Mark W. Johnson  IBM Software Group, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78729 (mwjus.ibm.com). Mr. Johnson is a senior software engineer in the Tivoli Technical Strategy and Architecture group. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. His major areas of interest are application and service management in which he has published papers and holds several patents. He was a co-creator of the Application Response Measurement standard. He has chaired working groups in The Open Group and the Distributed Management Task Force and is currently an editor of the CMDB Federation workgroup.

Andrew Hately  IBM Software Group, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78729 (hatelyus.ibm.com). Mr. Hately is a senior software engineer in the Software Standards group. He has led software development and reference implementation efforts relating to Web Services, registries, and repositories. His primary interest is in applying service discovery, network discovery, and service management standards to business problems. He was the co-editor of the UDDI Version 3 specification and has represented IBM in several specification efforts at OASIS, The Open Group, and other consortia. He has spoken at several industry conferences on the subject of standards, Web Services and service-oriented architecture. He holds several patents related to software design and has a B.A.Sc. in environmental engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Brent A. Miller  IBM Software Group, 4205 South Miami Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (bamillerus.ibm.com). Mr. Miller, a Senior Technical Staff Member, is the lead architect in autonomic computing, addressing both technology and standards efforts associated with self-managing autonomic systems and ITSM. He has a B.S. degree in computer and information science from the Ohio State University. He is coauthor of Bluetooth Revealed, published by Prentice-Hall in 2000.

Robert Orr  IBM Software Group, Tivoli, 3901 South Miami Blvd, Durham NC 27709 (orrrus.ibm.com). Mr. Orr is the manager of advanced technology and strategy for the Tivoli Chief Technology Office. His technical interests include computer architecture, system monitoring, and performance. He holds several patents in these areas. He is currently the project manager of the CMDB Federation working group. He has a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Maryland.