Randy Hayes is the founder and CEO of CapCal, Inc. Mr. Hayes has been involved in the software industry for over two decades. In 1980, he was writing diagnostic test software for the Altair computer, at the same building in Albuquerque where Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft.

When Pertec Computer in Irvine acquired MITS, Mr. Hayes was assigned to a five-person team developing a real time multitasking operating system for the Motorola 68000 processor.

In 1982, Mr. Hayes joined his sister Linda Hayes in the creation of Petroware, a company that developed and sold oil and gas accounting software for the newly announced PC. Petroware reached $6 million in sales and 70 employees by 1985. A utility called "Session Recorder" that Mr. Hayes developed formed the basis for a spin-off company called AutoTester™.

AutoTester was the pioneer of the automated software testing industry, which is now represented by companies with multi-billion dollar market values. AutoTester's revenues for 1999 reached $14 million.

The third company created by Randy and Linda Hayes, WorkSoft™, is the maker of Certify™, a cross platform automated testing application that allows business analysts, rather than programmers, to develop automated test procedures.

Fidelity Investments was the first customer for this product, which is now being used extensively by their analysts to create complex test scenarios to verify business processes that span multiple applications on the company's network.

Charles Schwab recently completed a highly successful R&D project in which Certify was used to automate testing of mainframe, client server and Web applications, aimed at establishing Certify as the corporate standard for automated testing.

IBM signed a private label agreement to market Certify to their mainframe customers, calling it IBM Enterprise Test Suite.

Linda Hayes holds degrees in accounting, tax and law, is a CPA and member of the Texas State Bar. A frequent industry speaker and award-winning author, she publishes the monthly Quality Quest column for Datamation.

In addition, she authored the Automated Testing Handbook, and co-edited Dare to be Excellent with Alka Jarvis, on the best practices in the software industry. Her article "Quality is Everyone's Business" won the Most Significant Contribution award from the Quality Assurance Institute and was published as part of the Auerbach Systems Development Handbook.

Most recently, her white paper "The Testing Sweet Spot in Your e-Business" was selected as a chapter in Warren, Gorham and Lamont's Handbook of e-Business.

Ms. Hayes left AutoTester in late 1994, and spent four years doing intensive research as a consultant for some of the largest companies in the US. The purpose of this research was to discover why most automated software testing tools end up on the shelf instead of in use.

This ground-breaking research became the basis for WorkSoft, Inc. and its flagship product, Certify. Certify was recently endorsed by Charles Schwab, a long-time AutoTester customer, after an extensive evaluation process (see our newsletter for specifics).

Certify was developed in 1998 and 1999 by CapCal founder Randy Hayes and his brother, Ron Hayes, with the help of Gene Jones, former V.P. of Customer Support for AutoTester, Inc.

Ron Hayes is a veteran software engineer who was responsible for key pieces of the AutoTester for Windows™ product, and spent several years working on the Norton AntiVirus program for Symantec. He also developed a mainframe stress testing system for IBM based on their private label version of Certify.

Peter Hayes, CEO and co-founder of FirstVertex™, Inc.is also part of the Hayes automated testing founding family . Peter was Graphics Director for AutoTester for 8 years, and has also won the Best Portfolio Award twice in row at the esteemed Dallas Art Institute for his Multimedia and 3D animation pieces.

FirstVertex is responsible for the design of the CapCal Web site and the "look and feel" of the service itself. Stay tuned for the CD-ROM business cards and Flash animations that CapCal will be presenting, courtesy of FirstVertex