2019 Program Committee

The PNSQC Program Committee is a group of dedicated volunteers instrumental in creating the quality content conference. Passionate about software quality, they are the subject matter experts, are often authors and presenters themselves, and are leaders in our industry. Serving as guard rails, they are responsible for selecting a small subset of papers from all of the abstracts submitted to assure coverage of the current and future areas important in the software industry. Then, they work directly with the authors in developing a quality publication assuring that the audience can readily implement the “lessons learned” in its environment. This year PNSQC is proud to announce the following team members who graciously volunteered to support PNSQC in our mission of “Achieving higher quality software through knowledge exchange”.

• Rick Anderson - Rick Anderson has been with Wind River for 10 years and is a Delivery Director within the Customer Success/Professional Services organization. Read more...
• Moss Drake - Moss Drake is a software developer and project leader at Dentist Management Corporation Read more...
• Heather Wilcox - Heather Wilcox, 2017 Technical Presentation, Abstract, Paper, Slides, Video.
• Vadiraj Thayur - Vadiraj Thayur has more than 15 years experience in Software Quality. Working in McAfee as an Engineering Manager with experience in testing enterprise applications onpremise and in cloud. Authored two papers in PNSQC and reviewer since 5 years.
• Laura Bright - Laura Bright is a Software Engineer at McAfee, where she has over 10 years of experience working on enterprise security software. Read more...
• Keith Stobie - Microsoft Keith Stobie is a Software Test Architect specializing in Test Design and testing distributed...
• Emily Ren - Emily Ren has 20 years of substantial experience in project management and software testing for both desktop and mobile applications. Read more...
• Manini Sharma - Manini Sharma has been working mostly with Intel during her 14 year career. She has dabbled in Software Development, Qualification and also Marketing roles.  Read more...
• Brian Walker - Brian Walker is a software developer and software architect with more than 20 years of experience in embedded systems and product firmware development. Read more...
• Jan Jaap Cannegieter - Jan Jaap Cannegieter has more than 20 years of experience in ICT, he did assignments in requirements, testing, quality assurance, process improvement, Agile, and digitalization. Jan Jaap is now Principal Consultant at Squerist, a consultancy company of 100 employees specialized in process management and testing.  Read more...
• Dionny Santiago - Dionny Santiago is a Principal Quality Architect at Ultimate Software, a leading cloud provider of human capital management solutions. Dionny provides expertise and leadership in software testing and contributes in various capacities including hands-on testing, technical problem-solving training, and internal tools development.  Read more...
• Michael Larsen - Michael Larsen, 2019 Abstract, Paper, Slides, Video
• David Adamo - David Adamo is a Software Engineer and holds a PhD in Computer Science. He has several years of experience in academia and industry with specific interests in automated test generation, AI/ML, combinatorial testing and development of tools for automated software testing. Read More...
• Rama Anem -

  Rama Anem is a software professional

• David Burgess - David Burgess is a seasoned embedded software engineer with 35 years of experience, primarily in Test and Measurement Equipment and Distributed Lighting Control systems. Read More...
• Suresh Chandra Bose, Ganesh Bose - Suresh Chandra Bose Ganesh Bose is a Senior Manager - Consulting at Cognizant Business Consulting practice. Suresh is the 1st and only accredited Lead Assessor in North America from TMMi Foundation and has been in the IT Industry for more than 20 years with vast consulting experience in various industries. Read More...
• Matt Griscom - Matt Griscom has more than 30 years' experience creating software including medical software for the International Space Station, very innovative test automation, harnesses, and frameworks. Matt created MetaAutomation to describe the huge business value that quality automation typically drops on the floor, how to reclaim that value, and how to use it. Read More...
• Eric Haneberg - Eric Haneberg is a Software quality professional who has been in the industry for 20 years. Read more...
• Sion Heaney - Sion Heaney has fulfilled many roles each with the focus upon quality, including QA Test Manager for Microsoft Press and Senior QA Analyst for Russell Investments. He currently works for WA State Dept. of Labor & Industries as Lead Test Analyst.
• Elena Lang - Elena Lang has been in the Software Industry 30+ years. Read more...
• Launi Mead - Launi Mead works as a QA Test Engineer and have been involved in testing, training, business analysis and process improvement for over 25 years. She is presently a PNSQC board member and has been a volunteer for many years.
• Bill Opsal - Bill Opsal is an Agile Progressional, having helped with transitions from waterfall over the last 10+ years. Bill also has an extensive background(25+ years) in Program Management, Project Management, Change Management and QA. His ability to remain objective in some of the most challenging situations allows team members from across the organization to reach their desired goals with plans.
• Andrew Peterson - Andy Peterson has spent more than 20 years in IT roles with more than the last dozen in a QA specific role including SDET, lead, and manager. He is currently the QA manager for Costco Travel's Products and Markets group. Before that, he was the QA Lead for initiatives such as their platform and international efforts. Read More...
• Amith David Pulla - Amith David Pulla is a Technical Program Manager, Pre-Silicon platform software enabling and virtual platforms at Intel. Leading a team of virtual platform development and software enabling/validation teams for Intel server segment.
• Joseph Ruskiewicz - Joseph Ruskiewicz is a founder at Stack, Experienced Engineer with a demonstrative history of working in both academia and industry. Skilled in object-oriented design, engineering process, and system design. Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) from ETH Zürich and a Masters from Carnegie Mellon.
• Paul Struk - Paul Struk has over 20 years of QA experience working for high tech companies in the Oregon and Washington area. Focus on firmware and driver software QA.