Our People

Silverpath's consultants provide specialist knowledge in quality and testing activities for a wide range of application types and industry domains. More importantly we know how to apply this expertise within our customers' unique business environments to achieve practical results.

Principal Consultant

Trevor Atkins is Principal Consultant with Silverpath. Prior to that he was the west-coast Regional Director of Quality Services with UST Global and was a founder/VP Operations of QA Labs Inc., once the largest independent software testing company in Canada.

Trevor has been involved in literally 100’s of software projects over the last 14+ years and has a demonstrated track record of achieving rapid ROI for his customers and their business. Experienced in all project roles, Trevor’s primary focus has been on planning and execution of projects and improvement of the same, so as to optimize quality versus constraints for the business. The following are labels for some of the areas in which he has experience and expertise:

• Software Quality Engineering & Test Effort Optimization
• Estimation, Planning & Scheduling
• Program/Project Management
• Quality Process Assessments & Improvement
• Training & Team Building
• Risk Identification & Management
• Operations Management

Testimonials

"I originally engaged Trevor for help with a large and complex client software project years ago. The excellent results delivered then prompted me to seek him out again for a larger and more complex project this past year. Trevor is a complete, end-to-end subject matter expert in software Quality, providing both functional expertise as well as superlative strategic and management consulting services. He was able to define the unique processes we required as well as implement them, build the team momentum needed, and deliver solid results. Our situation required creative and integrative thinking to face challenges seemingly larger than our resource base or timeline could abide. Trevor delivered, beyond expectation, once again. I cannot identify Trevor's peer in the Quality domain from my experience spanning 20 years of technology innovation." June 24, 2010, Clayton Stark, VP Engineering, Flock.

"Wenco International Mining Systems Ltd commissioned Trevor Atkins (Silverpath) on two separate software quality-related assignments. The first was to provide an overall software quality assessment at the organizational level and the second to provide specific guidelines to enhance Wenco's Test Case design framework. In both cases, Trevor's recommendations were taken up and implemented. I readily recommend Trevor Atkins to other organizations which need to reconsider their software quality- and test-related processes and procedures." June 21, 2010, Rod Monk, CTO, Wenco International Mining Systems.

"When our team decided to ramp up our agile process, we called Trevor to consult with us. Trevor is the best in the business. In a really short time, he was able to analyze the company and make detailed recommendations to greatly improve our scrum/agile/QA processes. He even assisted us to find and place a terrific Quality Assurance specialist who was able to assimilate the detailed documentation left by Trevor. I highly recommend Trevor. He is meticulous, professional and has a high level of integrity in everything he does." March 18, 2010, Susan Fox, President, Casting Workbook.

"Trevor is an expert at applying practical Quality Assurance on software projects large and small. As a founder of QA Labs and hence having run a successful business, he understands ROI and business processes. Technology development has such a deep impact on the "business" side, yet Trevor is one of the very few consultants who knows and uses this to great benefit for his clients." August 25, 2009, Reg Nordman, Founder & Managing Partner, Rocket Builders.

"Trevor has been a constant in VanQ from the very beginning of the group and the more I got to know him, the more impressed I became. He has been a presenter at VanQ 4 times and each of his presentations were excellent. He has a wealth of knowledge about software quality assurance and about people in general. I endorse Trevor wholeheartedly!" July 12, 2009, Ed Dahl, Founder, VANQ.org.

"As Program Leader for the UBC Certificate in Software Engineering/ Quality Assurance & Testing program at UBC Continuing Studies, I have had the pleasure to work and collaborate with Trevor for the past 2.5 years. Trevor is a valued partner in content development of our QA track. He is also one of our instructors of excellence and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our program, including recent delivery of a custom-made course for McKesson Medical Imaging. Highly organized and committed to education and professional industry training in the software development and testing field, Trevor is inspiring to everyone." July 18, 2008, Fiona McAuley, Program Leader, UBC Continuing Studies, Computers - Media - Technology.