William Fry Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Reading Progress allows educators to assign a passage of text to students. The students read the passage aloud and AI automatically evaluates Accuracy/Pronunciation, Fluency/Prosody and Comprehension.* Designed and developed the engine for evaluating Expression/Prosody. The algorithm works for all Western European languages.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Immersive Reader is a feature that helps students with reading comprehension. It is a vital accessibility tool for students with reading challenges (such as dyslexia) or students learning in a second language. Popular in K-12 education, it is available in 30+ Microsoft products and available to third parties as an Azure Cognitive Service. * Developed a portable architecture that works across desktop applications, Office, Service Fabric and Linux Kubernetes containers.* Developed Language Detection AI for recognizing 50+ natural languages.* Developed a Math-to-Speech engine that supports 21 languages. This solution is now used by the Azure Text-to-Speech service.* Converted 35,000+ lines of legacy Office (Natural Language Processing) code from C++ to C#, so it could run on Linux and mobile devices. The process was so successful, the Office team is now using this code base moving forward.* Team Lead for Privacy, Security, and Compliance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Helped design and implement a new Learning Management System (LMS) product, based on 12 years of experience building LMS’s.* This project evolved into the Assignments feature of Teams for Education.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Office Mix was a free add-in for PowerPoint that allowed users to record audio, video, and ink animations on top of PowerPoint presentations. This was popular with educators who were creating “flipped classrooms.” This functionality has now been built directly into PowerPoint.* Developed the add-in UX and LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Standard, which enabled Office Mix to integrate with third-party Learning Management Systems and educational content.* Developed the UX and screen capture logic for Microsoft Snip, which was the precursor to the Windows Snipping Tool.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* 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.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* 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.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

* Founding member of the architecture 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. * 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 product engineers and technical assistance to professional service consultants.Awarded “2004 Employee of the Year”.

* Explored potential business partnership opportunity to provide high-end competitive business intelligence and analytics software and services to corporate financial professionals. * 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.

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.

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.

* 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.

* Evaluated, recommended and implemented hardware and software solutions for government contracts. * Produced impact-analysis reports on the effect of new products and emerging technology on existing IT infrastructures. * Developed custom database applications. * Held U.S. government security clearance (TS/SCI).