Summary
Scott Klement is a seasoned IBM i developer and solutions architect with over three decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in senior product and leadership roles. He has led product development and support teams, run his own consulting and software businesses, and currently partners at ORC LLC while maintaining long-standing open source and community projects like ScottKlement.com and the TN5250 project. A prolific author and speaker, he’s published roughly 1,000 IBM i articles and regularly presents at conferences and COMMON, where he serves on the Board focusing on education, certification, and innovation. Technically fluent across ILE RPG, CGIDEV2, C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, QShell and IBM i APIs, he bridges deep platform expertise with practical integration patterns (sockets, TCP/IP, IFS). Less obvious: he’s combined corporate IT leadership in a family-owned manufacturing business with editor-level experience at Penton Media, giving him rare perspective on both enterprise operations and vendor-driven product strategy. Based in Franklin, WI, he’s passionate about mentoring the next generation of IBM i professionals and growing community-driven education.
13 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Alverno Campus Elementary School
Milwaukee School of Engineering