle Eastern and Far East Windows product set.

Program Manager/Software Design Engineer-Test/Software Test Engineer, Personal Systems

1988 - 1990 INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT - Seattle, WA The institute is a non profit organization associated with the University of Washington and focuses on state level issues. Research Analyst

Performed statistical analysis of economic data including forecasting of future income trends and regression analysis, and co-wrote studies for the Office of Economic Development of the State of Washington. Co-authored studies based on analysis. Created a system of online data preceded the WWW and the now popular trend of data via the Internet.

1986 – 1988 Institute for Policy Studies – Baltimore, Maryland

3 The institute is associated with the Johns Hopkins University and concentrates on a number of national policy studies.

Research Analyst Research including survey analysis, and efficacy of various bank and mortgage programs.

EDUCATION MA - Public Administration (concentration in Foreign Policy), University of Washington, Seattle (1990)

MA - International Studies (concentration in International Business and International Political Economy), University of Washington, Seattle (1990—Completed all graduate course requirements. Degree pending language proficiency exam).

BS - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (1988)