Frank has 36 years of experience as a software developer and architect, focused on language tools, operating systems, embedded systems, data and information architecture. He was Enterprise Information Architect at American Electric Power from 2003 to 2014 and a key participant in AEP’s adoption of CIM for distribution operations, developing architectural strategy for data in flight and data storage. Frank is a member of IEC Working Group 14 and shepherded substantial new capabilities discovered in the course of AEP project deployments into the CIM standards.