Dr. Frame has been a major player in project management education and training since the late 1970s. He has written eight books and more than 30 scholarly articles on the subject. His Managing Projects in Organizations (2003) is a business best seller. His most recent book, Managing Risk in Organizations, was published in 2003.
Prior to joining UMT, Dr. Frame served as a Professor of Management Science at The George Washington University (1979-1998), where he was Chairman of the Management Science Department (1988-89), and Director of the International Center for Project Management Excellence (1995-98). He also established a Master of Science in Project Management degree program at The George Washington University.
In 1999, Dr. Frame was elected to the 13-person Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI), where he helped to lead the 150,000-member organization until 2003. From 1990-1996, Dr. Frame served as PMI's Director of Certification. He was the organization's Director of Educational Services from 1997 to 1998. He won PMI's Distinguished Service Award (1994) and Person of the Year Award (1995). In 2004, he was made a Fellow of PMI.
Dr. Frame has trained more than 35,000 managers worldwide over the past two decades. He has taught technology management, project management, and general management courses at organizations such as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Fannie Mae, AT&T, Motorola, Sprint, Lucent, Boeing, IBM, and Marriott.
He holds the following degrees: a Ph.D. and an M.A. from American University, where he focused on development economics and quantitative methods; and a B.A. from the College of Wooster, with a focus on history and mathematics. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).