William F. "Bill" Opdyke (born c. 1958) is an American computer scientist and enterprise architect at

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, known for his early work on

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Education

Opdyke received a B.S. from Drexel University in 1979, an M.S. from

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in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the

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in 1992 under the supervision of Ralph Johnson. His Ph.D. thesis, ''Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks,'' was the first in-depth study of

as a

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technique..

Career

Opdyke started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981, where he worked as researcher until 2001. From 2001 to 2006 he was associate professor in computer science at

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, and for

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. Since 2009, he has worked as an enterprise architect in the mobile and web retail banking area, and trainer at the Technical Leadership Development program.

Selected publications

* Opdyke, William F. ''Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks.'' Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. * Fowler, M., Beck, K., Brant, J., Opdyke, W., & Roberts, D. (1999). ''Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Programs.'' * Opdyke, William F., and Ralph E. Johnson. "Creating abstract superclasses by refactoring." ''Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer science. ACM,'' 1993. * Johnson, Ralph E., and William F. Opdyke. "Refactoring and aggregation." ''Object Technologies for Advanced Software.'' Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. 264-278. * Foote, Brian, and William F. Opdyke. "Lifecycle and refactoring patterns that support evolution and reuse." ''Pattern languages of program design'' 1 (1995).

References

1950s births Living people American computer scientists Grainger College of Engineering alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Drexel University alumni {{US-compu-bio-stub North Central College faculty AT&T people JPMorgan Chase people University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni