Ezriel is a Principal Solutions Advisor for Rocket Software specializing in IBM CICS Tools. He was formally the CEO of Circle software (acquired by Rocket Software in 2019), where he specialized in hands-on classes and consulting in CICS, DB2, and MQSeries. Ezriel was a Gold Consultant for many years and is currently an IBM Champion. His specialties include: Web Services, Web Support, Performance / Tuning, Internals, CICSPlex SM, DevOps and Liberty as they relate to CICS. He recently co-architected the C\PROF product, a tool that captures CICS trace without running in a CICS region.