Biographical Sketch: Jim Martin is the Unites States representative for Fundi Software Ltd of Perth, Australia and the Chief Architect for IMS Connect Extensions. Jim has been working with IMS since approximately 1971. He started his career with IBM in 1967 and worked as a Program Support Representative, Systems Engineer and member of the IMS Critical situation team at the systems center in Dallas, Texas. He left IBM to join BMC Software of Houston, Texas as a product author and was later promoted to the role of Corporate Product Architect. Jim worked at BMC Software for 10 years and was responsible for several products designed to provide IMS customer’s enhanced IMS solutions. He is the holder of 12 US Patents on IMS and database related techniques and has had several articles published in industry magazines, Enterprise System Journal, Technical Support and DM Review. Jim is an IBM Data Champion and a regular presenter at Share, Information on Demand conferences, and other industry conferences. He also participates in the IBM webcast program supporting IBM Tools. He is also a regular contributor to the quarterly IMS newsletter published by the IMS laboratory.