Dennis James, Founder and Editor, has over 25 years experience in the computer software and services industry and is a pioneer in the ETL market. Dennis formed the DSXchange forum in 2002 to promote the growth and education of DataStage within the Data Integration marketplace. The DSXchange Learning Center was created in 2006 to further promote education with on-site training classes. Prior to founding the DSXchange, Dennis opened the southern region of VMARK Software (now IBM) in Dallas, as VMARK's 40th employee. His sales and leadership, combined with his recruitment of powerful VARs and end users resulted in large numbers of new sales and clients critical to VMARK's spectacular growth. Dennis has been involved with DataStage™ since its inception, and spearheaded its initial launch as the DataStage™ field sales director for VMARK. He continues to support and promote the IBM^® Data Integration product line as Editor of the DSXchange.