About the technology author(s):
Jeffrey D. Aman is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has been with IBM since 1981 in a variety of product research, design, and development roles, centered around large, complex performance issues. Mr. Aman is currently the technical leader of BWLM design and development and has an R&D team spanning multiple IBM sites in the U.S. and Europe.
Before this project, Mr. Aman created and led the technical team that produced the z/OS Workload Manager, which defined and set the benchmark for what is considered to be workload management. He has worked in many other areas of large system performance and scalability, including design and development of the z/OS operating system, the Java virtual machine, and IBM middleware products such as WebSphere, DB2, and the z/OS Web Server.
Peter B. Yocom is a senior technical staff member in Poughkeepsie, New York. Since joining IBM in 1986, he has worked on the real storage manager, the I/O supervisor, and the workload manager components of z/OS. Mr. Yocom is currently a lead designer for the Business Workload Manager project.
Donna N. Dillenberger is a senior technical staff member and manager at the IBM Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York. She joined IBM in Poughkeepsie in 1988 and has worked on future hardware simulation, scalable Web servers, scalable JVMs, scalable stream servers, J2EE containers, and zOS Workload Management. In 1994, Ms. Dillenberger joined IBM Research, where she currently works on zSeries Research projects and Business Workload Management.
M. M. McKeon (Peggy) is a senior manager and project manager in Poughkeepsie, New York. Ms. McKeon is currently manager of BWLM common development team and owner of the BWLM project. Previously she managed groups as diverse as the LPAR team, the Linux Solutions team in the Linux Technology Center, and the MVS Parallel Sysplex development team.
John Rogness and Jim Fair are advisory software engineers in the IBM eServer Custom Technology Center in Rochester, MN. The eServer Custom Technology Center, an extension of the IBM development laboratories, helps customers and business partners build quality solutions. For further information, please visit their Web site.
Richard Mayo is responsible for coordinating BWLM marketplace development as Senior Market Manager for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance.
Gerre Gannaway is a staff software engineer for the Tivoli software group at IBM in Austin. He was responsible for conceiving and building the banking scenarios in the browser-based demo. Mr. Gannaway's interests include the development of application prototypes and simulations using Java and Web-based technologies.
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