David S. Frankel (born 1950) is an American Information Technology expert and consultant, known for his work on model-driven engineering[1][2] and semantic information modeling.
In 1982 he started as independent consultant participating in the development of Local area network-based database applications.
He was Enterprise Architect for several companies, and was Lead Standards Architect in the domain of Model-Driven Systems at SAP Labs in California from 2005 to 2012, and independent consultant ever since.
Frankel has been on the Architecture Board of the Object Management Group (OMG) for a long time.
[5] In 2003 he published his most cited work "Model Driven Architecture: Applying Mda to Enterprise Computing."