Addelston, Jonathan D.
UpStart Systems, LLC

Jonathan D. Addelston a consultant leading the Department of Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Architecture Modeling Team.  He was the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Team Lead at the DoD Defense Business Transformation that is developing an extensive Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) from June 2004 to April 2009 in the new DoD Business Transformation Agency. 

He started UpStart Systems as a systems and software engineering consulting practice in 1996, focusing on enterprise architecture, process improvement, business process re-engineering, process management, and independent verification and validation.

He was the CTO at BDM International (1995-96), the Vice President for Software Engineering at PRC, Inc. (1989-95), and  a founding Vice President at the Software Productivity Consortium (1986-89).  He has led product development organizations for the Software Productivity Consortium (now the Systems and Software Consortium), Encore Computer Corporation, Wang Laboratories, and other firms.

He graduated from MIT in 1965 (before it had an undergraduate computer science major).  He is the co-founder and program chair of the first chapter of the Software Process Improvement Network (in Washington DC).

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Augustin, Nixon
Brocade Communications

Badgley, Warren
GB Tech

Berry, Ben
Oregon's Department of Transportation

Mr. Ben Berry serves as ODOT’s Chief Information Officer providing overall leadership, planning, development, and delivery of information technology services for ODOT and several other non-transportation organizations.  As CIO for one of the largest state agencies, Mr. Berry supports Intelligent Transportation Systems, e-Government and major systems change and is responsible for systems supporting highways, bridges, rail service, right-of-way determinations, DMV and Motor Carrier Commercial Trucking inspections and licensing throughout the state. He is currently the Board Chair for Lifeworks NW, a $30m nonprofit organization serving risky behavior prevention, addiction services and mental health.  He is the former Board Chair for St. Andrews Nativity School educating students to surpass their social-economic conditions.  He is the former Chief Technology Officer of Providence Health System Oregon supporting a Service Area of 7 hospitals and 33 clinics.

Mr. Berry has held executive and management positions in industries such as State and Local government, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace/defense and airport transportation.  He received his M.B.A. from UCLA and a B.S. in Life Science - Biotechnology from the University of Portland.  He has 25+ years in computer software program management and operations, computer applications development and design, and systems development for public and private sectors both in the U.S.A. and the Middle-East.  In addition, he has facilitated business process improvement for the automotive, aerospace, healthcare industries. He is also the Winner of the 2007 Oregon IT Executive of the Year, as chosen by the Society of Information Management (SIM) and selected as Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2008.  He serves as CEO of AirShip Technologies Group, an open technology manufacturing innovation of hyper-efficient maglev spherical induction motors for ground transit vehicles.

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Dekkers, Carol
Quality Plus Technologies

President of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc., and partner at 4SUM Partners, USA, Business partner and seasoned northernSCOPE™ scope manager, as well as an internationally recognized expert on software measurement, scope management, estimating and international standards.  Ms. Dekkers is a practicing professional who holds designations as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

Carol is the project editor to ISO on Functional Size Measurement (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG 12), a current U.S. delegate to ISO SC7 Software Engineering (since 1994) and a technical advisor to the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) . She was the President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) Board of Directors in 1998-1999, Chair of PMI Metrics SIG in 2003 and a member of PMI Leadership Institute LI’04. Carol is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software Division council, and track chair for the annual Congress – Software Division track.  

Recent visiting scientist for measurement with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University  and frequent presenter and trainer at metrics and quality conferences including IFPUG, Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) , American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), Applications of Software Measurement (ASM), Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Applied Computer Research (Client/Server conference).

Carol’s project management experience involves financial, judicial, MIS, engineering and scientific systems, in both private and public sectors. She is co-author of two books: Practical software measurement: Advice from the experts (IFPUG, Addison-Wesley, 2004), and Practical Project Estimation, 2nd Edition (ISBSG, 2005).

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Giacometti, Michael
Consultant

Michael Giacometti is a Manager at Capgemini focusing on Quality Assurance and Quality Control.  Mr. Giacometti has over 10 years experience with IT Governance, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.  He has spent most of his career creating Quality Assurance Departments and creating Testing Centers of Excellence.  He has also delivered multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 organizations.  Lately, he has been focusing on Organizational Transformation around Quality Assurance and IT Governance.

One of Mr. Giacometti's primary roles has been working with Sr. Executives, Management, and Decision Makers on transforming and optimizing their Project and Portfolio Management practices.  Through this, he has successfully cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from an organization's IT budget while increasing their headcount.  He has closely worked with Fortune 100 companies around Quality Assurance.  He is recognized as an expert in Quality Assurance and Quality Control.  He has published numerous white papers and presented at conferences such as Mercury World, HP Software Universe, Better Software Conference and Expo, as well as for the Quality Assurance Institute; all around optimizing IT departments through Quality Assurance.

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Jarzombek, Joe - PMP
Director of Software Assurance, Homeland Security - Cyber Security Division

Joe Jarzombek is the Director for Software Assurance in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division.  He leads government interagency efforts with industry, academia, and standards organizations to shift the security paradigm away from patch management by addressing security needs in work force education and training, research and development (especially diagnostic tools), and development and acquisition practices.  After retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lt. Col. in program management, Jarzombek worked in the cyber security industry as vice president for product and process engineering. He later served in two software-related positions within the Office of the Secretary of Defense prior to accepting his current position.  As a Project Management Professional, Jarzombek has spoken extensively on measurement, software assurance, and acquisition topics.  He encourages further review of DHS-sponsored software assurance efforts via the Build Security In website.

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Johnson, Dion
Automated Testing Institute

Mathubala, Nagender
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield

Nagender Mathubala is a Sr. Executive in Test Management and he recently worked as Director of Quality Organization in Care first BCBS responsible for developing shared services organization and has been credited with bringing the organizational transformation in short span of time and attained immense cost optimization and increased service levels. In this role, he also integrated various interdependent quality entities like Environment Management and Configuration management into the overall Quality Value Chain.

His expertise lies in developing the Global Quality Assurance and Shared Services organizations, outsourcing management, process reengineering, performance management & customer relationship management.

Besides bringing quality perspective into business arena, he has led  CMMI implementations and has been a hands on technology expert in areas of Performance, Automation and Business Process Testing.

He has 16 + years of experience in leading some of the leading organizations across North America, Latin America and Europe. He has implemented matured  Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) for his Fortune 500 clients. His clients spanned a wide spectrum including  from automotive, healthcare, retail, insurance and financial organizations.

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Mayo, Joseph
Mantech

Mr. Mayo is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Risk Management Professional (RMP).  Mr. Mayo is an IT Professional with more than 27 years of experience including 13 years of hands-on development and 12 years of Project and Program Management.  Mr. Mayo has spent 17 of the past 27 years as a consultant for a number of companies including CSC and Keane.  Mr. Mayo is a frequent speaker on topics involving program / project management and quality.  Mr. Mayo is currently a Senior Program Manager for Keane Federal Systems responsible for the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of the Department of Homeland Security, Secure Border Initiative and holds a BS/IT degree from the University of Phoenix.  Career highlights include:

• Program Manager for project #7 of the top 100 IT Projects of 2006 by InfoWorld. Developed PMO procedures, the collaboration workspace, and Executive level dashboards for a PMO to divest a large International conglomerate ($18B 2005 revenue). The PMO was responsible for cloning 112 Corporate Applications for 4 separate operating companies, and renegotiating 1300 telecommunications, IT service and license contracts without impacting the day to day operations of any one of the operating companies (http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/wave-spin-offs-puts-keane-test-968).
• Leveraged the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS (EPIC) to deliver new capability that dramatically improved the efficiency of the Air Force supply chain resulting in a ROI calculated at 6:1 in the first 12 months alone.

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Micallef, Akemi
TEKSystems

Akemi Micallef has 16 years of experience in the IT industry with 11 years in software testing and quality assurance.  She has led testing projects in diverse technical environments. She currently performs quality process assessments and implementations for various IT organizations across many different categories of projects. In her role as a QA architect for Compuware Corporation, she has been the driving force behind the successful delivery of QA and testing solutions customized to fit their customer's business needs. She holds CSTE since 2005.

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Pollner, Andrew
ALP International Corporation

Andrew L. Pollner is President and CEO of ALP International Corporation, a leading organization in the area of test process improvement and in the use of test automation tools to bring efficiency and effectiveness to the testing process.  As an early adopter of test automation and quality assurance tools Mr. Pollner has built a consulting and training practice serving major financial, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications companies and government agencies to ensure their successful implementation of test automation tools and surrounding processes.  Mr. Pollner has published articles on software testing and automation and regularly speaks at major national and international testing conferences, including: STAR (Software Testing Analysis & Review), EuroSTAR, USPDI, Mercury Interactive Worldwide, Verify, and the National Capital Area Software Testing Forum which he created and chairs. Mr. Pollner is a Director for the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB) standardizing tester certifications in the US and chairs the Expert Level Test Automation Working Party for the ISTQB worldwide tester certification body.

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Ranadive, Rajashri
Consultant

Reynolds, Edwin
ALP International Corporation

Edwin J Reynolds is the Director of Consulting Services at ALP International Corporation, a leading organization in the area of test process improvement and in the use of test automation tools to bring efficiency and effectiveness to the testing process.  Mr. Reynolds has been in involved in Quality Assurance (QA) and Automation for 15 years. As the QA manager at Capital One Finance Corp. he introduced and implemented automation testing throughout all functional areas witch included automated Load testing. Mr. Reynolds then worked for Mercury Interactive as a senior technical engineer delivering and implementing automation to 100’s of customers throughout the United States. He also was the leader in helping Mercury Interactive develop and deliver best practices and strategies for implementing automation.

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Rinko-Gay, William
Spherion

Bill Rinko-Gay is a Solutions Director for Technisource.  Bill has been involved in Software Test and Quality Assurance since 1982 when he began testing command and control software for orbiting satellites.  Frustrated with the lack of structure in the testing program Bill began working on a more comprehensive approach to software quality.  Since leaving the space program Bill has worked on projects in defense, computer manufacturing, publishing, computer security, financial, state and local governments.  With experience in development teams ranging in size from three to sixty and in the middle of his third decade in the field, Bill is still looking for techniques to allow teams to work well.  His most recent research is in Agile methodologies, and the role of Software Quality Assurance in these methodologies.  Bill currently holds PMP and CSQA certifications.

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Sharma, Mohan
Management Consultant

Mohan Sharma is a Sr Management Consultant with 15 plus years in delivering IT strategies, large programs and quality initiatives. He helped organizations in establishing Shared Services organizations, Program Management Practice, Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) and IT Governance. He has brought high cost savings through effective organizational resource planning and optimization. He was also responsible for delivering large programs under a global delivery model, outsourcing governance and managing enterprise change management.

With deep knowledge and a practitioner of IT Quality, IT Program management and IT Governance, he has over the years successfully blended these aspects to develop holistic IT Organizations, IT Strategies and IT delivery solutions. In the past, he was instrumental in developing matured Program Management Office (PMO) organizations for Fortune 500 companies to enable integrated strategy and delivery of very large project portfolios with high emphasis on quality. 

For Business-IT alignment and measurable quality delivery, he developed Service and Operating Agreements for the core IT capabilities. His client base and industries included supply chain, healthcare, transportation, outsourcing service providers and insurance.

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