• Christopher Moran

  
  Bio: I have been a VMS admin as well as developer and integration architect since the early 1990s.
  
  Nowadays I spend my time helping customers migrate resources into Amazon Web Services, and I am keen to drive OpenVMS on X86 in this space as well.  I've written up guides on how to make all this work and they are freely available from my personal blog.
  
  Website: https://blog.nowwhywouldyoudothat.com
  
  

• Greg Tinkler

  
  
  Bio: Start in a partnership in 1980 building theatre and gaming related machines and software.
   
  Started working for Road Traffic Authority Victoria, on RSX in 1981, and VAX/VMS 1983 with a 2 x VAX-11/750 and HSC50 cluster, yes that was before the VMS supported clusters but we worked around that. This included a large amount of software development including converting from Rapport DB to VAX/Rdb, and using ACMS/TDMS for user interface.
   
  Joined Digital in 1987 a a system manager, after a year was moved promoted to a principle consultant (Information Management). As part of the IM role became an Inaugural member then board member of the internal Information Management partners group, which help advise Digital on software strategies.
   
  Left Digital 1995 due to the sale of Rdb to Oracle, have been running own company as a consultant since then. Initially was the senior Architect for Telephony OptusVision (Australia), for about 18 months, until the system was implemented. Then have been consulting across a wide range of companies, mostly for OpenVMS but also an Information Management requirements.
  
  

• Liam Bainsfair

  
  Bio: IT Systems Engineer from Newcastle, Australia, with a passion for both work and hobby projects. Active on the OpenVMS subreddit, sharing experiences with the VMS community. In my free time, I enjoy tinkering with hardware, experimenting with software, and tackling DIY tech projects.
  
  

• Tony Nicholson

  
  Bio: 45 years of OpenVMS experience (VAX since 1980, Alpha since 1990 and x86_64 since 2023).  System management, Networking, Security and Programming in Fortran, Pascal and C.  Ex Higher Education - now retired.  Active hobbyist contributor to HECnet and legacy systems back to PDP-11 systems running RSX11M-Plus, RSTS/E and RT-11.
  

Yanyu Wei

Bio: I'm an OpenVMS enthusiast from Chinese Mainland, and I have a certain understanding of its history and current development. As a member of the VSI Ambassador Program, I mainly contribute to the external promotion of OpenVMS and its ecosystem. If there are like-minded individuals, it is a good idea to communicate and interact with me through Bilibili.

Website: https://space.bilibili.com/434151470

• Kumaresan Vedagiri

  
  Bio: I have been working as an OpenVMS administrator for over 18 years, supporting multiple customers globally. My experience ranges from version 5.x to 8.4.x. Being part of this community helps me stay updated, test new developments, and implement them effectively for our customers. By using the community license, I was able to test the new tool, such as WEBUI, myself before recommending it to the customer for version 9.x (x86).

• Johan Michiels

  
  
  Bio: Johan Michiels has over 42 years of experience with OpenVMS.

   

  He began his career at Alcatel Bell in 1983 and joined Digital Equipment in 1986.

   

  Johan specializes in platform migrations, disaster-tolerant clusters, centralized management, and automated operations. He has performed consulting missions for major OpenVMS customers worldwide.

   

  Johan initiated the development of new system management tools, resulting in 'CockpitMgr for OpenVMS' and joined OpenVMS Engineering in 2003 to develop the OpenView Smart Plug-ins for OpenVMS.

   

  He is an active member of the OpenVMS Ambassadors community and founded EuroVMS after a 32-year career at Digital, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard.
  
  
  Website: www.eurovms.com

• Veli Körkkö

  
  
  Bio: I started with MicroVMS V4.6 around 1997. Since then I have been running all versions of VMS made available to me and especially during my Digital years from 1990 towards 1998 and slightly later at COMPAQ / HPE since early 1999.
   
  Some of OpenVMS solutions I have been involved with are by now almost 30 yeards old and still running, have been migrated from VAX to Alpha, then to Integrity and even in pocess of being migrated to X86 platform.
   
  Over the almost 40 years in VMS world I have also done extensive amount of hardware and storage and network mainenance, often also for systems being in use for "lesser operating environments :-)"
   
  You will meet me at VSI forums too.
  
  
  

• Emmanuel Poitier

  
  Bio: Involved in a few projects like porting ODBC drivers and miscellaneous database related project on OpenVMS. Willing to be involved in more or kind of the same projects under this platform.
  
  Website: https://www.enman.fr

• Martin Vorländer

  
  Bio: More than 30 years experience in OpenVMS system management, support and application software development (Pascal, C, C++) and scripting (DCL, Perl, Python). Been porting *ix software, e.g. Xpdf, ht://Dig (currently not too active due to time constraints). Always active in the OpenVMS community, nowadays mostly on the VSI forums.
  
  Website: https://de.openvms.org/martinv/

• Ricardo Bánffy

  
  Bio: Computer whisperer, cloud charmer, a round peg who leads, mentors, and manages from the trenches, writer of executable poetry. Master of ancient knowledge.
  
  Website: https://github.com/rbanffy

• Gerrit Woertman

  
  Bio: 43 years of OpenVMS support and teaching experience. Application support, Fortran programming, demo-center, consultancy, pre-sales. HP Certified OpenVMS Systems Engineer with extensive systems management and migration experience.
  
  Website: https://www.woertman.com/
  
  

• Jouk Jansen

  
  Bio: Scientific researcher/teacher in the filed of crystallography and electron microscopy. Ported several Open source software packages to OpenVMS
  
  Website: http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html

• Joachim Wlodarz

  
  
  Bio: I'm a quantum chemist/physicist by background, active in academia since the early 1980s. There was always a need to squeeze as much computing power as possible from the available hardware, so over time I also became a computer scientist/specialist.
   
  I currently serve as a university professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Silesia in Katowice, where I teach mainly computer science-related topics. This also gives me the opportunity to spread the word about OpenVMS to students, which is why I am here.
   
  I've also managed to save quite a bit of hardware from the scrapyard, so I am also involved in preserving the past of computers for the future.
  
  
  

• Zoltan Arpadffy

  
  Bio: I’m a CTO and accomplished Integration Architect with a passion for bridging legacy systems and modern technology. With extensive expertise in OpenVMS, I have consistently delivered mission-critical solutions by leveraging the platform’s robust reliability.
  Not only have I led major integration projects, but I also actively contribute to the open source community—championing collaborative development and innovation.

  My work reflects a distinctive blend of deep technical knowledge and a commitment to mentorship, qualities I bring as a dynamic and passionate ambassador for technology and VMS Software.

   

  Website: http://polarhome.com

   

• Chris Townley

  
  Bio: Operating, developing and managing VMS since 1986
  
  

• Ian Miller

  
  Bio: For more than 37 years I've helped my customers make the best use of the OpenVMS platform by consultancy, programming, and system management. I was honoured to be awarded the John Wisniewski Spirit Award in 2007. 
  I am active on various OpenVMS forums and in the past was News Editor on www.OpenVMS.org.
  
  Website: www.DECUServe.org/~miller
  
  

• Ian Smith

  
  Bio: Worked professionally with OpenVMS since 1990 and today provide technical consultancy for a UK critical infrastructure system running IA64 OVMS.
  Been running and maintaining the vamp.issinoho.com forum website since 2005, championing running LAMP-like stacks on OVMS originally on Alpha and now running natively on x86.
  Enthusiastic advocate for x86 adoption and keen contributor to the VSI forum holding Master status.
  
  Website: https://vamp.issinoho.com
  
  

• Laurence Fossey

  
  Bio: Working with VMS for 40 years now, Programmer, System Management & Consultant
  Specialises in building and supporting Disaster Tolerant Clusters & High Availablity systems.
  
  Through "The 4th Platform Consultancy," the DTCS toolset and Itheon's iAM:Servers Suite, including a Console Manager, are supported and sold (these products were formerly Heroix RoboMON). 
  
  Also has built and provided a number of utilities to the VMS freeware environment and offers support on those should customers wish to contract.
  
  Website: www.the4thplatform.co.uk
  
  

• Nic Clews

  
  Bio: Have been involved with the Digital family of hardware for nearly 50 years, PDP then VAX, into Alpha and Integrity as well as current X86. Experienced in a wide range of industries from education to nuclear, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, retail and utilities also forming part of that remit, along with government services. High availability is a specialist area of interest but broadly interested in hardware and storage too. Have presented many times internally for education and externally for user groups.
  
  

• Paul Hardy

  
  Bio: Born 1953, Paul Hardy graduated in 1975 with a M.A. in Computer Science from Cambridge University in England. He worked for 28 years at Laser-Scan Ltd in Cambridge England, where he held the roles of Chief Programmer, Product Manager, and Principal Consultant. There he system managed and programmed the first non-military VAX in the UK (GA00047), and subsequent VMS systems, including a large LAVC VMS cluster.
  
  He was Product Manager for Cartography at Esri in Redlands California from 2003 to 2006, and project managed the implementation of advanced cartographic capabilities into ArcGIS. From 2007 he was Business Development Consultant for Esri Europe, focused on national mapping and cadastral agencies. He retired in 2016, other than for occasional consultancy.
  
  He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society and a Member of the British Computer Society. His professional interests include digital mapping and charting, automated cartography, map generalization, geospatial data models and data re-engineering techniques. Because of his time in business development and in software development, he bridges the communication gap between business users and technical professionals.
  
  Website: https://pghardy.net/

• Fabio Cardoso

  
  Bio: I am an experienced professional wirh more three decades in the IT and Telco industry. I worked with VMS/OpenVMS for more than 20 years in several industries.  My last contact was as Telco Consultant running OVMS with telco software.

• Edgar Ulloa

  
  Bio: I am a Systems Engineer with 30 years of experience in the technology sector, having held leadership roles
  such as Chief Information Officer, Regional Technology Manager, IT and Operations Manager, Open VMS System Engineer and in all of them
  being responsible for all operations involving Open VMS environments. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated my ability to lead teams towards achieving strategic objectives, optimizing processes and ensuring optimal performance of technological infrastructures, such as:
  Technological Project Management under Open VMS:
  Innovation and Digital Transformation:
  Technological Strategy and Planning:
  Leadership and team development:
  Open VMS trainer and coach in Spanish from beginners to advanced levels giving courses on system manager 1,2,3, trouble shooting, Clustering, Performance and migration to other platforms vax-alpha, vax-integrity, alpha-integrity, Integrity RX to Integrity Blade and Ovms-Linux
  
  
  

• Karthik Kumar Viswanathan

  
  Bio: Karthik is a developer and a consultant who specializes in porting software across various systems. He is enthusiastic about OpenVMS and realizes the need for maintaining and modernizing critical applications in our present day.
  
  Website: https://karthikkumar.org
  
  

• Dan Fleury

  Bio: Longtime OpenVMS user and support provider for both hardware and software at all levels. I specialize in solving the hard problems whether internals related or performance. Starting with V1, it has been an adventure working through 3 hardware architectures and seeing OpenVMS continue to be the robust and solid OS many companies rely on. Looking now more to teach the next generation the wonders of this OS and to pass on the tips and tricks acquired along the way.
  
  

• Lawrence Fisher

  
  Bio: Worked as a Digital/Compaq/HPe OpenVMS consultant since 1988. I have performed highly technical migrations from VAX to Alpha to Itanium including both applications and device drivers. Low level troubleshooting often identifying system kernel or device driver flaws.
  
  I currently am promoting VMSSoftware licensing for some legacy HPe OpenVMS customers, focusing on migration to x86, support for Itanium systems, as well as integration of modernized packages, such as SSH for unsupported OpenVMS operating system versions running in emulated environments.
  
  

• Lorin Ricker

  
  Bio: I am a senior software engineer, technical manager and team leader, with several decades of experience with VMS (OpenVMS), from VAX thru Alpha and Itanium to X86 systems. Technical training/instruction have been a cornerstone of my activities, as has software product delivery via agile and continuous delivery methodologies before these even had names. I've earned expertise in realtime process control software, relational databases (Rdb), systems programming, transaction processing, and more. Favorite languages include Ruby, Pascal and DCL. I'm a regular presenter at VMS Bootcamps.
  
  Website: https://app.boardsi.com/executive/Lorin-Ricker
  
  

• Meadhbh Hamrick

  
  Bio: Long time VMS software developer and system manager.  Recent port to x86 re-invigorated my interest in OpenVMS and am consulting with a few customers in the Seattle area to develop a strategy for app migration from alpha (emulated) to to fully supported modern x86 environment.  Interested in migration tools, development languages and open source software for OpenVMS.
  
  Website: https://meadhbh.hamrick.rocks/

• Pete Sivia

  
  Bio: Long time systems architect, implementer, and operations lead of a very large VMS worldwide environment.  Retired but still interested and curious about VMS and its use in both old and new settings.

• Robert Gezelter

  
  Bio: Systems programmer/architect working with OpenVMS (nee VAX/VMS) since Release 1.0. Consultant, speaker, and author on OpenVMS internals, performance, security, architecture, networking and related areas both from a system management and programming perspective. Deep experience in many programming languages including C/C++, FORTRAN, BASIC, and MACRO-32. We have assisted clients with technical matters in a diverse range of applications on a variety of scales, from small telephone consultations to software development and implementation, as well as troubleshooting.
  
  Website: http://www.rlgsc.com
  
  

• William Cox

  
  Bio: I spent 15 years at Digital Equipment (1979-1995) ending with 5 years in software engineering. I then spent 20 years working on databases at Sybase (later acquired by SAP). As an VMS Ambassador I keep abreast of releases and exercise the software where I can, And I try to contribute to the forum in helping report and resolve issues.