Bill Reynolds presenting A Manager's Guide to Client-Server Solutions at the Powersoft International User Conference on May 26, 1994 in Orlando, Florida.

Our Founder

ASF's founder, D. William Reynolds Jr. ("Bill"), has spent the last 20 years helping large and small businesses improve the way they develop technology solutions to business problems.

Prior to forming Austin Software Foundry, Bill spent almost 10 years in the financial services industry applying technology to problems in banking and insurance. During that time he became frustrated with the traditional methods used to develop financial software.

In the late 1980's, during his graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, he identified the source of this frustration as a lack of technology solutions that were modular, adaptable and rapidly created and deployed and modified. The elements he identified as critical for supplying these kind of characteristics in line-of-business software were business-driven object-oriented software development processes and techniques, and component software technology.

The formation of Austin Software Foundry in 1989 and its growth throughout the 1990's were driven by Bill's vision of software development tools and techniques that would bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions. Bill has been active as an evangelist, speaker and trainer at technology conferences throughout the Unites States and Europe. He has held advanced instructor certifications from Rational Software Corporation, Sybase Corporation, Powersoft Corporation and Enterprise Technology International.

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Publications

Austin Software Foundry has always been an evangelist for leading edge technologies and processes that have the potential to improve the way software is created for businesses. Communicating its vision has always been a core competency of ASF. Its founder, Bill Reynolds, is an accomplished speaker and writer. His public speaking career began in high school where he made the varsity debate squad as a freshman and went on to win his first open invitational debate tournament as a junior. He won a college scholarship with his critical thinking and writing abilities by winning a national essay contest.

Here you will find many of the presentations, original training courseware, white papers and learning resources that have been created by Austin Software Foundry and presented by Bill to thousands of people over the last 20 years.

Articles and White Papers

Reynolds, D. (1998, July). The Shape of Things To Come, Part II: Advanced Patterns for Developing a Distributed Business System. Sybase/Powersoft Powerline Quarterly.

Reynolds, D. (1998, April). The Shape of Things To Come, Part I: Using Patterns to Develop Distributed Applications. Sybase/Powersoft Powerline Quarterly.

Reynolds, D. (1996, April). Object-Oriented Powerscript Programming. Austin Software Foundry.

Courseware

Architectures for Object-Oriented Development with Lab Exercises

Process Management for Object-Oriented Development with Lab Exercises

Application Partitioning with PowerBuilder with Lab Exercises Licensed to Powersoft/Sybase Corporation

Presentations

Reynolds, D. (2003, November). Healthcare Technology Round Table. Panelist at the Data Junction Integration 2003 User Conference, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1999, August). Project Management for Object-Oriented Development. Presented at the 1999 Sybase Techwave User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1999, August). Architectures for Object-Oriented Development. Presented at the 1999 Sybase Techwave User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1998, August). Architectures for Object-Oriented Development. Presented at the Seventh Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Los Angeles, California.

Reynolds, D. (1998, March 10). Architectural and Domain Patterns for Common Business Objects Presented at the Austin Forum for Object-Oriented Technology Monthly Meeting, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1997, September). Architectures for Object-Oriented Development. Presented at the Sixth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.

Kern, L. (1997, September). Project Management for Object-Oriented Development. Presented at the Sixth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.

Reynolds, D. (1997, September). Using Design Patterns. Presented at the Sixth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.

Reynolds, D. (1997, September). Object-Oriented Immersion. Presented at the Sixth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Reynolds, D. (1997, August 28). Migrating to Object-Oriented Technology. Presented to MetLife, Inc., New York, New York.

Reynolds, D. (1997, June 26). Aligning the Information Technology Strategy with Institutional Goals. Presented at Brigham Young University's Exploring Technology Conference, Provo, Utah.

Reynolds, D. (1997, May 21). Architectures for Object-Oriented Development. Presented to the Central Texas PowerBuilder User Group, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1997, March 27). Object-Oriented PowerBuilder Development. Presented to Goldman Sachs & Co. Investment Banking Division, New York, New York.

Reynolds, D. (1997, March 3). Object-Oriented PowerBuilder Development for Client-Server and The Web. Presented at Object World East, Boston, Massachusetts.

Reynolds, D. (1997, February 10). Implementing an Object-Oriented Software Development Environment Using Rose/PowerBuilder. Presented at the 1997 Rational Software User Conference, Santa Clara, California.

Reynolds, D. (1996, August 18-22). Enterprise Strategies for Enterprise Computing. Presented at the Fifth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1996, July 15). Medical Data Warehousing and Mangerial Reporting. Presented to Princeton Medical Group, San Antonio, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1996, December). Component Industry Directions. ASF Management Briefing presented to various clients.

Reynolds, D. (1995, October 25). Architectures for Object-Oriented Development. Presented to the Houston PowerBuilder User Group, Houston, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1995, October 11-12). Advanced Object-Oriented PowerBuilder Development. Presented at the DCI Software World and Client-Server Developers Exposition, Santa Jose, California.

Reynolds, D. (1995, June 5-8). Application Partitioning with PowerBuilder. Presented at the Fourth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1995, June 5-8). Enterprise Strategies for Enterprise Computing. Presented at the Fourth Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1995, ). Application Partitioning with PowerBuilder. Presented to the Northern California PowerBuilder Users Group, California.

Reynolds, D. (1994, December 6). The Transition to Distributed Systems Development. Presented to The United States Army Personnel Information Systems Command, Washington, D.C.

Reynolds, D. (1994, November 9). Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation using PowerBuilder. Presented at the DCI Client-Server Workshop, Santa Clara, California.

Reynolds, D. (1994, September 21). Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation using PowerBuilder. Presented at the DCI Client-Server Workshop, Washington, D.C.

Reynolds, D. (1994, May 22-26). A Manager's Guide to Client-Server Solutions. Presented at the Third Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1994, May 22-26). Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation for PowerBuilder Developers. Presented at the Third Annual Powersoft International User Conference, Orlando, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1993, July 19-20). Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation for PowerBuilder Developers. John Alden Life Insurance Company, Miami, Florida.

Reynolds, D. (1993, April 19). Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation for PowerBuilder Developers. Presented at the Second Annual Powersoft International User Conference, San Diego, California.

Reynolds, D. (1989, July 12-14). Thrift Bulletin #13 Compliance. Presented for Financial Technology, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.

Executive Education

Between May 1991 and August 1993, Austin Software Foundry collaborated with The University of Texas at Austin to produce a series of summer executive management seminars focused on the emergence of desktop, client-server and distributed network computing in major business organizations. These seminars were targeted to middle and upper level management of Fortune 1000 companies. ASF's founder, Bill Reynolds, also presented a number of sessions at these seminars alongside faculty from The University of Texas at Austin's Graduate School of Business.

The final series of these seminars in 1993 drew the coporate sponsorship of Powersoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Sybase Corporation and Lotus Development Corporation.

1993

Reynolds, D. (1993, June 22). Client-Server Strategies for Enterprise Computing: A Roadmap to Client Server Products and Vendors. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1993 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1993, June 21). Client-Server Strategies for Enterprise Computing: Assessing the Value of Investments in Client-Server Technology - The Option Pricing Approach. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1993 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1993, June 20). Client-Server Strategies for Enterprise Computing: Technical Frameworks and Architectures. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1993 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

1992

Reynolds, D. (1992, August 17). Desktop Competition Workshop: Introduction to Emerging Desktop Technologies. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1992 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1992, July 22). Desktop Competition Workshop: Client-Server Architectures, Databases, and Development Environments. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1992 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

1991

Reynolds, D. (1991, July 10). Technical Overview of the Desktop Systems Marketplace: Proposal Development - Future Requirements. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1991 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1991, June 27). Technical Overview of the Desktop Systems Marketplace: Proposal Development - Interoperability. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1991 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1991, June 10). Technical Overview of the Desktop Systems Marketplace: Proposal Development - Hardware Requirements and Pricing. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1991 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.

Reynolds, D. (1991, May 22). Technical Overview of the Desktop Systems Marketplace: Using Distributed Databases. Presented at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business Summer 1991 Management Development Program, Austin, Texas.