“John is a careful and thoughtful decision maker who understands the development and testing process. John is keenly interested in improving processes to increase customer satisfaction and has demonstrated this through successful implementation of the ZENworks CustomerOne project. I highly recommend John and the quality work he performs.”

“John is a wonderful person to work with. He is a great leader and manager. He not only empowered me to do my job well but pushed me to improve. Additionally, he is highly skilled technically and could easily fill the roles he manages, which is not always the case. In summary, John has the [...]

“John is a great manager to interact with. He is always on top of his responsibilities and I feel confident he would make an excellent engineering manager. He has a good understanding of the development process as well as testing which always makes managing developers much easier. He’d do very well.”

John recently received management training on the topic of “Change Management”.  The course was offered through the Harvard Business Review.  Some of the topics that John brushed up on include the dimensions of change, implementing change, and communicating change. John learned that successful managers of change have the following attributes:  They are accepted by others [...]

John James Andersen – Background Sheet Education Utah State University – MBA – completed 2008 GPA 3.97 Lean/Agile Manufacturing Techniques Business Strategy and Marketing Database Information Systems in Management Brigham Young University – B.S. in Computer Science 1999 GPA 3.83 (Major); 3.78 (Overall) Studied a mixture of Software Design, Development and Hardware Design. Worked at [...]

John & Amber hosted Manjul Verma who was on business from Bangalore, India. John has been a leader in automation efforts across the globe for Systems and Resource Management products. Within this scope of work, John has established a close relationship with Manjul who leads the automation efforts in the Bangalore office. Manjul has be [...]

John Andersen was part of an Engineering Excellence team at Novell that spent the first part of the year researching current test and automation practices around the company. Their charter was to create best practices that were to be used by all engineering teams at Novell. John’s team focused on test and automation strategies within [...]

John attended a webinar sponsored by StickMinds and Rally. The focus of the training was how to integrate testing in Agile development teams. Areas covered included Roles of testers, Mistake Proofing a product, Flipping the Dev Triangle, and testing within the iteration. You can view the slides at: How to Succeed at Agile – Presentation

Brett, Ashlee, Elyvia, & Gretchyn, I just wanted to tell you thanks so much for the Astronaut Ice Cream. It came to our house yesterday and we had a fun time in the evening trying it out. It was a lot of fun! I sure love you guys!

Photo of our Family – Christmas 2008John, Amber, Jace (1), Alayna (4), Aliece (6), Aylee (10), John Jr. (8) Our family would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas this year. Our family keeps growing faster than we can keep up. In fact, Amber is now expecting our sixth child – due to be [...]