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Meet your story curators and editors below.

Techwell Curators

Bob Aiello

Bob Aiello is a consultant, a technical editor for CM Crossroads, and the author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World. Bob has served as the vice chair of the IEEE 828 Standards working group and is a member of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board.

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Nirav Assar

An independent consultant and co-owner of solutionsfit, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based consulting firm, Nirav Assar has provided enterprise solutions on projects in the financial, real estate, government, and retail sectors. With expertise in the Java technologies of Grails, Groovy, Spring, and Seam, Nirav says that agile philosophy and test-driven development are at the heart of his profession. He enjoys sharing techniques and tools that help software people excel at their jobs. Contact Nirav at nirav@solutionsfit.com and view his blog at assarconsulting.blogspot.com.

Bonnie Bailey

Bonnie Bailey is a software test engineer for a health care information technology company. Bonnie is an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction, including software design, testing and development, disruptive and emerging technologies, business leadership, science, and medicine. She also enjoys writing. Find Bonnie online at bbwriting.com.

Steve Berczuk

Steve Berczuk is an engineer and ScrumMaster at Humedica where he's helping to build next-generation SaaS-based clinical informatics applications. He is the author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration, and has an M.S. in operations research from Stanford University and an S.B. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

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Laura Brandenburg

Laura Brandenburg, CBAP, has more than ten years of experience as a business analyst. She is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career and Professional Development for Business Analysts. Laura’s current work is dedicated to helping aspiring and new business analysts solidify their careers. Interested in learning more? Join us at Bridging the Gap.

Mike Brown

Michael Brown is a successful writer and marketer with more than eight years of professional experience. He is currently the content marketing manager at uTest, the world's largest marketplace for software testing services. In this role, Michael manages the company's content marketing initiatives including website content, newsletters, white papers, videos, case studies, blog posts, and more.

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Mukesh Chaudhary

Mukesh Chaudhary works as team lead and ScrumMaster where he is involved in coaching teams to build sophisticated applications using sound agile practices. Mukesh has a Masters in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis. He can be reached at mchadhry@hotmail.com.

Beth Cohen

Beth Cohen is a senior cloud architect for Cloud Technology Partners, delivering solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies. Beth was director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, was involved with the initial development of the Internet, and worked on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.

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Brian Enochson

Brian Enochson is an independent software developer, consultant, and trainer living on the Jersey Shore. Passionate about helping others through writing, mentoring, and training, Brian also loves to learn from others and their experiences. He has a M.S. in computer information systems from Boston University. Contact Brian at brian.enochson@gmail.com.

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Joe Farah

President and CEO of Neuma Technology, Joe Farah is a regular contributor to the CM Journal. Prior to cofounding Neuma in 1990, he was a director of software at Mitel. In the 1970s, Joe developed the Program Library System (PLS), still heavily used by Nortel (Bell-Northern Research), where he worked at the time. He's been a software developer since the late 1960s.

Jessica Fleet

Jessica Fleet is a uTest community management associate. She spends her days working with uTest’s team of 60,000+ global testers—answering questions, encouraging interaction, promoting education, and generally cultivating the uTest community.

David Greenlees

David has been in the software testing industry for ten years, undertaking various roles at many levels. He has spent the majority of his career in a tightly regulated government organization and more recently moved into a consulting role for Revolution IT. This has given David the freedom to start practicing what he has spent the past few years reading about! Passionate about all things communication and leadership, David enjoys the challenges of test management, while still getting his "hands dirty" whenever possible.

Chris Haddad

As vice president of technology evangelism at WSO2, Chris Haddad raises visibility, awareness, and knowledge of platform as a service, service-oriented architecture, and API Management. Previously, Chris led Gartner’s IT1 team advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.

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Payson Hall

Payson Hall has worked on commercial software development and custom systems integration projects for thirty years. He has authored a number of articles on project management and technical topics, developed and taught seminars in practical project management, and has been a featured speaker on project management topics at numerous professional conferences.

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Naomi Karten

Naomi Karten is a writer and speaker who draws from her background in both psychology and IT. Naomi's recent books are Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals and Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change. Readers have described her newsletter, Perceptions and Realities, as lively, informative, and a breath of fresh air. Naomi is a regular columnist for StickyMinds.com.

Jordan Kisor

Jordan is an Account Manager for the cloud computing company, Skytap. He has a passion for start-ups and business entrepreneurship, and has held a variety of sales roles in enterprise-level and technology start-up companies.

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy is an author, speaker and a coach. In his 15+ years of career in the software industry, he has played different roles as a developer, architect and an Agile coach. 

Anuj Magazine

Anuj Magazine is a software testing and general management professional at Citrix Inc. He regularly shares his knowledge and experiences as a conference speaker and writes frequently on diverse topics like software testing, management, sports, and handwriting analysis. Anuj runs ASM, a non-profit organization that contributes to society by counseling and mentoring people using the science of handwriting analysis.

Kent J. McDonald

Kent J. McDonald is an author, speaker, and coach. His more than fifteen years of experience includes work in business analysis, strategic planning, project management, and product development in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, human services, nonprofit, and automotive. He is coauthor of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility.

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Nate Odell

Nate Odell is the director of marketing for the cloud computing company, Skytap. He has more than a decade of online marketing, strategy development, and program execution experience with several software-as-a-service start-ups in the greater Seattle area.

Jacob Orshalick

Jacob Orshalick is a software consultant, open source developer, speaker, and author. He is the owner of solutionsfit and co-author of the best-selling Seam Framework: Experience the Evolution of Java EE His software development experience spans the retail, financial, real estate, media, telecommunications, law enforcement, and health care industries.

Rajini Padmanaban

As director of engagement, Rajini Padmanaban leads the engagement and relationship management for some of QA InfoTech's largest and most strategic accounts. She has more than twelve years of professional experience, primarily in the software quality assurance space. Rajini actively advocates software quality assurance through evangelistic activities including blogging on test trends, technologies, and best practices; providing insights on software testing to analyst firms such as Gartner, IDC; and speaking at the STAR conferences run by SQE.

Erik Petersen

Erik Petersen is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. Erik has helped build software systems across applications, telecommunications, and infrastructure for more than twenty years. He's unwittingly become an encyclopedia of software and test process and management, strategy, automation, and tools. Contact him at ecp@testingspot.net.

Brendan Quinn

A software test professional based in Dublin, Ireland, Brendan Quinn is currently the senior mobile test engineer for a betting exchange. For fifteen years, Brendan has worked in software localization, finance, telecoms, insurance, and gambling industries. He has worked as a test team lead in several companies. Brendan is a strong advocate for process in the SDLC. You can contact him at brendan.quinn@outlook.com.

Adrian Reed

Adrian Reed is a consulting lead business analyst and principal consultant and director at Blackmetric Business Solutions, where he helps organizations solve their pressing problems. Adrian also speaks internationally, trains, and consults on business analysis and business change-related topics. Read his blog at adrianreed.co.uk.

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Pamela Rentz

Pamela Rentz is a freelance writer and editor who has been working in marketing communications and PR for technology—from startups to Fortune 100 outfits—for more than eighteen years. She’s a regular contributor to TechWell.com and GardenTraveler.com. She’s also a Georgia Master Gardener and, when not writing, can usually be found in a garden somewhere.

Beth Romanik

Beth Romanik is a writer and editor for TechWell, SQE, StickyMinds.com, and Better Software magazine. She has written for and edited several other newspapers, magazines, and websites. Beth is excited to learn about new developments in technology, even though she will never give up paper and ink.

Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” helps organizational leaders see problems and risks in their product development. She helps them recognize potential “gotchas,” seize opportunities, and remove impediments. She is working on a book about agile program management. She writes columns for Stickyminds.com and Gantthead.com, and writes two blogs on her web site, jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.

Jamie Saine

Jamie Saine is the marketing writer at uTest, the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services. She spends her time creating white papers, eBooks, case studies, web content, and blog posts focused on mobile, web, and desktop application testing. Jamie particularly gravitates toward the real-world ramifications of testing—or the lack thereof. Reach Jaime at jamies@utest.com.

Rick Scott

Rick Scott is a Canadian philosopher-geek who's profoundly interested in how we can collaborate to make technology work better for everyone. Rick's an incorrigible idealist, an open source contributor, and a staunch believer in testing, universal access, and the hacker ethic. When he's not in front of a computer, you'll find Rick hiking, making cupcakes, or honing his viola technique.

Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst is an agile product manager, product owner, and business analyst and architect. He helps teams achieve software product success by helping them build "the right stuff" and "build the right stuff right." Scott started Tyner Blain in 2005 to focus on helping companies translate strategy and market insights into great products and solutions. Read more at tynerblain.com/blog.

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Mark Tomlinson

Mark Tomlinson assists performance testing professionals in overcoming the difficulties of adopting, implementing, or realizing the value of their investment in performance testing and engineering practices by using my twenty years of experience in software development with software vendors, small IT shops, and even the largest enterprise IT organizations on their behalf.

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Joe Townsend

Joe Townsend has been in the configuration management field for twelve years. He has worked for CNA Life Insurance, RCA, Boeing, UPS, and in state government. Joe has primarily worked with Serena tools, including PVCS Version Manager, Tracker, TeamTrack (Mashups), and Dimensions. He is an administrator for WebFocus and supports Eclipse users.

Jonathan Vanian

Jonathan Vanian is an online editor who edits, writes, interviews, and helps turn the many cranks at StickyMinds, TechWell, Agile Journal, and CM Crossroads. He has worked for newspapers, websites, and a magazine, and is not as scared of the demise of the written word as others may appear to be. Software and high technology never cease to amaze him.

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Steve Vaughn

Steve Vaughn is a twenty-year survivor of the IT wars. He has worked a variety of organizations as a software developer, architect, and ScrumMaster. Steve has spent the past five years attempting the impossible—managing software developers. He is now using this experience to act as an agile coach and help develop high-performing
teams.

Noel Wurst

A resident copywriter and editor for TechWell, SQE, and StickyMinds.com, Noel Wurst has written for numerous blogs, websites, newspapers, and magazines. Noel has presented educational conference sessions for those looking to become better writers. In his spare time, he can be found spending time with his wife and two sons—and tending to the food on his Big Green Egg. Noel eagerly looks forward to technology's future, while refusing to let go of the relics of the past.

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Sameh Zeid

Sameh Zeid currently implements agile and lean in IT and software development. He believes that projects can be more successful if they employ the ideas of agile, lean, and gamification. For more than twenty-five years, Sameh has participated in different roles in myriad projects for various industries around the world. He's learned that software practitioners are passionate to innovate, and it's up to management to not demotivate them. Sameh blogs at koo-doy.com.