Linda Westfall

Linda Westfall is the President of The Westfall Team, which provides Software Engineering, Software Quality Engineering and Software Project Management training and consulting services. Prior to starting her own business, Linda was the Senior Manager of Quality Metrics and Analysis at DSC Communications where her team designed and implemented a corporate wide metrics program. Linda has more than thirty years of experience in real time software engineering, quality and metrics. She has worked as a Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, Software Process Engineer and Manager of Production Software.

Very active professionally, Linda Westfall is a past chair of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software Division. She has also served as the Software Division's Program Chair and Certification Chair and on the ASQ National Certification Board. Linda is a past-chair of the Association for Software Engineering Excellence (ASEE) and chaired several conference program committees.

Linda and her husband enjoy building fireworks -- starting from mixing the powders and rolling the stars, through constructing the shells and rockets, to lighting the fuses and watching the effects. They are active members of the Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI) and the Florida Pyrotechnic Arts Guild (FPAG). In fact, Linda won 1st place in the Level-3 Rocket competition at this year's PGI's conference (2009).

Linda Westfall has an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and BS in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University. She has her Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in software engineering from the State of Texas. Linda is an ASQ Fellow, Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) and Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE). Linda is also a Certified Scrum Master, an International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) Certified Tester and has her certification in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations.

Visit Linda Westfall's web site at www.westfallteam.com.