Frank J. Mitropoulos, Ph.D. has over 30 years of experience in the computer science and information technology fields. He earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and has worked both in industry and academia. Frank has taught hundreds of courses at the university level to thousands of both undergraduate and graduate students in both offline and online modes. Frank has also taught dozens of professional seminars for private corporations such as Motorola, IBM, GE, American Express, Logica, and many others. In addition to his teaching experience, Frank also worked for 12 years in industry doing both application, compiler, and operating systems development as well as project management.