Git on IBM i - Part 2 - Christian Weber, Jeff Tickner, Ray Bernardi

Git Going: Social Coding on GitHub Enterprise Featuring Christian Weber, Sr. Solutions Engineer at GitHub In today’s competitive world, software developers and organizations are being increasingly challenged to deliver innovative solutions or be left behind by their competitors. Developers have defined software development as one that is a collaborative practice, in which developers from all over can contribute to code. GitHub helps developers collaborate on projects, as well as providing tooling automation to allow Developers to decrease the amount of context switching when delivering innovation. In this session, we’ll discuss the value proposition of GitHub, the changing notion of the software developer, and considerations around building a modern software practice – to not only attract top talent, but to also lay the groundwork for innovation to flourish!

Christian Weber

Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Christian Weber is a Solutions Engineer at GitHub! After spending several years in Finance doing various Dev and Ops related things, Christian focuses on supercharging organization's software development practices by utilizing GitHub as a collaboration platform. Christian focuses on Collaboration, Release Management and Automation as vehicles for organizational success.

Jeffrey Tickner

Arcad Software

Jeff Tickner has worked in Change Management on the IBM I for 17 years at different companies. He is certified in Rational Team Concert as well has having experience with other Change Management packages from SourceSafe to Subversion. Jeff currently works for ARCAD Software, an international software company and IBM Business Partner. He provides implementation support and training for IBM I based companies rolling out Change Management solutions. He lives in NH with his wife and 2 children and enjoys hiking, skiing and old VWs and wrote his first program in High School on punch cards.

Ray Bernardi

Pre/Post Technical Sales - Arcad Software

Ray Bernardi is a 30-year veteran involved in the System 38/AS/400/iSeries/IBM i development and currently is a Pre/Post Sales Technical Support Specialist for ARCAD Software, a global software company and IBM Business Partner. Ray has been involved with the development and sales of many cutting-edge software products throughout his career. Currently, the suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products from ARCAD Software covers a broad range of functional areas from incident request tracking, application cross referencing, source refactoring and control, release and change management. In addition, Ray has spoke and presented at COMMON and many other technical conferences around the world and has authored articles in several System i publications on the subject of application analysis and modernization, SQL, and business intelligence.