Two Technical Seminars co-Sponsored by the Dallas Chapter and Computer Science Department at UT-Dallas

W. Eric Wong
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Chair, Dallas Chapter

Lon Chase
Member of Administrative Committee
Vice Chair, Dallas Chapter

The Dallas Chapter, in conjunction with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, organized two technical seminars during the summer.

The first talk by Paul Grizzaffi was on July 7th entitled “Automation In Practice – What It Is and What It Should Be”. Mr. Grizzaffi is the Director of Software Quality Assurance and Automation Program Architect at nThrive – a company providing Patient-to-Payment resource in health care. His career has focused on the creation and deployment of automated test strategies, frameworks, tools, and platforms. Mr. Grizzaffi is an accomplished speaker who has presented at both local and national meetings and conferences. He is an advisor to Software Test Professionals and STPCon, as well as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) at UT Dallas.

The second talk entitled “Principles of Software Quality Assurance” was given by Mark Bentsen on July 12th. Mr. Bentsen is a Quality Assurance Manager at Argo Data Resource Corporation, a software development company providing mission-critical and analytical solutions for financial services and healthcare. Mr. Bentsen has been leading cross-enterprise collaboration in the Dallas-Fort Worth area among software quality practitioners for many years. He is one of the founders of the QA Trailblazers which organizes meetings on a quarterly basis providing engineers and managers from different corporations a platform to discuss how to expand the capabilities of the modern software testing organizations to help produce more dependable software systems that are critical to our everyday lives.