William Kenneth Fry - Resume

Key Achievements

• Directed the design and architecture for twenty-one major releases of the industry’s largest suite of enterprise e-Learning products.
• Designed a meta-language for writing stored procedures and maintaining database schema upgrades that reduced database source code by 75%, resulting in improved developer efficiency, product quality, code consistency and time to market on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle platforms.
• Designed and implemented an Object-Relational Mapping engine for .NET (before commercial and open source alternatives existed). Highly efficient Business Entities were generated from XML and supported on-demand or bulk loading, persistence, two-level caching, serialization, globalization and security.
• Developed a robust localization architecture and toolset to facilitate the cost-effective simultaneous shipment of an enterprise product suite in thirteen languages (including multi-byte). Developed the globalization framework to support multiple concurrent languages, currencies and time zones.

Technical Skills

• Languages and Environments:  C#/.NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Basic (VB/VBA), JavaScript, jQuery
• Web Technology: ASP.NET, HTML5/XHTML, CSS3, Web Services, SOAP, Web API, REST
• XML Technology:  XML, XSLT and XPath
• Database Technology: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SQL, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL

Experience

• Directed the architecture of the platforms and services used to train 45,000 Microsoft employees in Sales, Marketing and Services.
• Developed numerous web-based, Silverlight, Windows desktop and Windows Store applications that were used by end-users and administrators
• Developed and maintained several mission-critical, high-performance data analytics tools.
• Partnered with Microsoft IT to architect, deliver and operationalize critical components such as the Learning Management System and web services.
• Recognized by Training Magazine in their list of Top 10 Training Organizations for 5 consecutive years.

• Architected, designed and implemented comprehensive business solutions using a wide range of current and emerging Microsoft technology.
• Provided enterprise customers with guidance and best practices regarding complex business needs including scalability, globalization and security.

• Founding member of the team formed by executive management to develop the next-generation product and technology strategy.
• Designed, implemented and evaluated “next generation” n-tier prototypes in a wide range of cutting edge technologies. Developed the criteria and methodology for evaluating future product architectures, development processes and tools.
• Designed and implemented critical architectural components such as an Object-Relational Mapping engine, business entities, data access and caching components, web services, application security, and globalization.
• Provided architectural supervision and educational guidance to eighty product engineers and technical assistance to ninety professional service consultants.
• Held the role of Security Architect overseeing RFI’s, internal/external security audits, high-profile customer requests and escalated security concerns. Managed the internal security task force, developed security roadmap and guidelines, conducted security reviews and delivered internal training.
• Voted “2004 Employee of the Year”.

• Managed the release lifecycle for key product features including feature prioritization, functional and design specification, project planning, scheduling, feature integration, change request triage, quality targets, release readiness, documentation planning/review and marketing strategy.
• Engaged with Product Management to prioritize and translate business requirements into functional and design specifications.
• Managed the engineering and QA teams for web services, database/application upgrade/installation (hosted and premised) and product integration.
• Developed “Release Readiness” documentation and presentations on emerging products to educate internal teams including sales, hosting, professional services and implementation consulting.
• Represented the architecture team during the planning, training and integration of acquired companies.

• Developed the functional and design specifications for key product features.
• Engaged with the Professional Services Team to identify opportunities to integrate the recommendations of high-profile customers into the core product, thereby reducing the maintenance cost to the customer and extending the value of the product to other customers.
• Developed best practices and architectures that enabled custom development to be easily repurposed in the shipping product line.

• Explored potential business partnership opportunity to provide high-end competitive business intelligence and analytics software and services to corporate financial professionals.
• Developed business plan, drafted operating agreement, rebranded corporate identity and initiated dialog with several potential clients and partners.

• Provided consulting services to Ten Dots regarding existing multi-tier analytics products that utilize Standard & Poor’s financial data sources.
• Implemented new product branding, usability innovations and performance enhancements to existing products. Trained engineering team on best practices.
• Designed and implemented next generation application framework for web-based and desktop products.
• Developed high-performance/high-transaction services for Domestic and International Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements; calculation models for beta, market capitalization, total return to shareholder, enterprise value and numerous proprietary financial algorithms; and custom visualization algorithms such as “heat maps”.

• Evaluated and recommended PC-based hardware and software for government contracts.
• Produced impact-analysis reports on the affect of new products and emerging technology on existing IT infrastructures.
• Developed custom database applications.
• Implemented various software and hardware solutions.
• Held U.S. government security clearance (TS/SCI).

• Designed, implemented, and maintained a database for recording contributions made by alumni, parents, and friends of the Institute.
• Reported weekly status and trending for over 900 pledge campaigns.

• Identified classrooms, labs and conference areas for usage studies.
• Defined a method of investigation.
• Trained a staff to obtain data.
• Designed custom software for performing statistical analysis and reported results to the Director of Facilities Planning.

Education