Experts & Advisors
Dean E. Fiala
Managing Director
Dean Fiala is a Managing Director at Ankura with more than 20 years’ experience designing, developing, and delivering robust software solutions. He is based in Washington, DC.
Experience
Dean’s professional experience includes:
- Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing: Designed a cryptographic test generation engine to serve as the heart of a fully automated validation process. Led a development team to implement the generation engine.
- Cryptographic Validation Program: Designed and built workflow management systems for the cryptographic module and algorithm programs.
- Autonomous Report Generation: Designed and guided the development of a fully automated report generation system to allow clients to manage report creation and autonomous generation.
- Conversions Portal: Designed and guided the development of a portal to allow new customers to easily transfer legacy financial performance data into an accounting and financial reporting system.
- End Client Billing Engine: Designed and guided the development of an end client billing engine and associated model-view-controller interface and billing generation systems.
- Secure Passwords Initiative: Replaced password storage and validation mechanism throughout all applications to replace plaintext passwords with salted and hashed versions.
- ELISA Test and Interpretation Application: Designed and developed a web-based application to ingest and analyze multi-sample enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay tests.
- Genomic Analysis Software: Redesigned and reimplemented the core genomic analysis software to make it performant, easier to use, and easier to maintain.
- Education
- SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Honors & Awards
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional