Jon M. Quigley PMP CTFL is the Manager of the Electrical and Electronics Verification and Test group at Volvo 3P in Greensboro North Carolina.  He is also a principal of Value Transformation, product development training and cost improvement organization and a founding faculty member of Practical Project Management.  Jon has more then twenty years of product development experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software through verification and project management.  Jon has significantly improved product and process cost improvements

Jon has won awards such as the Volvo-3P Technical Award in 2005 going on to win the 2006 Volvo Technology Award. Jon has secured six US patents over the years with another one in the US Patent Office which is in the pre-grant stage.  These patents range from human machine interfaces to telemetry systems and drivers aides.  Jon has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from UNCC, an MBA in Marketing and a MS in Project Management from City University of Seattle.  Jon has membership in SAE, SAVE, AIAG and PMI (holding Project Management Professional Certification).  Jon also has the CTFL certification from ISTQB.  Jon is the co-author of the books:

• "Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems" ISBN - 978-1-4200-7205-1
• "Scrum Project Management" ISBN 978-1-4398-2515-0
• "Testing of Complex and Embedded Systems" ISBN 978-1-4398-2140-4

In addition to these books, Jon is co-authoring with Kim two focus books for Software Test Professionals:

• "Saving Software with Six Sigma", ISBN 978-0-9831220-0-5
• "5 Ways to Trample Testing Problems" ISBN TBD

Jon and Kim are working on two additional books, Total Quality Management and Project Management and the second book Value Engineering.

Jon also with Kim is a Contributing Editor of Software Magazine with the Software Engineering Sages Column.  Additionally, with Kim H. Pries, he has written more then thirty magazine articles that appear in magazines such as:

• Embedded System Design 
• EDN
• Software Development Times 
• Software Test and Performance
• Product Design and Development
• Automotive Design Line
• All Business online
• Electronics Weekly
• Project Magazine
• Design Reuse
• DSP Design Line
• Quality Magazine
• Advanced Trading 
• Food Manufacturing
• IMPO Magazine 
• Manufacturing.net 
• Tech Online India 
• EDA Design Line
• Software Magazine 
• Taylor and Francis news letter
• Villanova University Computer Science

He has also given numerous presentations at product development conferences about various aspects of product development and project management.

Jon can be found on linkedin at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmquigley