William Ryan

Senior Architect

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Current
  • Senior Architect at Customer Effective
  • Author, Subject Matter Expert at Grandmasters, LLC
Past
  • Technology Evangelist at Magenic Technologies
  • Content Developer at ALS/ExamForce
  • Senior Software Developer at InfoPro
  • Senior Software Developer at TiBA Solutions
  • Senior Software Developer at InfoPro
  • Senior Software Developer at J.M Smith Corporation
Education
  • University of Miami
  • Augusta State University
  • Duquesne University
  • Highlands Sr High
Connections
254 connections
Industry
Computer Software

William Ryan’s Summary

Experienced Software Developer and Architect with proven successes in multiple industries. I've achieved distinction in many ways including:
- Earning Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional Award
- Macromedia Flash Advisory Board
- Spoken at 4 Microsoft Code Camps
- Hosted 2 Microsoft MSDN Webcastgs
- Published five books on Microsoft Technologies
- Run two .NET Focused Web sites
- Published multiple articles on many popular web sites such as www.15seconds.com

William Ryan’s Specialties:

Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Sql Server, Microsoft Speech Server, Sharepoint Server, .NET Web Services, Web Service Enhancements, .NET Remoting, Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, Sql Server Reporting Services, Sql Server Integration Services, Windows Mobile 6.0, MSBuild, MSTest, Visual Studio Team System, Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation


William Ryan’s Experience

  • Senior Architect

    Customer Effective

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008Present (2 months)

    Consultant focused on sales force automation using Microsoft CRM, reporting with Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, and dashboarding with SharePoint. CustomerEffective is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementation, development and integration. We help organizations improve profitability through automation of sales, service and marketing processes.

  • Author, Subject Matter Expert

    Grandmasters, LLC

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2006Present (2 years 10 months)

    I worked through Grandmasters for Microsoft in two capacities: An author for multiple certification exam preparation kits, a subject matter experct (SME) for the design and construction of multiple certification exams.

    The books I co-authored included the following:
    1- MCTS (70-536) http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-536.asp
    2- MCTS (70-529) http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-529.asp

    The exams that I worked as a subject matter expert on were quite varied but they all covered Microsoft Sql Server 2005, Microsoft Sql Server 2005 Analysis Services, Microsoft Sql Server 2005 Reporting Services and Microsoft Sql Server 2005 Integration Services. Although many of the specific details are covered by Non Disclosure Agreements I can provide points of contact within Microsoft who can speak to the nature and scope of the work I performed

  • Technology Evangelist

    Magenic Technologies

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2006June 2008 (1 year 11 months)

    I'm currently working with Magenic Technologies as a Principal Consultant. Duties include working with the following technologies:

    SQL Server 2000, 2005
    Sql Server Analysis Services, Sql Server Reporting Services, Sql Server Integration Services
    .NET Compact Framework
    ASP.NET
    C#/VB.NET
    ADO.NET
    .NET XML Web Services
    Windows Forms [Wiforms]
    .NET Framework
    Microsoft Biztalk Server 2004
    Microsoft Speech Server
    Microsoft Sharepoint Server/MOSS
    Silverlight
    .NET 3.0 Framework (WF, WCF)
    Windows Installer for XML
    Visual Studio Team System
    MSBuild/MSTest
    Silverlight

  • Content Developer

    ALS/ExamForce

    (Computer Software industry)

    20072007 (less than a year)

  • Senior Software Developer

    InfoPro

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    July 2005July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

    Returned to InfoPro after leaving for a year. I worked as a Senior Developer working specifically on Web technologies. My main projects involved building and designing a web based record manangement platform that allowed physicians to reivew their medical dictations and then digitally sign them. The program also allowed for automated transmission of medical records to greatly improve turn around times.

    The other major project involved facilitating our signature application, IMDAPS to Visual Studio .NET 2005 and Sql Server 2005. The back end components and database structure were completely redesigned and the applicaiton became a stand alone portal which users to handle every aspect of a medical record's life cycle.

    Technologies included: C#, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Sql Server 2005, Web Services Enhancements 3.0, DirectX, USB and Sql Server Reporting Services

  • Senior Software Developer

    TiBA Solutions

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2004August 2005 (1 year 1 month)

    www.tibasolutions.com

  • Senior Software Developer

    InfoPro

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

    September 2002August 2004 (2 years)

    I was a senior .NET Developer responsible for our signature product Imdaps. I was the lead architect and developer on two other projects, our pure web client and reporting system as well as DictatePro which was a Compact Framework based application to allow physicians manage and create dictations.

  • Senior Software Developer

    J.M Smith Corporation

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2001May 2002 (1 year 3 months)


William Ryan’s Education

  • University of Miami

    MPAcc, Professional Accountancy, 19992000

    I left due for work related reasons before I completed my second Master's degree- hopefully I'll get to finish up in the near future

  • Augusta State University

    MBA, January 1995December 1996

  • Duquesne University

    BA, Philosophy, 19901994

    Activities and Societies:
    Gamma Phi, Student Government Association Senator
  • Highlands Sr High


Additional Information

William Ryan’s Honors:

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Macromedia Flash Advisory Board, MVP


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