Consulting Services

• Consulting on software testing to software development organizations from startups to global enterprises
• Consulting on due-diligence evaluation of software or testing processes for companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions
• Testing and evaluating software, development projects, and processes based on the project community's requirements, project goals, development practices, business needs, and other context drivers
• Presenting in-depth, experiential courses, workshops, seminars, and clinics on software testing worldwide
• Helping product teams and management in understanding, co-ordinating, scheduling, and integrating testing into the product lifecycle; fostering clear communication between project stakeholders
• Providing testing and program management services to software companies and engineering groups in the early stages of product development, ensuring proper planning and co-ordination until permanent staff becomes available
• Providing short-term program management, testing and configuration management services to development and engineering groups in order to rescue runaway projects and bring them back under control
• Providing advice and assistance to companies and program managers in establishing simple, effective, non-invasive processes that help to ensure the delivery of high-quality software projects on time and on budget
• Qualifying, hiring, and training of permanent program management and engineering staff

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience providing consulting services to companies involved in a wide variety of software and Web development projects, from large banking and retail to small service shops
• Co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course and a methodology of testing that focuses on the skill and the mindset of the individual tester to perform excellent testing more quickly and less expensively, in a way that will stand up to scrutiny
• Three years of teaching Rapid Software Testing courses and workshops in the United States, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, and Brazil; and four years of prior experience teaching software testing
• Four years of experience as a columnist for Better Software Magazine, the world's most prominent software testing and quality assurance publication
• Respected and highly rated speaker at numerous worldwide conferences, including STAR East (Orlando, FL), STARWest (Anaheim, CA), Amplifying Your Effectiveness (solo and co-presentations with James Bach, Fiona Charles, and Jerry Weinberg), EuroSTAR (Stockholm, Sweden and Den Haag, Netherlands), STeP-IN Forum (Bangalore, India), expo:QA (Madrid, Spain), STANZ (Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia)
• Winner of the inaugural CapGemini Award for Innovation at EuroSTAR 2008
• Program Chair for the Conference for the Association for Software Testing, 2008
• Program Chair for the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, 2005 to present
• Founder (with Fiona Charles) of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing, 2005 - 2008.
• Four years experience as program manager for a major commercial software company, delivering eight major releases and ten maintenance releases which set the company's highest standards for quality and timeliness
• Program Manager for QEMM-386 (which was, at its time, the best-selling software product in the world, per PC Magazine), DESQview, Quarterdeck (later Norton) CleanSweep and other products.
• Repeatedly assigned to rescue troubled software projects late in development process, bringing them back on schedule to release; also co-ordinated first company releases of several externally-developed products
• Directed internal product teams averaging twelve core members and up to thirty associated members, including subsidiary offices in Europe
• Successfully managed relationships with outside development groups in external sites from Los Angeles to Israel
• Principal author of company-wide product life cycle manuals and extensive technical documentation
• Practical experience in all aspects of product life cycle, including specification, programming, quality assurance, configuration management, technical support, marketing communications, training, and documentation
• Presented company products as primary speaker at Comdex USA, Comdex Canada, Pacific Rim Computer Show, and other national and international trade shows
• Author of VSS2CCM, a tool to migrate Visual SourceSafe version control databases to Continuus/CM, a configuration management product
• Co-author of INTLAPI, a software library written in C++ to aid companies in rapid internationalization of existing code