Sheryl Franklin, President,
Franklin Communications Services,
has been in the computer and information systems industry for over 20 years.
Ms. Franklin began her career as a mainframe computer programmer, first with
Metropolitan Life in Scranton, PA and then with First Pennsylvania, Bank in
Philadelphia, PA. After several years, she moved into the consulting field
with the national firm Software Design Associates.
Ms. Franklin was quickly promoted from the technical ranks into management,
then sales and finally as the Philadelphia branch manager. Software Design
Associates was acquired by AGS Computers, and then by NYNEX. Ms. Franklin
ran the Philadelphia branch for a number of years, supplying customers with
the appropriate technical consultants. Main clients were Bell Atlantic and
DuPont.
In 1995, Ms. Franklin became one of the founding partners of
Franklin Communications Services,
an Internet Service Provider providing Web Site Services globally, and
Internet Access locally to the Western New York area.
Quite a number of sites designed & developed by Ms. Franklin have won
awards and recognition, including recognition from the Microsoft homepage for her personal
Sherlock Holmes site. This particular site has received international critical acclaim from fans of the genre.
In March 1999, SciFi Weekly named her
Star Trek Women Site it's site of the week.
In 1997, Ms. Franklin became one of the founding partners of
FranklinMall,
a retail storefront for home & garden on the web, as well as
DomainRegister.com,
an online domain name registration facility. In 2000, DomainRegister.com was named a Premier Gold Partner of Network Solutions.
In 2000, she founded DomainRegistrationWeb.com and was named a partner of Register.Com.
That same year, she founded HomeGardenMall.Com . As an 'e-shopper' herself, Ms. Franklin created this site (based on her own e-shopping experiences) to provide reliable categorized shopping links to other 'e-shoppers', saving them hours of search-engine searching.
In 2001, Ms. Frankin again partnered with Network Solutions. This time to provide customers an affordable, easy way to build websites with Image Cafe
Ms. Franklin is a Dale Carnegie Sales graduate, a member of
NAWBO
(National Association of Women Business Owners) and has been listed in
Marquis' Who's Who
since 1989.