Quality Software

Kerry Kimbrough

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High-performance software quality professional. Unique combination of quality engineering expert, agile QA

mobilizer, and seasoned project leader.

Skills

Software engineering

Quality engineering: test planning, design, automation; coverage analysis; inspections; defect metrics

Usability engineering: personas, task analysis, usability testing

W eb applications: Java, EJB3, JBoss, XML, XSLT, JSP, JAX, Hibernate, Spring, JMS, HTTP

GUI: Java, Swing, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C++, MFC, X11, Motif, Tcl/Tk

Database: SQL, PL/SQL, object/relational, JDBC

Embedded systems: C, SNMP, QNX, VxWorks

Tools: UNIX, W indows, Eclipse, Ant, Mercurial, Git, SVN, CVS, Jenkins, JUnit, Selenium, Mockito

Methods: TDD, BDD, use cases, RUP, UML, QFD

Project management

Process management: Scrum, agility, RUP, SEI CMM

Effective methods for planning, estimation, tracking: Rally, MS Project, MS Excel

15 software products delivered to market

Experience

Starting Block Technologies, Austin, TX (2003-now): Owner of quality engineering services company

(www.startingblocktech.com ). Services include test automation, test planning, and process improvement.

Applications include ETL, wireless networks, f actory automation, workflow, and business intelligence. [Java,

JBoss, EJB3, Hibernate, JMS, XSLT, JAX, Ant, Jenkins, Selenium, JUnit, Mockito, JMock, Oracle, MySQL]

CALEB Technologies, Austin, TX (2002-2003): Director, QA: Mobilized isolated testers into an effective multi-

project team, coaching new skills and knowledge sharing and defining better processes. Conceived and built the

AirlineEmulator test tool. [Java, XML, JSP, Apache, Tomcat, MQSeries, JMS, JUnit, Visual .NET]

ClearCommerce, Austin, TX (2002): (Tek Systems consultant) Developed GUI for Web-based credit card

payment processor. [C++, CGI, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, UNIX, Windows]

BusinessThreads, Austin, TX (2001-2002): Developed a complex Swing GUI for business process modeling

multiple windows, tree views, undo/redo, 2D graphical editing. [Java, Swing, SQL, JUnit, Windows]

TippingPoint Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (1999-2001): Quality champion: Trained inspection teams and

defined spec standards. Developed embedded applications for network appliances. [C++, C, Tcl/Tk, HTML, CGI,

Photon, SNMP, MIME, QNX, Windows, UNIX, VxWorks]

CAE Plus, Inc., Austin, TX (1995-1999): Product development manager: Led development team (coders, testers,

writers) creating chip design tools. Releases f or 2 product families delivered on time with fewer than 0.5

defects/KLOC in first year. Trained testers and created an automated test framework. [C++, C, X11, Motif, MFC,

W indows, UNIX]

Savantage, Inc., Austin, Texas, (1995): (Independent QA consultant) Initiated all quality engineering processes,

including test development, defect tracking, and daily charting of key metrics. Created and applied custom tools

f or f eature coverage and profile-based statistical testing. [Tcl, Tk, UNIX]

UniSQL, Inc., Austin, TX (1991-1994): Quality advisor, usability advisor, and schedule coordinator for all product

teams. Developed and tested GUIs for OODBMS tools. [C++, Motif, SQL, QA Partner, Windows, UNIX]

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Professional Activities

Member of Agile Austin, including QA SIG and Dev SIG. Facilitator for UX SIG.

Member of Association for Computing Machinery and Special Interest Groups on Computer -Human

Interaction (SIGCHI) and Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). Member of IEEE Computer Society.

Founding member of Austin Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN). Contributing editor for Software

Quality Matters, newsletter of the University of TX Software Quality Institute.

Founding member of the Austin chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Newsletter chair, 1987-1989.

Publications

W eiss and Kimbrough Inspection Materials (The Motorola Process), published on the Web at

http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/%7Ejohnson/FTR/Weiss/weiss, 1995

Deploying Better Processes: SPI Meets QFD, Fifth International Conference on Software Quality, October, 1995.

CLUE: A Common Lisp User Interface Environment, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface

Software, October, 1988.

Education

BA, Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX

MS, Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin, TX

"Street MBA" Graduate, Austin Community College

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