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Austin Software Improvement Network (A-SPIN) Board

2007-2008 Officers

  • Joyce Statz, Acting President
    Dr. Joyce Statz focuses her consulting practice on enabling software organizations to maximize their productivity and competitiveness. With more than 30 years of experience as an IT professional, her consulting activities of the last 15 years have met needs of people ranging from CIO to individual developer. Examples include:
    • developing measures for the CIO of General Motors, to enable Third Generation Outsourcing of IT
    • providing guidance on best practices for process improvement for Gartner Research
    • analyzing PMO performance for the City of Los Angeles CIO
    • mentoring the work of process groups at Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Sony, General Motors, Intel, and many others
    • building and teaching a curriculum of 30 courses on project management, process improvement, and software development practices, used for more than 2500 days of client-site training at TeraQuest
    • developing a project management certificate program for the Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas
    • leading the Process Improvement Working Group for Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM), the foremost software industry measurement organization

    She recently served as a Vice President in the Worldwide Services organization at Borland, integrating process offerings into Borland’s software businesses. That work followed on from the acquisition of TeraQuest, the software process improvement company that Joyce co-led for 12 years. In addition, Joyce managed various levels of software development over a period of 15 years at Texas Instruments, as well as being an early proponent of software process improvement.

  • Tom Wyoming, Vice President
    Thomas R. Wyoming has been with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) since 1999. He has 30+ years of experience with IBM mainframes. He was a software developer and later a quality assurance manager on the StorageTek teams that introduced the hugely successful "silo" (robotic tape library) that enabled "lights out" operation of mainframe computers. He has personally installed and upgraded IBM mainframe operating systems in the past, and he now manages projects that upgrade IBM mainframe operating systems and related program products for CSC's clients. He has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, an MS in Computer Information Science from Regis University, and he earned a PMP Certificate in August, 2001.

  • Brent Hoffman, Program Chair
    Brent Hoffman is a Program Manager at Freescale. 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. Brent learned programming using paper tape on a PDP-8 and punch cards on a Burroughs 5500. Ask him about Buck Roger’s death ray and its affect on early mini-computer systems.

  • Leeman Schmidt, PMP, Secretary/Treasurer
    Leeman Schmidt is a project manager with the Texas State Comptrollers Office working on project and contract management. Leeman has over 15 years in the project management and software development in multiple industries. Leeman has a BS in Computer Science from Park University. He has earned a certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute. He is a member of the Austin SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) and Austin PMI Group.

  • John Duncanson, Communications Chair
    John Duncanson has over 18 years full-time software development experience, plus an additional 9 years before that developing software in a scientific environment. He has done real-time programming under RSX, including device drivers, has been a systems administrator for RSX and VMS systems, worked for a while in Configuration Management, followed by 7 years developing real-time simulation of a military command and control decision making system. He has also developed a computer based training course. He is currently working for a small startup developing software to help managers manage 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 and some project management. He has been trained in and is an advocate of usability.

    John has been a member of ASPIN since 1995.


We are seeking more volunteers to help with the work of ASPIN.

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