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Advisory Board

Shasta QA's Board of Advisors is comprised of the following industry professionals:

Company Advisory Board
Rick Brister

Rick Brister's quality assurance background includes 3COM/Palm, Intuit, Borland, and Commerce One. While at Palm he was the QA Manager for the Palm VII. During his time at Commerce One, he developed a working relationship with our President, Donald O'Connell. Brister was the QA Manager for supplier side applications, while O'Connell was the QA Director for buyer side applications. As part of the Commerce One QA Management team, the two worked on determining integration testing and XML compatibility between the applications, as well as QA process and project planning.

Chris Burger

Chris Burger has been part of the quality assurance teams of Sybase, Commerce One, Ingress, Informix, and Valdero. He is a veteran QA Engineer with over ten years industry experience. His experience and abilities in database testing strategies made him a key contributor to the Commerce One QA engineering team. While at CommereceOne, he was a QA Manager who reported to our President, Donald O'Connell. The two worked closely from 1999-2001.

Erich Gatejan

Erich Gatejen has over eight years in QA Management including roles at Commerce One and Geoworks. While at Geoworks, he was responsible for the industry's first smart phone, the Nokia 9000. His professional relationship with our President, Donald O'Connell, started in 1995. Between time at Commerce One and Geoworks, Gatejen and O'Connell have over five years of QA Management peer experience in the same organizations. Gatejen is currently a QA Manager at Zantaz.

Greg Wagner

Greg Wagner, former Vice President of Business Development at Shasta QA, began his QA experience at Geoworks in 1996 as a QA Engineer. He tested embedded software for the Nokia 9000, the worldís first smart phone, and led a QA team responsible testing Mitsubishi Electricís Moem-D smart phone. Mr. Wagner later served as the QA Director for Geoworksí Professional Services Division and in February 1999 was promoted to head the Professional Services Division. Mr. Wagner has led successful QA co-location efforts in Finland, Japan, and the United Kingdom.