Biographical sketches of authors

Allan S. Meritt 21 Sutton Park Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 (asmeritt@optonline.net). Mr. Meritt recently retired after 32 years with IBM. He was an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the former Server Group and was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He joined IBM in 1970 after receiving his M.A. degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He received IBM Corporate Awards for his contributions to the 370-XA I/O architecture and software design, and for his contributions to ESCON architecture. He participated in the task force that defined ESS, as well as a number of subsequent corporate assessments of ESS. He has also received awards for his contributions to FICON and for the concept of Parallel Access Volume (PAV) implemented by ESS.

John A. Staubi IBM Systems Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (jstaubi@us.ibm.com). Mr. Staubi is an advisory software engineer in the z/OS development laboratory. He joined IBM in 1991 after receiving his M.S. degree in computer science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He has been in the z/OS development and service area his entire IBM career, involved in many programming projects as a developer, tester, development team leader, and designer. Mr. Staubi was instrumental in providing the z/OS support for the IBM TotalStorage project. Additionally, he received an Outstanding Innovation Award for his work in zSeries software development.

Kenneth M. Trowell IBM Systems Group, 5 Tallara Place Terrey Hills, NSW 2084, Australia (kennetht@us.ibm.com). Mr. Trowell is a Senior Technical Staff Member. He joined IBM in the United Kingdom in March 1965. He has worked on every generation of IBM mainframe products from System/360™ to the present zSeries including, most recently, the system design for FICON Cascading. Mr. Trowell has received numerous awards including an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his contribution to System/370-XA.

Gail S. Whistance 324 Dewitt Mills Road, Kingston, New York 12401 (whist@hvi.net). Ms. Whistance recently retired after 30 years with IBM. She was a senior software engineer in the former Server Group. She joined IBM in 1972 after receiving her B.S. degree with high honors in mathematics and English education from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She contributed to the early development of the System Resources Manager component of the MVS™ operating system and more recently, the Workload Manager. She was responsible for verifying the Workload Manager algorithms that manage the IBM TotalStorage ESS Parallel Access Volume for ESS resources.

Harry M. Yudenfriend IBM Systems Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (harryy@us.ibm.com). Mr. Yudenfriend is a Distinguished Engineer. He joined IBM in 1980 after receiving his B.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the chief architect for I/O on z/OS. Mr. Yudenfriend received an Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to Parallel Access Volume for ESS and an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for the architecture and design of FICON. He was named an IBM Master Inventor in December 2001.