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AlexForbes
Alex Forbes is the Community Manager for Software Quality Connection. Alex is also the Sr. Social Media, PR, Community Manager at SmartBear Software, the sponsor of Software Quality Connection. He has spent the last ten years working for software companies focused on software... Read More
Andy Lester
Andy Lester has been a software developer for over 25 years and has spoken at technical conferences large and small for a decade. He's the creator of the code search tool ack and has written or maintains
Andy Patrizio
Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist with almost 20 years of experience covering the Silicon Valley, and has done stints with InformationWeek, InternetNews.com and PC Week (now eWeek). He currently resides in southern California.... Read More
Brenda Kerton
Brenda Kerton is the owner of Capability Insights Consulting. She is an accomplished leader and management professional with over 25 years of experience and a strong reputation for helping organizations get things done. She is... Read More
Cameron Laird
Cameron Laird is vice president and co-founder of boutique software consultancy Phaseit, Inc. During his long involvement with data-management systems he's played nearly every role on the tech side, including development manager, technical writer, front-line coder, project... Read More
Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin has been programming for a living since stone knives and punch cards. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Duke, is ABD from both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, is a certified SCRUM master and Agile proponent.... Read More
Daniel Dern
Daniel P. Dern is a freelance technology writer based in Newton Center, MA. His web site is www.dern.com and his technology blog is TryingTechnology.com.... Read More
Danny Kalev
Danny Kalev is a certified system analyst and software engineer specializing in C++. He was a member of the C++ standards committee from 1997 to 2000. Kalev has written several C++ textbooks and writes a weekly C++ column on
David "Lefty" Schlesinger
David "Lefty" Schlesinger is a 35-year veteran of the technology industry, having spent half that at Apple, Palm and Palmsource, as an engineer, manager and director. He's well-known, for better or worse, in the open source community, and is a founder of the GNOME Mobile... Read More
Donald Baker
Donald Baker, a freelance technology writer and researcher, is a recent Georgia Tech grad with a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. Donald taught himself Visual Basic at the age of 12, and has been programming ever since. He began his writing career by writing news stories... Read More
Ed Tittel
Ed Tittel is a full-time freelance writer and consultant who specializes in Internet security, markup languages, and Web development, plus Windows operating systems. A former software developer, he’s also the author of over 100 books on computing topics from TCP/IP to MythTV.... Read More
Eddie Correia
Eddie Correia is former editor of Software Test Pro magazine (formerly Software Test & Performance magazine). During his three years at the helm of this monthly for software test professionals, he also served as chairman of the Software Test & Performance Conference,... Read More
Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler is the editorial director of Software Quality Connection. Esther has been writing about technology subjects since 1992. She has focused on software development topics for the last several years, with her byline appearing in CIO.com, ITWorld.com, Software Test... Read More
Esther Shein
Esther Shein is a freelance writer and editor specializing in technology and business. Her work has appeared in several online and print publications, including InformationWeek.com, Computerworld, CIO, CFO,
Eugene Nizker
Mr. Nizker is an experienced CIO, CTO, and Agile coach. His technical expertise, accumulated during 30+ years in software development, is augmented by versatile business acumen. Eugene is referred to as a "people's manager" which helps him build exceptionally strong teams that... Read More
Jason Cohen
Founder of Smart Bear Inc, author of Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review, and blogger at A Smart Bear.... Read More
Jeff Cogswell
Jeff Cogswell is a writer and software engineer living near Cincinnati. He has written over a dozen books about programming, including C++ All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies (with
Jim Mischel
Jim Mischel is a co-founder of Metadata Labs, and one of the developers of the Internet TV site Podly TV. When he's not tearing his hair out over user interfaces or working on... Read More
Joe Brockmeier
Joe Brockmeier is a freelance writer with more than 10 years experience working in and writing about IT. Brockmeier has served as community manager for openSUSE and as editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine. He has written for Linux... Read More
John Mueller
John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 87 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads down programming. Some of his current... Read More
Larry Marine
A 20-year veteran in the consulting world, is a leading expert in product design, having designed over 200 projects, with many achieving market dominance success. He has worked with many types of products, such as enterprise software, websites, and medical devices, in various... Read More
Lisa Crispin
An agile testing coach and practitioner, Lisa Crispin is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to Beautiful Testing and Testen in der Finanzwelt. She also co-wrote Testing Extreme Programming. Lisa specializes in showing... Read More
Lisa Morgan
Lisa Morgan has more than 15 years experience as a high tech journalist and marketer with particular emphasis on enterprise software, software development, networking, telecommunications, e-commerce, security, mobility, and online marketing. She typically writes about how... Read More
Lisa Vaas
Lisa Vaas has been a print and online journalist since 1995, when she first started writing feature articles for PC Week—which later went on to become eWEEK—that focused on Customer Relationship Management technology, the care and feeding of then-scarce... Read More
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser consults on software and business issues with a focus on quality. A member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Software Testing, Matt was also the lead organizer of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, now in its sixth year. You can read... Read More
Michael Larsen
Michael Larsen is a lone tester in San Francisco, California. He has spent 17 years in testing and test organizations, ranging from network routers and web caching devices to distributed databases dealing with the legal and entertainment industries. Michael is a Brown Belt in the... Read More
Molly Holzschlag
Molly E. Holzschlag, known to many as "mollydotcom" or just plain "Mols" is an author, teacher and Open Web Evangelist. She has spent the majority of her 25 years in IT working with the Internet, and observed the Web emerge and evolve from its first days at CERN. She has spent... Read More
Pam Baker
Pam Baker is the author of eight books and hundreds of technology articles published in leading online and print publications including CIO.com, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, IT World, Linux World, CIO Update, Internet News, E-Commerce Times, MacNewsWorld, I Six Sigma magazine,... Read More
Scott M. Fulton III
Scott M. Fulton, III is a 27-year veteran journalist, author, and editor of the technology industry’s most widely read news and education services. With 17 books and over 3,200 articles to his credit, the energy output from the publication of his words alone may have been put... Read More
Sharon Fisher
Sharon Fisher is a veteran computer journalist who has been on staff at InfoWorld, CommunicationsWeek, and Computerworld. Her freelance work has appeared in numerous publications and online sites including BetaNews.com,
Sharon Stern
Sharon Stern is an information architect and ontologist based in Portland, Oregon. For the past five years, she's been designing and building ontologies that power semantic applications. Her interests include semantics and the semantic web, information architecture, and knowledge... Read More
Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a... Read More
Shawna McAlearney
Shawna McAlearney is a Boston-based freelance writer who has covered the business and technology space for more than 10 years. Her articles have appeared in a number of publications, including Information Security magazine, CSO,
Steve Sechrist
Steve Sechrist is an electronics and mobile TV expert who is responsible for the editorial management of Insight Media's Large Display Report and Mobile Display Report. He was previously a technology marketing engineer at InFocus Corporation.... Read More
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' first programming language was IBM OS/360 JCL. He does not recommend this as the way to start a career as a developer. Since then, perhaps as a a result, he's spent most of his time as a technology journalist.... Read More
Tim Ottinger
Tim Ottinger is the originator and co-author of Agile in a Flash, contributor to
Timothy Jeffcoat
Tim Jeffcoat lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife and son. He regularly writes for AZ Snakepit, the premier blog for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and enjoys a good day at the ballpark. Tim just graduated from Arizona State University.... Read More
Tristan Louis
Tristan Louis is an Internet veteran, having worked in the Internet industry since 1993. Mr. Louis was founder of Internet.com, a co-founder of Earthweb's developer.com, and the interim CTO for Boo.com. He has held many other roles at... Read More
