Profile
Publish Date
30 March 2007
Last Update
01 September 2008
Rating:
(based on 9 reviews)
Author(s)
- Jerry Dancy
- Ravinder Dhaliwal
- Krishnan Hariharan
- Barbara Koch
- Greg Presayzen
- Meredith Spitalnik
- Hunter Tweed
- Sherwood Yao
- John Bergland
Jerry Dancy is as a Technical Lead for the WebSphere Portal Support Level 2 team. He has three years of experience in WebSphere Portal Support and previously worked as an Oracle DBA for four years. He holds a degree in Accounting and CIS from Appalachian State University. His areas of expertise include install, upgrade, configuration, and clustering of WebSphere Portal. He has written extensively on WebSphere Portal installation, configuration, and clustering. Jerry is also an author of the IBM book WebSphere Portal V5.0 Production Deployment and Operations Guide, SG24-6391.
Ravinder Dhaliwal is a Senior Technical Consultant and Software Services Manager based in IBM Australia. He has more than 10 years of consulting experience, working in the Lotus collaborative infrastructure design and deployment arena. For the last few years, Ravinder worked extensively with a wide variety of clients to design and deploy high-availability WebSphere Portal environments. He specializes in directory integration and single sign-on solutions with WebSphere Portal, having extensive experience with LDAP and the IBM Tivoli products. He regularly acts as an instructor for WebSphere Portal and Lotus Domino and has written extensively on Portal and Domino/Sametime integration. Ravinder has worked at IBM Lotus for six years and is also the co-author of the book Lotus Domino 6.5.1 and Extended Products Integration Guide, SG24-6357, as well as the Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook, SG24-9126, IBM Redpaper.
Krishnan Hariharan is a Senior IT Architect in IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL). In the role of a Solution Architect his core responsibilities include, providing technical vision and architectural direction to clients to solve their business challenges, providing technical leadership to enhance software and professional services sales, and creating ISSL offerings/assets by leveraging repeatable processes and capabilities that can generate more revenue for the organization. His areas of expertise are WebSphere Portal and Content Management. He joined IBM in 2002, and prior to joining IBM Software Group, he was part of the Portals, Content and e-Commerce practice within GBS. He is also a co-author of the IBM book, A Portal Composite Pattern Using WebSphere Portal V5, SG24-6087.
Barbara Koch Barbara Koch is a member of the Channel Technical Sales Team at IBM Germany. In her role as an IT Specialist, she assists IBM Business Partners in technical presales situations related to the Lotus software portfolio, such as IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Workplace, and Lotus Domino. In 2001, she joined IBM and worked for three years with IBM Software Services for Lotus with large clients where she was involved in the design and architecture of large-scale Lotus Messaging infrastructures. Finally, Barbara was also an author of the IBM book IBM Workplace Collaboration Services: Release 2.5 Deployment Guide, SG24-6777.
Greg Presayzen is a Staff Software Engineer for IBM Support based in Westford MA. He holds a degree in Computer Science, as well as minors in Economics and Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before joining IBM in 2003, Greg worked in various IT roles at Compaq Computers and Fidelity Investments. Greg began his time at IBM supporting Lotus Domino and extended products. More recently he specialized in supporting infrastructure and deployment issues with the IBM Workplace and IBM WebSphere Portal related products. He is an IBM Certified System Administrator for Workplace Messaging and serves as Product Area Expert and escalation point for worldwide IBM Workplace technical problems.
Meredith Spitalnik is an Architect with Ascendant Technology, a premier IBM business partner based in the US http://www.atech.com/. She has nine years of consulting experience in the portal space, most of that working with large-scale enterprise deployments of WebSphere Portal. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Boston University. Her areas of expertise include installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, development, and deployment of WebSphere Portal, Personalization, and WCM. She has written several newsletter articles on a variety of Portal-related topics.
Hunter Tweed works for the WebSphere Portal Support Level 2 team. He has two years of experience in WebSphere Portal Support. He holds a degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. His areas of expertise include install, upgrade, configuration, and clustering of WebSphere Portal. He has written extensively on Portal deployment issues and troubleshooting techniques.
Sherwood Yao is a Solution Architect for Workplace and Portal Foundation development organization. He joined the Portal development team as a software engineer in 2001 since the first major release of WebSphere Portal. He was responsible for the development of various WebSphere suite products installation and configuration program, and helped large scale deployment of IBM software solutions using WebSphere Portal. Since 2005, Sherwood has worked as a consulting architect to guide multiple Fortune 500 clients to implement and deploy large scale end-to-end enterprise intranet solutions using WebSphere Portal and Workplace.
John Bergland is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Cambridge Center. He manages projects that produce IBM Redbooks about Lotus software products. Before joining the ITSO in 2003, John worked as an Advisory IT Specialist with IBM Software Services for Lotus, specializing in Lotus Notes, Domino messaging, and collaborative solutions.
ISBN
0738486027
IBM Form Number
SG24-7387-00