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The Total Solution Event for System z 2011 - Amsterdam – Speakers Speaker Name Speaker Biography

Alex Louwe Kooijmans ITSO Project Leader, Java, SOA and application modernization on System z

Alex Louwe Kooijmans is a project leader with the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) in Poughkeepsie, NY. He specializes in SOA technology and solutions on System z®, as well as in application modernization and transformation on z/OS from both architectural and tooling perspectives. He has organized various marketing, education and technical sales seminars, forums, and road shows around the world in relation to System z. Previously Alex worked as a Client IT Architect in the Financial Services sector with IBM® in The Netherlands, advising financial services companies about 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 clients starting up with Java™ and WebSphere® on System z. From 1997 to 2000, Alex completed a previous assignment with the ITSO, managing various IBM Redbooks® projects and delivering workshops around the world in the areas of WebSphere, Java and e-business technology on System z. Prior to 1997 he held a variety of positions in application design and development and in product support and project management, mostly in relation to the IBM mainframe. Alex has 23 years of IT experience and has been the lead author of many IBM Redbooks and Redpapers publications.

Amintore De Nardis IBM CICs Tools Specialist, System z

Amintore de Nardis joined IBM in 2001. He currently works as a software pre-sales IT specialist on the WebSphere® for z/OS team in Rome, Italy. He has more than 20 years of experience in application programming with COBOL, IMS, DB2, CICS, and MQ, along with CICS and DB2 systems programming. Amintore has helped to create and integrate new applications using IBM methodologies and standards for clients in the Finance Economics, Robotics, and Insurance industries. Most recently he has assumed a new responsibility as Leader for the PDTools Community.


Bernd van Oostrum Rational Technical Consultancy, Project Coordination

Bernd van Oostrum travels around the world supporting customers starting development from scratch or migrating/integrating their legacy applications in new technologies. He does this by analyzing the customer's needs, training their teams in the new technologies, and writing customizations on the existing IBM-technologies. As a member of the ASIST Integration Solutions team he created the ASIST Build Engine which automates generation and staging of EGL-sources to the TEST/ACCEPT/PROD-environments on the target platform.

Bert HW De Beer IBM System z IT Specialist Curriculum owner BeNeLux Learning

Bert de Beer is a Senior IT Specialist who has been with IBM for 38 years. He started his career in Customer Engineering providing hardware support, then moved on to software support of MVS. Later he became a systems programmer on MVS and OS/390 and worked in that position at client locations. Bert assisted with the program introduction of Parallel Sysplex when the first Parallel Sysplex was established at a major bank in The Netherlands. For the last few years he has taught the major z/OS classes, such as Parallel Sysplex, RMF, and WLM at the IBM Education Center. Currently, he works at client locations helping to implement Parallel Sysplex and system performance.


Carl Farkas IBM Consultant, WebSphere on System z

Carl Farkas has worked in the I/S industry for more than 30 years and has held many different positions in a variety of technical areas. For the last 15 years he has specialized in data communications and messaging, and has authored several books on host integration and networking. Carl is currently part of the IBM SouthWest Europe TechWorks team specializing in WebSphere on System z.

Carol Stafford Vice President World Wide System z Sales

Carol Stafford is Vice President of Sales for the IBM System z, where she is responsible for the mainframe platform's worldwide global client set. She is a key player in setting the strategic directions of the System Z solution stack including technology, software, and services, with a particular focus on new workloads areas of System Z such as Linux, SAP, and Oracle. Carol has worked with leading application vendors like SAP and Oracle for more than 10 years, providing continual expansion of their solutions on the System Z. She assumed sales leadership of the IBM mainframe business after leading the Linux and open source businesses for IBM. As the IBM Vice President of Linux, Carol led the transformation of Linux from an emerging opportunity to a multibillion dollar enterprise encompassing all of IBM technology, solutions, and services business units. In addition, she has served in the IBM Strategic Growth businesses, providing the delivery of integrated solutions that leverage innovative technologies such as grid computing, deep computing and virtualization technology. Today, Carol works with many of the IBM top enterprise clients around the world that are building robust IT infrastructures and solutions. She has broad experience across IBM hardware, software, and services, and maintains a close relationship with IBM Labs.


Dr. Chris Verhoef Professor of Computer Science

Prof. dr Chris Verhoef is hoogleraar informatica aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam en wetenschappelijk adviseur voor overheid en bedrijfsleven.

Damiaan Zwietering IBM Client Technical Specialist - Predictive Analytics

Damiaan Zwietering is an IBM Certified Professional, currently representing Predictive Analytics in the Software Group, after being responsible for Data Warehouse Architecture as Technical Sales and Information Architect. Previously, he gained valuable experience as an implementation consultant by starting and expanding the Business Intelligence unit for IBM Global Services in The Netherlands.


David Rhoderick IBM Strategy Mainframe Evangelist, zChampion

David Rhoderick manages IBM System z Competitive Analysis and is a mainframe evangelist. He started his IBM career in Hursley, UK, the home of CICS, MQSeries and many other successful IBM products. He began as a systems programmer responsible for CICS, ATMS, JES2 and the base MVS system. He then moved to development where he was involved with DISOSS, GDDM, 3270-PC, OS/2 and CICS software. David has extensive expertise in application deployment and the financial aspects of mainframe operation. In his 30+ years at IBM, working in both the U.S. and the U.K., he has been involved in many different fields including software pricing, marketing, ISV recruitment, consulting, sales, systems engineering, development and systems programming. His previous experience at IBM includes the development of the OS/2 operating system for PCs and porting a large DEC-VAX application to the AIX environment for a media company. He has received numerous IBM awards including an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for System Competitive Analysis of Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership. David holds a Masters degree in Computer and Natural Sciences from Cambridge, and is currently studying for a Masters in Musicology at the UK’s Open University, and Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Music.

Dirk Coomans IBM Certified Professional Information Management - System Z

Dirk Coomans is an IBM Certified Professional with IBM Belgium. He has more than 20 years of experience in DB2 for z/OS. Prior to joining IBM in 1995, he worked as a DBA in several large industries. Since 2000, he has started and expanded the DB2 tools business of the IBM Software Group in the BeNeLux region as a DB2 and DB2 tools specialist. His areas of expertise also include DB2 UDB on LUW platforms, connectivity, information integration, and DWH. Dirk has presented at various IBM seminars and user groups, and he holds several IBM DB2 z/OS and LUW product certifications.


Dirk Johann IBM IT Architect - DWH on System z

Dirk Johann is an IT Architect at the IBM Boeblingen Lab. He is part of the team at the Center of Excellence for Data Warehouse on System z. This team conducts POCs for large and complex Data Warehousing implementations, and supports clients in all areas of Data Warehouse topics on System z. With more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the mainframe world, Dirk’s expertise covers systems operations, databases, and application programming. He has presented at several IDUG, GSE, and IOD conferences.

Erik Bakker IBM IT Specialist System z Hardware, FTSS

Erik Bakker is a Senior IT Specialist working for the IBM Server and Technology Group in The Netherlands. Over the past 24 years he has worked in various roles within IBM and with a large number of mainframe clients. For many years he worked for Global Technology Services as a systems programmer providing implementation and consultancy services at many client sites. Erik currently provides pre-sales System z technical consultancy in support of large and small System z customers. His areas of expertise include Parallel Sysplex, z/OS®, and System z. He is a co-author of the ITSO Redbooks publications IBM zEnterprise System Technical Introduction and IBM zEnterprise System Technical Guide.


Fakhreddine El Mourabiti IBM Technical Sales, InfoSphere Guardium South West Europe - IOT

Fakhreddine El Mourabiti is with IBM Technical Sales, InfoSphere Guardium Technical Sales for South West Europe. Earlier he was a Sybase developer at SWITCH (BIAC), and later worked as a Senior SAP (ABAP/BC) consultant on different projects for companies including KONE, Alcatel, and SOLVAY. For the last eight years Fakhreddine has been engaged in security solutions, SIEM, configuration management, first in pre-sales, and then as business development manager.

Florence Dubois Information Management DB2 for z/OS Development SWAT Team

Florence Dubois is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist and a member of the DB2 for z/OS Development SWAT team. In this role, she consults for worldwide clients on a variety of technical topics, including implementation and migration, design for high performance and availability, performance and tuning, system health checks and disaster recovery. Florence presents regularly at conferences and has co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications.


Frans Baas IBM Innovation Center Program Manager, Technical Enablement specialist

Frans Baas has worked at the IBM Innovation Center, Benelux, for the last seven years. He assists Business Partners and ISVs in training, testing, and enabling on IBM hardware and software technologies, and on emerging solutions such as Smarter Building Solutions and Cloud. His current role is Program Manager and Technical Enablement Specialist. Frans is an IBM Level 2 Certified IT Specialist.

Frans Noordeloos Certified Sr. IT Specialist zChampion TechWorks SW-IOT

Frans Noordeloos has more than 25 years of experience working in the System z environment, including both hardware and software services. For the last 10 years he has worked in the software group, as an IT Specialist and an IT Architect. In his current role as a System z Architect he manages the Software Migration Project Office (SMPO) for South West Europe and is part of the zChampions community. Frans is a member of the European and worldwide team focused on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) studies


Franz Ludwig Voelker IBM Sr. Consultant IBM/SAP International CC, SAP on System z

Franz Ludwig Voelker is an SAP infrastructure specialist focusing on SAP solutions running on System z and DB2 for z/OS. During his 32 years with IBM he has worked with IBM mainframes in various roles, as a hardware engineer and with system programming and administration, specializing in system integration and IT solution architectures. Franz has engaged with numerous clients and projects in the banking and manufacturing industries worldwide. Since 2004 he has consulted on IBM server solutions for SAP as a member of the IBM SAP International Competence Center in Walldorf, Germany, near SAP Global HQ.

Gareth Jones EMEA SWAT Team - DB2 for z/OS Development

Gareth Jones had 15 years of customer experience as a systems programmer and DBA before eventually joining IBM in 2000. He worked on CICS and IMS DB/DC before eventually specializing in DB2. Gareth started work for IBM in strategic outsourcing, before joining BetaWorks to work on the DB2 9 beta program. He joined the DB2 SWAT Team in 2007.


Gert Hekkenberg Client Technical Professional - WebSphere portfolio including PD and CICS Tools - System z

Gert Hekkenberg has more than 20 years of application-enabling experience, with a focus on application development solutions including Software Configuration Management (SCM). After spending several years with the WebSphere team as a technical sales consultant, he currently works with the System z software team in the same role. He has co-authored various IBM Redbooks publications about application development and SCM solutions, and has been involved in developing various ITSO workshops. Gert holds a Masters degree in Business Information Systems from Rotterdam Business School and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Vrije University, Amsterdam.

Henk van der Wijk Rational Client Technical Specialist

Henk van der Wijk is an IT Specialist from the Rational Software Services group. He has over 22 years of experience in the IT. Mostly he worked in the area of application development with knowledge engineering being one of the spear points. Lately he is involved in the Enterprise Modernization area with a focus on the application development tooling with analysis tools as another important piece. He co-authored two Redbooks in this area.


Jerry Mukai IBM IM and DB2 Developer

Jerry Mukai has worked in DB2 development for more than 25 years. Throughout his career, he has focused on Query processing with an emphasis on Optimization and Query Rewrite capability.

John Casey IBM Rational WW Sales and Technical Sales Support for zEnterprise

John Casey, an Executive IT Specialist focused on System z Enterprise Modernization, assists IBM clients around the world in understanding and adopting IBM Rational System z application development solutions. During his 32 years with IBM, John has been involved in a variety of application projects on distributed and mainframe systems, and has authored and conducted technical workshops inside and outside of IBM.


Keith Allen TBC IBM Rational Brand Architect

Keith Allen started in IT in 1976 within an IBM operations environment, starting within operations, and covering system programming, capacity planning, Consultancy, Pre-Sales and Sales positions at both a technical and management level. Keith has extensive experience in the IT environment, covering the environments of Information, Network & Systems Management, and particular the areas of Software Change & Configuration Management (ECM). Keith has presented many papers at leading venues, (UKCMG, GUIDE, Xephon, BCS-CMSG)on subjects covering Change & Configuration Management through to Systems Management and Security Management areas. Keith has been instrumental in helping many large to small organizations implement Management solutions strategies, covering key milestones from Y2K and compliance issues facing the IT industry (Basel II and SOX's).

Khadija Souissi (TBC) Smart Analytics Specialist, System z

Khadija Souissi is a System z Specialist at the Technical Marketing Competence Center Europe in Boeblingen. During her 10 years with IBM, she worked as a System z Firmware Developer, Storage Technical Sales Specialist and since 2008 as a Business Analytics Specialist on System z. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. Khadija will show TMCC live demos at the demo booth in the IBM Forum. Stop by at any time for one of the following demonstrations:


Louis PC Holla IBM Client technical Professional Information Management and Business Analytics zSeries – Netherlands

Louis PC Holla is an Information Management client technical professional in the Software Group for IBM Netherlands. He has been with IBM since 1977, starting as a Customer Engineer in hardware and later becoming a z/OS system programmer in several IBM computer centers. He worked as a system programmer for several clients in The Netherlands and also supported mainframe services sales for GTS. For the past six years Louis has worked for IBM SWG in the Information Management environment for zEnterprise Systems, focusing on IMS, DB2, and dataware housing.

Marieke L Joustra IBM WebSphere Technical Specialist

Marieke Joustra is a Client Technical Professional with IBM WebSphere, working with the Software Group in The Netherlands. She joined IBM 13 years ago, starting as an Education Specialist at ViaMet, an IBM subsidiary. In 2001 she joined the Software Group where she worked as a Software Deployment Manager for two large Dutch financial accounts. In 2007 she joined WebSphere pre-sales for Business Process Management Solutions. Her focus within Business Process Management is on WebSphere Business Modeler, Blueworks Live, and WebSphere Lombardi Edition.


Martin Packer IBM Sales & Distribution, Software Sales Performance Specialist

Martin Packer is a performance consultant with more than 25 years of experience. He is widely known within the IT industry, having presented at many conferences and co-authored a number of IBM Redbooks publications focused on performance issues. He has also been involved in the development of performance analysis tools that are widely used inside IBM for its Performance Consulting practice. Currently, Martin is a z/OS Infrastructure Performance Specialist in the IBM Software Group Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence.

Maurits JA Andre IBM WebSphere Technical Specialist

Maurits André joined IBM in 1999 after earning a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Technology in Delft in The Netherlands. After working as a developer at a Dutch telecom provider for several years, he joined the IBM Software Group where he specialized in WebSphere technologies. He currently works as a WebSphere Client Technical Professional advising clients on BPM and BRMS products such as WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Lombardi Edition, and WebSphere ILOG Business Rules Management Systems.


Michael Storzer IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist, Technical Marketing Competence Center Europe

Michael Storzer is a Certified Senior IT Specialist at the IBM Boeblingen, Germany Technical Marketing Competence Center (TMCC) within the research and development organization. He is responsible for ISV enablement, client PoCs, and new workload activities for the System z platform. He also handles client workshops and consultancy in various System z-related software and hardware areas, TCO assessments, and benchmark engagements. Michael leads TMCC activities in the zEnterprise internal Early Support Program, and supports IBM zEnterprise field enablement across Europe. Prior to joining the TMCC in 2006, he was a technical leader in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) team and headed numerous major WebSphere projects in Germany. He has a broad range of platform experience covering both development and operational aspects.

Michael E Goodman IBM Software Group, Tivoli WW Product Manager - Tivoli Systems Management

Michael Goodman has more than 35 years of experience in different areas of networking and systems management consulting with clients from around the world. He is a member of the Worldwide Product Manager team for Tivoli z solutions for Performance Management, Availability and Automation solutions. He is part of a product management team for Tivoli and is responsible in this role as the primary on OMEGAMON for CICS, OMEGAMON on z/OS, Event Pump on z/OS and z CI discovery. He is responsible for working with clients, sales, and development to position the overall OMEGAMON product suite with requested functions and features based on business initiatives. Michael has presented at various user group meetings such as SHARE, GUIDE, and NEISUG. He also supports and speaks at road shows that IBM presents around the world. He is a z System community blogger and can be found at https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/mikeegoodman/?lang=en_us


Mitch Green Americas Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) - zEnterprise Focus Team Client Technical Specialist

Mr. Green is a certified IT Consultant with IBM Performance Management, Testing, and Scalability Services. He focuses on designing and implementing enterprise-wide systems management processes based on ITIL and ITPM best practices. He has twenty-eight years experience working with enterprise-scale implementation and test projects. His industry specialization has been primarily with financial services and insurance applications. His experience as a project manager, IT architect, and software developer complements his skill in providing consulting services for QA and testing process development.

Nigel Williams Certified IT Specialist, IBM Design Center

Nigel Williams is a Certified IT Specialist working in the IBM Design Centre, Montpellier, France. He specializes in CICS integration technologies and service-oriented architectures. He is the author of many papers and IBM Redbooks publications, and he speaks frequently on CICS and WebSphere topics.


Norbert Schaedler Client Technical Architect Industry, Banking

Norbert Schaedler is a Certified IBM Executive IT Architect in the IBM Software Group Germany, specializing in the design, development, and implementation of solution architectures for banking customers and banking ISVs, with a focus on application architecture. He has been involved with banking, financial market, and insurance clients for the last 24 years. Previously, Norbert was the worldwide Software IT Architect (SWITA) community leader, where he was a technical lead and mentor for more than 850 IBM SWITAs around the world. During this time he played a key role in the development of the architect community and in the deployment of SWITA enablement events around the world. Prior to that, he was the Software Group Financial Services Lead Architect in Germany where he served as a kind of design authority in complex projects with German banks and insurance companies.

Patrick Bruinsma Software Information Technology Architect (SWITA)

Patrick Bruinsma is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist and Open Group Level 2 Master Certified with 12 years of advanced experience on large scale enterprise computing, mainly in the mainframe computing arena. His areas of expertise include implementation and design skills on z/OS and key middleware products. He is proficient in teaching technical education and has co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications. Together with the ITSO, Patrick organized the Powering SOA on System z Forum in 2006, 2007, and 2008. In 2009, this forum was promoted to the Total Solution Event for System z.


Paola Monteferri IBM Tivoli Tiger Team - System z

Paola Monteferri is part of the Worldwide Service Management Tiger Team. She joined IBM in 1990, working in the Rome Networking System Laboratory. In 1996, that lab became the Rome Tivoli Lab, where Paola worked for 12 years in different positions focused on System z products, such as Tivoli Decision Support and Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS. For the last few years she has been a Tivoli for System z Sales Specialist in SWG IBM Italy and in 2009 became part of the Tiger Team, a very skilled group of people engaged in service management activities around the world.

Paul Carruthers IBM Tiger Team - CICS and WebSphere Business Events Development Lab

Paul Carruthers has worked on System z CICS Technical Support teams, at IBM and various other companies, since 1990, gaining a vast amount of experience in installing, customizing, and rolling out base CICS and associated software tooling. Paul joined IBM in January 1998 in the Outsourcing division and in 2002, he moved into the Software Group. His current role involves working with both the CICS and WebSphere Business Events development labs to develop and enhance their products, and in assisting clients, at both technical and business levels, in positioning and migrating to an IBM offering. Paul is an original member of the IBM Global Business Integration (WebSphere) Tiger Team for CICS Transaction Server, CICS Tool suite, and WebSphere Business Events.


Peter Siddell IBM Technical Specialist for CICS Tools on z/OS

Peter Siddell is a CICS Tools Technical Specialist based in the IBM Hursley laboratory in the UK. He has more than 30 years of experience in IT, and has specialized in CICS for more than 20 years. His areas of expertise include CICS systems programming and technical support for z/OS products. He delivers education about CICS and CICSPlex/SM. Peter presents regularly at worldwide conferences on CICS and the CICS Tools Portfolio, and has co-written several IBM Redbooks publications.

Piet de Jonge Software IT Architect - Linux for System z

Piet de Jonge is a Software IT Architect who works at the IBM Software Group in The Netherlands. He has many years of experience with System z, including working as a systems programmer, in Services sales, and as a teacher. Currently, Piet is responsible for supporting Dutch clients interested in the benefits of using Linux on System z.


Rajesh Ramachandran IBM DB2 Tools Development

Rajesh Ramachandran is an IT Specialist in the STG System z Lab Services organization. He has 16 years of experience in application development in various platforms, including mainframe, UNIX®, and Linux®. Rajesh has used COBOL, Java, CICS, and Forte™ on his assignments, and has more than six years of experience in infrastructure support in WebSphere on z/OS.

Saket Sinha IBM Solution Manager Industry Banking

Mr. Sinha is a WW leader of IBM's core banking framework solutions. In this role Mr. Sinha helps clients to understand the importance of using architecture led approaches to core systems transformation and adopt key architectural disciplines as well as governance frameworks to institute the optimal environment to execute the transformation. Prior to this Mr. Sinha was a global subject matter expert in banking transformation. Mr. Sinha has over 15 years of experience in working with banking clients all over the globe and has held positions related to product management, advisory consulting, and solution sales. Mr. Sinha has worked in both front office and back office solutions for transformation and focuses on governance, business case, architectural framework and banking transformation methodology.


Shantan Kethireddy DB2 for System z Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS)

Shantan Kethireddy joined IBM in 2001 after earning his Master of Science degree from the University of Iowa in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Shantan is a DB2 for System z Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS) supporting information integration, data warehousing, and Business Intelligence products and solutions. Prior to his current position, he spent six years working in DB2 development with a focus on SQL query optimization and data warehousing. In 2009, Shantan was named an IBM Master Inventor. Shantan can be reached at [email protected]

Siegfried Langer IBM Business Development Manager - z/VSE & Linux on System z

Siegfried Langer joined IBM in Essen, Germany in 1974. He has worked in IBM Development since 1983, holding positions in processor and systems planning, marketing, technical sales support, software development and project management. Located at the IBM Development Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany, he managed mainframe processor development projects, parallel systems support, smart card-related development projects, as well as development for retail and wholesale banking and financial markets. More recently, Siegfried has been involved with business development in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), focusing on research and development. From March 2007 to the end of 2008 he was assigned to IBM East Europe/Asia in Moscow as a System z Sales Growth Leader for Russia and CIS, being responsible for acquiring new System z clients and building an effective ecosystem to fuel sustainable growth of System z in the geography. In his current position as Business Development Manager of z/VSE and Linux on System z, he is responsible for business development and interfacing with z/VSE and Linux clients and business partners. Siegfried is a Certified IBM Executive Project Manager and PMI Project Management Professional (PMP).

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