Austin Software Improvement
Network (A-SPIN) Board
We are seeking more volunteers to help with the work of ASPIN.
More Info
For more information about A-SPIN, or to suggest program topics, send email to: President "at" austin-spin.org
Mailing List
Information about monthly meetings are distributed by E-mail. To be added to the mailing list, send your name, company, mailing address, zip code and Internet address to: President "at" austin-spin.org
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!
- Pat Scherer, Vice President
Pat Scherer’s interest in software process improvement began with a transition from Industrial Engineering to Software Development in 1986. She continues to be drawn to the challenge of bringing teams together to deliver on new initiatives, and learns new lessons with every engagement. As President and “Chief Detail Officer” of The Detail Person (www.thedetailperson.com), Pat works with a network of freelance talent to help clients transform their ideas into successful businesses, products and services. Her roles include business analyst, designer, project manager and strategist. Past accomplishments include defining and managing delivery of new hosted software platforms for Affinegy, CyberSource, Paymetric and Globeset and spearheading a $30M/year professional services initiative for Dialogic. During her 17 year tenure at IBM, Pat led key product initiatives for OS/2 and LAN Server and authored the IBM LAN Server Sourcebook (1996, John Wiley). When not at her PC, Pat enjoys music, writing and cooking for friends.
- 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.
- Scott Brookhart, Secretary/Treasurer
Scott Brookhart currently works at the Texas Education Agency as a Senior Software Engineer on special projects. He has experience through all aspects of the software development lifecycle, with different methodologies and programming languages. Scott has a Master's in Software Engineering and a Master's in Business Administration, is a lifelong learner and holds several certifications. Scott is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, PMI and recently SEI. As an ASPIN member, Scott hopes to assist others with a greater understanding of software process as well as build his own understanding of software process. This is his first year with ASPIN and looks forward to the coming year as Secretary/Treasurer.
- John Duncanson, Communications Chair
John Duncanson has over 19 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.
- Andrew Badgley, Board Member At Large (with financial responsibilities)
We are seeking more volunteers to help with the work of ASPIN.
More Info
For more information about A-SPIN, or to suggest program topics, send email to: President "at" austin-spin.org
Mailing List
Information about monthly meetings are distributed by E-mail. To be added to the mailing list, send your name, company, mailing address, zip code and Internet address to: President "at" austin-spin.org