WMCPA Spring Conference 2017

With an IT career spanning over 30 years, Charles Guarino has been a consultant for most of them. Since 1995 he has been founder and President of Central Park Data Systems, Inc., a Long Island and New York City area based IBM midrange consulting and corporate training company. In addition to being a professional speaker across the United States and Europe, he is a frequent contributor of technical and strategic articles and webcasts for the IT... Read More →

Robert Andrews is a Managing Consultant specializing in security for the IBM Systems Lab Services Power Systems Delivery Practice in Rochester, MN. Besides security, Robert is an expert in DB2, journalizing, and DDM/DRDA. In addition to his technical work at IBM, Robert has been strongly involved in Emergency Management and Communications for almost a decade at all levels from local to federal. Robert has published seven books and holds degrees... Read More →

With more than 45 years in the IT field and over 41 years dedicated to the IBM midrange platform (from S/3 to IBM i) and the RPG language, Tommy has seen the RPG language develop from an ugly duckling to the leading high volume commercial OLTP language it is today. | | Tommy has always been at the forefront of using new technologies and features in RPG, striving for continuous improvement and better ways to deliver a required result. As such... Read More →

Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988. After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of working with SNA... Read More →

Dr. Stefanie Chiras is the Vice President, IBM Power Systems Offering Management. Aspart of the Power Systems brand team, she holds worldwide business responsibility forthe successful execution of the Linux on Power offerings and strategy as well as cloud offerings. This includes driving interlocked plans from development to the go to market. | Stefanie comes to this role with a breadth of technical and business experiences. Hertechnical roles... Read More →

Birgitta Hauser has been a Software and Database Engineer since 2008, focusing on RPG, SQL and Web development on IBM i at Toolmaker Advanced Efficiency GmbH in Germany. She graduated with a business economics diploma, and started programming on the AS/400 in 1992. She also works in consulting and education as a trainer for RPG and SQL developers. Since 2002 she has frequently spoken at the COMMON User Groups and other IBM i and Power Conferences... Read More →

Tom McKinley is an IBM Lab Services Consultant working on DB2 for IBM i in Rochester MN. His main focus is complex query performance associated with Business Intelligence running on Very Large Databases. He worked as a developer or performance analyst in the DB area from 1986 until 2006. Some of his Major pieces of work include the Symmetric Multiple processing capabilities of DB2 for IBM i as well as Large Object Data types. In addition he was... Read More →

Tim is the Business Architect for Application Development and Systems Management for IBM i. He is responsible for the content in the operating system and ecosystem that our IBM i Applications need to be successful today and in to the future. In addition he owns the tools for Accessing and Managing the IBM i operating system. He spends much of his time 'preaching' the modernization story to our IBM i users. In his free time he works as a sound... Read More →

Robin Tatam joined HelpSystems’ PowerTech division in 2009 extending an AS/400 and IBM i consulting career that extends more than a quarter century. Since 2003, Mr. Tatam has consulted with domestic and international clients on security and compliance issues, rising rapidly to the top tier of IBM i security experts. He also has a strong background in midrange application development (RPG, CL, CGI) as well as systems administration. | | Mr... Read More →