Stephen Frank
Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Frank is an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer with 13 years of experience applying power systems and building controls expertise to energy efficiency challenges at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Laboratory of the Rockies. He holds advanced degrees from Colorado School of Mines and has a PhD-level research background in optimizing mixed AC-DC building electrical distribution through tailored harmonic power flow and mixed-integer nonlinear programming. Stephen’s career spans hands-on sensor and controls development, load-mode detection software, and leading building efficiency projects—from campus solar installations to iterative efficiency analysis algorithms for complex electrical systems. Based in Golden, Colorado, he blends rigorous academic modeling with practical deployment experience, often focusing on where electrical distribution topology and controls intersect to unlock measurable efficiency gains.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of MinesB.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at Messiah University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/nrelUtilityExt
Oct 2018 - Mar 2024
Missing Axon Utility Functions
Contributions:6 releases, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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stephen-frank/ac-dc-design
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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