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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

* 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).