James Hartwell Frame

1928 (age 69)

Chicago, United States

His long and distinguished career in software development management, began with International Business Machines Corporation during the early days of System 360 development, continued as the first Director of the International Business Machines Corporation Santa Teresa Laboratory in Silicon Valley with responsibility for all programming language development, and culminated at International Telephone And Telegraph where he was vice president heading the software division and became one of the early champions of software quality metrics as a solution to the reliability problems plaguing the industry. Following his corporate career he founded a successful consulting business, James Frame Enterprises (Journal of Farm Economics), specializing in assessments and recommendations for improving software development methodologies for corporate clients in the telecom industry. Frame was educated at Saint John"s College, Annapolis, Doctor of Medicine, where he served on the Board of Visitors and Governors.