Product Quality
Partners, Inc. was founded in March of 1994 by Debra L. Hodgens.
In six years the company has grown to over 58 employees and is maintaining
a steady growth of over 35% each year. The company has successfully
serviced over 300 client projects worldwide and maintains a 90%
repeat partner activity.
Prior to designing
and implementing the foundation for Product Quality Partners, Debra
held several management and executive level positions within software
and hardware development companies on the east coast as well as
the west coast. Debra has been in the industry for over 27 years.
More recently, Debra served in several management positions for
Wang Laboratories in their Imaging Division in the early 1980s.
Debra relocated to California in 1987 to join the senior management
team of Dest Corporation, a manufacturer of OCR scanners and text
recognition and imaging software applications. In 1991, Debra joined
GO Corporation, a mobile computing company. Debra was the Director
of Quality Assurance for GO Corporation where she developed the
company's OEM product quality strategy and Quality Assurance division.