Susan's 30+ year career began as an application programmer for companies in Atlanta, Georgia, working on a variety of hardware and software platforms. She joined IBM in 1985 and developed a close association with the Rochester lab during the development of the AS/400 system. Susan worked in Rochester, Minnesota at the home of the (then) AS/400 - now IBM i. She moved to the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory to provide technical support for programming languages and tools on IBM i. Susan left IBM in 1999 to devote more time to teaching and consulting. Her primary emphasis is on enabling developers to exploit the latest programming and database technologies on IBM i. She is part of Partner400 with Jon Paris and System i Developer, an education consortium hosting the RPG & Db2 Summit and various virtual events. Susan has been a regular speaker at user group and other technical conferences around the world and holds a number of Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON. Together with her partner, Jon Paris, she has published over 700 technical articles for various platforms, including TechChannel (formerly IBM Systems Magazine) and IT Jungle. Visit Authory.com/JonParisandSusanGantner to peruse their musings.