2008-2009 Officers
- Joyce Statz, President
Dr. Joyce Statz, an independent consultant, provides education and guidance in process improvement, project management, measurement, requirements handling and software acquisition. In more than 30 years of experience as a software professional, her consulting work has met needs of clients ranging from CIO to individual developer at more than 90 organizations world-wide. Recently a Vice President at Borland Software Corporation, she helped integrate the process offerings into Borland's consulting practice from the acquisition of TeraQuest, the company that Joyce co-founded and co-led for 12 years. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at Texas Instruments in Austin, as developer, Project Manager, and Manager of software development, as well as being an early proponent of software process improvement. Today she works with individual organizations, and she serves as an adjunct professor in the MS in Project Management Program at St. Edward's University in Austin. In the role of Austin SPIN President, she enjoys networking with some of the brightest professionals in the world!
- John Duncanson, Vice President
John Duncanson has over 20 years full-time software development experience, plus an additional 13 years before that interfacing computers to scientific instrumentation. John has degrees in chemistry and physics. He has done real-time programming under RSX, including device drivers, has been a systems administrator, worked for a while in configuration management, followed by 7 years developing a real-time simulation of a military command and control decision making system, and most recently modeling requirements for large software projects.
John has worked in all areas of the software development cycle - interviewing customers, creating and managing requirements, workflow analysis, high level design, detailed design, design for maintainability, web site design, documentation, databases, configuration management, testing, scripted test tools, QA, user acceptance testing. He has been trained in and is an advocate of usability.
John has been a member of ASPIN since 1995 and served as A-SPIN webmaster from 2004 to 2009.
- Brent Hoffman, Program Chair
Brent Hoffman is program and development manager. His background includes work focused in engineering software in embedded software systems, engineering tools, object oriented databases, design supply chain, and electronic design automation. His interests are in developing team and individual growth, effective light-weight processes, requirements analysis, quality assurance and quality control. Brent has a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Washington and a Certificate in Project and Program Management from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Andrew Badgley, Board Member At Large (with financial responsibilities)
Andrew Badgley is a software validation enginerd with experience in computer hardware development, processor-level testing, and validation. He recently did CPU validation for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), qualifying the performance of the microprocessor logic for a leading-edge design. In prior positions, Andrew was the lead tester on a mobile device for use in some business laptops from a major manufacturer, and he ran his own company for many years providing computer support to corporations of various sizes. In addition to his technical interests at work, Andrew manages his home farm of 7 servers and several dozen other pieces of equipment. He needs to unplug the washing machine from the 220 outlet to run the largest systems.
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