Debra Lavell has 10 years experience in quality engineering, currently working as a Program Manager in the Platform Quality Methods Group, part of the Corporate Platform Office at Intel Corporation. Her role is to help drive good requirements engineering practices into Intel’s various product development teams. Prior to her work in quality, Debra spent 8 years managing an IT department responsible for 500+ node network for ADC Telecommunications. Debra has been involved in PNSQC since 1999, as an attendee, paper presenter, and various positions on the board. Debra is a member of Portland, Oregon’s Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) steering committee where she coordinates the monthly speakers, and communicating meeting information. She holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Management with an emphasis on Industrial Relations.

Email: president at pnsqc.org

Keith Stobie is a Test Architect at Microsoft where he plans, designs, and reviews software architecture and tests for Search and XML Messaging (Windows Communication Foundation). Over the past 25 years he has focused on software testing distributed systems including Tandem Fault Tolerant systems, Informix Parallel database, and transactional and collaborative software at BEA Systems. Keith provides training on inspections and quality process, and test training, strategy, methodology, design, tools, and automation. Keith has mentored and coached hundreds of professionals in the field. He writes and speaks to conferences around the world on software engineering, SQA, and testing.

Email: vp at pnsqc.org

Doug Reynolds is a Software Quality Engineer at Tektronix Inc., in Beaverton Oregon. Doug has worked for Tektronix for the past 13 years. He holds a Master of Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Oregon Institute of Technology. Doug has presented at PNSQC on four different occasions and has assisted with the Exhibits Committee, Selection Committee, and Review Committee. This past year Doug was the PNSQC Secretary and is currently serving as the PNSQC Treasurer.

Email: treasurer at pnsqc.org

David graduated from Cambridge (UK) with a degree in Mathematics. He spent the years between 1960 and 1995 working worldwide in the oil exploration profession using the computer for both seismic signal analysis and for mapping. In 1995 he moved to Portland where he was briefly involved in a medical ultrasound startup venture. In 1999 he took over as IT manager at the CDRC division of OHSU and presented a PNSQC paper on their Y2K project methodology. In 1999 he also graduated from OGI with a MS degree in computer science. When he retired in 2004 he became increasingly involved in PNSQC and has served as program chair for the past three conferences.

Email: secretary at pnsqc.org

Bill Gilmore is the Operations and Infrastructure chair for PNSQC. He has worked in software engineering for over 20 years in various development, management, process and consulting roles. He worked in two small companies, then worked at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. He moved to Oregon in 1993 to head up the Software Process Improvement program at Tektronix. Most recently he worked at Intel for 10 years with several product teams and business groups on software product quality, product life cycles and several areas of software engineering. He led CMM and product life cycle assessments and organized and led follow-on improvement programs. Bill has a Ph.D. in Astronomy; has published papers in Software Engineering, Strategic Planning, and Astronomy; and has presented at several conferences.

Email: operations at pnsqc.org

Marilyne Pelerine works as IT QA Manager for Symetra Financial in Seattle, a company with over $20 billion in assets. She has worked in information technology for several financial services companies in various roles for the past 18 years. As part of Quality Management Services, and under her leadership, the QA team provides focus on quality through best practices resulting in cost-efficient technology solutions for Symetra’s business partners and excellent service to customers. Marilyne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Psychology from University of Massachusetts. This is her first year serving on the PNSQC Board of Directors.

Email: audit at pnsqc.org

A quality evangelist and current Conference and Program Chair, Ian is a veteran software developer, quality assurance engineer, and manager with experience in the manufacturing, financial services, construction, and security domains. Since 1979, Ian has improved productivity and software quality through rigorous development methods and processes and now through the diligent application of Agile methods. He attended the very first PNSQC in 1983. Ian has contributed to SAO QASIG, PDX Software Roundtable, ASQ’s CSQE, and the SEI’s SEPG conference. As an Agile Alliance member and Agile Manifesto signer, his current interests include a) collaborative quality and b) applying agile methods to nurture high performing teams that produce profitable, maintainable products. Go, Beavs!!

Email: program at pnsqc.org