This is the present archive for the Job Seeker columns written from 2002-2008 by Patricia Frame.

About Patricia Frame

Author, Job Seekers Column

Patricia A. Frame is an experienced human resource consultant and executive. She has had a wide range of management experience in high technology organizations, including: organization development, employment, process restructuring for productivity, compensation, training, and the human resource aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. She also has administrative and international management experience.

Patra established the human resource function at three companies and facilitated the strategic planning process at several. She is known for her ability to address business goals and issues effectively and to create human resource management practices which support the organization's goals. She has advised senior management and boards of directors on a wide range of personnel issues.

Ms. Frame is the founder of Strategies for Human Resources, a consulting firm specializing in meeting the human resource strategy and management needs of growing technology-based companies. Previously, she was Director of Human Resources for Best Programs, Inc., a private PC business applications software company. She established the human resource function for Maxwell Online, Inc., a private international software and online services firm, where she was Director of Human Resources. At Software AG of North America, Inc., she created a proactive human resource function for this public, high-growth, systems software company. Patra also held several management positions with General Electric's Aerospace Business Group and was a Consultant in organization development and compensation with an international management consulting company, A. T. Kearney, Inc. She began her career as a Personnel Officer in the United States Air Force in various domestic and international assignments.

Patra has been a seminar leader and guest speaker for a wide range of organizations from national conferences of the Special Libraries Association and the Information Services Human Resources Association to local professional and community groups. She has taught courses and seminars for the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and Wharton.

She holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA from Purdue University. Her extensive additional professional education includes university seminars such as University of Michigan's Organization Development and Babson College's Executive Seminar in Managing Rapid Change, and on-going professional associations' activities. She has held local and national offices in various human resource associations, arranged and chaired national and regional conferences, and published articles in professional journals.

She can be reached at patricia@dcwebwomen.org.

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