The International Sybase User Group has announced the appointment of Matt Balent to its Board of Directors. He will fill the open position of North American Regional User Group Director for remainder of the 2012-2013 term.
Matt Balent began his PowerBuilder journey with Computer Sciences Corporation in 1994. Since that time he has developed and maintained PowerBuilder applications for the healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and logistics industries. He currently is a Senior Software Engineer for McKesson Provider Technologies in Charlotte, North Carolina working on the Paragon product line.
Matt is a founding member of the ISUG user group in North Carolina (NCPBUG.ORG) and in early 2012 was named a PowerBuilder MVP. In addition to presentations at the user group meetings, Matt has presented sessions on PowerBuilder techniques at the Carolina Code Camp 2012 and the PowerBuilder Developers Conference 2012 held in conjunction with SAP TechEd 2012 in Las Vegas. He has been active blogger on PowerBuilder and other related programming topics on his blog, anvil-of-time.com, since 2009 and, more recently, on the SAP PowerBuilder Developers Network website.
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Matt and his family relocated to Charlotte, NC in 2010. In his spare time he volunteers as a Tiger Cub Den Leader for Pack 173 in Harrisburg, NC and participates in local blacksmithing events as a hobby blacksmith.
"We are so pleased to have been able to appoint to the board one of the most recognized faces in the PowerBuilder world in North America," noted Anne Walker, ISUG President. "Matt's experience and enthusiasm is a wonderful addition to the team. It is great to have Matt on board!"
For more information on ISUG, or to become a member, visit www.isug.com.