Christopher Moran He has been a VMS admin as well as developer and integration architect since the early 1990s. Nowadays he spends his time helping customers migrate resources into Amazon Web Services, and he is keen to drive OpenVMS on X86 in this space as well. He has written up guides on how to make all this work and they are freely available from his personal blog. Website: https://blog.nowwhywouldyoudothat.com Greg Tinkler 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 they 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, has 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 has been consulting across a wide range of companies, mostly for OpenVMS but also an Information Management requirements. Tony Nicholson 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.

Kumaresan Vedagiri He has been working as an OpenVMS administrator for over 18 years, supporting multiple customers globally. His experience ranges from version 5.x to 8.4.x. Being part of this community helps him stay updated, test new developments, and implement them effectively for customers. By using the community license, he was able to test the new tool, such as WEBUI, himself before recommending it to a customer for version 9.x (x86).

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

Martin Vorländer 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/ Timo Biesenbach Used VMS on a VaxStation 3100 in Uni back in the 1990s during computer science studies. Interested in restoring, collecting and documenting vintage IT hardware with their respective operating systems from the 1970s - 1990s with a focus on (Unix) workstations. Website: https://www.thevintagecomputer.de/ Also see: Christof Ullwer, a German ambassador based in Ireland (under Ireland section below).

Gerrit Woertman 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 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 He has 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 he also became a computer scientist/specialist. He currently serves as a university professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Silesia in Katowice, where he teaches mainly computer science-related topics. This also gives him the opportunity to spread the word about OpenVMS to students, which is why he is here. He has also managed to save quite a bit of hardware from the scrapyard, so he is also involved in preserving the past of computers for the future.

Zoltan Arpadffy He is a CTO and accomplished Integration Architect with a passion for bridging legacy systems and modern technology. With extensive expertise in OpenVMS, he has consistently delivered mission-critical solutions by leveraging the platform’s robust reliability. Not only has he led major integration projects, but he also actively contributes to the open source community—championing collaborative development and innovation. His work reflects a distinctive blend of deep technical knowledge and a commitment to mentorship, qualities he brings as a dynamic and passionate ambassador for technology and VMS Software. Website: http://polarhome.com

Chris Townley Operating, developing and managing VMS since 1986 Ian Miller For more than 37 years, he has helped his customers make the best use of the OpenVMS platform by consultancy, programming, and system management. He was honoured to be awarded the John Wisniewski Spirit Award in 2007. He is active on various OpenVMS forums and in the past was News Editor on www.OpenVMS.org. Website: www.DECUServe.com/~miller Iain Smith 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 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 Has 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. Has presented many times internally for education and externally for user groups. Paul Hardy 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/

Christof Ullwer Freelance Computer Scientist, trainer and consultant for different UNIX systems (Linux, Solaris, HPUX, FreeBSD) and VMS/OpenVMS (since version 3.7) with 35+ years of experience in operating systems, cluster systems, programming and various database systems (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB); Member of ACM, IEEE, and GI; I also still like to program my HP41CX. Note: Can be contacted by German speakers Website: https://cmcc.com/ Tom Wade He have worked with OpenVMS from V2.5 in 1983 to V9.2-3 today, on all four architectures. He started in the Department of Computer Science in University College Dublin, moving to EuroKom, which provided various commercial services on the OpenVMS platform, to being an independent consultant. During that time he has had experience of system management, systems programming and application development, as well as TCP/IP networking. Website: http://www.tomwade.eu/

Kerry Main Before leaving HP / Compaq / DEC in 2012, he was a WW OpenVMS Ambassador since 1981. He was a regular attendee, and active participant in the WW OpenVMS Ambassador meetings and training events between OpenVMS Eng and the field. Also provided Country and International level support for OpenVMS, clusters, and associated hardware infrastructure for mission critical Customers around the globe. Since leaving HP, he started a private consulting services company that focuses on not only on OpenVMS, but also on large multi-platform Datacenter Infrastructure and Application migrations. From 2016-2026 , he was a Technical Lead Architect for the Canadian Govt Shared Services Canada (SSC) legacy DC to enterprise DC migrations.Currently maintains a private Integrity/Alpha OpenVMS lab with latest versions of VSI OS, 3rd party and open-source layered products.Presently involved in supporting the rollout of a new freeware advanced relational database recently announced for OpenVMS called SharkSQL. Website: www.sharkSQL.com

Edgar Ulloa He is 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 his career, he has consistently demonstrated his 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

William Cox He spent 15 years at Digital Equipment (1979-1995) ending with 5 years in software engineering. He then spent 20 years working on databases at Sybase (later acquired by SAP). As a VMS Ambassador he keeps abreast of releases and exercises the software where he cans, And he tries to contribute to the forum in helping report and resolve issues. Dan Fleury Longtime OpenVMS user and support provider for both hardware and software at all levels. He specializes 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. Email Dan. Lawrence Fisher Worked as a Digital/Compaq/HPe OpenVMS consultant since 1988. He has 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. He currently is 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. Robert Gezelter 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. He has 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: https://www.rlgsc.com Lorin Ricker He is 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 his activities, as has software product delivery via agile and continuous delivery methodologies before these even had names. He has earned expertise in realtime process control software, relational databases (Rdb), systems programming, transaction processing, and more. Favorite languages include Ruby, Pascal and DCL. He is a regular presenter at VMS Bootcamps. Website: https://app.boardsi.com/executive/Lorin-Ricker Pete Sivia 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. Gary Sparkes He has around 20 years of VMS experience, and has recently been working on several open source solutions, including an open source alpha emulation package that has seen great advancements in recent time as publicly seen here - to better support VMS preservation and emulation of historical software. A long-time proponent of VMS solutions, he got his start on a small DEC 3000-300X he received for free around 2001-2002 and has been going strong in professional and hobby capacities ever since. Skills across the board include development, administration, migration, and direct support of various VMS and non-VMS systems. Website: https://kisaracorporation.com/

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We strive to deliver a phenomenal ecosystem of products and services and view Ambassadors as a key bridge to the OpenVMS user experience and customer journey through constructive feedback and helpful product insights.
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Educate and Inform the OpenVMS Ecosystem

OpenVMS Ambassadors are a vital part of our community outreach and product promotion efforts, especially when they are armed with complete, accurate, and undistorted information about VMS Software's strategic and tactical direction.
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Help us Continue the OpenVMS Legacy!

We are bound by an enduring passion for OpenVMS and a shared desire to maintain its viability for years to come. Together we will explore and identify new and creative ways to ensure OpenVMS thrives well into the future.

Australia

Christopher Moran

He has been a VMS admin as well as developer and integration architect since the early 1990s.

Nowadays he spends his time helping customers migrate resources into Amazon Web Services, and he is keen to drive OpenVMS on X86 in this space as well. He has written up guides on how to make all this work and they are freely available from his personal blog.

Website: https://blog.nowwhywouldyoudothat.com
Greg Tinkler

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 they 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, has 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 has been consulting across a wide range of companies, mostly for OpenVMS but also an Information Management requirements.
Tony Nicholson

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.

India

Kumaresan Vedagiri

He has been working as an OpenVMS administrator for over 18 years, supporting multiple customers globally. His experience ranges from version 5.x to 8.4.x. Being part of this community helps him stay updated, test new developments, and implement them effectively for customers. By using the community license, he was able to test the new tool, such as WEBUI, himself before recommending it to a customer for version 9.x (x86).

Belgium

Johan Michiels

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

Finland

Veli Körkkö

He started with MicroVMS V4.6 around 1997. Since then he has been running all versions of VMS made available to him and especially during his Digital years from 1990 towards 1998 and slightly later at COMPAQ / HPE since early 1999.

Some of OpenVMS solutions he has been involved with are by now almost 30 years old and still running, have been migrated from VAX to Alpha, then to Integrity and even in process of being migrated to X86 platform.

Over the almost 40 years in VMS world he has also done extensive amount of hardware and storage and network maintenance, often also for systems being in use for "lesser operating environments :-)"

You will meet him at VSI forums too.

Germany

Martin Vorländer

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/
Timo Biesenbach

Used VMS on a VaxStation 3100 in Uni back in the 1990s during computer science studies. Interested in restoring, collecting and documenting vintage IT hardware with their respective operating systems from the 1970s - 1990s with a focus on (Unix) workstations.

Website: https://www.thevintagecomputer.de/

Also see: Christof Ullwer, a German ambassador based in Ireland (under Ireland section below).

Netherlands

Gerrit Woertman

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

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

Poland

Joachim Wlodarz

He has 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 he also became a computer scientist/specialist.

He currently serves as a university professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Silesia in Katowice, where he teaches mainly computer science-related topics. This also gives him the opportunity to spread the word about OpenVMS to students, which is why he is here.

He has also managed to save quite a bit of hardware from the scrapyard, so he is also involved in preserving the past of computers for the future.

Sweden

Zoltan Arpadffy

He is a CTO and accomplished Integration Architect with a passion for bridging legacy systems and modern technology. With extensive expertise in OpenVMS, he has consistently delivered mission-critical solutions by leveraging the platform’s robust reliability.

Not only has he led major integration projects, but he also actively contributes to the open source community—championing collaborative development and innovation.

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

Website: http://polarhome.com

United Kingdom

Chris Townley

Operating, developing and managing VMS since 1986
Ian Miller

For more than 37 years, he has helped his customers make the best use of the OpenVMS platform by consultancy, programming, and system management. He was honoured to be awarded the John Wisniewski Spirit Award in 2007.
He is active on various OpenVMS forums and in the past was News Editor on www.OpenVMS.org.

Website: www.DECUServe.com/~miller
Iain Smith

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

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

Has 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. Has presented many times internally for education and externally for user groups.
Paul Hardy

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/

Ireland

Christof Ullwer

Freelance Computer Scientist, trainer and consultant for different UNIX systems (Linux, Solaris, HPUX, FreeBSD) and VMS/OpenVMS (since version 3.7) with 35+ years of experience in operating systems, cluster systems, programming and various database systems (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB); Member of ACM, IEEE, and GI; I also still like to program my HP41CX.

Note: Can be contacted by German speakers

Website: https://cmcc.com/
Tom Wade
He have worked with OpenVMS from V2.5 in 1983 to V9.2-3 today, on all four architectures. He started in the Department of Computer Science in University College Dublin, moving to EuroKom, which provided various commercial services on the OpenVMS platform, to being an independent consultant. During that time he has had experience of system management, systems programming and application development, as well as TCP/IP networking.

Website: http://www.tomwade.eu/

Canada

Kerry Main

Before leaving HP / Compaq / DEC in 2012, he was a WW OpenVMS Ambassador since 1981. He was a regular attendee, and active participant in the WW OpenVMS Ambassador meetings and training events between OpenVMS Eng and the field. Also provided Country and International level support for OpenVMS, clusters, and associated hardware infrastructure for mission critical Customers around the globe.

Since leaving HP, he started a private consulting services company that focuses on not only on OpenVMS, but also on large multi-platform Datacenter Infrastructure and Application migrations. From 2016-2026 , he was a Technical Lead Architect for the Canadian Govt Shared Services Canada (SSC) legacy DC to enterprise DC migrations.Currently maintains a private Integrity/Alpha OpenVMS lab with latest versions of VSI OS, 3rd party and open-source layered products.Presently involved in supporting the rollout of a new freeware advanced relational database recently announced for OpenVMS called SharkSQL.

Website: www.sharkSQL.com

Panamá

Edgar Ulloa

He is 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 his career, he has consistently demonstrated his 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

USA

William Cox

He spent 15 years at Digital Equipment (1979-1995) ending with 5 years in software engineering. He then spent 20 years working on databases at Sybase (later acquired by SAP). As a VMS Ambassador he keeps abreast of releases and exercises the software where he cans, And he tries to contribute to the forum in helping report and resolve issues.
Dan Fleury

Longtime OpenVMS user and support provider for both hardware and software at all levels. He specializes 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. Email Dan.
Lawrence Fisher

Worked as a Digital/Compaq/HPe OpenVMS consultant since 1988. He has 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.

He currently is 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.

Robert Gezelter

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. He has 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: https://www.rlgsc.com

Lorin Ricker

He is 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 his activities, as has software product delivery via agile and continuous delivery methodologies before these even had names. He has earned expertise in realtime process control software, relational databases (Rdb), systems programming, transaction processing, and more. Favorite languages include Ruby, Pascal and DCL. He is a regular presenter at VMS Bootcamps.

Website: https://app.boardsi.com/executive/Lorin-Ricker
Pete Sivia

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.

Gary Sparkes
He has around 20 years of VMS experience, and has recently been working on several open source solutions, including an open source alpha emulation package that has seen great advancements in recent time as publicly seen here - to better support VMS preservation and emulation of historical software. A long-time proponent of VMS solutions, he got his start on a small DEC 3000-300X he received for free around 2001-2002 and has been going strong in professional and hobby capacities ever since. Skills across the board include development, administration, migration, and direct support of various VMS and non-VMS systems.

Website: https://kisaracorporation.com/

Meet Our Ambassadors

By linking the past to the future, we provide OpenVMS users an opportunity to protect and realize the full value of their application investments.

Influence the Direction
of OpenVMS

Educate and Inform the OpenVMS Ecosystem

Help us Continue the OpenVMS Legacy!

Our Ambassadors Around the World

Asia & Oceania

Christopher Moran

Greg Tinkler

Tony Nicholson

Kumaresan Vedagiri

Europe

Johan Michiels

Veli Körkkö

Martin Vorländer

Timo Biesenbach

Gerrit Woertman

Jouk Jansen

Joachim Wlodarz

Zoltan Arpadffy

Chris Townley

Ian Miller

Iain Smith

Laurence Fossey

Nic Clews

Paul Hardy

Christof Ullwer

Tom Wade

North and South America

Kerry Main

Edgar Ulloa

William Cox

Dan Fleury

Lawrence Fisher

Robert Gezelter

Lorin Ricker

Pete Sivia

Gary Sparkes

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