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Ralph Bertrum, Founder


A veteran Information Systems professional with more than 40 years in the field, Mr. Bertrum is the founder and principle of Critical Path Software, Inc. His many accomplishments include the creation, architecture and software development of TurboTune, JCL Analyzer, CICS Contention Analyzer and other Turbo Buffering tools.

During his tenure, Critical Path Software, Inc. has provided expert Database Tuning and Systems Software I/O Subsystem Performance Tuning Services and Analyses for over 600 major Fortune 1000 corporations World Wide. CPSI has grown to the point where it now has a customer base extending from the United States to Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, London and Europe.


Prior to Critical Path Software Inc., Mr. Bertrum served as an independent consultant, performing maintenance, installation and performance tuning of mainframe operating systems and many financial packaged systems including but not limited to MSA, M&D and InSci. He was also the managing director of technical installations for a multi-billion dollar software company, supporting more than 2,500 customers utilizing an extensive array of environmental platforms and operating systems world wide.

Prior positions include, Vice President of systems and operations, programming manager of Accounting, Budget and Cost Systems and CICS front end programming and support.

Mr. Bertrum, also a widely sought after public speaker is the author of numerous articles, tips and white papers on systems performance & tuning. Widely recognized as one of the world's foremost leading authorities in his field, his speaking engagements have included: Millennium Performance Tuning at the M&D Tri-State Users Group, M&D Fixed Assets under Millennium Performance Tuning at the M&D Tri-State Users Group, Millennium Performance Tuning at the M&D Northeast Users Group and TurboTune Your Data Center at the (CMG) Computer Measurement Group in Reno, Nevada .


                           Education: BBA - Accounting - University of Connecticut