Chris Fry
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Software executive with over ten years leading teams in startups and enterprise companies building innovative web technology. Expert in agile development, strong manager and technical contributor. |
Highlights
Professional Experience
salesforce.com
Vice President, Platform Development 2008 – present
Senior Director, Platform Development 2006 – 2008
Development Manager 2005 – 2006
Engineering manager responsible for building the technology behind the force.com platform. Lead a team of over 80 people and a budget of over 14.5M. Key leader behind salesforce.com’s adoption of agile method and responsible for delivering 3 major releases a year at salesforce. Managed over 20 scrum teams. Worked with analysts, press, customers, partners and prospects. Direct responsibility for the force.com platform, Apex programming language, Visualforce, API, and other groundbreaking technologies.
Managed the web service team at salesforce.com responsible for over 60% of the traffic to the salesforce.com site and all SOAP traffic.
BEA Systems, Inc.
Engineering manager 2004 – 2005
Staff Engineer 2001 – 2004
Designed, implemented and managed development of the XML & WebServices Runtime for BEA’s WebLogic Server. Responsible for architecture, implementation, and testing of the WebService and XML Runtime. Managed a team of twelve engineers, five QA engineers and two CCE engineers. Introduced Adaptive Development methodologies. Interfaced with Product Management and Customers. Evaluated companies for partnership and acquisition.
Led BEAs first successful JSR, a standard for pull parsing Java in XML (JSR 173). Awarded two patents in XML processing architecture. Participated in the JAX-B and JAX-P working groups. Implemented fast pull parser used throughout BEAs XML stack. Led open source implementation of JSR 173 RI at codehaus.
Led XML & WebServices team through full product release cycle from WebLogic 6.1 to Weblogic 9.0. Started as Staff Engineer and currently managing the WebServices development effort for the BEA platform technology suite.
Thrownet, Inc.
Chief Architect 2000 – 2001
Designed, implemented and managed development of a modular natural language search engine comprised of a parser, rules engine, vector-based search engine, and presentation module. Co-developed over 30,000 lines of code in approximately two months to realize a complete, fully functional, natural language search engine.
Managed three information retrieval engineers and three computational linguists. Managed two client prototype implementations. Served as the interface between management, linguistics and engineering. Directed research and provided technical guidance during fund raising efforts.
University of California
Berkeley, Post-Doctoral Fellow 1999 -2000
Santa Cruz, Research Associate 1998
San Diego, Research Assistant 1993-1996
Conducted independent research in the organization of songbird auditory cortex. Mapped the auditory cortex using electrophysiological techniques. Analyzed statistical output of neurons using linear and non-linear techniques. Designed and constructed digital sound recording equipment for avian song research. Designed, implemented and trained non-linear system to translate from spoken speech to visual speech parameters of a computer animated human face. Expanded neural network component of a speech recognition toolkit. Maintained and designed components of an airplane navigation interface. Implemented a simulation environment to study reinforcement learning in artificial neural networks.
Education
Ph.D. Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 1998
M.S. Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, 1995
B.A. Cognitive Science, Minor Computer Science, Vassar College, 1993
Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors, General Honors, Thesis Honors
Professional Associations
Certified Scrum Master
Technical advisory board for the Berkeley Electronic Press, Inc
Standards, Patents and Publications
JSR-173: The Streaming API for XML
A System and Method for XML Parsing (Patent #6,880,125)
Selective parsing of an XML document (Patent #70,655,561)
Talk: Agile 2007: Big Bang Agile Transformation in an On-Demand World with Steve Greene
Massaro, D., Beskow, J. , Cohen, M. , Fry, C.L., and Rodriguez, T. (1999) Picture my voice: Audio to Visual Speech Synthesis using Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Audio/Visual Speech Processing.
Fry, C.L. (1996). How perception guides production in birdsong learning. In Touretzky, D.S., Mozer, M.C. and Hasselmo, M.E., editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.