Lonnie VanZandt provides marketing, training, analysis, implementation, and optimization assistance to engineers who are implementing systems that are required to be reliable, highly available, and to demonstrate predictable response behavior.

Prior to founding Predictable Response Consulting, he was Senior Engineer at QNX Software Systems Inc (QSSL) where he architected highly available systems, developed network protocol software, and performed technical marketing. Prior to working for QSSL, Lonnie was Senior Systems Engineer at TimeSys Corporation where he developed Rate Monotonic scheduling code for the Linux kernel and performed technical marketing. Prior to TimeSys, Lonnie was a Member of Technical Staff Operating Systems Engineer at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories where he spent twelve years writing Unix-variant operating system code for telecommunication switches.

He is a member of the IEEE Computer, Communications, and Reliability Societies and of INCOSE, the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Lonnie is happily married to his first, only, incredible wife of twelve years, has two lovely daughters, and lives and works in God's Country, USA (also known as Evergreen, CO).