Edgar Chavez is an independent consultant specializing in IBM mainframe computing, software quality assurance, and change management. He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. He has worked on supervisory, project management, and technical assignments dealing with all phases of systems development and maintenance in finance, administration, transportation, information retrieval, and operating systems support.

Among others, Edgar’s assignments have included: change management consultation; customizing, updating, and enhancing a software configuration management system; designing and building online database maintenance and retrieval systems; designing, building, and maintaining order processing and sales reporting systems; designing and building an online system to manage technical documents; designing, building, and enhancing accounting systems; designing and building automated scripts to test order processing systems for Y2K compliance; and providing technical support to DEC-VAX system managers in more than 100 sites worldwide.

Edgar has experience with a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.

He holds a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. He enjoys reading in a wide variety of topics, listening to classical music, and gardening. He and his wife live in West Chester, Pennsylvania.