Nigel Hopper

Nigel Hopper has been in the computing industry for more than 30 years. He started out as a flight simulator engineer in the Royal Air Force specializing and then teaching hardware and software maintenance. He joined Galileo International in 1991 as a TPF developer on System/390, and in 1999 joined IBM in the WebSphere MQ performance department. For the past five years he has been in the CICS TS for zOS Systems Management team and in 2009 was asked to lead the migration of CICS development process over to Rational Team Concert. He is currently investigating the use of the full Jazz Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution (RRC/RTC/RQM) for the development of the CICS portfolio of products. He can be contacted at nigel_hopper@uk.ibm.com.