Charles Guarino

With an IT career spanning over 25 years, Charles Guarino has been a consultant for most of them. Since 1995 he has been President and founder of Central Park Data Systems, Inc., a Long Island based IBM midrange consulting company. He has published several technical and strategic articles, served as a member of AS/400 Management Magazine’s Editorial Review Board, and has received recognition as a COMMON Speaker of Merit.

More recently, he was a featured speaker for System i Network’s webcast, "Tips and Techniques for Achieving a Successful Encryption Project." He will be inducted into COMMON’s Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame at the 2008 Spring Conference. Charles is currently a COMMON Application Development Subject Matter Expert and a member and Director of LISUG, a Long Island IBM System i Users Group.

Charles can be reached at cguarino@centralparkdata.com.