Featured Alumni

Terry Franklin Byrum (Frank),
Chief Technology Officer, CorMine, LLC &
Chief Scientist, Bank of America Entrepreneurial Center
at Old Dominion University

Mr. Frank Byrum is a graduate of Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) where he received a BS in Computer Science (1985) with an emphasis Systems Design Programming. He will be receiving his MS in CS in December 2004.

Frank has been involved in the building of large-scale software, computing, and network architectures for 19 years. Past employers include Digital Equipment Corporation, InfiNet, GreatBridge, NetworkTwo, NorthWall, and Brooks Financial Systems.

He currently serves as CTO of CorMine focusing on knowledge management, specifically in large scale concept classification and supply chain business intelligence. Part-time he also serves as Chief Scientist of the Bank of America Entrepreneurial Center where as a technical business strategist and advisor for several startup companies. His business focus includes data mining, software development, systems and network design, security, and disaster recovery. He is also a Research Instructor for the Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences at Old Dominion University.

His strengths include software development, network and computing infrastructure designs, and security. For the last 8 years, Mr. Byrum's focus has directed technology organizations at the executive. These roles include responsible for design, development, deployment and operations of several large technology projects. While his main focus has been driven by technology, he has also played strategic advisory roles in business planning, marketing, and sales.

His background includes network and systems architecture design, research in network devices, database replication, firewall technology, software metrics, and software development. Past projects include the lead technical consultant for the design replacement of the EDHCP Veterans Administration 100 largest hospital computing and network environments; overseeing the design, deployment, and operation of a 72-PoP multiregional ISP, InfiNet, including a 3000 web site production fault-resilient server farm; running the design group for a 320+ PoP (NetworkTwo formally the ADP backbone) North American network including the redesign of an ATM backbone and numerous software research and development projects.