Management

Mark McWhinney, President

Mark McWhinney is the founder and president of Portata, Inc.  He is a veteran leader in the load test business with 20 years experience in software development and quality assurance.

Prior to founding Portata, Mark was the VP of Engineering for seven years at PowerTest, a quality assurance firm with a staff of 40 that specialized in performance load testing.  While at PowerTest he lead and participated in more than 100 load test projects. Prior to PowerTest, Mark held various management and technical positions at IBM, ATAC, and the Software Engineering Institute.

Mark is a LoadRunner Certified Product Specialist and Certified Product Instructor. He founded the LoadRunner Forum in 1999, which has grown to over 5,000 members.

He is the co-author of "Software Measures and the Capability Maturity Model" which helps organizations select and use software metrics for their level of organizational maturity.

Mark earned an M.S. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.