Susan is half of Partner400, a consulting company focused on education on modern programming and database techniques and tools on the IBM i platform. She is also part of System i Developer, a consortium of System i educators and hosts of the RPG & DB2 Summit conferences.

Susan was a programmer for corporations in Atlanta, Georgia, before joining IBM. During her IBM career, she worked in both the Rochester and Toronto labs, providing technical support and education for application developers.  Susan left IBM in 1999 to devote more time to teaching and consulting. Together with Jon Paris, she now runs Partner400, and appears regularly at many technical conferences, including System i Developer’s RPG & DB2 Summit.