Boyd L. Summers is a retired Software Engineer for The Boeing Company and is a Software Technology Consultant for BL Summers Consulting LLC. Based in in Florence, Arizona, Summers is an author of two software technology books titled Software Engineering Reviews and Audits and Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration. He writes articles for many software engineering journals and magazines. Topics include system design, software requirements, software design, software testing and evaluation, configuration management, Quality Assurance, process and product evaluations and the applied processes in Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma. He is a speaker and a board member of numerous software and quality control conferences around the world.