Franklin E. Powers Jr.

Franklin E. Powers, Jr. serves as the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since March 2023 and holds the position of Senior Software Engineer at Beeline since April 2019. Prior experience includes working as a Software Developer at Olive Software from 2013 to August 2018, where Franklin developed and maintained custom applications for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire using Objective C and Java, as well as web services in C#. Franklin was also a Software Developer/Business Analyst at Avaya from February 2008 to August 2012, contributing to custom libraries and system software. Earlier experience includes a role as a Software Developer at Echostar from April 2007 to February 2008, focusing on system and development tools in C and Java. Franklin holds an Associate of Science and an Associate of Arts from Arapahoe Community College, as well as a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Denver.