Profile
Publish Date
05 March 2009
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(based on 3 reviews)
Author(s)
- Alex Louwe Kooijmans
- G Michael Connolly
- Loraine Arnold
- Mikhail Egorov
- Marianne Menå Heltborg
- Fatima Otori
- Brian Paskin
Alex Louwe Kooijmans is a project leader with the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) in Poughkeepsie, NY, and specializes in WebSphere, Java and SOA on System z with a focus on integration, security, high availability and application development. Previously he worked as a Client IT Architect in the Financial Services sector with IBM in The Netherlands, advising financial services companies on IT issues such as software and hardware strategy and on demand. Alex has also worked at the Technical Marketing Competence Center for zSeries and Linux in Boeblingen, Germany, providing support to customers getting starting with Java and WebSphere on zSeries. From 1997 to 2002, Alex completed a previous assignment with the ITSO, managing various IBM Redbooks projects and delivering workshops around the world from Poughkeepsie.
G Michael Connolly is an IT consultant at the ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center. He has more than 30 years of IBM software development experience in both distributed systems and the mainframe zSeries. He holds a BA in Humanities from Villanova University. His areas of expertise include TCP/IP communications, UNIX System Services, EWLM, and WebSphere for z/OS.
Loraine Arnold is an Advisory Programmer who joined IBM in 1982. She has worked primarily on IBM mainframe systems as a systems programmer supporting MVS, IMS, DB2, WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere Application Server. She has also worked in the software development area as a developer, tester, and change team support person. Currently Loraine works in the z/OS Integration Test area supporting application development for I/T workloads using WPS, WAS, MQ, and IMS.
Mikhail Egorov is an IT Specialist at IBM Software Group, Russia. He holds a Bachelor and Master's Degree in Computer Science from Moscow State Bauman University. In 2007 he worked at the ITSO developing and delivering various SOA on System z workshop materials and labs. Currently Mikhail works as a Technical Sales Specialist covering the WebSphere for z/OS product family. His area of expertise also includes Rational Developer for System z, Rational Business Developer, and other enterprise modernization tools.
Marianne Menå Heltborg is an IBM certified IT specialist in IBM Software Group, Denmark. She joined IBM in 1986 and originally worked as a CICS Systems Programmer. Her areas of expertise include the CICS TS, the WebSphere product family, Rational Developer for System z, and Web enabling applications on z/OS
Fatima Otori is an IBM System z WebSphere IT Specialist based in Chicago, IL. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Tulane University and a Master's Degree from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, both in Electrical Engineering. In her current role, Fatima is actively engaged in implementing critical success paths to SOA for several major clients, particularly in the areas of Application Modernization, Application Integration, and overall Business Process Improvement and Management. Her areas of concentration include WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Services Registry and Repository, and WebSphere Business Services Fabric.
Brian Paskin is a Senior IT Specialist for IBM Software Services for WebSphere for IBM USA. He has 15 years of experience with IBM, predominantly with WebSphere AS, WebSphere MQ, CICS, and aggregated system design. He currently specializes in performance tuning WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ on both distributed and System z platforms. He previously worked for IBM Germany and IBM Italy.
IBM Form Number
REDP-4391-00