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Conference Chair
Peter Walen has been involved in software development for more than twenty-five years. Today, Pete is a Senior Software Quality Engineer with Salesforce. He describes himself as a Software Anthropologist and Tester, examining how software and people relate and react to each other. Pete is a member of the Board of Directors of AST, a frequent conference speaker and an active blogger on software testing at rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com.
Follow Pete on Twitter @PeteWalen.
Program Committee
Matt Heusser (Committee Chair) is the Managing Consultant at Excelon Development. Matt is a former board member of AST, 2014 CAST Keynote Speaker and recipient of the 2014 Most Influential Agile Test Professional Personal Award. The creator of the Lean Software Testing family of methods and a serious student of the Miagdo School, Matt is probably best known for his writing. Follow Matt on twitter @mheusser, email him at Matt@xndev.com, or read more about more at www.xndev.com.
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 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 and tweets as @huibschoots. He works for Improve Quality Services, a provider of consultancy and training in the field of testing.
Justin Rohrman is a consulting software tester with a day job. He has been performing software testing in various industries and capacities for close to 10 years now. Outside of his day job, Justin is an assistant or lead instructor for 3 of the four BBST courses offered by AST, frequent facilitator for Weekend Testing Americas, miagi-do black belt, and a writer. He writes often for ITKnowledgeExchange, Stickyminds, and his own personal blog.The successes he is most proud of are the ones the involve people and the software testing community.
Erik Davis has over 16 years of experience in and around testing. The majority of his time has been in a variety of leadership positions ranging from team lead to senior manager leading teams of 2 to 65 people. In his current role, he has oversight of the team that educates 180+ testers. He also is responsible for identifying ways to bring in, engage, and retain testers. His current project is to research, design and create an internal automation team.
He blogs at www.testingthoughts.com/erikdavis/ and is on Twitter (@erikld). He has been a member of AST since 2012 and has been a speaker at CAST 2013, CAST 2014, QA or the Highway 2014, Targeting Quality 2014 and he is also the programs lead for NOSQAA (www.nosqaa.org) and runs the NOTiCE tester meet up (http://meetup.com/NOTiCE).
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