After having started as a System/38 programmer in 1986. In 1989 the switch was made to system programming and systems management.
Being passionate about systems management he founded van Helvoirt Automatisering in 1993.
Rudi enjoys helping IBM i customers ever since for running their business applications.
He is an early adopter of the IBM i GUI’s, System Object Access that later evolved into System i Navigator and recently Navigator for i.
He has been involved in IBM i BRMS for the past 20 years, helping to improve the backup strategy of IBM i data.
Rudi is member of the COMMON Europe Advisory Council, an IBM and End User Experts strategy think tank for the IBM i.
On top of that IBM made him an IBM Champion since 2020.
In 2020 van Helvoirt Automatisering was acquired by EASI in the Netherlands