Brian Frank
Science and Technology Studies and Computer Science graduate from Cornell University. Last worked as Group Product Manager at Adobe Systems Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Industries: | Computing, Food and Drink, Internet, Media, Mobile |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Human-Computer Interaction, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public speaking |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Schools: | Cornell University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Adobe Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Group Product Manager |
| Time period: | September 2005 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Products: Flash Lite, Mobile Applications & Services (i.e. - Photoshop.com Mobile)
• Manage Mobile Applications & Services team, responsible for multi-million dollar product line and the development of the business plan, strategy, pricing, partnerships, customer accounts and go-to-market for mobile applications • Lead strategic and product planning for future mobile applications & services, coordinating with the executive management (VPs, GMs, etc.) across business units and presenting direction to CEO & COO. • Developed product plans, managing several releases of Flash Lite, the Flash rendering engine for mobile and devices, growing business from < $25 mil to > $75 mil, and now shipping on 100s of millions of mobile and CE products. • Launched Flash Lite for BREW, enabling the first, wide-scale, North American ecosystem for Flash Lite developers, with Qualcomm & Verizon. Developed business plan, product requirements, strategic alignment across companies and content partnerships to ensure an end-to-end solution for developers. |
| Employer: | Palm, Inc. (palmOne & PalmSource), Sunnyvale, CA |
| Position: | Senior Product Manager |
| Time period: | December 2002 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Products: Platform Apps, PIMs, Palm Desktop, Outlook Conduits, Install CD
• (PalmSource) Led mobile phone platform applications strategy including researching market direction, addressing customer and mobile carrier requirements, and developing the Vision, Roadmap, and MRDs to communicate to internal teams as well as to customers, carriers, and analysts • (Both) Developed vision for core mobile applications such as Phone Applications, PIMs, data synchronization, and the “out of box” experience for the Tungste, Zire & Treo product lines, used by roughly 10-20 mil users worldwide • (palmOne) Directed product initiatives from concept to launch, effectively gathered consumer and enterprise product requirements and prioritized feature development, using market data and customer feedback, to deliver award-winning products (See “Awards & Media”) |
| Employer: | Eazel, Inc., Mountain View, CA |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | May 2000 - February 2001 |
| Description: | Products: Innovative OS UI for Linux
• Managed cross-functional teams developing innovative desktop UI and integrated Internet-based services to improve the Linux operating system • Developed product roadmap, and served as a spokesperson for communication directed to development community, partners and press |
| Employer: | bCandid Corp., Boulder, CO |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | May 1999 - April 2000 |
| Description: | Products: Hosted USENET, Discussion Server, B2B Transaction Server
• Directed product lifecycle plans, including P&L for multi-million dollar ISP services business, maturation of highly scalable server software, and transition to B2B middleware products • Coordinated sales and marketing efforts, leading to improved awareness of products, features, and utility of services offered |
| Employer: | Trilogy, Inc., Austin, TX |
| Position: | Program Manager & HCI |
| Time period: | May 1998 - May 1999 |
| Description: | Products: Sales Force Automation Suite, Opportunity Management System
• Established standards for “look and feel” of enterprise-class software, meeting customer and user expectations for high-quality eBusiness software • Created methodologies for user testing, market analysis and data collection, to aid in product marketing and development |
| Employer: | MicroContent, Inc., Ithaca, NY |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | November 1997 - March 1998 |
| Description: | Products: Handheld Application, Desktop Application, Synchronization Conduits
• Championed creation of new business initiative to capitalize on prototype aimed at revolutionizing the transport of Internet-based data to handhelds • Built product and services roadmap, executed on well-researched strategy, negotiated business relationships with partners, and managed release of product to customers |
| Employer: | Microsoft, Inc., Redmond, WA |
| Position: | Program Manager (Intern) |
| Time period: | April 1997 - October 1997 |
| Description: | Products: Excel 2000, Excel 2000 Web Component
• Designed innovative user interfaces for selecting and editing cells that proved to increase user interaction times with Excel by 7x (See “Awards & Media”) • Developed and conducted user testing to improve software design across a wide range of Microsoft Office products |
| Employer: | Intel, Inc., Hillsboro, OR |
| Position: | Product Manager (Intern) |
| Time period: | April 1996 - July 1996 |
| Description: | Product: Intel Internet Phone
• Organized marketing campaign for the Intel Internet Phone, a best-of-class, standards-based VoIP product • Established partnerships and direction for product launch, targeting Internet-based gaming, virtual worlds and collaboration services for exciting technology demonstrations |
EDUCATION
| University: | Cornell University |
| Time period: | 1993 - 1998 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BA |
| University: | Cornell University |
| Time period: | 1998 |
| Degree: | Science and Technology Studies, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Patents: | Microsoft Excel 2000 user interface design, Microsoft, 1997, Patent #6,549,878.
“System and method for editing a spreadsheet via an improved editing and cell selection model” |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | • SIGCHI
• Cornell Entrepreneur Network |
| Awards: | Top 100 Products for 2003 –
Tungsten T3, Tungsten E PC Magazine Best of the Year 2003 – Zire 21 PC World Top 10 Products of 2005 – Treo 650 2007 Developer.com Wireless Dev Tool of the Year – Flash Lite 2 2007 VGA Mobile Innovation Award – Flash Lite |
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