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~ Candidates for OpenMPE Board of Directors ~
All candidates were invited to submit a picture and short biography or
statement by the closing date. The candidates for the four (4) OpenMPE
Board of Directors seats that are up for election are listed below in
alphabetical order.
In order to vote, you will need your member number.
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to get your member number.
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Each members' name is an email hyper-link to them. Please feel
free to contact them if you have any questions or concerns.
Birket Foster
Birket met his first HP3000 in 1974, 3 years before
founding MBFoster Associates Limited as a consulting company. Birket was
influential in the early years of several companies Quasar (became Cognos),
Cole & Van Sickle (became Protos), and The Type-ahead Engine company
(became Telamon). He has been involved with HP User shows since 1981. His
company became a reseller for various utility software products. Reselling
PC2622 (now Reflection) lead to a need to extract data for spreadsheet.
Birket found such a product became a reseller and a member of the design
team. In 1989 MBFoster purchased the DataExpress product from IMACS plus
the assets and offices, and employees in Seattle. In 1992 MBFoster
introduced the ODBCLink driver as part of the DataExpress product, and in
1996 licensed a Special Edition to HP (ODBCLink/SE). Birket is the chair
of SIGSoftVend and the owner of M.B. Foster Associates Limited.
Anne Howard
Anne Howard has been involved with the HP3000 since her COBOL programming days at the
University of Maryland in England. Anne has been an HP3000 system administrator since 1987.
In 1989 she joined Carter-Pertaine, Inc. a national software ISV based in Houston providing
HPe3000 based financial and student accounting software for K-12 school districts. Anne became
VP Operations when the company was bought by QSS in 2000. In 2004 she became President of CPI
and a member of QSS’s Executive Management Team. Since HP’s announcement, she has been involved
in platform migration for applications written in COBOL, Speedware 4GL and Cognos Powerhouse to
more open platforms such as HP-UX and Linux. Anne left CPI when it was sold in July 2006 and is
now an independent consultant providing outsource staffing to systems integrators and migration
specialists. She is an HP Certified Professional CSA in HP-UX and has several MCP
certifications. She was a founding member of Austin's HP RUG and for several years Anne has
served on the Board of Directors of Houston's HP RUG (GHRUG), one of the most active regional
users group in the country.
Tony Tibbenham
My IT background goes back to 1982 and covers roles from database
design through programming, training and support at sites as diverse
as local council offices and power plants. This experience included
10 years as IT Manager covering all sysadmin, programmer and DBA
for three HP-UX servers. In 2006 I was hired as IT Manager for a
company that ran an HP 918RX server running MPE because my CV said
HP-UX and that was declared 'close enough' to HP MPE. Since 2006 I
have grown to appreciate the stability of MPE on HP hardware. The
box had not been looked at for the last 10 years: It just kept running,
provided it had power. My remit was to retire the applications
running on this old HP server: It took over 2 years to find and
deliver a reliable replacement system. Our MPE server is now doing
'lookup only' enquiries into decades of records but I remain keen to
see MPE remain available and provide a European voice on the
Open MPE board.
Alan
Tibbetts
My first experience with Hewlett-Packard computers
was in 1974 on RTE-II and RTE-III systems used in an aerospace company,
designing hardware and software for various products. Over the years I
went on to use all the RTE systems, participating as an HP employee and
consultant in the design of the most modern members of the product line.
During my time at HP, I was a user of various MPE systems and worked
closely with my peers to create factory control systems with networks of
MPE and RTE machines. I became involved in Interex in 1988, eventually
serving on the board of directors of that organization. My current employer
manufactures replacements for Data General, DEC, and
HP minicomputers, so I occasionally find myself still working with RTE-II
systems thirty years later.
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