Board / Committee / Commission Application
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Fran Quittel F
Please specify the Board, Commission or Committee you are applying for:* Economic Development Advisory Committee
I am currently a member of the above Committee, and am seeking reappointment.* • Yes • No
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RESIDENCY / EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
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Home/Cell Phone Number: How long have you lived in Emeryville? 30+ years
Place of Employment: Occupation:
retired
Business Address: City: State: Zip Code:
CA
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EDUCATION / EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS
High School:
Christopher Columbus High School
College:
Hunter College B.A., U. of Illinois M.A., Yale University M. Phil Trade or Business School(s):
I am providing my linked in profile in lieu of resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/profilefq/ Other Interests:
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ADVISORY BODY EXPERIENCE / INFORMATION
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Please list all past and current City of Emeryville advisory boards.
Budget Advisory Committee, member and former Vice Chair Volunteer and Donor, Emeryville Celebration of the Arts (I have also served on the Board of the Watergate HOA, been a member of and served as chair and co- chair of the HOA' ;s Finance Committee)
Please list any past and current board, commission or committee memberships outside of Emeryville.
YANA (Yale Alumni Non-Profit Association) and Hunter College, literacy efforts for children.
I sometimes help teach reading in schools.
Please list all organization memberships and positions held. see above
• began my career on the taculty ot Mills College as an academic in the tield ot Spanish and Latir American Literature and decided to switch into the software industry about 35 years ago. I recruited and built many successful software startups and large companies, working with senior staff to attract and retain key talent, building these organizations to leading competitive positions while creating an inclusive, employee friendly environment. This was my work. I thrived on always learning I also wrote career and business books, was ComputerWorld';s Career columnist, with interviews on Good Morning America, radio, newspapers and other media. I ran Microsoft's first Career Forum on MSNO, spoke at conferences, installed software and wrote documentation. In 2008, I was instrumental in creating a grass roots effort that in 2010 - through the final efforts of then Congressional Representative Jane Harman, wound up restoring $270 million to 9500 bank depositors by amending the Dodd Frank Financial Reform Bill. This amendment increased depositor insurance to $250,000 (up from $100,000 and applied the insurance lift in limits retroactively to January 1, 2008, when the FDIC began taking over insolvent banks, thereby effecting this massive restoration of depositor funds.
Why are you interested in serving on this Board, Commission or Committee? On a broad basis, Emeryville';s General Fund is about $50 million annually of which roughly 46% is due to these four elements: Transit Occupancy Tax, Sales Tax, Business License Tax, and Card Room Tax.
Among our East Bay neighbors, our City enjoys a positive reputation which I am keenly interested in retaining and improving. Bill Reuter who recruited me to the Budget Advisory Committee also served on the Economic Development Advisory Committee as does Dave Kritzberg currently. I want to help ensure that people who work, live, shop and establish large and small businesses here enjoy a positive, safe, thriving, forward-looking environment that will help keep our City's economy, leadership, and creativity moving forward.
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Fran Quittel
Author, The Central Park Lost Mitten Party, updated edition. (LinkedIn)
(Portfolio)
Summary
Top Skills Author of the classic "The Central Park Lost Mitten Party" - dedicated Networking to all those who love urban public parks. Transformative story Mentoring for children - and grownups - with a deep Notes section about literacy Central Park's founders, sculptures, and architects and why urban public parks are important. My signature lifetime achievement: I spearheaded a pro bono grassroots campaign which resulted in amending the Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act retroactively upping the insured limits to $250k which helped restore $270 million to 9500 depositors.
ME: Fran Quittel SF/NYC based Yale M. Phil and Hunter College B.A.; not quite retired after software industry career now working on something entirely else. Volunteer work: Served on the Board of Governors of Yale's Alumni Association and very active in my small city. Current Volunteer Work: various committees, young readers at Hunter College and & bilingual volunteer County Court translator. Strong supporter of helping kids read and the institutions that educated me.
PS: If you love reading with children, want to find your lost cellphone or just love urban public parks, "The Central Park Lost Mitten Party" is classically told wonderfully illustrated story with a deep Notes section that celebrates the history of the Park, its founders and its beautiful architecture. Selected by the Central Park Conservancy for Central Park's visitor centers, sold nationally, and at your local bookstore, the artwork incorporates the sculptures and architectural motifs of the Park into the design of the "characters" and NYC vintage mementos. Check AMAZON which sometimes offers a 20% off coupon.
Experience
Self-Employed
Non-fiction Technology and Children's Author
January 2005 - Present (19 years 8 months)
"Do you have an idea for a children's book?'
Join Author Fran Quittel as she shares the creation of The Central Park Lost Mitten Party, a delightful tale about Central Park that also celebrates the Park's iconic history, beautiful architecture and magical sculptures. Featured in Central Park's Visitor Centers, at FAO Schwarz's flagship store at Rockefeller Center, and at puppet-making workshops for teachers, parents and children, Fran's story may just inspire you to bring your very own children's story to life.
Prior book signings and workshops: FAO Schwarz/Rockefeller Center, Materials for the Arts/ (part of New York City's Cultural Affairs Department) in Queens - making art from reusables, Sun Gallery, Summer Camp.
Remember; The Central Park Lost Mitten Party creates a magical, beautifully illustrated story for whatever we lose no matter how old or where we are. If you enjoy Central Park, quintessential New York (the Rockettes, the New York Public Library, MMA, or even the MTA/Subway), you will love this magical book.
Fran Quittel & HERSELF
Willing to help out on any project needed during this extraordinary time January 1985 - Present (39 years 8 months)
San Francisco Bay Area
Love to help kids learn to read and read with grownups! By profession, I was first a university faculty person and moved into the world of technology in the software industry as a recruiter and apps sales and support person. During that time, I wrote ComputerWorld's Career column and other business non- fiction for a number of years. In 2018, Central Park brought my children's book The Central Park Lost Mitten Party - with an extensive Notes section - into its visitor centers, and I am a regular author guest at the delightful FAO Schwarz at Rockefeller Center, particularly at the Holidays. Extensive financial experience as an NASD arbitrator, years of committee experience for small city budget reviews and analysis and leading a grass roots effort that ultimately restored $270 million to 9500 bank depositors and led the FDIC to raise its account insurance coverage from $100K to $250K. I would be happy participating in or leading any reading or career advisory task needed.
I am very hands on, and understand the "high touch" that creates effective interactions.. I hope someone takes me up on my offer.
Central Park literature for children and grownups
Author/Storyboard/Historian
January 2017 - Present (7 years 8 months)
Board Member - Women's National Book Association-SF Chapter, City and volunteer committees. Ambassador, the Frances Perkins Center (FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman to serve on the U.S. Cabinet).
After a lifetime working in technology and business, I am returning to my strong academic and literary roots with a well-researched story that celebrates urban public parks with this imaginative premise: that whatever you lose in New York City and beyond goes to Central Park for a wonderful nighttime fiesta before magically returning home. Richly annotated, a great read for anyone who loves kids, reading, making art from "lost and found" and Central Park. A great gift for anyone who loves New York, the history of Central Park and its founders, and the art of creating "transformation" wherever you are. One idea I had was to incorporate the architectural elements of the Park into the design of the "characters". You'll recognize the famous trefoil from Bethesda Terrace in the Wizard's Gown and Gothic Bridge in the pink/red mitten and maybe the Rockettes Hats as well as vintage NY objects: NYPL library card, old subway tokens, the MMA metal button.
Sportvision
Recruitment Lead
September 2011 - January 2016 (4 years 5 months)
Mountain View, CA
Located in Mountain View, CA this Emmy Award-winning company is a great place for technology professionals with strong content management, software engineering, database and Q/A backgrounds PLUS a keen interest in sports (baseball, football, hockey, the Americas Cup.) After all, who doesn't know that famous "yellow line?" Our challenges involve taking large amounts of data from multiple video feeds, enhancing, analyzing and adding to it and sending it out to fans, teams, etc.
Sportvision openings are listed on linkedin at:
Key positions: Sr. Systems and Data Architect, Quality Assurance, Software Engineer (Augmented Reality), Software Engineer (Motorsports)
www.yourcareer.com - frances quittel, inc.
Principal
2000 - January 2016 (16 years)
I applied my background rich in language and literature, plus the ability to learn, research, write and communicate, to work successfully in the software industry recruiting and building companies and installing and documenting software. I created and ran the Career Forum on the Microsoft Network (MSN), wrote ComputerWorld's Career Column, and also hav writtenbusiness non-fiction on the subject of technology - and other - careers, I added key staff to many small and larger organizations on busy trajectories. Working with fascinating CEO's, COO's and other key staff, I love everything | learn...
Beautiful application of the ability to learn, work and contribute, as well as share that knowledge with others.
FDIC pro-bono recovery of $270 million for 9500 depositors (July 2010)
Group founder and co-leader
July 2008 - September 2011 (3 years 3 months)
In the spirit of what is now called "Occupy Wallstreet," successfully advocated to add an amendment to Dodd Frank that restored $270 million in bank deposited funds to 9500 depositors whose accounts were debited by 50% of their funds on deposit in 2008 thanks to OTS and FDIC failures to supervise.
Created a website and workplan; recruited grassroots team leaders and led marketing and other major functions; interacted with Congress, the Treasury, OTS, FDIC and IRS. Created news releases, determined their distribution, and constantly updated journalists interested in the FDIC's functioning.
Conducted constant research; analyzed reports, depositions and testimony.
Effectively attracted the attention of Rep. Jane Harman to add an amendment to the Dodd-Frank consumer financial reform bill which restored in full the funds of 9,500 depositors whose accounts had been debited by 50% over the then existing insurance limit of $100,000 by making the new limit of $250,000 retroactive to all banks taken over in 2008.
TV show re: successfully adding an amendment to the Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act. This story is told on youtube:
Centro LLC,
Recruitment Lead/ Business Partner
February 2007 - September 2009 (2 years 8 months)
CENTRO, LLC is a fast-growing aggregator of local, online, interactive advertising. My responsibilities include growing this company across all sales, marketing, customer support, technical, campaign and account management, and administrative functional areas on a national basis, while implementing a recruitment infrastructure, including the applicant tracking systems component.
As the company began to productize its technology platform, I re-wrote and revamped the recruitment website to function more accurately to support the CTO's technology/IT functions and other growing areas.
IndyMac Bank
Systems Project Manager
January 2004 - May 2006 (2 years 5 months)
I am a business journalist and also a systems and staffing/recruitment person.
On the journalism side: Computerworld columnist, various contributing columns, The IT Career Guide for New Grads (Prentice Hall), FirePower! (10 Speed Press), etc.
In addition to being an applicant tracking systems project manager, on the staffing side, I grow young companies, principally in the online space. Starting with recruitment for MSN, I implement and manage multiple long-term in-house projects for clients incuding AIGFA, CTB/McGraw-Hill, IndyMac Bank, ArcLight Systems, NetManage, MyPoints, Ditto, and Microsoft CityScape, Set Top Box and MSN divisions, Kaiser Permanente, and Sybase.
CTB McGraw Hill
1 year
recruitment lead
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
recruitment lead
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
MyPoints.com
Recruitment Lead (contractor)
1999 - 2000 (1 year)
Computerworld
Columnist
1996 - 2000 (4 years)
Microsoft
MSN forum manager and recruitment lead
1992 - 1997 (5 years)
Recruitment lead for engineering, software development, product support, and product marketing talent for Set Top Boxes, CityScape, and MSN. Created and ran the first Career Forum on MSN. Worked at Microsoft on campus in Redmond and also remotely. Team lead, trained junior recruiters.
Education
Yale University
M PHil
Hunter College
B.A.
Hunter College High School
B.A.
Hunter College
B.A.
Hunter College
B.A.