Phone (718) 701-5174

 fwdon@fwdon.com

 

 

Frank W. Donovan

261 West 21^st Street # 18

New York, NY 10011 

 

 

 

 

Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence

Rapid Systems Development in .NET, PHP, DHTML

Data Driven Web Sites

DTS, Data Warehousing & Data Marts

SQL Server / Oracle / MySQL / Access, etc.

Crystal Reports / Crystal Enterprise / Crystal INFO  / OLAP

 

Former Corporate Executive (International & Fortune 100)

Extensive International Experience (20 Years)

Former Practicing CPA Big Five (11 Years)

Truly Multilingual

 

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Recent clients have included The New York All Stars Project, SBLI, Tauck World Discovery, Pepsi Bottling, FIS (Financial Information Systems) and lesser-known organizations. Platforms have included SQL Server, Oracle, Access, Red Brick, FoxPro and FileMaker. Most have involved extensive reliance on Crystal Reports (for which I am a certified instructor) and use of stored procedures. Work for Tauck included the development of a data warehouse (AS400 DB2 to SQL Server) and associated data mart to support direct marketing efforts. The All Stars Project involves the development of a .NET n-tier event management and ticket box office system running on the SQL Server platform.

 

My career has spanned continents, cultures, diverse management and professional disciplines and always evolving technologies over more than 30 years. This began as a junior auditor struggling with the output of an IBM 1401 at Parke Davis in 1965 and continued through the Nineties in a series of lectures and articles on PC Database applications under the auspices of the Professional Association of Database Developers and the successful launch of a Database debugging product co-authored with Mac Rubel of DataBase Advisor fame. During this latter period I also postulated for Chemical Bank  “Formula Based Coding” to deal with complex financial models typical of Derivatives and other similar financial products. Documentation on the debugger and FBC can be found on my web site: http://www.fwdon.com.

 

Earlier clients since leaving the corporate world in 1982 have included Performance Dynamics, Chemical Bank, Bergen County Probation Dept.(NJ), Space Lasers (Italy), Realtime Consultants (NJ) and RP Scherer (Detroit).

 

Corporate Experience           

Entrepreneur   1982 to 1985                            

New Jersey

President and shareholder of two small companies in New Jersey. One company imported leather goods from Italy. The second provided travel-consulting services to various large corporations. Both companies were liquidated by decision of the shareholders in 1985.

 

FIAT SpA  1976 to 1982

Turin, Italy

 

1979 to 1982. Vice President of Finance and Administration, North American Automotive Operations. Duties included supervision of Data Processing operations. Played active role in negotiations with Chinetti to acquire North American rights to Ferrari, which we then incorporated under the FIAT umbrella as Ferrari of North America. I became the chief financial officer of this acquisition. By 1982 and partially at my urging, FIAT decided to withdraw from the American market, which it did the following year.

 

1978 to 1979. Special Assignment FIAT South Africa.

 

1976 to 1978 Controller of Civil Engineering Division (Turin, Italy). Three billion dollars in Construction contracts throughout the world from Nigeria to NYC.

 

JC Penney SpA  1973 to 1976

Milan, Italy

Controller/Treasurer. JC Penney Italian retail operations.

 

Peat Marwick Mitchel & Co  (now KPMG) 1971 to 1973

Milan, Italy

Manager, Audit Group

 

Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte Touche) 1965 to 1971

Detroit, Milan, Brussels

Supervisor. Audit Group

 

Education

State of Michigan 1968

Certified Public Accountant

 

Columbia Graduate School of Business 1965

New York, NY

Master of Business Administration

 

Yale University 1963

New Haven, CT

Bachelor of Arts

Scholar of the House

 

Le Rosey 1959

Rolle, Switzerland

 

The Taft School 1958

Watertown, CT.

 

 

Organizations and Professional Activities

All Stars Project

1988 to present, Volunteer

Professional Association of Database Developers

1991 to 1993. Member, Board of Directors.

1991 to 1992. Leader of NYC Fox Chapter

 

Have given frequent talks to user groups  and developers conferences in the Tri State Area and other parts of North America on various FoxPro topics, most notably on emulating multi dimensional arrays in the Screen Builder.

Published numerous articles in the Association journal. Have also written for FoxTalk.

Foreign Languages

Italian and French. Some German, Spanish.

References upon Request