INNOVATIVE IMS INSTRUCTION, INC. Instructors

Karen Tischer
Karen Tischer is an independent consultant and IMS instructor and course developer. Her areas of expertise include database and transaction manager performance, DBRC, Fast Path and data sharing. She spent 25 years with IBM as a systems engineer and IMS instructor and course developer. Karen’s teaching skills result in notable comments, such as “one of the best instructors I’ve ever had.” Karen has also presented at IMS Technical Conferences since 1992.

Tony Sabo
Tony Sabo has been involved with all aspects of IMS since the mid-70s. His teaching style builds on this experience and his presentations stress the practical, day-to-day responsibilities of his students. Since the mid-1980s, Tony’s time has been divided between IMS education and a consulting practice specializing in IMS performance.

Linda Barker
Linda Barker has been involved with IMS since the 1970s in a variety of capacities. Since the early 1980s, she has been an independent consultant in the areas of IMS and DB2 and involved in developing courses and teaching. She has provided training to many large corporations and has served as a consultant to many of those companies, specializing in the development of large scale on-line systems. In addition to IMS and DB2, Linda has expertise in CICS, MVS, OS/2 PC development, project management and testing and is a specialist in relational technologies and client server development.

Paul Cerio
Paul has worked as an IMS application programmer, system programmer and DBA since the 1970s. He is now an independent contractor teaching and developing courses in all areas of IMS. His vast knowledge, in IMS as well as other areas, and his teaching skills combine to make him an outstanding instructor.

Peter Chang
Peter Chang has been working in the mainframe and personal computer environment since the early 80s. He has installed an IMS DBCTL environment and implemented IMS DBRC and has provided IMS release to release consulting services. Peter has provided team leadership for IMS, CICS, MVS/ESA and OS/390 technical support and has been providing training in these areas as well.

Susan Rose
Susan Rose started Innovative IMS Instruction, Inc. in 1993 with the goal of providing outstanding IMS training at cost-effective prices. Prior to that, Susan had a 27 year career at IBM mostly as an IMS instructor and also as the IMS education manager in the US. As an instructor, she was responsible for teaching and developing a variety of technical courses. She also created and directed the first IMS Technical Conference in 1990 which continues to enjoy great popularity today.

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