User:FrankShines

Frank Shines (1963 - ) is an author, management consultant and former U.S. Air Force officer who worked with IBM, Ernst & Young, Express Scripts and Pilgrim Software.

Frank Shines was born in Redwood City, California in the center of Silicon Valley to Franklin Shines, Sr. and Vanessa Stroud.

The Stroud family are recognized throughout Colorado for their pioneering achievements in academia, engineering, business, the arts and public service.

Frank graduated with honors from Cascade High School in Everett, Washington near Seattle.

Cadet Shines earned a Presidential Appointment (President Ronald Regan) to the U.S. Air Force Academy where he studied leadership and engineering, learned to fly and trained and competed with Olympic athletes.

Captain Shines was stationed at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona, McClellan Air Force In California and spent time at Lajes Air Field in the Azores Islands, and at bases in Germany and South Korea.

Following his departure from the military, Frank lived in Brazil for a year working for a Brazilian economist and lawyer. Upon his return to the U.S., Frank Shines worked at Westinghouse Motor Company near Austin, Texas and traveled the world as a management and technology consultant with Ernst & Young, IBM and Pilgrim Software.

Frank is currently employed at RTI Surgical, a tissue and biologics company. He holds a BS in Management from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA in Marketing Statistics from National University of Sacramento.

He has been published by John Wiley and Sons and is the author of two other books, the most recent, Let in But Left Out: Leadership, Faith and Knowledge in the Age of AI, Coronavirus and Fake News. He is the family spokesperson for the Colorado College Stroud Scholars, named in honor of his great aunt and uncle, Effie and Dolphus Stroud (Sachs Foundation Scholarship recipients and 1928 Olmpic Trials).