Matt Heusser
Principal Consultant, Excelon Development
Matt Heusser is principal consultant at Excelon Development, where he recruits, trains and does software testing and development. The initial lead organizer of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference and lead editor of How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing, Matt is also a contributing editor for STQA Magazine and served a term on the board of directors for the Association for Software Testing. Matt went independent in 2011, shortly after finishing a two-year stint as a part-time instructor in Information Systems at Calvin College. You can learn more about Matt on his blog.
Matt is the author of Software Testing Strategies: A Guide for the 2020s. He is also a recipient of the Most Influential Agile Test Professional Person award (presented in Potsdam, Germany) as well as the Most Popular Online Contributor to Agile at the Agile Awards at Marble Arch in London.
Areas of expertise include software testing, Agile software development, risk management and software project management, using tools to assist and automate the test process, writing, speaking, training, and personal and professional development.