Lauren Thayer

Lauren has more than 35 years of experience in software development, 27 of which have been spent working with QSM as a software developer and manager of QSM’s SLIM Tools Suite. Lauren’s primary responsibilities include requirements analysis, design, quality assurance, documentation review, software publishing, planning, estimating and managing QSM development projects. Lauren also manages the QSM software development team, coordinates new client requirement requests, and defect reports with the development team to ensure requirements are incorporated into future tool releases. Lauren has participated in research studies of the QSM Database of more than 10,000 projects that lead to new and refined algorithms in the SLIM Tools Suite. Lauren has a bachelor’s degree in Business-Government from Skidmore College, where she was an honor student.