Elevate Presenters

Armeen Mazda is the co-founder and CEO of Appeon. Prior to becoming CEO, Armeen served various other roles in Appeon, including Product Management, Business Development, and Operations. Prior to co-founding Appeon, Armeen was co-founder of NetUpSide, a Silicon Valley-based incubator of high-tech startups. Armeen is a graduate of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, and holds 5 U.S. patents in the area of Web application technologies.

John Qi is the co-founder and CTO of Appeon, driving the technology strategy and design for Appeon products and overseeing product engineering. John has contributed major innovations, from creating the first Web DataWindow that faithfully replicated most PowerBuilder features to pioneering a .NET ORM that requires even less coding than PowerBuilder. Prior to joining Appeon, John served as Project Manager for a subsidiary of China Merchant’s Group, leading large ERP projects and serving large clients in China, including the port of Shenzhen and Hitachi’s elevator division.

Julie Jiang is the Product Manager of Appeon, driving the product roadmap, feature definitions, and release management. Julie joined Appeon in 2002 and worked closely with Sybase to create the first documentation for PowerServer. Julie’s past work experience includes technical support manager at TUV Rheinland and system analyst at Accela Automation. Julie is a graduate of the University of Science and Technology in China, and holds degrees in both Computer Science and Arts.

Govinda joined Appeon in 2017. He has been in the IT industry for over fifteen years. Mr. Lopez has worked on a wide range of IT projects including Maintenance, Development, and Datacenter Infrastructure and Architecture. He’s an enthusiast of the evolution of all IT Technologies. Loyal to his vision of the future, he constantly focuses on current technologies as these are the mechanisms of evolution and a foundation of an ever-growing future. Focused on understanding the motivating mindset of creating fantastic solutions! When he isn’t glued to a computer screen, he spends fun-loving moments with his wife and kids, learning new things as learning is his passion, and trying very hard not to be the worst chess-player in town. He’s currently working with innovative Appeon-PowerBuilder C# technologies and sharing this passion with other development enthusiasts and experts.

Don Clayton is President of Intertech Consulting, Inc., Appeon’s North American Consulting Partner. Intertech was previously a PowerSoft Partner and partnered with SAP and Sybase for over 25 years. Don has 32 years of PowerBuilder experience and 39 years of industry and consulting experience. He holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from Rice University, where he taught various courses at the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Management for nine years while maintained a research effort on modern software analysis and design techniques. Don is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

Ph.D in Computer Science. Appeon MVP and PowerServer enthusiast since the early days. Lead Appeon expert in dozens of worldwide migration projects to Web and Mobile architectures. Invited speaker at Elevate conferences and national User Groups. Taught PowerBuilder and Appeon development techniques to hundreds of developers. Pioneered the field of interactive Grid computing at CERN, publishing several scientific articles. Broad knowledge in Big Data programming frameworks and predictive models using Machine Learning.

Torsten Matschull has been responsible for EVENTIM.Inhouse for 26 years. After graduating from the Universities of Passau and Oldenburg, Germany, in 1993, he started as a developer for the ticketing system that is today known as EVENTIM.Inhouse. He is a professional user of the Powerbuilder IDE and together with his team of 27 developers he produces a complex application used by more than 400 organizations in 12 countries.

Tom Mills is the senior system architect at Foundation Software, an ISV that provides accounting and project management solutions for the U.S. construction industry. For the past 21 years, he has been the technical lead for the company's flagship PowerBuilder-based product - Foundation for Windows, which is used daily by over 5000 companies. Leveraging PowerBuilder's productivity and advanced features, the Windows product has been number one in its market segment for more than a decade. Tom has worked with PowerBuilder since version 6. His current areas of focus for the Windows system are UI/UX modernization and re-architecting the code base to provide an API for web and mobile solutions. Prior to joining Foundation, Tom earned degrees in Computer Science and English from Case Western Reserve University.

Bruce Armstrong is a senior developer with Integrated Data Services (IDS). Prior to joining IDS in 2004 he spent 15 years as an independent consultant doing PowerBuilder development. He is an Appeon MVP and has done sessions on PowerBuilder at Sybase TechWaves, SAP TechEds, Appeon Elevate conferences, local user group meetings in Columbia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Italy, Spain and France as well as online webcasts.

Georg Brodbeck has been pushing the boundaries of PowerBuilder since the beginning of his career at Informaticon in 2009. His creativity and conceptual abilities led him to become an integral member of Informaticon’s core development team. Today Georg is responsible for a wide range of modules and helps to define the future of Informaticon’s products.

I've been using PowerBuilder since version 5 at numerous companies in the healthcare, insurance, materials processing, and public utility sectors. I've presented at numerous conferences on PowerBuilder.

Curtis Hanner has been using PowerBuilder since 1995 (version 5.0). He has working with PowerBuilder ever since mainly in the insurance and banking sectors. For many years he ran the Seattle based NWPBUG group. He is currently a Senior Developer for the City of Seattle providing custom PowerBuilder application solutions to internal city customers.

Michael is a software craftsman dedicated to software quality, technical excellence, end-user experience, and dev/ops processes. He has worked with client/server since 1988, PowerBuilder since 1993, and distributed systems since 1999. Michael is also a hiker, golfer, poetry writer, teacher, and advocate for lean/agile methods.

Ronnie Po is the founder and principal of Morpheon Corporation d/b/a ChartBase Medical Systems, an independent consulting and software development business based in Pasadena, California. He is a long-time PowerBuilder and SQL developer specializing in custom line-of-business applications. He received a Laureate Medal in Innovation by IDG’s 2012 Computerworld Honors Program for his work on ChartBase, a specialty medical application developed using PowerBuilder and SQL Anywhere. At the 2011 SAP Tech Ed/Sybase TechWave conference in Las Vegas, his demonstration of an image-mapped query tool was selected as one of seven finalists from a field of over one hundred entries at the annual Demo Jam event, ultimately placing second. In recent years has worked closely with Appeon in testing and showcasing the PowerBuilder and PowerServer products.

Uwe Lappöhn has been using PowerBuilder since version 6.5 back to 1999. In his actual position as a software architect, he develops a ticketing system called EVENTIM.Inhouse together with 27 colleagues for a large variety of customers. He is a professional user of the Powerbuilder IDE and has a strong focus on code quality.

Kevin is a PowerBuilder MVP with 25+ years of experience from version 3 through current 2022. Kevin has written for the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal and first presented at Techwave for Sybase in the early 2000's and most recently for Appeon at Elevate 2018/2019/2020/2021. Kevin specializes in web service integration and does contract and freelance work as well.

Mike has worked in software development, technical consulting, business consulting, software sales, business management.

Brian Le Suer is the CEO of Zeenyx Software, a company dedicated to building next generation testing solutions. He is a founding partner of Star Quality, a New England based firm specializing in consulting and training for SQA and automated testing. Brian served as Executive Vice President of R&D for Segue Software, where he built a world class engineering team and played a key role in a successful IPO. His earlier career experience includes various roles as a SQA engineer, technical writer and technical trainer. He regularly contributes presentations and articles for various industry events and publications. He holds a Masters of Computer Science from the University of New Haven and a BA in English Literature from CCSU.

Filiberto Sosa is a software developer with 30 years of experience with PowerBuilder. Mr. Sosa created the Software Sizes and Colors, and ERP solution for Chains of Shoe stores and as of today, more than 3,000 stores use this solution all across México and Latin América.

I have been a PowerBuilder developer since version 2. I have 45 free code examples on my website and sell several tools including PBSearch code search tool and WizSource source control. During the day I work on a large secondary education administration application.

Software development since 1982, PowerBuilder since 1998 Version 6.5 Senior Consultant with Intertech since 2005 From Houston, Texas, USA

Heino Hellmers is CEO of S&F Datentechnik, an independent consulting and software development company in Germany with a team of around 50 employees (19 PowerBuilder developers). For more than ten years the company is a Microsoft Competency Partner and also an Oracle Gold Partner. Heino has been using PowerBuilder since version 4 and holds a master's degree (Diplom-Informatiker) in computer science from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He started as a developer and consultant in 1996 and has been a project leader in various projects. He regularly participates in seminars and user group conferences around the world and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Since 2015, he is also second chairman of the PowerBuilder User Group Germany, PBUGG e.V.

Gian Luca De Bonis is an international consultant, Scrum specialist, and IT project manager, that has created several solutions for PowerBuilder and is consulting customers around the world on PowerBuilder, Agile methodologies, Managed outsourcing, and PowerBuilder-to-C# migration using the .Net DataStore.

I was born in Moscow, Russia in 1945. In 1995 moved to the United States(Virginia) and worked as Programmer and DBA. I have been used PowerBuilder starting from version 3.0 and up to 12.6 Classic. Now I am Principal System Analyst in mid-sized company CALIBRE in Alexandria, Virginia and use PowerBuilder, MS SQLServer, ORACLE, and APEX. Have a wonderful wife Alla, 4 kids, 9 grandkids, and 2 great grandsons.

Indonesian Senior PowerBuilder Developer with more than 15 years of experience which familiar in day to day with SQLAnywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, PowerDesigner, SAP Sybase IQ, Replication Server, Appeon and many other tools for various business requirement. Always involved in Managing software project and interested in software application design especially the user interface part. With ability using productivity tools like CorelDraw, Photoshop, Office, ISpring Suite and many more. Capable to work as leader or team member with aim to make job well done in time manner.