Education
He specialized in systems and control engineering, and in 1994 received his Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis entitled "Control system design for walking neuroprostheses.".
He specialized in systems and control engineering, and in 1994 received his Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis entitled "Control system design for walking neuroprostheses.".
Franken received his Master of Arts in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Twente. After graduation Franken started as researcher at the Telematica Instituut, where from 1996 to 2001 he participated in the Testbed research project to develop a virtual test environment for business processes. In 2001 he founded BiZZdesign with Harmen van den Berg and Harm Bakker In 2001 to 2003 he was also Enterprise architecture consultant for the International Netherlands Group Group.
Since 2009 he chairs the The Open Group ArchiMate Forum, a working group that guides the further development of the ArchiMate modeling languages.