The speaker has a Master’s Degree from the University of Maryland. He entered the IT field as a programmer analyst with the US Navy Dept in 1967 and migrated to Germany in 1970 where he worked for the Siemens Corp as a project leader. In 1977 he took over the position of test manager for the Siemens ITS project. In 1978 he founded the first commercial test laboratory in Budapest. Since the he has taken part in over 50 test and migration projects throughout Europe and developed some 36 tools for testing, measuring and re-engineering software systems.