I am best known for my work in the areas of Software Testing, Project Management, Test Automation, and System and Application Security.  I am a pioneer in best practice Agile development and project management automation through collaboration.

I have been speaking and writing technical articles since 1990. My work is published through magazines, corporations and technical organizations internationally.

Several of my courses including, The Most Important Tests Test Management Method, and How to Select the Most Important Tests, Testing for Security Vulnerabilities and Test Automation offered as core curriculum at the International Institute for Software Testing,

My book, Software Testing Fundamentals, published in May 2003 by Wiley has been translated into Chinese and adopted as the text book for the testing requirement in BSCS degree program at several universities in Australia and the USA.  

1994 to present

Owner, Ideva, Internet Development Associates

2003 - Present Trainer for the International Institute for Software Testing. Speak at conferences and teach Software Testing, quality assurance and test automation for SQE and IIST both nationally and internationally. Software development and test consultant and mentor.

2004 – 2005 Staff columnist for MSDN Magazine.  I wrote the monthly product review columns, New Stuff and Tool Box. for MSDN Magazine and TechNET Magazine (HackerBasher and Tool Box).  Also authored case studies published on StickyMinds.com and TickIT.org.

Speaker at STAR West 2005 and keynote speaker and instructor for the International Institute of Software Testing, IIST, at conferences and as a regular instructor at IIST’s public and private training sessions.  

2003 - Various contracts managing agile development projects and teaching project management topics, especially using the Web to lead widely distributed project teams.  Special articles on Microsoft SharePoint Team Services and the publication of my book, Software Testing Fundamentals.

2002 - Consultant, author for Microsoft Network Solution Providers, NSP, group.  Researcher and author on Business Plan and White Papers for the Microsoft Unified Communications Project.  This was a development project that used almost all of the Microsoft Server family and .NET Enterprise Edition, Architected Templates.

2001 - Consultant, author and project manager for the development of the Microsoft .NET Developers Training courseware. 
2000 - Consultant, author and researcher for Microsoft on the ISV Guide publications.

Ongoing

Ideva, Internet Development Associates Web Hosting Services

Inter/Intranet web hosting, application design and development.  Web and GUI design for applications, complete with project plan, design documents, user guides, and E-commerce solutions.  SharePoint Team Services Web Site Design and Hosting. 

2/94 to 5/97

Consultant & Employee @ GTE TSI,
now TSI Telecommunications Services Inc. - a leading provider of Mobile Communications and Data Services

5/96 to 5/97

Manager of Internet Technology – Build the Internet/Intranet Technology Department. Develop and implement Internet and Intranet strategy, process, standards, business cases, and products for GTE TSI. Project highlights in 1996: Developed an enterprise data mart for all corporate customer and product information and deployed it on the corporate Intranet with custom views for each department. The data mart combined the resources of 3 disparate data sources. Other projects include putting Internet capable front ends on legacy applications and developing a ‘talking’ voice response capable Internet kiosk application front end for a mainstay product. Also, developed and presented Web courseware to over 350 employees.

5/95 to 5/96

Web Master Turnkey Operations – Develop a strategy and proposal for migration of support documentation and automated monitoring activities into private Web Server domain. Develop home pages for internal groups, convert documents, integrate existing and new database applications into the Web via CGI style scripts. Develop and teach introductory and advanced courses on the WWW, Home page creation and maintenance.

2/94 - 2/95 Consultant

Tool Smith – Automate real time operations for telecommunications products. Technical Writer, Trainer and Courseware Developer for telecommunications products and technologies. Duties include research, design and production of all content; PC/Windows based Multimedia Computer Training and Video with digitized sound and video, art work, computer animation and script

1987 to 1993

Prodigy Services Company

1/92 to 3/93

Technical Project Lead /Operations Automation / Teacher Apply automation techniques to real time operations activities for the Prodigy Service. Design and implement process optimization and automation for applications running in distributed computing architecture.

5/89 to 3/92

Technical Project Lead / Staff Programmer / Teacher Technical lead for the financial applications development team (1990-92). Research, design, implement and test the GremlinTM automated test system (1991-92). Coding in C and assembler. Author proposals, requirements, user guides, case studies. Develop and teach software test education workshops.

3/87 to 5/89

Technical Lead / Programmer Design, development, and integration shopping and financial gateways (banking) and applications. Primary systems contact between Prodigy and client to develop and integrate new products. Develop test strategies for components and end to end testing. Author system and acceptance test plans, escalation procedures, migration plans and requirements documentation. Organize and coordinate implementation resources and activities, train project personnel, develop product certification and quality assurance criteria.

1984 - 1987

Scientific Programmer Responsible for documentation, design and coding in C for structural design and real time signal processing and display software. Design and test algorithms to enhance performance of new and existing software.

1978-1986

STRUCTURAL engineer
Design, detail and oversee construction of structures. Assist in bidding, specifications writing and documentation. Technical liaison to client and engineering groups.

1970-1978

Ballet Dancer and Teacher, Commercial Artist and Designer

2006

Columnist for Better Software Magazine

2005-2004

Columnist writing the New Stuff column for MSDN Magazine

Columnist writing the Tool Box column for TechNET Magazine for Microsoft,
Additional articles: “Defeat Hackers With a HackerBasher Web Site” November 2004 issue.

June 2004

Tickit International .Org Quarterly Publication ISSN 1354-5884 “Testing in the eXtreme (XP) Programming Paradigm” 

November 2003

Software Quality Assurance on line magazine: Sticky Minds, “How to Manage a Project on Four Continents, Across Twelve Time Zones in Five Languages”

August 2003

Microsoft Corporation: The .NET Developers’ Training courseware and .NET Developers’ Training Tour

May 2003

John Wiley and Sons: “Software Testing Fundamentals” (Book)

2002

June Issue of MSDN Magazine, Cover Story, FrontPage 2002, First Looks
MSDN, Microsoft SharePoint Team Services, Administration and Authoring Guide MSDN, ISV Guide, Design Points for Service Providers

1999 – 2002

Duke Publications:Winn NT Magazine, Leveraging Host Headers to Set Up A Multi-Homed Server Using IIS 4.0, 3 part article,  Monthly column since Oct 99. (and many many more articles.)

1998

Dynamic HTML for Developers, Microsoft Interactive Developer Series

1997

IE4.0 Technical Seminar, Microsoft Corporation

1997

IE4.0 Keep Them Coming Back Seminar, 32X Corporation.

1997

The Fundamentals of Internet/Intranet Testing 1 day Tutorial, and Testing on the Web Keynote at 14th International Conference on Testing Computer Software, June 1997, Washington D.C..

1996

Process Automation Using Web Technology Keynote at 13th International Conference on Testing Computer Software, June 1996, Washington D.C..

1994, 1995, 1996

Using S-Curves To Measure Test Progress Eleventh International Conference on Testing Computer Software Proceedings, ITEA, ASQC, and STC. STAR International Proceedings, June 1994 and STC96 Proceedings 1996)

1993

Using Risk to Size the Test Effort Tenth International Conference on Testing Computer Software Proceedings, ITEA and ASQC. (and STAR International Proceedings, May 1994.), 1995, Software Engineering Strategies, Publisher Warren Gorham Lamont .

1993

The MITs Test Management Method Unicom Conference on Software Quality Proceedings, London, England, and SQE, USPDI, etc

1992 -1993

The Evolution Of An Automated Software Test System, Ninth International Conference on Testing Computer Software Proceedings, ITEA and ASQC.,

Parts 1 & 2 Software Engineering Strategies (Journal) and Systems Development Management (Periodical), Publisher Warren Gorham Lamont. Software Quality World (Journal) Publisher ProQual Inc.

1990-1991

System Software Testing Methods & Metrics, Draft Edition and Course, ProSys

1990

A Survey Of Production Problems In An Application On The PRODIGY Service, IEEE COMPASS90 Conference Proceedings.

2001-2005

Various writing assignments for Microsoft including lead author and project manager for the .NET Developer Training in 2002

2000

FrontPage 2000

Twelve "How To" articles:  For Duke Communications, author and Tech Editor for articles on IIS Administration, web development, and management.   For Microsoft Technet: How to Administer FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions .

Technical briefs and White Papers for Damgaard.

Develop and teach Internet Technologies Courses for Microsoft, Microsoft Active Developer Series, Active Server Core Concepts, DHTML, Visual Interdev 6.0, FrontPage98, FrontPage2000 (in process) for 32X Tech Corporation.

Quality Assurance Consulting Design, plan, and manage independent software test efforts.  Develop syllabus and training materials, including Computer Based Training and videos, for a variety of user guides, workshops and training seminars.

International Speaker and Trainer Speak and teach at conferences (USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa). Author articles for commercial publications on software development and testing.

Most recent testing presentations:

• Application and System Testing for Security Vulnerabilities
• What do Agile and Extreme Approaches Mean to Testers?
• Seminars
• Testing in Agile and eXtreme Projects
• How to Select the Most Important Tests
• Application and System Testing for Security Vulnerabilities
• Testing in an Agile Development Environment
• Project Management and Collaboration Techniques for Managing Distributed Projects

June 2004, IIST PSTQ Washington DC, Keynote Speaker.  June 2000, International Conference on Software Testing, Washington D.C. Keynote and tutorial.

Most recent Microsoft tour: August - November 2001, train the trainers for the .NET Developer Training Tour in South America, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Most memorable tour:  October 1997, 30 days training tour for Microsoft, in the Middle East, Mediterranean Region, and South Africa teaching IE4.0, Dynamic HTML, Channels, NetShow, and FrontPage98.

1999

Dynamic HTML for Microsoft

1996

Software Testing Method and Metrics, McGraw Hill Publishers,  97

1993

Various syllabus, training materials and user's guides for clients of ProSys.

1990

Fast Eddie User Guide ProSys distributed internationally by Objects Inc.

1989

Gremlin User Guide, Prodigy Services Company.

1990-1991

Charting, A monthly how-to column published in OBJECT NOTES dealing with hypercard and CASE application development using LAYOUT development tools.

1992-1994 Non-technical

Articles for dressage and hunter jumper organizations. Topics: Rider Cross Training, Training Methods, and experiential. Reporting of events and workshops, interviews, and reviews.

Other Interests: Member of the United States Equestrian Driving Team in Combined Driving.  I spend my free time driving my carriages and riding my horses.
See Marnie's Biography for details.

References Furnished Upon Request