Partner400 is a Management Consulting company led by the
combined talents of Jon Paris and Susan Gantner. Between them Jon and
Susan have more than 50 years of experience in IBM midrange systems and
are two of the most experienced educators in the IBM i arena.
In addition to their teaching work, Jon and Susan write a
weekly blog column which you can find at ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/idevelop.
They also act as technical editors and authors for IBM’s Systems Magazine and write
a monthly column for the companion Extra newsletter.† In
recent years they helped to found the System i Developer education
consortium which runs the popular RPG & DB2 Summit events. You can
find more about these conferences at the System i Developer web site (www.System i
Developer.com).
Susan and Jon are also award-winning speakers and co-authors
of the popular IBM Red Book Who Knew you Could Do That with RPG IV?
Susan Gantner
Susan's career has spanned over 30 years in
the field of application development. She began as a programmer
developing applications for corporations in Atlanta, Georgia, working
with a variety of hardware and software platforms.
She joined IBM in 1985 and quickly developed a close
association with the Rochester laboratory during the development of the
AS/400 system.
Susan worked in Rochester, Minnesota for 5
years in the AS/400 Technical Support Center. She
later moved to the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory to provide technical
support for programming languages and AD tools.
Susan left IBM in 1999 to devote more time to
teaching and consulting.Her primary emphasis is
on enabling customers to take advantage of the latest programming and
database technologies on IBM i.
Susan is a regular speaker at COMMON
conferences and other technical conferences around the world and holds
a number of Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON.
Jon's IBM midrange career started when he
fell in love with the System/38 while working as a consultant. This love affair ultimately led him to joining
IBM.
In 1987, Jon was hired by the IBM Toronto
Laboratory to work on the S/36 and S/38 COBOL compilers. Subsequently
Jon became involved with the AS/400 and in particular COBOL/400.
In early 1989 Jon was transferred to the
Languages Architecture and Planning Group, with particular
responsibility for the COBOL and RPG languages.
There he played a major role in the definition of the new
RPG IV language and in promoting its use with IBM Business Partners and
Users. He was also heavily involved in producing educational and other
support materials and services related to other AS/400 programming
languages and development tools, such as CODE/400 and VisualAge for RPG.
Jon left IBM in 1998 to focus on developing
and delivering education focused on enhancing IBM i application
development skills.
Jon is a frequent speaker at User Groups
meetings and conferences around the world, and holds a number of
speaker excellence awards from COMMON. .
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