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This section highlights some of my favorite projects over the course of my career.

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2023

Reading Coach Preview
This project is a Windows desktop application that helps students improve their reading skills. Students are able to select a character, location and reading-level, and Generative AI will create a fun
Reading Progress Prosody
Reading Progress is a feature of Microsoft Teams for Education. Reading Progress enables students to independently read aloud, record themselves, and grow their reading skills while allowing educators
Sudoku Senshi
Sudoku Senshi is the first app that I developed using .NET MAUI. It is 100% cross-platform and runs on Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android. The idea behind the app is that it helps users learn new strateg

2022

Reading Progress
Reading Progress is a feature of Microsoft Teams for Education. Reading Progress enables students to independently read aloud, record themselves, and grow their reading skills while allowing educators
Immersive Reader Relay
The Immersive Reader service is available in many Microsoft applications and is also available for integration with 3rd-party products. As the 1st-party Microsoft products are transitioning to our new

2021

MathSpeech
Originally, the Immersive Reader used RichEdit to convert Math-to-Speech. This solution was dependent on Windows and would not work as our solution as we migrated the Immersive Reader to run in Linux
Immersive Reader Kubernetes Container
In this project, we ported the Immersive Reader to run in Linux Containers under Kubernetes. The most challenging part of this migration is that we needed to remove all dependencies on Windows and in

2020

Natural Language Tools Port to .NET Core
The Immersive Reader service helps users with reading comprehension. Its functionality includes highlighting words based on Part-of-Speech (Nouns, Verbs, etc.) and helping users understand how to pron
Immersive Reader Cognitive Service
In this project, we took the popular Immersive Reader feature from Microsoft Office and turned it into an Azure Cognitive Service that could be used by third-party applications.

2019

Learning Tools Translation
In order to support students who are learning new languages, I worked on a project to add Bing Translation for more than 40 languages to the Immersive Reader. Users can click on a Word and see a trans
Learning Tools for Math
In 2018, the Learning Tools team wanted to bring the power of the Immersive Reader to students who need help comprehending math equations. (For example, students who might have Discalculia.) On this p

2018

Next-Generation Learning Tools API (LTApi)
In preparation for supporting an Immersive Reader application that could work without internet connectivity, I was tasked with refactoring the existing web-based application and removing dependencies
Learning Tools Language Detection
Humans are excellent at recognizing different languages (English, German, Chinese), but unfortunately, computers are not! For users who speak multiple languages, they can easily open any application (

2017

Learning Tools App Service for Edge Browser
In 2017, the Microsoft Edge browser team approach the Learning Tools team to investigate if they could bring the reading and literacy benefits of the Immersive Reader to the Edge browser Reading View
Learning Tools for OneNote UWP
In 2017, I joined the Learning Tools team and my first responsibility was to integrate the Immersive Reader feature into the OneNote UWP application. Immersive Reader is a document reading experience

2016

Microsoft Classroom
In 2016, I worked on the Microsoft Classroom preview product. Microsoft Classroom was designed to take the capabilities of several popular products such as SharePoint, OneDrive and Office, and make th

2015

Office Mix
In January, 2015, I joined the Office Mix team at Microsoft. Office Mix is an add-in for PowerPoint, that provides rich capabilities for educators, particularly K-12 and higher-education. Office Mix e
Snip
In 2015, the Office Mix team decided to create a new, enhanced screen capture and story telling tool called Snip. Snip was unique because once the user took a screen shot, they could easy add voice co

2014

Project Dewey Designer App
The Project Dewey Designer App is a desktop application that is designed to allow users to quickly targeting Microsoft training to employees with specific roles in the company. This application is a n
Project Dewey Services
Project Dewey was developed as a collection of services that would standardize access to Readiness content that across several internal Microsoft Systems. The Project Dewey Designer App was the first

2013

Transcript Reporting Engine
The Transcript Reporting Engine (TRE) was a massive rework of an existing system that consolidated the training records for Microsoft employees. The new TRE was able to recompute all training records

2012

Role Guide App for Windows 8
When Microsoft first introduced the world to Windows 8 and the Metro interface, we took a look at the series of training portals that we had linked together and decided that we could create a much bet
L&D Services 3.0
This was the third release of L&D Services. L&D Services is a web service layer that we built on top of the several back-end systems that we use at Microsoft to manage training. By providing a
Gear Up to SharePoint Converter
Gear Up is an excellent resource that Microsoft provides to its Sales Team and Partners that provides a high-level overview of all of the products and services that Microsoft offers. On this project,
Learning Content Search Indexer
Microsoft has a wealth of excellent training content that we develop for our employees. In this project, our goal was to make this content easily discoverable when users performed an intranet search w

2011

Sales Readiness Planner
My department at Microsoft develops an excellent range of training for our Sales, Marketing and Services employees. To help kick-off the 2012 Fiscal Year, I helped develop a visual roadmap that employ
L&D Services 1.0
L&D Services is a web service layer that we built on top of the several back-end systems that we use at Microsoft to manage training. This abstraction layer enables us to quickly build custom user

2010

Activity Analyzer
The Activity Analyzer project was designed to recalculate the roll-up of a massive quantity of training records and determine class capacity, certification completion and employee transcripts. The Act
Embedded Readiness 1.0
The idea behind the Embedded Readiness project was to the CRM application that our Sales Team uses to manage Sales Opportunity and to provide a panel that would show the user training material that wa
Gear Up to SharePoint Converter
Gear Up is an excellent resource that Microsoft provides to its Sales Team and Partners that provides a high-level overview of all of the products and services that Microsoft offers. On this project,

2009

Silverlight E-Learning Player
In 2009, I joined the team that is responsible for training the 40,000 Microsoft employees that work in Sales, Marketing and Services. Our department develops more than 400 courses a year. The templat
MovableType to SharePoint Blog Converter
For this project, my client was a large industrial manufacturing firm that had been experimenting with blogs as a modern way to allow engineers to share ideas and best practices in an ad-hoc way. Much

2008

Confluence to SharePoint Wiki Converter Prototype
Similar to the MovableType to SharePoint Blog Converter that I created, the same client was interested in migrating Confluence Wiki content to SharePoint. Unfortunately, the approach that Confluence u
SharePoint Analyzer Tool
In this project, I created a tool that analyzes a SharePoint 2007 installation and creates a detailed usage report. This tool reports items that are created, modified and viewed with various time hori
Web Log Analyzer
On several projects, I’ve had the need to analyzer a large amount of Web Log data. Sometimes, I need to generate reports and other times, I need to incorporate the results into data that I can analyze
Service Offering Training
In 2008, I was asked to help develop training for Microsoft Business Partners who wished to provide Enterprise Search and Enterprise Portal & Collaboration Service Offerings to their customers. Th

2007

Extranet Business Portal
In 2007, I helped a Pacific-Northwest Truck Manufacturing company migrate their Extranet Business Portal from Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This
Business Entity Components
In 2006, my company began a large migration to three-tier architecture based on Microsoft .NET. A key component of the strategy included the migration to an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) engine. By
Fern Life Center Website
In 2006, a close friend opened an Ayurvedic medical and spa practice called Fern Life Center (http://www.fernlifecenter.com/). To help support her new business, I designed and implemented her website.

2006

ASP/JScript to ASP.NET/JScript.NET Translator
I was the lead architect on an enterprise, commercial product that was based on Active Server Pages; however, we chose to use JScript.NET as our programming language on the server. While many companie
TenDots Website
In 2006, I briefly considered pursuing a business partnership opportunity with an existing company that develops high-end financial software. The company was named TenDots (http://www.tendots.com). Du
Interfaith Voices of Youth Website
In 2005, I began volunteering as an Adult Facilitator with a non-profit organization in Bellevue, WA named “Interfaith Voices of Youth” (http://www.interfaithvoicesofyouth.org/). This group provides a

2005

High Performance Business 1.0
The High Performance Business application is a high-end tool for corporate financial professionals to compare the financial trending of companies in terms of normalized metrics representing Consistenc
Shareholder Value Analysis 5.0
In 2005, I was hired as a consultant to provide architectural guidance on the upcoming release of Shareholder Value Analysis 5.0 (SVA). My efforts were focused on user interface, performance and quali
SumTotal Localization Tool
The SumTotal Suite is an commercial, enterprise product line that is globalized into 20 languages. As the product line grows, there is a recurring cost to translate new features. In 2005, I developed

2004

SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.0
In 2004, Click2learn merged with Docent to form a new company named SumTotal Systems. Together, they merged their products to create the most complete suite of e-learning products named the SumTotal E
SumTotal 7.0 Web Services
I was the Lead Architect and Program Manager for the SumTotal 7.0 Web Services team. This was the team’s first Web Services project and the team was responsible for developing the .NET architecture th
Personal Homepage 2004
My personal homepage (https://wfry.net/) is a place for me to experiment with new libraries of code. The majority of my site is generated from either XML or a database. Many of these experiments resul

2003

Mickpark.net 2004
In late 2003, I redesigned the website of a local artist, Mick Park (http://www.mickpark.net/). Mick’s site is now maintained through XML and is generated via XSLT. The graphics are scaled and grouped
Aspen 2.5
Aspen 2.5 was the most challenging and rewarding product releases that I have had the pleasure to work on. In Aspen 2.5, I developed two technologies that enable the engineering team to seamlessly dev
Aspen Database Installer
The Aspen 2.5 Database Installer was one of two inventions that I developed to ease the delivery of applications on SQL Server and Oracle. The Aspen Database Installer used an XML notation to define t
Spanner
In Aspen 2.5, we were faced with the challenge of increasing performance by using stored procedures while needing to maintain compatibility with both SQL Server and Oracle. The process of developing s
Aspen 2.1
The Aspen 2.1 release focused on globalization the product into 8 languages: English (U.S.) English (U.K.) French German Spanish (European) Spanish (South American) Italian Japanese During this releas

2002

Aspen 2.0
Prior to Aspen 2.0, our product line consisted of both desktop applications and web-based interfaces. Some administrative functionality was only available in a desktop user interface. In Aspen 2.0, ou

2001

Aspen 1.0/1.1
In Aspen 1.0, our company acquired another company and we integrated their Learning Content Management System (LCMS) product into our Learning Management System (LMS) product. In this release, we rebr

2000

Ingenium 6.0/6.1
Ingenium 6.0 Knowledge Base
In 2000, I implemented a Knowledge Base for the Ingenium product line. I developed this Knowledge Base using Microsoft Exchange. Articles were published into an Exchange Public folder and were categor
Technical Support Database
In 2000, I implemented a call-tracking database for our Technical Support team. This database allowed support representatives to more accurately track customer’s configurations, manage the status of i
Personal Homepage 2000
In 2000, I dramatically redesigned my homepage. The new site is partially created through code generation from XML and databases.
Click2learn.com e-Learning Network
In 1984, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen founded a new company-- Asymetrix Learning Systems--that specialized in authoring tools and learning management products. Shortly after acquiring Meliora System

1999

Ingenium Data Update/Import Tool 5.0
DUIT is an Ingenium companion product that supports scripted data transfers between any to “data sources”. DUIT5.0 supported data synchronization (adds, updates and deletes) between nearly any two arb
Ingenium 5.0 Developer Resource Center
In January 2000, I released a Developer Resource website for Ingenium developers, consultants and strategic partners. The web site extended the Ingenium Developer CD concept by consolidating both inte
Mickpark.net
In 1999, I designed a website for a local artist. The site featured the artist’s full portfolio and was partially generated with a Visual Basic application.
Ingenium 4.0 Developer CD
Throughout 1999, I constructed and maintained an Ingenium Developer CD-ROM. The CD-ROM included: Current source code Code documentation, object models and examples for critical source code Installatio

1998

Ingenium 4.0 CD-ROM
In the Summer of 1997, we released the Ingenium 4.0 family of products on CD-ROM. The updated CD-ROM included: Installations for all of the Ingenium 3.0 and 4.0 applications Product documentation in A
Ingenium 4.0
Ingenium 4.0 was the most monumental development effort to face the Ingenium Engineering Team to date. Ingenium 4.0 was a complete rewrite of the Ingenium, which evolved the product from a 16-bit Micr
SQL-To-Oracle Translator
In the Summer of 1998, the Ingenium team was faced with a dilemma: although their customer base demanded both SQL Server and Oracle DBMS support, the team had focused several years developing over a 1

1997

Kodak Intranet Projects
In November 1997, a division of Kodak was preparing to rollout Windows NT 4.0 to several thousand new users. In preparation for the rollout, I was contracted to develop four new Intranet sites to supp
D.H. Charlton Web Graphics
In the Fall of 1997, I was contracted by D.H. Charlton, Associated to design the graphics and navigation for their web presence. The graphics integrated with content produced by Lotus Domino.
Ingenium Web Connect 1.0
While Meliora Systems had invested nearly all of their development resources to re-engineering the Ingenium product line to meet long-term scalability and performance needs, the Intranet was starting
ITEC 97 Conference
In July 1997, I participated in a local information technology conference called “ITEC 97”. At the conference, I delivered two presentations: one on the new intranet features of Microsoft Office 97 (c
Personal Homepage 1997
In 1997, I developed my first homepage. At this time, my site was manually developed using FrontPage and Photoshop. Later, I began developing my homepage with numerous forms of code generation.

1996

Ingenium 3.0 CD-ROM
In the Fall of 1996, we distributed the Ingenium 3.0 family of products on CD-ROM for the first time. As Lead Developer, I was responsible for constructing the CD, which included the following tasks:
Ingenium Messenger 3.0
In 1996, corporations were faced with a new situation where wide-area networks connected users around the world, yet the web browsers and web server technology were not sufficiently implemented within
Ingenium Messenger 3.0 Demonstration
In the Fall of 1996, I produced a Macromedia Director 4.0 demonstration to introduce clients to the Ingenium Messenger product. The demonstration included simulated usage scenarios and incorporated a

1995

Ingenium 2.5/3.0 Demonstration
In the Fall of 1995, I produced a Macromedia Director 4.0 demonstration to introduce clients to the Ingenium 2.5 product. The demonstration included simulated usage scenarios and incorporated a music
Ingenium 2.5
In February 1995, I became the Lead Developer for a commercial software package called Ingenium. At the time, Ingenium was a Microsoft Access 2.0 database application that assisted companies in managi

1994

College Animation Projects
In my senior year of college, I took a course in computer animation where I was first exposed to Macromedia Director 4.0. During the course, I produced a number of projects including a fully-functiona

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