Ron Patton

Ron Patton lives and works in Washington state as a software consultant. His software testing experience is wide and varied from mission- critical systems to children's painting programs. He began his career at Texas Instruments as a quality assurance engineer testing embedded systems and user interface software for industrial automation equipment. In 1992 he joined Microsoft as a software test lead in the Systems Group. His test projects included Multimedia Viewer, the authoring tool used to develop Encarta®, Cinemania®, and Bookshelf®,. and He eventually moved on to become responsible for the software that shipsped with the mouse, keyboard, gaming, telephony, and ActiMates® product lines.