A few months ago, I received an email from someone that attended my very first conference talk, at QA or the Highway in February. They were from $Company, and lead a QA team there. They thought that my talk would be great for their team to hear, and asked that I come to speak to …
Hey all – let’s get this going. If you’re interested in speaking – either full session, leading a workshop, or doing a lightning talk, let me know. I’ll get started on the location, day and time. I’d like to do this monthly! W00t w00t let’s do this! ETA: Here’s the meetup group! http://www.meetup.com/Motor-City-Software-Testers/ HilaryI’m …
Hi folks! I’ll be in Columbus speaking at Nationwide and Per Scholas on 6/16, but I’ll be getting into town 6/15 so let’s have a Testers Drinkup! Suggestions on a place? I’m staying in Dublin, so near there would be preferable… What: Testers Drinkup When: 6/15 8pm Where: some bar near Columbus, OH Why: to …
Last year I wrote up a post with my 2013 goals and resolutions. I wanted to review what I had actually done, so here we are! Achieve a better work/life balance. This will be the most difficult of all of my goals… With my new job, I think I’ve gotten this a bit more under …
I’ve been asked a number of times by conference organizers for some help with feeding gluten free folks. So I decided to write up a few helpful tips – if you have any questions or need some consulting, let me know – I’m always happy to help make those with dietary restrictions enjoy conferences just …
I love to tweet. I’m a prolific tweeter. I’m addicted to tweeting. And I finally can call myself an Award Winning Tweeter. So it’s been suggested, and I’m toying with this idea, that I start a Kickstarter to fund my attending conferences and essentially be a professional live-Tweeter of these events. Why not? I did …
So I’m stuck at a Starbucks using their wifi, because of a power outage at my place. So why not post on the ol’ neglected blog? I left my previous job back in March, and just last week revealed where I’ve been working now. I didn’t say where earlier, because my previous boss has some …
So I started this thing, called the Mid-Michigan Testers Meet Down. The first event of which was today. We had 43 registered to attend, and about 30 showed up. HOLY SHIT you guys. That happened. I’m still all “wow”. No, it wasn’t a huge deal. We had some thoughtful and conversation-evoking lightning talks, we had …
Communication in business in general is very important. We’re always looking for people that are articulate when hiring. “Good verbal and written communication”. It’s great when you find new people that are excellent at explaining processes, what …
With some prompting from this post on Software Testing Club about accomplishments for the year, and my own here about resolutions for 2013, I figured a blog post was in order. So here we go: 2012 Achievements/Accomplishments Became more involved i…