Originally from Mississippi in the USA, Mr Sneed began his career as an analyst/programmer with the US navy. He soon became fascinated by software quality issues and started running public seminars on software testing.
Since that time Mr Sneed has been active in the testing domain, both in industrial projects and in university co-operations in various countries, including: Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy.
He has contributed hundreds of technical articles to journals, written more than a dozen books and developed a range of software testing tools, becoming acknowledged as a software test technology pioneer.
Apart from working in software testing, Mr Sneed has been engaged as a conference chair, teacher, and lecturer at a range of educational institutions across Europe.