Karen Richner

Karen Richner is a Software Engineer at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, where she has worked since 1978, taking 6 years off to raise a family.  She has a BS in Computer Science from Michigan State University.  She spent the early part of her career on the S/34 and the S/36, concentrating mainly on communications functions, such as SNA and APPN.

For the past four years, Karen has worked exclusively on the HTTP Server for iSeries and is currently the lead developer on the "Powered by Apache" HTTP Server for iSeries, having specialized in the SSL, proxy, communications, and performance portions of the server.