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Publish Date
16 October 2007
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Author(s)
- Alex Louwe Kooijmans
- Egide van Aerschot
- Nigel J Davies
- Doris Fiorentino
- John T Gates
- Nicole Hargrove
- Paul Houde
- Foulques de Valence
Alex Louwe Kooijmans is a Project Leader with the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) in Poughkeepsie, NY. He specializes in WebSphere, Java and SOA on System z with a focus on integration, security, high availability, and application development. Previously Alex 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. He has also worked at the Technical Marketing Competence Center for zSeries and Linux in Boeblingen, Germany, providing support to customers implementing 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.
Egide van Aerschot holds an engineering degree in Electricity and Nuclear Physics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He joined IBM in 1967 and was responsible for many computer installations related to Tele-Processing and Database Management in Belgium. In 1997 he moved from IBM Belgium to IBM France, where he works as an architect and consultant at the IBM Program Support Center in Montpellier. Since 1997, he has specialized in Java and WebSphere applications mainly on z/OS systems, and participated in many projects related to the Internet. Egide is co-owner of the patent "Methods, systems, program product for transferring program code between computer processes".
Nigel J Davies is an IT Architect working in Sydney, Australia for IBM Global Business Services. He earned his Masters degree in Chemistry at Oxford University in England. He has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, and has previously worked as a programmer, designer, business analyst, DBA, and project manager. Nigel is currently certified in DB2 Universal Database for z/OS and IBM Data Integration. He has published articles about DB2 performance for the UK trade journal Info Plus and co-authored the first IBM Redbook publication about DB2 Information Integrator in 2003. He has worked for IBM Australia for 11 years and with WebSphere products for the last three years.
Doris Fiorentino is an Advisory Software Engineer working in the USA. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Seton Hill University, and is working on earning an MBA from DeSales University. She has worked for IBM for more than 10 years, and focused on Domino for the Lotus brand of Software Group. Currently she is the team lead for the Domino on zSeries Level 2 support team, as well as for the Portal on zOS Level 2 support team. She is an IBM Certified System Administrator for Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 and 7. Doris has written several white papers on Domino for zOS topics, and helped to write several Buying and Selling Guides for Domino on zSeries and other platforms.
John T Gates is a Senior System z IT Architect who has worked at IBM for 25 years. He has been involved in all phases of Product Design, Development, Test, Service, and Services. His areas of expertise include z/OS, TCP/IP and SNA, and Web-based products (WebSphere and Portal.) John currently leads a team of software professionals who work with customers to exploit System z technologies in their enterprises. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems and is a frequent speaker at customer and industry events.
Nicole Hargrove is an accredited Senior I/T Specialist on the Advanced Technical Support team supporting the Americas from the Washington System Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She has 12 years of experience in infrastructure and application design and deployment, and has worked at IBM for 10 years. Her areas of expertise include WebSphere Portal and Application Server Families on distributed as well as mainframe platforms and Rational Application Developer. She is IBM Certified as a Systems Expert in WebSphere Application Server, IBM Certified as a Systems Administrator in WebSphere Portal Server, as well as IBM Certified as an Associate Developer in WebSphere Studio Application Developer. She holds a BS with a double major in Accounting and Information Systems from Old Dominion University, and an MS in Advanced Technology and eCommerce from Johns Hopkins University. She co-authored the IBM Redbooks publication WebSphere Version 5 Application Development Handbook.
Paul Houde is a Systems Management Integrator working in Southbury, CT, USA. He holds a double major from Fairfield University in Information Systems and Marketing. In 2002, he earned an MBA from Quinnipiac University. He started his IBM career working for Global Services on a team that supported DB2 on the z/OS platform. In his current assignment, Paul focuses on the installation, configuration, and maintenance of several products under the WebSphere brand including WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, and WebSphere Commerce running on most operating systems (z/OS, AIX, Windows and Linux).
Foulques de Valence is a System z Security IT Architect with IBM STG and is currently based in Poughkeepsie NY, USA, where he works for the Lab Services team. Previously, he was a Web infrastructure IT Architect in France focusing on SOA and z/OS. Foulques taught end-to-end security solutions for WebSphere on z/OS worldwide. He is a co-author of several IBM Redbooks publications dealing with security and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. He received a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Ensimag in France. He furthered his education at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at Stanford University, CA, USA.
ISBN
0738488844
IBM Form Number
SG24-7459-00