JON D. HAGAR — Software Validation and Verification, and Software Testing
Jon Hagar is a senior staff software engineer and group lead supporting software product integrity, reliability/trustworthiness, measurement, verification, validation, and testing at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Colorado. He has a Bachelors of Science in Math with specialization in Civil Engineering and Software from Metropolitan State College of Denver, and a Master’s of Science in Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering and Testing from Colorado State University.
Jon has worked in software engineering, particularly testing/verification and validation, for more than twenty years. The projects he has supported are primarily booster and spacecraft related. He has experience in the software domain of real-time, reactive embedded control systems as well as test software development using numerous languages, including JOVIAL and Ada.
Jon is a member of ACM and IEEE as well as a voting/writing member on several IEEE standards. He teaches classes and tutorials in testing throughout industry. He also guides an over-the-hill alpine skiing group at Colorado's Winter Park Ski Resort.
Jon has published more than 20 articles on software reliability, testing, test tools, formal methods, and critical-systems, as well as having presented at numerous industry working groups. Jon’s work interests include software testing, verification, validation, product integrity and assessment, system engineering, reliability/measurement, neural-networks in testing, test support tools, formal methods, management, and quality assurance. He is a contributor to STQE's magazine Software Test and Quality Engineering, a member of STQE's "Practicality Gauntlet," and a regular participant in Internet discussion groups: software_test_discussion, reliability, and IV&V
Contact him directly regarding possibilities to teach or present at your site.
Jon D. Hagar
303-683-1218
invision@ecentral.com
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