Biographical Sketch: Jim McNeill joined Vanguard’s Professional Services team in 1998 and has more than 40 years of experience in Information Technology and Systems Programming. His extensive knowledge-base and unequaled expertise allow Jim to assist clients with ACF2/TSS migrations to RACF, DB2 internal security to RACF, z/OS and RACF assessments, RACF remediation projects, RACF basic and advanced training and Vanguard software implementations. Before joining Vanguard’s elite Professional Services team, Jim worked in the company’s research and development labs as Director of Research & Development where he was responsible for the first three releases of Vanguard’s flagship software – Vanguard Administrator. In addition these accomplishments, Jim served as the Lead Architect and Team Leader for both the Advisor and Analyzer products. Jim is accredited with performing multiple large ACF2 and Top Secret to RACF migrations for Fortune 500 companies and leveraging his expertise in assembler language to code User Exits and convert ACF2 calls to RACROUTE calls for RACF. To date, his certifications include IBM ACF2/Top Secret to RACF Migration Engineer, IBM RACF Instructor and Vanguard Product Instructor. Jim is an active educator and speaker on Information Security. His engagements have included GUIDE, SHARE and Vanguard’s own annual Security Conference.