Mr. Frank Otero is the Founder, President, & CEO of PACO Technologies, an international consulting firm that specializes in providing Program Management and Construction Management services to the transportation and infrastructure field.

 Mr. Otero’s accomplishments include initiating a strategic initiative to advance the awareness of the benefits of configuration management to the engineering and construction industry. As the industry’s pioneer and leader, he has successfully developed a methodology based on the principles of configuration management that when formally implemented and integrated into the project management process has proven to mitigate the impact that design and construction contract changes have on cost overruns, schedule slippage, claims, and litigation avoidance.

Mr. Otero was appointed to the Board of Directors representing the Business Member Board of Governors of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), a national and international trade organization whose mission is to advocate, strengthen and improve public transportation; and was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Transit Cooperative Research Program, an organization responsible for authorizing and overseeing over $10 million annually in transportation research grants; and executed a formal collaborative agreement with Rutgers University Voorhees Transportation Center to jointly conduct research and further the advancement of Configuration Management at both the academic and industry level. Mr. Otero is a fellow at Rutgers University and a lecturer on configuration management.