Frank Moss has made significant contributions to the development and implementation of Cloud and Edge computing solutions. His innovations include the design and implementation of IBM’s first cloud offering called SmartCloud Enterprise, the CDE for General Gregory Touhill (Retired) at USTRANSCOM, and, most recently, the inception and implementation of Lumen Edge Cloud. During his tenure at Lumen, he served as a founding architect for Lumen’s Edge platform. He and three colleagues devised ways to put environment tolerant compute at every stop from last mile, through internet backbone on a global scale. This diversity of compute and scale required novel solutions to support a myriad of use cases. Moss’s innovations to solve for those use cases brought about novel ways to compose hardware, intelligently reroute network traffic, and incorporate AI into Operations; (as well as multiple other pending patents).

For over two decades, Moss has been an inspiring leader. Through challenging times, he has fostered a culture of collaboration and teamwork. He is highly respected by colleagues and clients for his ability to listen to all sides of an issue, weigh options, and synthesize workable solutions that drive business success. His philosophy of servant leadership, reasonable forward-thinking design, and rightsizing solutions keeps projects in check. His peers have opined that

“he has demonstrated an exuberance and wealth of knowledge for his profession that is unparalleled”

and “[he] delivered significant value in helping Lumen outline the necessary infrastructure and operations architectures related improvements”.

“has been a formidable leader when it comes to overcoming challenges and fixing issues within teams”

Moreover, his extensive experience spans multiple industries, from finance to healthcare, and he has worked with some of the world’s largest deployments. His philosophy of rational spending, knowledge building, and rightsizing solutions is highly effective in keeping projects on track and delivering value to clients. He is as comfortable in engineering pits as he is in board rooms and is known for his ability to relate complex ideas with ease.

Over his career, his work has been entrusted with brand responsibility by the likes of IBM, AT&T, Lumen and SPAWAR. Moss’s contributions in his field have reached not just governments and enterprises, but also into households across the world by designing infrastructure used by companies such as Amazon, AT&T, Zoom, and Subaru. Overall, Frank Moss is an experienced and accomplished architect with a proven track record of success in driving business growth and profitability through innovative solutions.

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