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Trevor Perry, KMR Systems Corporation
Trevor Perry has been a consultant in the midrange industry for over 20 years. He is currently CTO at KMR Systems Corporation, an ISV based on Long Island, New York.
To indulge himself outside of the workplace, Trevor is a part time professional speaker, writer, emcee, actor, director, and poet and is on a lifelong search for the ultimate coffee bean.
He has been a popular speaker at industry conferences and user groups for ten years on many technical and keynote subjects, and forges new trails with his motivational sessions. Trevor has won several speaking awards - including a COMMON gold medal with his session titled "Get A Life!".
Trevor’s unique sense of humor and presentation style are one of the many reasons audiences return to his sessions. His Australian heritage, diverse consulting background, acting and improvisational experiences provide Trevor with a rare viewpoint that is entertaining and always informative. |
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Architecting Modernization
The Information Technology industry is undergoing continual transformation. Traditional legacy application development remains popular, and maintenance of legacy systems remains a major portion of IT work. At the same time, new technologies, methodologies, hardware and software appear at light speed.
While vendors develop sales pitches for related offerings, there are few sources to help you understand the big picture. IT executives are asking questions like "Why do we need middleware?", "How do we optimize our IT?", "How do I retain my legacy investment?", "Which is better, J2EE or .Net?", "Where do we start?", and so on.
These questions relate to the modernization of the enterprise. Trevor's presentation outlines a framework to understand Enterprise Modernization and focus on a higher level of IT strategy. He answers these questions with relevance to a company’s needs, applications, platforms and direction.
Trevor will give you the details of several customer modernization efforts, showing you how to take advantage of the introduced framework. These stories of practical efforts will equip you with an approach that can be adopted to suit your own company and IT organization. |
GUI Tips and Techniques
GUI-enabling a legacy application requires planning and forethought, along with an appropriate methodology, a deployment strategy, and effective user training. This session will outline the challenges and potential pitfalls of a GUI project. By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Understand GUI and its impact on your organization.
- Methodology and deployment strategies.
- Required user training and reduced resistance to change.
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Performance Tuning Stupidity
One of the most neglected and misused work management tasks for a System i is performance tuning. The primary cause is the misinformation that is being spread about the "art" of tuning. Performance tuning is not about making a system run faster, but balancing the workload according to the requirements being placed on your System i server.
This session exposes the myths and uncovers the truth of performance tuning. Basic performance tuning skills are relatively straightforward with an improved understanding of work management. Add to that an easy tuning methodology, and you will leave this session with a process to apply to your system - with the end result being a more balanced System i workload. |
The Truth About SOA
Once upon a time, programmers were given a new language called RPGIV, and a new environment named ILE, for their development work. It offered a chance to develop applications using more modular techniques. Some of those programmers chose to use the new environment and learned new things including activation groups and service modules. The more they learned, the more time they had to focus on the applications and the less time they focused on maintenance and re-coding. Many other programmers chose to play only with the new features of the RPG language and to this day remain unaware of the advantages of ILE.
They have not discovered that modularization provides more efficient code development. They have not discovered that code re-use can reduce the effort required for building application systems. They have not discovered how integrating applications can be much simpler when using a modular approach.
Today, a new modular architecture called Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been thrust into the IT industry limelight. SOA adds a business view to IT development along with the concept of modularizing business applications into recognizable services. We are at a intersection; a point where companies can either (left fork) continue the same old linear approach to coding and development, or (right fork) adopt an SOA approach to gain advantage of modularizing business processes using IT.
Will you learn the lessons of ILE? In this session, Trevor will review SOA with a demonstration like you could never imagine. You will leave with a clearer understanding of exactly what SOA is, how SOA can help your business, and what choices you have in building SOA using the System i. |
Creativity for IT Professionals
How do you define IT? Is it an art, or a science? As artists, we create. As scientists, we engineer a creation. Whether artists, or scientists, IT professionals are required to be problem solvers on a daily basis in all facets of our job. In this role, we regularly encounter obstacles on our path to creating the 'right' solution. This session will introduce you to several methods of unblocking and removing barriers. Whether your issue is with successful project delivery, problem resolution, bug identification and removal, team building, user interactions, customer support, systems design, systems development, QA, personnel relationships, or you are just stuck in a rut, this session is for you. It will open up doors that may have been locked, and show you new doors. Take a different look at the art and the science of problem resolution. And, add some 'Creativity' tools to your skill set. |
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