Frank is a licensed architect and an experienced leader within all areas of building construction and construction management. For over two decades Dr DarConte had served as a senior construction management executive with full leadership responsibilities providing pre-construction and construction phase services for both private and public sector clients at a regional and national scale. Complex building programs have been constructed under a variety of delivery methods for the successful completion of more than $1billion of diverse projects including K-12, higher education, industrial, commercial, institutional, sports facilities, and multi-family housing.

Dr DarConte holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering where he is a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering. His teaching assignments include the graduate level construction management capstone, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution. Dr DarConte is also a Principal Investigator for the New York University, C2SMART Tier 1 UTC Research Consortium. An advocate of “Project First Thinking”, Dr DarConte brings to the Hughes Energy Group an extensive practice-based and theoretical expertise in construction project delivery focused on the building of collaborative, high-performance teams. Project team alignment process models resulting from his research at NYU Tandon have been utilized by the State University Construction Fund and the Metropolitan Transit Authority as team building and risk management tools.