An AS/400 consultant provides advice and solutions to business that use IBM AS/400 servers, now referred to as the iSeries. You may help design applications and other products that run on the server architecture. As a consultant, your duties and responsibilities are to meet with clients to determine their needs and goals, assess their current technology solutions, and troubleshoot, develop, or debug applications. You may be asked to provide consulting services before a company embarks on a new programming project, or you may provide maintenance and support services to the company after the project is done.