Meet the Autodesk Beta Coordinators

Before we release software, Autodesk has a few customer touchpoints:

• Autodesk Research conducts cutting edge research to transition the impossible to the possible.
• Autodesk Labs conducts technology previews to see if proposed ideas have customer value.
• Autodesk Beta conducts beta testing to determine if software is ready to be released.

With that in mind, I thought you'd like to meet our set of beta coordinators. The beta coordinators set up the projects on the Autodesk Feedback Community site, make software available to be tested, solve issues that prevent project participants for fully exercising the pre-release software, and make sure the feedback gets to the people who need to hear it.

ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, and CONSTRUCTION COLLECTION

Alison Keller		Senior Experience Design Program Manager
Bill Glennie		Principal Experience Designer
Gerry Huot		Software Quality Assurance Manager, BIM Design Structure
Tim Yarris		Principal User Experience Designer, BIM Design Civil

PRODUCT DESIGN COLLECTION

Andrew Sears		Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Simulation
Chris Mitchell		Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Inventor
Yannick Moret		Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Simulation

MEDIA and ENTERTAINMENT COLLECTION

Kelly Michels		Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Design Animation
Nancy Haj		Maya Project Manager, Film and TV Solutions
Stephanie Pennings		Program Manager, Digital Arts
Yann Laforest		Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Film and TV Solutions

CROSS INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

Bud Schroeder		Senior Customer Success Engineer, Cloud Platforms
George Swan		Director, Engineering Solutions
Shaan Hurley		Technologist

Thanks to these hard-working individuals who help make our software production ready. And thank you to all of our beta testers who put our software through its paces with their real-world data to validate our efforts.

Beta coordination is alive in the lab.