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We are search engine professionals with
wide ranges of experience and a network of consulting associates and excellent project success rates. The
principals take a hands-on approach to every project. We will develop innovative
search solutions with you, and we pride ourselves on being agile and quick to market,
taking advantage of the most appropriate technologies to guarantee that
your business adapts quickly and thrives.
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Barry Freindlich - President, Chief Executive Officer
Barry brings comprehensive knowledge to Raritan Technologies from 25 years of experience in information technologies.
Starting as a Developer and Database Administrator, Barry moved into other areas of Systems Integration: Systems Analysis, Design, Architecture, and later, Project Management.
In recent years, Barry has continued to deepen and broaden his expertise in Search and KM and has initiated several "pre-packaged solutions" and products at Raritan. On the business side, Barry has initiated partnerships for Raritan with
Autonomy/Verity, Endeca, FastSearch and Tranfer,
Google, Microsoft, IknowLLC, New Idea
Engineering and with Factiva to pursue common goals. At Raritan Technologies Barry promotes a team based approach that encourages knowledge sharing and re-use of components, fosters on-time and on-budget solutions for Raritan customers.
As Project Manager at Blueflame Inc., Barry and his team designed and managed a library sciences search engine for the HW Wilson Company. With
Raritan co-founders, Barry continued the successful venture with HW Wilson as their charter client, focusing on sustaining and improving profitability while delivering cutting-edge solutions.
At AT&T for 18 years, Barry earned awards for saving AT&T several million dollars annually on mission-critical financial and billing systems.
His responsibilities included system and software requirements analysis and design, client communication and training, system support, as well as budget management and supervision of development teams.
Barry has a BA in Economics from Queens College and an MBA in Information Systems from Pace University.
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Ted Sullivan -
Vice-President/Chief Architect
Ted has over 20 years of experience in a diverse
range of information technologies. His
background includes biomedical research,
mathematics instruction, developing military
planning systems, and numerous eBusiness
solutions. As Chief Architect, Ted
is responsible for keeping Raritan Technologies
at the forefront of search related technologies
(e.g. KM, CMS, collaboration tools,
classification, entity extraction and search
tools).
He brings to this role considerable experience
in systems research and development. In this
role Ted is the architect of the Raritan Search
Integration Framework Toolkit.
Before becoming a co-founder of Raritan, Ted
was a Senior Java Architect for Blueflame Inc,
where he was responsible for designing the
critical application/security code for the HW
Wilson Company's new bibliographic Web system.
He developed several innovative approaches to
combining Java and eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) in Web systems (incorporating Java3D and
VRML). Ted designed sophisticated collaborative
systems for the US Army used in planning and
mission deployment. He also developed
specialized software for the education, medical
insurance, and pharmaceutical industries. At
Raritan, Ted is the chief architect for the
framework suite. This toolkit uses factory
patterns to instantiate configurable components
using an XML file. This approach is very
lightweight and fosters reuse of component code
for many projects.
Ted received a BSc from Cornell University
and a PhD from Washington University. Following
post-doctoral research in neuroscience at the
California Institute of Technology, he joined
the Biology Department at Princeton University
as an Assistant Professor. His
scientific research
focused on the brain mechanisms of
sound perception, which led him to develop
sophisticated computer software for data
acquisition, analysis, and neural network
simulations.
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William S. Ellis - Chief Operating Officer,
Financial Officer
Bill has more than 20 years experience in the design, development, implementation, and support of information systems. His
expertise includes many Enterprise Search tools, the development of client/server and Web-based systems using relational databases, networking, UNIX development, UNIX system administration, Oracle development, and Oracle database administration.
As a senior System Administrator, Bill supervised the allocation and monitoring of system resources and developed backup, recovery, and restoration strategies. He has been a developer of a wide variety of financial applications (with Quality Assurance functions) that included financial reporting, budget planning, corporate journals, billing, and order entry, and, additionally, developed a corporate reporting system that provided configurable databases and tools to different departments. At Raritan, Bill is the recognized expert in building
and tuning Search collections and with the
Enterprise Search tools in general. He has been instrumental in helping major pharmaceutical companies implement
Raritan Search applications successfully.
Bill has a BSc from Kean University in Computer Science, and did post-graduate coursework in all major programming languages and operating systems, with additional training in networking, packet switching, and database development.
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Jeff Laughlin - Vice President
As VP at Raritan Technologies, Mr.
Laughlin works in a variety of
capabilities as the situation dictates,
including: (i) Product Definition and
Marketing, (ii) Business Strategy,
(iii) assisting in raising funds from
traditional equity and debt financing
sources; (iv) modeling the key financial
and operational metrics of a business or
particular segment of a business; and
(v) selling and developing OEM and other
distribution channels for the SIFT
framework and vertical applications.
Mr. Laughlin was one of the
co-founders of Commerce.TV and served as
Chairman of the Board of Directors. His
primary responsibilities included:
fundraising; investor relations; and
negotiating strategic agreements for the
interactive TV software and services
provider. Starting in December 1999 and
ending with the sale of the Company’s
assets in 2002, he secured capital in
the form of equity and debt in excess of
$80 million. A sample of the companies
that invested in, and/or executed
strategic agreements with, Commerce.TV
include: Citigroup; Motorola; Insight
Communications; Adelphia Communications;
Open TV (Liberty Broadband); ESPN; Starz
Encore; New England Partners; Scientific
Atlanta; Worldgate Communications; Audax
Ventures; Centre Partners; Sandler
Capital; Davenport Capital Ventures;
Liberate Technologies; and DRW Ventures.
Prior to forming Commerce.TV, he was
one of the co-founders of Open
Development Corporation (ODC) where Mr.
Laughlin and three partners started the
telecom software company in 1993 with
$3,000 in cash and a lot of good ideas.
They then grew to over 140 employees and
more the $15 million in profitable
revenue by the end of 1996. The
Company’s first five financing events
were accomplished by creative
bootstrapping without raising any money
through an equity offering. At the end
of 1996 they closed a Series A financing
in excess of $12 million that was, at
the time, the largest private equity
financing in Massachusetts. This was
the only formal round of fundraising
that the Company would need. Less than
a year later the Company was acquired
for $51 million in cash. A sample of
the companies that executed strategic
agreements with ODC include: GTE
Communications; GTE Wireless; GTE TSI;
Nortel; Pacific Bell; Alltel; Cellular
One; AT&T/Allestra(Mexico); Frontier
Communications; Telecom of Jamaica;
Cable & Wireless; Harris; Intervoice;
and Glenayre – who ultimately acquired
the Company.
Prior to forming ODC, Mr. Laughlin
spent the previous decade as an
entrepreneur and in sales, marketing and
software development roles in the
database, transaction processing and
telecommunication software industries.
He started his first company in 1983,
ABC Software, where he spent two years
working as a software developer. He
also worked as product manager and
salesman/sales manager for several
companies that were acquired, including
Voicetek Corporation, GBI
Communications, and CTI Call
Technologies, Inc. Mr. Laughlin has a
BSBA in Computer Information Systems
from Northeastern University.
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