William R. Kennedy - eightytwenty.com

William R. Kennedy

Co-instructor and developer of web skills training
University Webmaster (Director of Web Operations) for FDU
kennedy@fdu.edu

Current Responsibilities

As FDU's University Webmaster, William R. Kennedy is responsible for the design, HTML authoring, programming, maintenance and management of FDU's multi-million-hit-per-year web site; and for the New College Web Lab facilities at FDU's Metropolitan and College at Florham campuses.

Kennedy co-authored the 60-hour certification curriculum in web skills and has been teaching web skills certification courses since 1996. At FDU, Kennedy and Joyce Beck teach Web Skills Certification courses year-round. The course content is continuously updated to keep pace with the industry, and Kennedy finds strong synergy between the production website at FDU and the class projects and exercises.

Background and Experience

William Kennedy's career covers business data processing as consultant, manager, instructor, user and vendor. Kennedy has been University Webmaster at Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1997.

During the preceding 10-year span, Kennedy served as Executive Director of the Center for Information Age Technology, a computer consulting organization based at NJIT in Newark, providing computer technology consulting for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies in New Jersey. At CIAT, Kennedy produced NJ SwIFT, a series of annual conferences of the NJ software industry (1990-1996), as well the region's first Webmaster certification classes (1996).

Prior to joining CIAT, with the Dallas-based management consulting firm of Paul & Turner Inc., Kennedy managed and conducted research and organization planning projects for high-tech corporation clients, including several of the Fortune 50. Projects included database delivery media, telephone and computer networking, organization planning, and market strategy planning.

Kennedy spent seven years at Mohawk Data Sciences (MDS), ultimately as Senior Director of Product and Market Planning. He was involved with products in the areas of office automation, electronic mail, telecommunications, multi-microprocessor architectures, local area networks, and IBM product emulation. His responsibilities at MDS included forecasting; he developed the company's first computerized forecast modeling. Throughout his career at MDS, Kennedy was responsible for competitive analysis, providing tactical input to worldwide sales and strategic recommendations for management.

During a four-year span at Johnson and Johnson, Kennedy supervised programming and operation of a distributed processing network. In three years with the U.S. Army in West Germany, Kennedy supervised DP support for the Fifth Corps conventional ammunition inventory.

Education

Kennedy holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Swarthmore College, and graduate-level credits in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.