N2i "Getting Started" Series

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    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Dawn May

    Owner, Dawn May Consulting, LLC

    "i Can" blog published by IBM Systems Magazine and a frequent speaker at local user group meetings and IBM i conferences around the world.

    You may contact Dawn by email at DawnMayiCan@outlook.com, find her on twitter at @DawnMayiCan, or connect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnmay/.">Dawn May is a leading authority on IBM i performance management, work management, systems management, and general system diagnostics. She has in-depth knowledge of the IBM i operating system developed through her distinguished career with IBM.

    A former IBMer, Dawn is now an independent consultant, assisting companies with system performance reviews and recommendations. She also teaches clients on the latest IBM i tools to enable them to get the most out of their IBM i systems.

    Dawn is the author of the "i Can" blog published by IBM Systems Magazine and a frequent speaker at local user group meetings and IBM i conferences around the world.

    You may contact Dawn by email at DawnMayiCan@outlook.com, find her on twitter at @DawnMayiCan, or connect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnmay/.

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    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Nathan WIlliams

    iTech Solutions Group

    Nathan has over 20 years of professional experience using, administering, and supporting IS technology and over 18 years of experience with IBM Systems. Previously employed at companies such as Avis and AOL, Nathan had a combined 14 years of experience using and administering IBM systems, 17 years of experience in a customer support/service role, and 13 years in the telecommunications industry when he joined the iTech team. At iTech Solutions, Nathan provides support in System administration, OS upgrades, system migrations, HMC and SAN configuration and upgrades, and maintains our PTF catalog.

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    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Join us to get your burning IBM i-related questions answered and meet new people!

    Pete Massiello

    President, iTech Solutions

    Pete Massiello has been working with the AS/400, iSeries, IBM i since 1989, focusing on systems management and technical support. He has held numerous technical positions through out his career. He is the President of iTech Solutions Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner delivering solutions and services to IBM i shops throughout the world. He is a member of IBM’s certification test writing team, an IBM Certified Systems Expert with certifications in IBM i Design, System Administration, LPAR, Virtualization, Implementation, and HMC management. Pete has a BS in Computer Science from Hofstra University, and an MBA from the University of New Haven. He was President of COMMON from 2010 to 2012, and again in 2014. He is a COMMON Hall of Fame speaker, and a frequent speaker at user groups all over the world. In 2011 IBM established the Champions award for Power Systems, Pete was one of the first recipients. In 2016, they revived the program and he was again made an IBM Power Systems Champion. Lightning struck for the third time in 2017, and that is the year he was also made the first Power Systems Lifetime Champion, an honor he continues to hold.

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    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with VS Code for IBM i, presented by Liam Allan

    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with VS Code for IBM i, presented by Liam Allan

    Liam Allan

    Advisory Software Engineer

    IBM

    Liam primarily works with Node.js/TS and C, but has previously used other languages like C# and PHP. He is invested heavily into the IBM i industry to help people learn other tech (like Node.js, AWS, Azure, modern development practices, so on!). Liam loves working on and creating dev tools to make developing applications easier for everyone in the long run. He is now working at IBM as a Advisory Software Engineer, working with clients and open-source software. Liam of course loves, loves, loves open-source! Oh, and he sometimes speak at conferences.

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    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with Web Development, presented by Jasmine Kaczmarek.

    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with Web Development, presented by Jasmine Kaczmarek.

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    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to ACS and is presented by Nathan Williams from iTech Solutions Group.

    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to ACS and is presented by Nathan Williams from iTech Solutions Group.

    Nathan WIlliams

    iTech Solutions Group

    Nathan has over 20 years of professional experience using, administering, and supporting IS technology and over 18 years of experience with IBM Systems. Previously employed at companies such as Avis and AOL, Nathan had a combined 14 years of experience using and administering IBM systems, 17 years of experience in a customer support/service role, and 13 years in the telecommunications industry when he joined the iTech team. At iTech Solutions, Nathan provides support in System administration, OS upgrades, system migrations, HMC and SAN configuration and upgrades, and maintains our PTF catalog.

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    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with SQL, presented by Scott Forstie, IBM.

    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with SQL, presented by Scott Forstie, IBM.

    Scott Forstie

    Db2 for i Business Architect

    Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

    Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.

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    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with a Career on IBM i

    Part of N2i's Getting Started series, this session is on Getting Started with a Career on IBM i

    Simon Hutchinson

    RPGPGM.COM

    Simon’s experience with IBM midrange started in the United Kingdom, in a pre-AS/400 world. Since immigrating to the USA he has worked mostly in the western half of the country, and is currently IT manager responsible for the Power servers and IBM i for a large bank in Central Texas. 
     
    Simon has been writing his acclaimed IBM i blog, RPGPGM.COM, for almost ten years sharing his knowledge, experience, and giving many detailed examples of the latest RPG, SQL, and CL. He was recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for Power (2021,2022), and as an IBM i Community Advocate. 
     
    Since its founding, in 2020, Simon has been the president of the Central Texas IBM i User Group, CTXiUG.

    Steven Wolk

    CTO, PC Richard & Son

    Steven Wolk is the CTO for PC Richard & Son, a 110 year old family owned and operated chain of 66 appliance, electronics, and mattress superstores located throughout NY, NJ, CT, and PA. Steve's deep background in retail began on the sales floor while in college, and he's applied those lessons learned to many roles in IT throughout his 33 year career with PC Richard. As CTO, Steve feels fortunate to lead teams of very talented and dedicated people who are collectively responsible for all phases of technology development, acquisition, deployment, and support throughout the company. Always looking to the future, Steve enjoys speaking about the future of retail at conferences and events, along with subjects ranging from leadership and personal success to a wide variety of technical topics. Steve is passionate about applying technology to create business value, along with a world-class customer experience for PC Richard's customers. He's driven to teach and finds it very rewarding to help his teams reach their full potential. Steve and his wife live in Commack, NY, and enjoy traveling as a family with their two daughters who are attending college. If you’d like to strike up a conversation with Steve, mention anything related to Disney or Star Trek, and you’ll have his undivided attention!

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    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to RPG and is presented by Barbara Morris from IBM

    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to RPG and is presented by Barbara Morris from IBM

    Barbara Morris

    Lead Developer for the RPG Compilers, IBM

    IBM

    Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT and DATA-INTO opcodes and varying-dimension arrays. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.

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    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to Security and is presented by Robin Tatam of HelpSystems.

    Part of N2i's "Getting Started" series, this session provides an introduction to Security and is presented by Robin Tatam from HelpSystems.

    The IBM i operating system is lauded as one of the most secure available. But reaching this state requires many changes to system settings, and the ugly truth is that most configurations remain wide open, resulting in shocking server vulnerabilities.

    Join this session, hosted by certified auditor and renowned IBM i expert Robin Tatam. You’ll find out how organizations can achieve better security through increased awareness of important configuration considerations, including: 

    • What controls IBM i security
    • What is legacy debt
    • What’s included for free
    • Where does IBM i suffer  
    • How users do scary things

    Robin Tatam

    Global Director of Security Technologies - HelpSystems

    HelpSystems

    Robin Tatam is HelpSystems’ Global Director of Security Technologies and a COMMON subject matter expert (SME). As an award-winning speaker on security topics, Robin has been interviewed and quoted by industry magazines and has published numerous trade articles. Robin’s extensive Power Server experience has resulted in more than 20 IBM certifications and the highly sought after designation of ISACA-certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and PCI-Professional (PCI-P). He is also co-author of IBM’s Redbook publication on IBM i Data Encryption.