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.
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Cynthia Wu - Appian Corporation
Cynthia Wu is a Senior Quality Engineer at Appian Corporation.
Cynthia Wu is a Senior Quality Engineer at Appian Corporation. She is a testing/quality enthusiast who helps run DCAST, a meetup within the DC area. She has presented at STPCon, TestingMinds, ConTest on various topics on automation and DevOps. She loves engaging and talking with others on how we can all better design and create software products of high quality.
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Jennifer Bonine - The AI AppStore
Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of the AI App Store, an International Speaker, and Trainer.
Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of AI Appstore, Inc., and was the first female Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) platform tech CEO. AI Appstore specializes in custom subscription technology bundles, leveraging an intelligent platform using a personalized ‘virtual research assistant’ to enhance corporate growth. The company exceeds expectations of integration, testing, delivery, and management with a groundbreaking business model that is fully engaged in the sustainable development goals (“SDGs”) cultivated by the United Nations.
Respected as a gifted speaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Jennifer Bonine addresses the AI industry nationally and internationally, most recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos and for CNNMoney Switzerland. She has held executive-level positions leading teams for Oracle and Target and is a founding board member of the United States bid for a Minnesota World Expo 2027. Jennifer is a 2020 Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal Women in Business honoree, a founding sponsor and member of IVOW AI’s Women in History Data Ideation Challenge, and an executive board member of Chad Greenway’s Lead the Way Foundation. She is a member of Million Dollar Women, member and mentor for TeamWomen, and a council member of DreamTank, an organization designed to champion young entrepreneurs. Recently named one of the Top 30 Leaders to Watch in 2020 by Silicon Review, Jennifer Bonine was featured at the UN’s AI for Good summit. Jennifer is also developing a series of books to educate children about the power of AI and machine learning
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Julie Gardiner - Testing Rainmaker
Julie Gardiner is the CEO of Testing Rainmaker Ltd. an International Speaker, a certified ScrumMaster, and an agile coach.
Julie has more than twenty-five years' experience in the IT industry, including time spent as a developer, database analyst, project and programme manager, test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, Head of Test, Agile, and Engineering. She is now CEO of Testing Rainmaker Ltd, providing consultancy and training in all aspects of agile and testing, specializing in risk, agile testing, test management, and people and transitioning issues. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and agile coach. An enthusiastic and motivated presenter, Julie is a regular speaker at agile and testing events and has won the best presentation at STAREAST, EuroSTAR, STARWEST, ADPEast, STANZ, ANZTB, Innovative Test Management Conferences, and Czech Test.
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Paul Grizzaffi - Magenic
Paul Grizzaffi is a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic and an International speaker.
As a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic, Paul Grizzaffi is following his passion for providing
technology solutions to testing, QE, and QA organizations, including automation assessments,
implementations, and through activities benefiting the broader testing community. An accomplished
keynote speaker and writer, Paul has spoken at local and national conferences and meetings. He is an
advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board
of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas where
he is a frequent guest lecturer. In addition to spending time with his twins, Paul enjoys sharing his
experiences and learning from other testing professionals; his mostly cogent thoughts can be read on his
blog at https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/.
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Jeffery Payne - Coveros
Jeffery Payne is the CEO of Coveros and an International Speaker.
Jeffery Payne has led Coveros since its inception in 2008. Under his guidance, the company has become a recognized market leader in secure agile software development. Mr. Payne is a popular keynote and featured speaker at technology conferences and has testified before Congress on technology issues such as intellectual property rights and cyber-terrorism.
Prior to Coveros, he was co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Cigital, where he led the startup and growth of the company for 16 years. Mr. Payne is a former ACM National Lecturer and the co-founder of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Allegheny College and an M.S. in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary.
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Adam Sandman - Inflectra
Adam Sandman is the Founder and the Director of Technology at Inflectra.
Adam Sandman has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years. His areas of expertise span from software architecture to agile development, software testing, test automation, and project management.
Currently, Adam is a Director of Technology at Inflectra. Adam is a prolific speaker, whose speaking engagements include STPcon 2018 and 2019, DevGeekWeek Israel 2017 & 2018, to Swiss Testing Day 2019, NDIA/Agile In Government Summit 2019, and StarCanada in 2019.
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Raj Subrameyer - ChaiLatte Consulting
Raj Subrameyer is the Owner and CEO of ChaiLatte Consulting, an International keynote speaker, writer, and tech career coach.
Raj Subrameyer is an international keynote speaker, author, and tech career coach who helps people to land their dream job and become successful leaders. He is helping countless individuals discover their zone of genius and leverage it to live a life that they love. He is the author of the new book – Skyrocket Your Career and has been featured in numerous publications including Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, and The Good Men Project. You can connect with him on twitter @epsilon11, or his website www.rajsubra.com.
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Damian Synadinos - Ineffable Solutions
Damian Synadinos is the Owner at Ineffable Solutions, an International Speaker, and the President of QA or the Highway Conference.
For more than 25 years, Damian Synadinos has been helping “build better software and build software better” through testing. Now, through his company Ineffable Solutions, Damian offers talks and training that are focused on fundamental topics and people-skills, based on real-world experience, and supplemented with deep research. His experience spans many roles, industries, and companies, including CompuServe, NetJets, Abercrombie & Fitch, Nationwide Insurance, and Huntington Bank. Damian also helps organize an annual, regional testing conference, QA or the Highway, and frequently mentors, coaches, and advises IT professionals around the world. As an international speaker and trainer, he presents at numerous conferences and corporations around the world. Additionally, Damian has over 10 years of theatrical improv experience and frequently uses applied improv to teach.
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Melissa Tondi - International Speaker
Melissa Tondi is the Quality Engineering Lead at E*Trade, Speaker, and the STPCon Program Committee Member.
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within testing teams where the concentration has been on functional, performance, and security, and new and innovative testing techniques. In her current role, she is back to being a practitioner assisting agile teams with continuously improving designing, building, testing, and delivering quality software. She's been in the software test and quality engineering field for more than fifteen years and focuses on organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture. Her previous roles have included director of software quality engineering in the world's leading education company; QA consultant for health care, finance, and software-as-a-service industries; and president of the Software Quality Association of Denver.