About Bob, Manufacturing Systems, and History
This
home page now serves as a personal page for Robert Schuldenfrei. For an audio introduction, please click on this MP3 link. This same introduction will be found here as
a multi-media
Windows movie. While this
is always going to be a work-in-progress, there is a certain sense that we are
now in "production mode". The most important information will be
found right here on the home page. Use the links or the navigation buttons on
the left to find other items of interest.
Since the above
multimedia movie was produced, I have really gotten involved with sound and
light. Here is a sailing
resume that I hope will induce boat owners to invite me
aboard.
On February 10, 2010 I
gave a presentation to the Civil War Roundtable. It is reproduced in two forms below. The first is as a Microsoft Windows movie
with narration. The second is a .pdf
file in text and pictures.
Presentation material as a movie (big files, long loading time):
· First third of the presentation as a Windows movie.
·
Second third of the presentation as a
Windows movie.
·
Final third of the presentation as a
Windows movie.
Presentation material as a .pdf file.
I have returned to an
old hobby, photography. It has turned it
into somewhat of a pseudo career. This
work is under the sponsorship of the Palm Beach County Adult Ed program. While I am not being paid very much, it is in
a way “work.” If the truth be known, I
would do this for free. There are now
two courses.
The first course is
digital photography. The first six week
course ran at Forest Hill High School from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on Thursday evenings
in the fall of 2006. Each session is 90
minutes long. The course is titled: “How To Take and Display Great Photographs.” To view a poster for this class follow this
link. To download the
class slides for the class navigate to the Photography page.
The second course, that
alternates semesters with the first, is titled:
Photoshop Elements 7.0, How to
Manipulate and Print Great Photographs.
My teaching notes for this course can be found in Notes.htm. The slides for each lesson can be found in
compressed format on the photography page.
I am starting to display
some of my work on this site. Please
push the “Photography” navigation button or follow this link to the photography
page.
About Bob, the
family, and Palm Beach, FL:
I have started a multi-media project.
It is a biography of William H. Schuldenfrei, my father.
Chapter 1: Dad
discovers Kodachrome. The first chapter
is about 11 minutes long.
Chapter 2: A Young
Family. This chapter is about 25 minutes
long.
Chapter 3: Turia. This chapter is about 18 minutes long.
Chapter 4: Summer Camp and
Travel. This chapter is about 23 minutes
long.
Chapter 5: Schuldenfrei
Discovers Europe. This chapter is about
29 minutes long.
Chapter 6: The glory years
of the early 1960s. This chapter is
about 37 minutes long and is a large file.
For a brief biography in resume style, please link to my bio. For a presentation of my
capabilities, please link to my presentation.
At the suggestion of a reader, please find provided a jump table of sites I
find interesting.
The Schuldenfrei family home page can be found at this reference:
A gallery of changing Schuldenfrei
information.
Follow this link to the Schuldenfrei family tree.
There is now a website for the condo in which we live; the Patrician.
In September of 2008 there was some beach damage. Click here for the erosion south of our building.
My daughter Rachel has taken a full time position at the Round-House
Theater Company.
An excellent family story is the Klondike adventure of
Solomon and Rebecca Schuldenfrei.
My wife, Patricia, is working for
News from S. I. Inc.:
As a major project I have been spending a fair amount of time acting as the senior business advisor to Veeda Software, LLC. Veeda (www.VeedaSoftware.com) is a startup software company. They have their headquarters in Newton, MA. It is the creation of Hendrick Melo. I met Mr. Melo a year before moving to Palm Beach, FL. It is interesting to note that this company is in a position very similar to that of S. I. Inc. circa 1981. That is not to say that nothing has changed since 1981! The state of the art has certainly changed, but the business issues remain constant. Marketing, accounting, finance, administration, etc. remain challenges for any small organization. All of these functional areas of the firm need attention and I have been very gratified to do my bit to see that Veeda Software continues to grow.
Some of the engagements we have done in the recent past include doing marketing research, sales force automation, customer relationship management, and business policy work with Serino Associates. My clients have been mostly Fortune 500 firms in these engagements. In the late nineties S. I. Inc. did new product roll-out consulting for Navision Software of Atlanta, GA, now part of Microsoft. After that engagement I was involved with a VAR organization, Shamrock Software, Inc. The focus of this work was to write a handbook on project management. This substance of this material was how to manage a team of consultants who were implementing packaged and customized accounting systems. I am continuing to develop and generalize this handbook. If anyone would like more information about this handbook, please contact S. I. Inc. at the address given below. Robert Schuldenfrei has worked on a project for High Tide Software from the summer of 2003 until moving south in the spring of 2005. The work was market development for the Wellesley, MA firm. High Tide is making the transition from a board level systems programming house to a full line software company. Their web site is found at www.hightidesoftware.com.
S. I. Inc. has sold MCS-3 to Maxom Enterprise Solutions of Boothbay
Harbor, ME. We will still be a reseller of MCS-3, but the owner of the product
is Maxom. Sadly, as of the end of the year 2002, Maxom seems to be out of
business with their web site closed down.
Since I have sold off my interest in MCS-3, I can now pursue interesting engagements in computer based manufacturing planning and control. If I can be of service, please contact me using information located at the end of this page. The last formal issue of the WORKS was the summer 2005 issue. It can be found below.
The Summer 2005
issue of the WORKS is now out.
Click on Winter 2003 for
the first issue in the current series.
The Spring 2003 was the
second of the modern issues.
The Summer 2003 issue of the WORKS is here.
The Fall 2003 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Winter 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Spring 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Summer 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Fall 2004 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
The Winter 2005 issue of the WORKS can be found here.
For additional
information:
bob@s-i-inc.com
Phone: (561) 582-3340
Or send USPS mail to:
S. I. Inc.
3450 So.
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