Larry Fried Biography

Larry Fried is the assistant dean of technology for the Journalism School at Columbia University. He manages an organization responsible for researching and implementing technologies in support of the academic mission of the School, and supporting the School’s IT infrastructure, Web sites, and broadcast studios and facilities. In his prior position, he worked for the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, where he was responsible for managing enterprise-wide technology implementation projects. Previously, Fried spent 22 years at Bell Laboratories, where he started as a member of technical staff developing systems and emerging technologies in support of AT&T and government and corporate customers. He later became a manager of technology groups responsible for the development and delivery of systems and integrated solutions for telecommunications service providers. During his tenure at Bell Labs, Fried also did a five-year stint as an organizational consultant, managing a practice that helped organizations achieve compliance with, and gain certification to the ISO-9000 series of standards. His group additionally provided services in quality systems assessment, software process assessment and reengineering, and project management audits. Earlier, he held technology positions at Morgan Guaranty Trust and Loral Electronic Systems. Fried holds a B.A. in mathematics from Queens College of the City University of New York, an M.S. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University.