Chris Evans is a Vice President and Senior Technical Recruiter for SPCI, the nation's leading search firm for locating and qualifying mainframe systems programmers. Our areas of expertise include MVS (z/OS), z/VM, Linux, Unix (USS), VSE, Comm Server (VTAM, TCP/IP, SNA), CICS, WebSphere (MQSeries), database internals (DB2, IMS, etc.), Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, Enterprise Storage Management, Security Administration (RACF, ACF2, TSS), and systems-level product development (390/ALC, C/C++, Java).Chris has more than 25 years experience in both technical recruiting and hardware-related sales and marketing. Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in 1979 before pursuing an accomplished career in technical sales, marketing, customer support and management with an international electronics firm. In this capacity he has earned numerous customer satisfaction and President's Club awards. Since joining SPCI in 1989, Chris has applied his outstanding customer relations and technical skills to expand SPCI's client/applicant base more than eight-fold. He has also been instrumental in transforming SPCI from a leading regional search firm to the nation's premier search and contracting firm for IBM systems management professionals. Chris keeps his technical knowledge current through regular attendance of CICS, DB2, and ADSM/TSM user group meetings. He has also completed several networking and programming classes at Montgomery College and attended systems-related MVS and CICS overview courses.If a company has a need for an IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer, there is no better resource out there than SPCI. With our private database of more than 22,000 Systems Programmers nationwide we can provide candidates capable of filling any requirement, anywhere in the nation. We look forward to continuing to serve the needs of our existing clients and expanding our services to new clients around the country.