David S. Frankel

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David S. Frankel (born 1950) is an American information technology expert and consultant known for work in model-driven engineering and semantic information modeling. He earned a BS in Mathematics and a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the 1970s he developed software tools for HP 2100 mini-computers and became a senior Programmer-Analyst. In 1982 he became an independent consultant, helping build LAN-based database applications. He has served as an Enterprise Architect for several companies and was Lead Standards Architect for Model-Driven Systems at SAP Labs in California from 2005 to 2012; he has worked as an independent consultant since then. He has long been a member of the Architecture Board of the Object Management Group (OMG). In 2003 he published the influential book Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing.