Instructor Biographies


Susan Gantner
System i Developer

Susan Gantner is a member of Partner400, an iSeries education company and System i Developer, a consortium of System i educators and the hosts of the RPG & DB2 Summit conferences.

Her career has spanned over 30 years in the field of application development. Beginning as a programmer developing applications for corporations in Atlanta, Georgia, she joined IBM in 1985 as a Systems Engineer. She worked at the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota for 5 years and later moved to the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory.

Susan left IBM in 1999 to devote full time to teaching and consulting. Her primary emphasis is on enabling customers to take advantage of the latest programming and database technologies on System i (AS/ 400 and iSeries). She is a regular speaker at COMMON conferences worldwide and at many other technical conferences around the world. She holds several Speaker Excellence medals as well as the Jim Sloan Technical Speaker award from COMMON North America.