Doug Behrends joined the Vanguard Professional Services team with over 30 years of information systems experience in 2003. Doug is currently focusing on remediation work to assist Fortune 500 companies in improving their security environment. Major activities related to this have included evaluating and implementing role-based security access structures and converting production batch processes from a single user ID to unique user IDs by line of business.

Prior to joining Vanguard, he performed multiple IT functions such as Operations Manager, Office Systems, Application and Systems programming and DB Management. His breadth of knowledge spans across numerous verticals including manufacturing, insurance and financial services where his expertise lent itself to MVS system installation and maintenance, productivity improvement/automation, security assessment and product design.

Since 1997 Doug has focused his career solely on information security for z/OS and RACF. Before joining Vanguard as a full-time member of the Professional Services team, he contributed as a Beta tester for the Vanguard product suite. Today, in addition to his security activities, he continues to provide insight into streamlining and automating processes.

Keith Hansford joined the Vanguard Professional Services team in November of 2019. He has over 30 years in the Information Technology field supporting the IBM Mainframe environment in large financial institutions, mainframe storage and software vendors in the private sector, as well as US Government and Military installations. Keith has over 26 years experience in ACF2 and z/OS systems programming, automation, virtualization, storage management, performance and tuning, project management, program product support and software development, pre and post sales vendor support, professional services, technical services, security administration, and application support and development. He was instrumental in bringing a major DoD z/OS mainframe data center into compliance under the mandated DISA STIG requirements for ACF2, and has a Bachelor of Science – Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

John Hilman brought over 25 years of information systems experience when he joined Vanguard´s Professional Services team in 2005. Leveraging his technical background and expertise, John aids clients with security assessments, remediation projects, DB2 internal security migration and training for security administrators.

Prior to joining Vanguard, John spent 20 years with IBM, the last five as a Certified Technical Trainer for RACF security. Throughout his extensive career, he has held numerous IT positions in Computer Operations, Systems Programming, Security Audit and Security Administration.

After his tenure at IBM, John accepted the role of Training Director at EKC, Inc. where he was responsible for training security administrators and auditors on using the CA-ACF2 and RACF security subsystems. John´s expertise has made him a highly sought after speaker and educator. His engagements include CA World, IBM Secure World and Vanguard´s own Security Conferences, where he has been awarded the Top Gun Award several times. Vanguard´s prestigious Top Gun Award is reserved for the instructor that receives the highest rating from students following the conference.

John Sundberg brings 40 plus years of IT experience and knowledge to Vanguard. Before joining us, he was an IT Specialist with IBM, assisting countless organizations with many challenging assignments. His diverse background includes hardware planning, software migrations and new product installations.

Before joining IBM, he had a twenty-seven year tenure with a major broadcasting company. In this capacity he implemented, and architected their first security product ACF2. Two decades later he oversaw and architected the transition to RACF. He and his team performed the conversion using only in-house talent and the Vanguard Administrator. This environment demanded high availability with little or no down time. He has since gone on to work with other organizations in the RACF security arena. John’s focus is on security remediation and assessments.