Jim Ball - The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Jim Ball is the Quality Assurance Auditor at The Cincinnati Financial Corporation.
Jim Ball is the Quality Assurance Auditor at The Cincinnati Financial Corporation. He is a software tester and passionate testing advocate with 16 years of experience in testing software, mentoring testers, and developing effective processes and procedures. Jim believes that testing is a scientific art that requires critical thinking, effective communication, patience, and a great deal of flexibility in order to deliver value to the stakeholder.
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Simon Bor - Inflectra
Simon has been with Inflectra since 2015 and is the Head of Products.
Simon Bor has over 15 years experience in technical roles for the British government and international organizations, and, since 2015, with Inflectra. He is the Spira product manager at Inflectra, focused on helping his team making the application meet the needs of Inflectra's global user base. He really enjoys working on user experience problems, as well as design. In his spare time at Inflectra he likes to make cool stickers.
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Frank Heise - PTA Consulting
Frank Heise is the Head of Quality Services, PTA GmbH.
Frank Heise is the Head of Quality Services, PTA GmbH. He has supported over 20 years of experience supporting projects in the capacity of the project leader and test manager. He is currently responsible for the services and activities related to quality assurance with PTA. PTA is the German partner of Inflectra.
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Teresa Langston - Inflectra
Teresa Langston is the Customer Engagement Specialist at Inflectra.
Teresa Langston is a highly motivated team leader with 10+ years of technical program management experience in telecommunications, IT, and manufacturing. As the newest member of Inflectra’s team, Teresa leads product demonstrations and provides new client support. Teresa has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Denis Markovtsev - Inflectra
Denis Markovtsev is the Principal Software Developer at Inflectra Corporation.
Denis Markovtsev is a Principal Software Developer at Inflectra Corporation. He is one of the creators of Rapise test automation platform. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in Mathematics and has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years in areas such as compilers, development environments, software verification, and testing. At Inflectra, Denis has been responsible for researching the tools, technologies, and processes in the software testing and quality assurance space for the past five years. Currently, he is interested in test automation of Web applications.
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Lee Barnes - Utopia Solutions
Lee Barnes is the Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions
Lee Barnes has over 25 years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance and Testing field. He has successfully implemented test automation and performance testing solutions in hundreds of environments across a wide array of industries. He is a recognized thought leader in his field and speaks regularly on related topics. As Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions, Lee is responsible for the firm's delivery of software quality solutions which include process improvement, test automation, and performance management.
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Sriram Rajagopalan - Inflectra
Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. is the Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra.
Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan is a project management guru with extensive software development and project management experience in many industries. He holds a BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Madras in India; MS in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University and MBA in Management from Concordia University. His Ph.D. was in Organization and Management from Capella University. Dr. Rajagopalan possesses many professional certifications in PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, CSP, CSPO, CSD, CSM, ACC, IT Project+, Six Sigma, SCM, SCPO, SCD, SAMC, SCT, and CSOXP.
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Bob Johnston - Critical Logic
Bob Johnston is the CEO of Critical Logic.
Bob Johnston has been with Critical Logic since 2006 serving as CTO and now CEO. Bob has broad experience in software development and automated QA. He has been primarily responsible for creating and delivering software technology to support large and small testing projects and overseeing testing services implementation.
Bob has over 30 years of experience as a developer, consultant and executive in a wide variety of projects. He has helped founded 3 consulting firms most recently Critical Logic, Inc. He has more than 10 years experience implementing automated testing systems in many clients in a variety of industries. He has held positions from programmer to manager, in technical, testing and user-related projects.
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Gene Gotimer - Steampunk Inc.
Gene Gotimer is a Senior DevSecOps engineer at Steampunk, Inc.
Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps engineer that focuses on DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration, repeatable builds, unit testing, automated testing, security tools, and automated deployments. Gene feels strongly that repeatability, quality, and security are all strongly intertwined; each of them is dependent on the other two, which just makes agile and DevSecOps that much more crucial to software development.
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Neil Price-Jones - NVP Software
Neil Price-Jones is the founder and the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at NVP Software Solutions.
Neil Price-Jones has 34 years of experience in software testing in a variety of areas like financial systems, telecommunications systems, and pension administration. In 1993, Neil founded NVP Software Testing to provide testing expertise to numerous organizations. He has made presentations to many software quality organizations including the Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) as well as the Toronto Association for System & Software Quality (TASSQ). He has trained many clients in the financial, provincial government, health and insurance sectors in Software Testing and various certifications.
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Owen Gotimer - OG Media
Owen Gotimer is the Founder and Owner of OG Media.
Owen Gotimer is the Founder and Owner of OG Media and spends most of his time dreaming up ways to bring people together. Owen also hosts and produces 404 Podcast Found, where he shares the latest in software engineering thought and practice from some of the brightest minds in the industry. Owen has an extensive communications background, including work with Minor League Baseball and the Discovery Channel. An embarrassingly proud Syracuse grad, Owen is a huge sports fan, a self-proclaimed country music aficionado, and a doughnut connoisseur.
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Thomas Haver - International Speaker
Thomas Haver is an International Speaker and Test Automation Architect.
Thomas is presently serving as a Test Automation Architect. He leads a team of testers, ops engineers, and production support analysts in the adoption of DevOps practices. Previously, he led the enterprise automation support of 73 applications at Huntington National Bank that encompassed testing, metrics & reporting, and data management. Thomas has a background in Physics & Biophysics, with over a decade spent in research science studying fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy before joining IT.
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Glen Hellman - 10Pearls
Glen Hellman is Senior Vice President of Sale at 10Pearls.
Featured as Mr. Cranky in the Washingtonian Magazine and Washington Business Journal, Hellman has been involved in the Technology Business for over 40 years. Hellman’s been a salesman, a product manager, a marketing VP, and GM for the Telco Software Division of a Fortune 500 company. In 2012, he was named by Tech Cocktail as the #1 Angel Investor in the United States. He served as an on-camera Business Strategy Analyst for the NBC station in DC. He spent a decade working as a hired-gun turn-around CEO for Private Equity Investors. Glen is formerly trained as an executive leadership coach and has coached over 100 CEO’s in the last 15 years. He is a former board member at the University of Maryland Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. He is currently building a global business development operation for award-winning software development firm 10Pearls.
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Remco Putker - Robust IT
Remco is the founder and owner of Robust IT in the Netherlands.
Remco is the founder and owner of Robust IT in the Netherlands. He is a result-driven hands-on ICT (project) manager with roots in Quality and Testing. He believes in getting the job done within time and budget but without concessions on quality or loss of employee satisfaction. Remco started in 1999 as a consultant but progressing quickly to IT-management positions in various multinational corporations. He has worked independently since 2014 and is currently the owner of three companies. He is passionate about DIY, cooking, and sailing.
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Peter Hesse - 10Pearls
Peter Hesse is the Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer at 10Pearls.
For nearly two decades, Peter Hesse has leveraged his passion for technology and experience in security to develop successful solutions to interesting problems. From an exciting start developing the reference implementation of a standards-based certification authority for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to overcoming obstacles and successfully demonstrating the system that formed the basis of the Federal PKI, Peter has built his reputation tackling complex challenges and explaining them to others. Peter founded and ran the successful information security consulting firm Gemini Security Solutions for over a dozen years. Today as 10Pearls Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer, he now focuses on avoiding the common break/fix mentality around security, and instead finding ways to architect and build security into systems and products.
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Alejandro Jaramillo - KineticaDB
Alejandro Jaramillo is a Quality Engineer at KineticaDB.
Alejandro Jaramillo is an experienced quality engineer with expertise in startups and Linux environments. He is currently working at KineticaDB with Peter Kim as his manager. Alejandro has held quality engineering roles previously at Cloudistics and eOriginal. He has an M.S. from UMBC in Information Systems.
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Henrik Rexed - Neotys
Henrik is a Performance Engineer at Neotys.
Henrik is a Performance Engineer at Neotys, a leading provider of load testing software. He has been orchestrating and conducting performance tests for over 15 years, delivering projects in all contexts including extremely large Cloud testing on the most demanding business areas such as trading applications, Video on Demand, sports websites, etc. Since 2017, he has led the Performance Advisory Council created by Neotys. Since its beginning, the PAC aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world. They meet annually to create a sharing of relevant, value-added content.
Prior to Neotys, Henrik worked as a .NET architect for Logica and Performance testing expert on large accounts in a variety of industries including insurance, car industry, retail, and energy. Amongst the numerous initiatives he worked on, Henrik has built the performance Center of Excellence (CoE) handling load testing of all the European branches of a major insurance company.
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Parveen Khan - Square Marble Technology
Parveen is a Senior Test Engineer at Square Marble Technology.
Parveen is a senior test engineer at square marble technology. Being a quality advocate she believes delivering high-quality products is everyone's responsibility. She loves collaborating with teams and optimizing processes, tools, and methodologies to enable the creation of high-quality products. She is also an international speaker sharing her stories and experiences in testing to inspire other people around the globe. In her spare time, she plays the role of wonder woman for her two lovely kids. You can read her stories at https://www.parveenkhans.com/
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Peter Kim - Kinetica
Peter Kim is the Director of Quality Engineering at Kinetica.
Peter Kim drives quality engineering at Kinetica, as the Dir. of Quality Engineering, with a technical background in software engineering and large-scale real-time systems, Peter has experience in various organizations, from start-ups and Fortune 100 companies to starting his own successful consulting firm. Peter enjoys writing test applications/frameworks, leveraging both COTS and open-source technologies such as .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, and Node.js. He has worked on multiple open-source automation frameworks that provide application modeling, integration/functional/visual testing+, and performance/load solutions. If you’ve ever flown to the Asia Pacific, chances are that your flight was made safer from real-time applications that Peter helped design and test. Peter fuels his passion for software test design and patterns by collaborating with automation engineering and security testing communities, as well as continually designing dynamic test frameworks. Those frameworks empower QA to shift closer to developers by moving beyond typical functional testing into the close quarters of unit testing. After working in both dysfunctional and successful development/QA teams, Peter finds the challenges of driving change more important than the ones imposed by the project’s technical aspects. To Peter, being a change agent is to be capable of providing a technology-driven road-map and vision, while being transparent in critically evaluating oneself and others to ensure mediocrity is never an option.
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Hugo Sanchez - Coveros
Hugo Sanchez is a Managing Consultant with Coveros.
Hugo Sanchez is a Managing Consultant with Coveros, Inc., a software company that helps organizations build, test, and deliver secure, reliable software applications using agile methods. Hugo has over 20 years of software development, software assurance, project management, and product management experience with a wide range of software products and applications. He is an accomplished Product Management & Project Delivery professional with a successful track record of providing complete lifecycle management of “whole” products, families of products, and infrastructure projects. Hugo has experience running Agile teams and delivering projects on time and on budget in the face of organizational challenges and market dynamics.