Elevate Presenters

Armeen Mazda

CEO, Appeon

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.

Julie Jiang

Product Manager, Appeon

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.

Chris Pollach

Director Developer Relations, Appeon

Mr. Pollach joined Appeon in 2016 in the capacity as Director, Developer Relations. He is responsible for developer liaison, PowerBuilder courses, technical presentations and support. Mr. Pollach is a former Technical Solutions Architect and DEVOPS specialist with over 30 years experience in Systems Software Analysis, Development, Maintenance and Technical Support IT areas. Mainly in the areas of GUI Design, MS-Windows Programming, Wireless, Application / Web Server Design, Object Oriented Development Tools, Methodologies, Database and Network application development. He has participated in numerous technical, planning and management roles, as well as consulted and educated in these fields for a diverse clientele.

Bruce Armstrong

Senior Developer, Integrated Data Services

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.

Dr. Timothy P. Beck

President, Scavo's Consulting Company, Inc.

Dr. Timothy Beck has been a PowerBuilder Developer for more than 20 years, working his way from PowerBuilder 1.0 to the current version in a variety of projects for a number of different clients. Most recently, he has been working with old friends and colleagues at Intertech. In a previous chapter of his life, he served as a PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, and PowerDesigner Instructor.

Christophe Dufourmantelle

CEO, Novalys

Christophe started as a developer and then a project manager. He founded Novalys to provide tools and expertise to help organizations develop their business applications, and has been developing PB companion tools for 30 years.

Matthew Green

Senior PowerBuilder Consultant, OCS Consulting

I've been working with PowerBuilder for over 20 years as well as several other technologies, outside of work I'm an avid car lover with a passion for classics, I'm currently rebuilding a TVR

Patricia Guzman

PowerBuilder Developer / Instructor, Softpi

I´m a engineer in Computer Science. Power Builder developer for more than 20 years. Create training Power Builder courses for new developers. Experience in migrating Power Builder applications from old versions to the latest version.

Francisco Martinez

Technical Support Engineer, Appeon

Computer Systems Engineer working for Appeon as a Technical Support Engineer since March 2021.

Marco Meoni

Appeon MVP, PBWink

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. Keen on Web and Mobile technologies. 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.

Alex Riofrio

Product Manager, DORA Sistemas

PowerBuilder Certified Professional since 2002. Sybase Presales, Technical Support and Instructor. Appeon Product Manager for LATAM in Dora Sistemas. Course Creator: - Moving to PowerBuilder 2025 - Moving to PowerBuilder 2022 R3 - Implementing Desktop and Cloud Solutions with PowerBuilder and SnapDevelop 2022 R3

Mike Searer

Developer, SBT

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