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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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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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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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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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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Valarie King-Bailey - OnShore Technology
Valarie King-Bailey is the CEO of OnShore Technology Group.
Valarie King-Bailey is the CEO of OnShore Technology Group, an independent Chicago-based consultancy founded in 2004 specializing in Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) services, and solutions. OnShore’s flagship product, ValidationMaster™ is the first Lean Enterprise Validation Management & Quality System (EVMQ) on the market.
Valarie has worked for leading global companies such as QUMAS Limited (Ireland), EMC/Documentum, Abbott Laboratories, and has been recognized as a leading global validation and compliance expert. She was recently honored as "Speaker of the Year" by the Institute of Validation Technology (IVT) and has received numerous awards for outstanding service in validation. Ms. King- Bailey holds an M.B.A. in Information Systems from Keller Graduate School of Management (1985) and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1982).
Valarie is a Distinguished Alumni and Lifetime Achievement Awardee of the U.W. College of Engineering. She is an active member of ISPE, the American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, National Girls Collaborative Project for STEM education, and a U.W. College of Civil Engineering Advisory Board Member.
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Bart Knaack - Professional Testing B.V.
Bart Knaack is the Test Advisor at Professional Testing B.V.
Bart Knaack is the Test Advisor at Professional Testing B.V. since May 2014. Bart has more than twenty years of experience in testing and test management. Bart has contributed to testing projects and processes in roles of test manager, test data management team lead, and process improvement agent. Bart has coached testers, built up test teams and developed processes in test, test support and overall quality management and improvement. Bart is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities, and colleges. In 2009 Bart co-founded the TestLab.
Bart earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology.
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Mike Lyles - Bridgetree
Mike Lyles is an International Speaker, Author, and Director of QA at Bridgetree.
Mike Lyles is a Director of QA and Project Management with 20+ years of IT experience in multiple large organizations. He has held various leadership roles: software development, PMO, and software testing. He has led various teams within testing: Functional, environments, SCM, TDM, Performance, Automation, and Service Virtualization.
Mike has been successful in career development, team building, coaching, and mentoring of IT professionals. Mike has been an international keynote speaker at multiple conferences and events. Learn more about Mike & his new motivational book at www.MikeWLyles.com & www.TheDriveThruBook.com
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Smita Mishra - QAZone Infosystems
Smita Mishra the founder of QAZone Infosystems.
Smita Mishra the founder of QAZone Infosystems which is a software testing firm. Experienced Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the Financial Services, Retail, Banking, and Utilities industry. Skilled in Data Analytics and stories, Business risks mitigation for tech products, Setting up Test teams, and testing practice. She is also the Founder and CEO of Fandoro Technologies which gives enterprises and individuals an opportunity to participate in solving the critical problems before mankind, around sustainability.
Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Bachelor of Engineering focused in Computer Science and Engineering. She is an international speaker on technology and diversity in tech. She also engages with different forums to assist the growth of women in her field and otherwise too.
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Amalachukwu Offiah - Microsoft
Amalachukwu (Mimi) Offiah is a Program Manager at Microsoft.
Amalachukwu (Mimi) Offiah is a tech enthusiast that has worked with diverse teams to bring various products to the market.
With 5+ years of experience in the tech industry, she has worked as a Product/Business Analyst, Network, and Infrastructure Support Engineer. Driven by her passion for leveraging technology to solve problems, she’s working as a Program Manager at Microsoft on innovative products that will revolutionize the software testing landscape across various industry verticals.
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Anna Royzman - Global Quality Leadership Institute
Anna Royzman is the Founder of Test Masters Academy (USA), an International Speaker.
Anna is a renowned international speaker and recognized expert in Software Test Leadership. In 2015, she founded Test Masters Academy which runs major international events: Test Leadership Congress, Test Masters Online, and ConTEST NYC, which made the list of the best global Software Testing conferences in 2018-2019. Anna held various test management roles for 14+ years, served as the Executive At Large on Association for Software Testing’s Board of Directors (2016-2017), as the President of AST Quality Leader SIG (2012-2014), and as the Software Test Professionals Community Advisory Board Member (2014 2015). Anna is the founder of several Test/QA meetups in New York.
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Max Saperstone - TestPros
Max Saperstone is a VP of Testing Solutions at TestPros.
Max Saperstone has been working as a Software and Test Engineer for almost 15 years, with a focus on Test Automation within the CI/CD process. He specializes in open-source tools, including the Selenium Tool Suite, JMeter, AutoIT, Cucumber, and Chef. Max is the VP of Testing Solutions at TestPros, where he works as a test strategist and architect; he works with organizations to determine how best to test the application across the organization to ensure high quality and low-risk releases. When not working with clients, he can be found contributing to the Selenium and Cucumber community, or talking about various testing topics.
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Huib Schoots - Agile Coach
Huib Schoots is a tester, consultant, and agile coach.
Huib Schoots is a tester, consultant and people lover. He shares his passion for testing through coaching, training, and giving presentations on a variety of test subjects. With almost twenty years of experience in IT and software testing, Huib is experienced in different testing roles. Curious and passionate, he is an agile, exploratory and context-driven tester who attempts to read everything ever published on software testing. A member of TestNet, AST and ISST, black-belt in the Miagi-Do School of software testing and co-author of a book about the future of software testing. Huib maintains a blog on magnifiant.com. He works for Improve Quality Services, a provider of consultancy and training in the field of testing. Huib has a huge passion for music and plays trombone in a brass band.
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Reid Shepard - Amazon Web Services
Reid Shepard is an Account Manager at AWS.
Reid Shepard has been an Account Manager at AWS for the past 2 years supporting organizations in the Maryland, D.C. and Virginia area across all industry verticals and company size. Prior to that, he worked in the Data Warehousing space at MemSQL based out of San Francisco for 3 years. He grew up in Rockville, M.D.
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Mark Tomlinson - FreedomPay
Mark Tomlinson is the Capacity and Performance Engineer and the producer of a podcast -PerfBytes.
Mark Tomlinson is currently the Capacity and Performance Engineer on the PayPal Credit DevOps team and is also the producer of the popular performance podcast PerfBytes (www.perfbytes.com). His testing career began in 1992 with a comprehensive two-year test for a life-critical transportation system, a project which captured his interest for software testing,quality assurance, and test automation. After extended work at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, he has amassed broad experiences with real-world scenario testing of large and complex systems and is regarded as a thought-leader expert in software testing automation with a specific emphasis on performance. Mark also offers assistance to customers adopting modern performance testing and engineering practices.
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Kirk Walton - tapQA
Kirk Walton is the Vice President at tap|QA.
Kirk Walton is the Vice President at tap|QA. He has over 20 years’ experience in the IT Consulting Services industry (starting as a Lotus Notes consultant in 1999!). His experience includes consulting, recruiting, marketing, and consulting services leadership. Kirk is incredibly passionate about the people aspects of the IT Services industry - building teams and helping organizations and individuals find the perfect fit with one another. It is Kirk’s belief that “Great People Create Great Software” and he loves being a part of a company that provides incredibly talented consultants to clients nationwide.
Kirk established the recruiting and marketing practices at tapQA, a national consulting firm exclusively focused on QA, Quality Engineering, Test Automation and DevOps, and Test Strategy.