Paul Holland is the manager of the North American Physical Layer Test team for the Access division of Alcatel-Lucent. As a test manager and tester he has 17 years experience in software testing focusing on automation, embedded systems, exploratory testing and improving testing techniques. He led the creation and worldwide deployment of a new automation environment for the Access division of Alcatel-Lucent.

Paul was on the Board of Directors for the Association for Software Testing for 3 years and was on their Executive Committee for 2 years.

Paul has been consulting and delivering training at Alcatel-Lucent sites in three continents for the past 5 years. In addition he has delivered training to other large companies such as RIM and General Dynamics and he has facilitated many software testing peer workshops held at many different companies including Microsoft and Google.

The Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) is currently seeking proposals for sessions for our 2012 conference to be held April 23-24 in Waterloo, Ontario. The standard time slot for a presentation is one hour and fifteen minutes. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2012. All proposals will be reviewed by the KWSQA selection committee and selected on individual merit. Please feel free to submit more than one topic.

Who May Submit Proposals
All software test and quality assurance professionals – practitioners, consultants, trainers, and leaders – are invited to submit proposals.

When submitting your session proposal please include the following information:

Started in 1997, we are a community of software professionals from firms in the Kitchener-Waterloo region (Ontario, Canada). We are interested in the investigation and discussion of software quality topics, with a special emphasis on providing software professionals with a means of sharing their experiences.

We also encourage the membership and participation of students entering the field of software development, software quality and software engineering; as well as researchers interested in the advancement of software quality.

Please take a few moments to review our Mission Statement on the KWSQA.org site.

For more information about the KWSQA, or to become a member, please visit: www.kwsqa.org

The 2012 conference will be held at the same location as last year:

ST. GEORGE HALL
665 King Street North
Waterloo, Ontario

Questions? Contact us at conference@kwsqa.org

DAY 1 – APRIL 23

8:15am-9:00am – Registration/Breakfast
9:00am-9:15am – Opening Remarks
9:15am-10:15am – Keynote
10:15am-10:30am – Break
10:30am-11:45am – Session #1
11:45am-12:45pm – Lunch
12:45pm–2:00pm – Session #2
2:00pm-2:15pm – Break
2:15pm-3:30pm – Session #3
3:30pm-3:45pm – Break
3:45pm-5:00pm – Session #4

DAY 2 – APRIL 24

Schedule for Day 2 workshops coming soon!

The Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) is currently seeking proposals for sessions for our 2012 conference to be held April 23-24 in Waterloo, Ontario. The standard time slot for a presentation is one hour and fifteen minutes. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2012.

Click here to submit your proposal.

Our keynote and full list of speakers will be announced shortly.