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IMS Experts
John Clements, Product Author 
John Clements is the product author of Mission Control and a IMS Project
Officer at SHARE, where he has presented numerous sessions on
the topics of IMS function, tuning, and performance. Prior to
joining NEON Enterprise Software, John designed and
architected IMS system management products for Boole &
Babbage. In his ten years at IBM, he supported IMS as a Level
2, then Level 3 (Change Team) programmer.
Wayne Fisher, Product Author
Wayne Fisher is co-author of Partitioned Database Facility (PDF). Wayne has
enjoyed a long and successful career developing IMS database
utilities and is a recognized expert in the IMS database area.
Before he joined NEON Enterprise Software, Wayne architected
and authored many IMS database utilities for BMC Software and
served as a consulting systems engineer for IBM.
Tom Harper, Product Author
Tom Harper is co-author of the Eclipse Reorganization Utilities for IMS
and author of the Eclipse Affinities Server for CICS. He has
served as deputy project manager for the SHARE CICS project
for over 20 years, authored several SHARE CICS white papers,
and received several best session awards at SHARE. He holds
numerous software patents. Before coming to NEON Enterprise
Software in 1994, Tom helped launch BMC Software as developer
of the CICS, VTAM, and IMS data stream optimization products.
Tom was also a developer and instructor at the State of
California. He has a B.S. in mathematics from the University
of California.
Bill Keene, Product Author
Bill Keene is the author of Eclipse iRecover and Eclipse iChange.
Bill has over three decades of IMS experience and is recognized
worldwide as an expert in IMS recovery and availability. Before
joining NEON Enterprise Software, Bill worked for IBM as the
technical leader of the IMS unit within the Dallas Systems
Center, part of IBM's Advanced Technical Support organization.
In that capacity, Bill presented at numerous IBM and user
technical conferences and was the technical focal point within
IBM's marketing division for product introduction programs
dealing with XRF, RRDF, and RSR—all IMS functions dealing
with local system or disaster recovery.
Tony Lubrano, Product Author
Tony Lubrano is the product author of Database Director and Prefix Update.
During Tony's career, he has designed and developed several
commercially successful IMS monitors. Before he became part of
NEON Enterprise Software in 1999, Tony worked for NEON
Systems, where he helped design and develop their flagship
product. Tony has also worked for Candle Corporation, where he
was the lead developer on several of their IMS and DB2
monitoring products.
Tom McMillan, Product Author
Tom McMillan is
the product author of Partitioned Database Facility (PDF). He
has more than 20 years of IMS experience, including 12 years
at IBM as a systems engineer and IMS database developer and 8
years designing and developing products for NEON Enterprise
Software. At IBM's Santa Teresa Lab, he led the design and
development of IMS 3.1 Change Data Capture for IMS to DB2 data
propagation. He holds a B.A. degree in business economics from
the University of California at Santa Barbara.
John Murray, Product Author
John Murray is co-author of the Eclipse Reorganization Utilities.
John's knowledge and expertise in IMS, both
transaction and database management, are highly regarded in
the industry. John's career and knowledge of IMS started in
the 1970s as a DB analyst and programmer for Deere & Co
and working for First City Bank as a DBA and System
Programmer. Prior to joining NEON Enterprise Software, John
designed and architected several IMS transaction management
products for BMC Software.
Eric Spencer, Product Author
Eric Spencer is the product author of Record Reorganizer and co-author of Mission Control. Eric
Spencer started his career in 1985 at Texas Tech University as
a VTAM Systems programmer. He was recruited by BMC Software in
1987 where he was a Software Developer and later product
author of several VTAM products. Eric has organized and taught
several classes on C and C++ programming and MVS Systems level
programming in mixed language environments.
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