In almost 35 years of maintenance-intensive experience, Frank has held a variety of hands-dirty maintenance positions. 

While a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) trainer with a leading software company, Frank trained over 1,200 maintenance, storeroom and purchasing personnel at 250 client companies all over North America, in Puerto Rico and in Europe.  Frank used his experience to show how a CMMS can be employed as tool to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of maintenance operations. 

During this time, Frank observed that all but two of the storerooms and tools cribs he toured were seriously disorganized, cluttered and dirty.  They more resembled landfills than places where expensive and critical spare parts were stored.  Few companies were able to easily ascertain what parts or tools they had on-hand, where they were, or what the part inventory dollar value was.

Plant, facilities and purchasing managers were desperate to find an experienced company who could clean up, organize and inventory their spare parts storerooms, and turn them from a financial black hole into a well-run, maintenance-supportive, world-class operation.

Frank decided to fill this gap and resigned his position as a CMMS trainer, directing his efforts as a private businessman to the industrial and manufacturing storeroom sectors of the marketplace.  In May of 1995, on one-month’s salary, he started IMS in the 5 x 8” laundry room of his home.  IMS became incorporated on January 1, 1996, and continues to organize storerooms for both large and small corporations and clients across North America.

In 2007, Frank earned his Certified Plant Maintenance Manager (CPMM) credentials from the Association of Facilities Engineers.