Phil Kirkham

Current

• Test Consultant at Acutest

Past

• Test Lead at Miles33
• Programmer at Miles33
• Graduate Trainee at British Aerospace

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Education

• The Open University
• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Connections

128 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Expected Results
• My Company

Phil Kirkham’s Experience

• Test Consultant

  Acutest

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  Acutest is an independent software testing consultancy. We concentrate solely on testing software, business processes, and IT with the goal of helping our customers to achieve the benefits of their technology-enabled change faster.
  
  Our approach is:
  * Reduce the cost of change
  * Increase the speed of change
  * Improve the governance of change

• Test Lead

  Miles33

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  September 2004 — July 2007 (2 years 11 months)

  Test Lead for various client/server and browser projects
  Also took on QA responsibilities, introduced a defect tracking system and monitored it and trained the staff on it
  Worked with the programmers on agile projects and encouraged them to write unit tests and have continious integration
  Wrote automated tests using Ruby and Watir

• Programmer

  Miles33

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1987 — September 2005 (18 years 9 months)

  programmer on a range of projects using a range of languages from Assembler to C to VB .Net, client server and browser based products and interfacing to page make-up packages such as Quark Xpress

• Graduate Trainee

  British Aerospace

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years)

Phil Kirkham’s Education

• The Open University

  The professional certificate in management 2008 — 2009

• University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  BSc , Microprocessors , 1981 — 1984

  Activities and Societies:

  Football team

Additional Information

Phil Kirkham’s Websites:

• Expected Results
• My Company

Phil Kirkham’s Groups:

Moderator of Software Testing Club http://www.softwaretestingclub.com

Moderator of testingReflections http://www.testingreflections.com

•    Open University Business School Alumni Network
•    Association for Software Testing
•    QualityNet - Quality Professionals Network
•    Software Testing Club - the online software testing community
•    Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
•    Testing Group
•    Global Testing Professional (1000 Plus now)
•    Agile Alliance
•    European Test Consultants
•    FlyerTalk.com
•    Consultants Network
•    Newcastle University Alumni Association
•    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
•    Scrum UK
•    Test strategy and test management
•    Quality Assurance Professional
•    QA UA
•    Beyond Bullet Points
•    Senior Testing Professionals
•    Quality Assurance Discussion Group
•    SQAforums
•    Agile
•    Watir
•    QA & Testing Group (almost 3000)
•    Agile Enthusiast
•    Agile Testing
•    QAGuild Network
•    Agile & Scrum UK
•    Test Management Forum
•    Collaboration Plus
•    P.E.S.T.
•    All Realms
•    Software Quality Assurance Leadership Networking Group (Leads, Managers, Directors, etc.)
•    Test Revolution

Phil Kirkham’s Contact Settings

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• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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