Frank has more than twenty years experience in software management, technical consulting, and software engineering. As a technical consultant, Frank has performed technical analysis relating to antitrust issues, copyrights, trade secrets, and patent infringement. In addition, he has conducted numerous software patent studies, portfolio analysis, and prior art searches. Finally, he has served as a technical consultant in several high-profile litigations.

Prior to technical consulting on legal cases, Frank was the Director of Development at Terisa Systems where he managed all aspects of the company's security-protocol development. Before that, Frank held several software-engineering positions at ParcPlace Systems, including Manager of Internationalization and Team Leader of the core Smalltalk engineering group. Frank received his M.A., Mathematics, from the State University College of Arts and Science, Potsdam, NY and his B.A., English from the University of Texas.