About Bob, Manufacturing Systems, and History
This home page now serves as a
personal page for Robert Schuldenfrei. It once was the home page for my
company, S. I. Inc. Most websites have an "About" page where
the author tries to give a reason d'ętre for the site's existence. While
I do not have a separate page for this, consider the next paragraph a vehicle
for my philosophy. I am fully retired so it is not likely to change any
time soon.
I have retired in fact, but not in spirit. My tag line is: "I now do for fun what I once did for money." To tell the truth, I do a lot more now for fun they I ever did for money. My late father William Schuldenfrei often said: "At the end of days you are not sorry for the things you did that did not turn out as you had hoped, but sorry for the things you could have done but did not do." He lived his life true to this dictum and I think I am living mine the same way. As you read this website's narrative I hope you will understand me and perhaps learn a little bit about yourself.
I came late to the table
of multimedia. The next few paragraphs
depend on the new media as I have been playing "catch up." 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
website is always going to be a work-in-progress, there is a certain sense that
we have been in "production mode" for about ten years. 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.
As the video sailing
resume explains I have had a love affair with sailing.
While we no longer own a sailboat we are active members in the Hillsboro Inlet
Sailing Club (HISC). We have been invited out on a number of member's
boats and I hope that the video will induce other boat owners to invite Pat and
me aboard.
After attending an event
put on by the iSchool at Syracuse University I am starting to learn about
social media. 
Click here to go to my Facebook
page. As an alternative you can click
the Facebook icon on the right. My
interest in social media is to learn how to develop tools and techniques that
can be employed by organizations to better market their services. As a test-bed for these concepts I use the
Syracuse University Alumni Club of South Florida (SUACSF). Because I am the webmaster
it is easy for me to do so.
To test out another
facet of social media I have learned how to use YouTube. The sailing resume can now be found there too. The introduction to the Schuldenfrei family
tree is a YouTube video.
The Civil War Round Table of Palm Beach County has a new website that can be found at www.CivilWarRoundtablePalmBeach.org.
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 series of nine YouTube
videos with narration. The second is a
.pdf file in text and pictures.
Presentation materials as a series of YouTube videos:
· Segment 01 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 02 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 03 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 04 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 05 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 06 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 07 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 08 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
· Segment 09 of the presentation as a YouTube video.
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. Two courses have
been developed, however, only the first one continues.
The first course is
digital photography. The first six week
course runs at Forest Hill High School from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on Tuesday
evenings. 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 no
longer runs as it was too much like work for an adult ed course. It was 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.
Chapter 7: Family
milestones. This chapter is about 23
minutes long.
Because the above videos take so long to load, I have broken each chapter
up into smaller segments. These are on
YouTube. Please note that you cannot
just click on the following hyperlinks as they can’t open in “frames.” Open these items either as a new window or
new tab.
Chapter 1: Part
1, Part
2
Chapter 2: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3
Chapter 3: Part
1, Part
2
Chapter 4: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3
Chapter 5: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4
Chapter 6: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4
Chapter 7: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3
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 Social Committee of 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 my former company, S. I. Inc.:
I am back doing work for Tony Serino and his renamed firm Serino Channel Service. Most of my involvement relates to Tony's website and general social media development.
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 had intended to be a reseller of MCS-3
after the sale. Sadly, as of the end of the year 2002, Maxom is out of business with their web site closed down
and no way to contact the principals.
Since I have fully retired I no longer do work for money. I do however do work for fun. If I can be of service please feel free to give me a call. We published a newsletter for S. I. Inc. 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:
Robert Schuldenfrei
3450 So.
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