VP of Technical Operations at Web3 Foundation, where he has spent over seven years across a series of senior roles, including VP of Ecosystem, Director of Education and Governance Initiatives, and Head of Education and Grants, shaping the Foundation’s technical education, grants, and ecosystem initiatives.

Before joining Web3 Foundation, Bill spent over five years teaching at the University of Pittsburgh’s Computer Science Department as a Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer, covering software engineering, software quality assurance, and blockchain technology, and spent over fifteen years in professional software development before that, as an individual contributor, technical lead, and manager, including roles at UPMC Technology Development Center and General Dynamics C4 Systems.

Bill is the author of A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook adopted by numerous colleges and universities, and Strength in Numbers: A Novel of Cryptocurrency, a techno-thriller set in a world where traditional currency has been fully replaced by digital assets. He is also a frequent conference speaker on ethics in software development, software quality assurance, and cryptocurrency, and holds an MS in Information Technology, specializing in Software Design and Management, from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS in Computer Science and Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh.