The board advisors for the QAI eSchool includes thought leaders and leading practitioners from the Software Engineering, Management, Process, and Quality domains.

The foundation of the eSchool is built by these thought leaders. They play a critical role in influencing and shaping the architecture of the eSchool and in giving it strategic as well as business direction.

A co-author of one of the series in the eSchool, Dr. Pressman is an internationally recognized authority in software engineering. He is the author of six books including the world's most widely used software engineering textbook.

For over 30 years, he has worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues.

Dr. Pressman has designed and developed products that are used worldwide for software engineering training and process improvement. Essential Software Engineering (ESE), the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering, and Process Advisor, the industry's first self-directed software process improvement product are two of his widely acclaimed products.

William E. Perry is the executive director of the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) USA, since its inception. He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information Systems Auditor, a Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), and a Certified Quality Examiner.

William is the author of more than 50 books dealing with quality assurance in the data processing field and video courses for ASI and QAI. He is the primary author of the QA Practices Manual, QA Manager’s Handbook, and Quality Assurance Skills Manual. He is also the author of Standards for Software Testing and Auditing Computer Applications.

William has been a professor of data processing at Monroe Community College, a member of the board of directors of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies, and the chairman of the GUIDE International PL/1 Committee. In 1988 and 1989 he was on the board of examiners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Scott W. Ambler is well known for his work on large-scale software development projects and on software process improvement (SPI) efforts around the world. He has been working in the IT industry for almost 20 years and is a software process expert. He is a thought leader of the Agile Modeling (AM) methodology and a lead instructor of the Agile Modeling workshop. He is also the originator of some of the software development practices—Agile Data, Agile Modeling, and the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP).

Scott has written several books and white papers on object-oriented software development, software process, agile modeling, and EUP. Some of his most popular books are Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3/e. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Software Development magazine and a member of the Flashline Software Development Productivity Council.

Bruce F. Schoor is a recognized expert in quality assurance and process effectiveness. In his 18 years of association with the software industry, Bruce has mastered the art of shaping strong QA teams and designing high impact best practices. His abilities lie particularly in assessing organizational capability, outlining improvement initiatives, and implementing changes in complex environments while dealing with team dynamics and fast growth.

In the context of education, Bruce has developed a complete curriculum of courses and conducted workshops and mentoring sessions. A unique aspect of his training programs is the transfer of actual industry experience through a careful blend between theories and successfully applied industry best practices. He has written numerous articles for leading QA journals and web portals, and is an eminent speaker at various conferences.

Colin Tully is a professor of software practices. He is one of the two-man team that wrote the world’s first multi-programming operating system for the LEO III series of computers in 1960. Subsequently, he gained wide experience in systems development, training, consultancy, education, academic and industrial research, and academic and industrial management.

From 1989 to 2001, Prof. Tully practiced as a consulting software and systems engineer specializing in process and capability improvement. He has worked extensively on the ESPRIT and ESSI programs. In February 2001, he was appointed Professor of Software Practice in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University, and in December of the same year he became the School’s Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies.

A graduate in Economics from Cambridge University, Prof. Tully is a European Engineer, UK Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is the editor and co-author of Improving Software Practice (Wiley, 1998), co-editor and co-author of Better Software Practice for Business Benefit (IEEE Computer Society, 1999), co-author of Practical Software Reuse (Springer Verlag, 2001), and advisory board member of the journal, Software Process: Improvement and Practice.