Harold Kirkham worked at American Electric Power, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and in 2009 he joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he is now engaged in research on power systems. His research interests include both power and measurements. He is a past chair of the … Read more
Cristina Marinovici joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a software engineer in August 2010. Before joining PNNL, she worked as software engineer at IBM, OR. She is responsible for the software testing and validation of projects modeling wind generation integration, power system operation and smart grid. She has a … Read more
Before getting into IT, Jourdan Arenson worked as a journalist and marketing copywriter. In 1995, he switched to tech writing (“because you never need to lie in tech writing”) and got a job documenting foreign exchange trading systems at Bank of America in San Francisco.
After taking a … Read more
Sreeram Gopalakrishnan, Cognizant
Sreeram Gopalakrishnan is as an Associate Director in Cognizant’s Quality Engineering & Assurance practice in Canada. His specialty is large-scale and complex QA engagements, wherein he brings extensive experience ...
Alan Leung is a senior consultant with Sierra Systems. He is an expert systems integrator with architecture skills that has been a leader on numerous initiatives. A former member of IBM Global Services, his engagements have included health (Alberta Health), education (Athabasca University), and financial industry (Bloomberg) clients … Read more
Kraig Strong is a software quality engineer at Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon. Prior to joining Tektronix, he spent a few years as a manufacturing test engineer where he used FMEA on a daily basis. Kraig is bringing over his quality-focused background in order to help deliver more reliable software … Read more
Brian Rogers has been a software tester for over a decade. In his current role as a principal software development engineer in test in the Windows Azure group at Microsoft, Brian designs and develops tools and automated tests for large-scale distributed systems. Brian has a B.S. in Computer Engineering … Read more
Karen Ascheim Wysopal is a Section Manager in Software Quality at Hewlett-Packard. She currently leads the Quality Assurance program for HPConnected.com, ePrintcenter.com, and related HP web-connected printer technologies. With over 20 years in the software QA industry, Karen’s professional passions are building high functioning innovative QA teams … Read more
F. Michael Dedolph has more than 30 years experience in IT, spanning programming, requirements analysis, teaching, leading teams, consulting, software risk management, and spearheading several process improvement efforts. Currently he is co-owner of a successful small business and a part-time consultant to the IT industry in the … Read more
Venkat Moncompu is an agile testing evangelist and enthusiast with 16 years of industry experience. Over the past few years, he has worked with teams that have mastered the agile software delivery as well as teams that have struggled through the painful process of adoption until abandoning … Read more
