Biographical sketches of authors

Lyn L. Ashton IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (ashton@us.ibm.com). Ms. Ashton joined IBM in 1978, working in the Tucson Product Test and Assurance Laboratory. In 1990 she transferred to the Tucson Programming Center as a software developer. She is a Senior Technical Staff Member and is currently a DFSMShsm architect.

Edward A. Baker IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (ebaker@us.ibm.com). Mr. Baker is an advisory software engineer in the SSG Software Strategy and Architecture department. He joined IBM in Tucson in 1979. From 1979 to 1983 he was an MVS application programmer supporting manufacturing applications. In 1983 he transferred to the DFSMShsm development organization as a system programmer. From 1998 to 2001 he worked in the IBM Product Introduction Centre in Hursley, United Kingdom, coordinating early support programs for DFSMS software and IBM tape hardware products. In 2001, he returned to Tucson and joined the SSG Software Strategy and Architecture department as an architect for the DFSMShsm and DFSMSdss products.

Arthur J. Bariska IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (bariska@us.ibm.com). Mr. Bariska is a senior software engineer in the DFSMS development laboratory. He joined IBM at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1974, working as a systems analyst and later a manager in the Materials Management organization. In 1982, he transferred to Tucson, holding management positions in the Materials Management organization and the Computer Operations Center. He moved to the DFSMS development laboratory in 1989 as a programmer in the test organization. He has been a member of the DFSMS Systems Test team since 1993.

Erika M. Dawson IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (brosch@us.ibm.com). Ms. Dawson joined IBM in 1987 and has spent the majority of her career working in the Object Access Method (OAM) component of DFSMSdfp on the system-managed tape support. She is a senior software engineer currently working as a development team leader and product architect.

Ruth L. Ferziger IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (ruthf@us.ibm.com). Ms. Ferziger is an advisory software engineer. She joined IBM at San Jose, California, in 1984 as part of the team that developed the storage management subsystem (SMS). She is currently the development team lead and designer working on future VSAM RLS-related enhancements.

Stanley M. Kissinger IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (kissingr@us.ibm.com). Mr. Kissinger is a senior software engineer in the DFSMS development laboratory. He joined IBM in 1985 and has spent his entire career in Tucson. From 1985 until 1997, he worked in technical support in the Level2 support center. From 1997 to the present time, he has worked as both a developer and architect for DFSMShsm.

Terri A. Menendez IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (terriam@us.ibm.com). Ms. Menendez is a senior software engineer. She is currently working in VSAM RLS development.

Sanjay Shyam IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (shyams@us.ibm.com). Mr. Shyam is a senior software engineer. He is currently a software architect for the SMS component of DFSMSdfp.

Jimmy P. Strickland IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (jstrickl@us.ibm.com). Mr. Strickland is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. During his career, he has held various technical leadership positions, among them, technical lead for the initial release of VSAM and technical lead for the initial releases of the common DB2 and IMS lock manager component IRLM (IBM Resource Lock Manager) and the IMS Logger. He was a member of the team that invented the IBM System/390^® Parallel Sysplex technology and developed its architecture. Currently, he is a storage software architect.

Dave K. Thompson IBM Systems Group, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193 (dkt@us.ibm.com). Mr. Thompson is a senior software engineer in DFSMS at the San Jose Programming Laboratory. He joined IBM at Riverside, California, in 1966. From 1966 until 1969, he was a software customer engineer working from the Riverside branch office. In 1969, he transferred to the San Jose development laboratory where he performed development work for VSAM and design and development work for Media Manager.

Glenn R. Wilcock IBM Systems Group, 9000 S. Rita Road, Tucson, Arizona 85744 (wilcock@us.ibm.com). Mr. Wilcock joined IBM at Tucson in 1992. Since 1992, he has worked in both DFSMSdss and DFSMShsm development. He is an advisory software engineer currently working as a development team leader for DFSMShsm.

Mike W. Wood IBM Global Services, MP14, P.O. Box 31, Birmingham Road, Warwick CV34 5JL, United Kingdom (mikew_wood@uk.ibm.com). Mr. Wood is a consultant IT architect currently working in the DFSMSrmm development team. He joined IBM at Croydon, United Kingdom, in 1976 as a computer operator. From 1978 to 1990 he was an MVS™ system programmer, and in the latter years he was the UK MVS systems architect. Since 1990 he has driven the development of the IBM Removable Media Manager (DFSMSrmm).