Jason Auvenshine is a Storage Development Architect from Tucson, Arizona. Jason is currently responsible for the development architecture of IBM DR550 and Grid Access Manager products. Jason has over fifteen years of experience working in diverse roles in the Information Technology field. He has worked in Programming, Testing, System Administration, Autonomic Systems, Web Deployment, IT Architecture, and Development Architecture. Jason is an active inventor, and has so far been issued five patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office.