HP OpenVMS Systems

He is currently working on several projects, including migrating a 20-year old COBOL-based application into the more modern world of Java and databases, including the migration of green screens into browser technology, thereby retaining the field-level va lidation functionality achieved with green screens. John is also heavily involved in the service-oriented architecture of a large TP-based (HP ACMS) application which will be furnished with services invoked from .NET initially and later Java, including SAP NetWeaver.

Currently, Richard is Release Manager for "Orion", the V8.3-1H1 release of OpenVMS on Integrity systems.

Richard has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Imperial College, London, and has spent his entire working life in software engineering, including 21 years in OpenVMS Engineering.

He is currently a member of the OpenVMS Sustaining Engineering group and specializes in crash dump analysis of kernel/exec components and nonpaged pool corruption.

Rich has years of experience working directly with customers within various industries. He has a broad background in technical marketing and communications that encompasses years in management, marketing, sales, sales support, training, and engineering positions. Rich has architected complex solutions, including servers, storage, software, networks, and services that meet customer requirements while exceeding the total customer experience.

Brian Cox is the Director of Software Planning and Marketing for Business Critical Systems. In this role he is responsible for product planning, product management and product marketing for the HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS & Windows operating systems and associated high availability, file system, volume manager & development tool software for Integrity servers.

In his HP career, Brian has managed the industry's best selling UNIX servers, the industry's highest-performing Windows and Linux servers, the first blade server from any major vendor and multiple generations of x86, RISC and Itanium-based servers. His products have earned numerous awards over the years from publications such as InfoWorld, Network World, IT Week, Byte and Windows NT Magazine.

Brian holds B.S. and MBA degrees from Santa Clara University.

Rob is a member of the OpenVMS Ambassadors organization which provides a highly demanded pre-sales support function as well as an extremely important interface between customers and OpenVMS engineering.

Rob holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and four children.

Catherine is a software engineer and technologist for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the US Air Force. The Joint STARS aircraft is a modified Boeing 707 used for battlefield management, playing a key role in military operations.

Catherine has worked on numerous projects under the Joint STARS umbrella since joining Northrop Grumman three years ago and is currently an Integrated Project Technology Lead on an advanced radar project for moving target tracking. In addition, Catherine is driving efforts to modernize the computer systems on the aircraft. Systems under evaluation for this effort include HP Integrity Servers.

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in Melbourne Florida, Catherine worked in a variety of positions including heading the consulting organization for Ken Olsen at Advanced Modular Solutions. Catherine was also an engineer in the OpenVMS Group for Digital Equipment Corporation working on SCSI device drivers, the boot path, platform support, and workstation support.

Catherine holds a BSCS and BSMA from Rivier College in Nashua New Hampshire.

Prior to joining HP, Fichera spent 10 years at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group (acquired by Forrester in 2003), where he was responsible for coverage of servers and emerging data center technology, including automation, virtualization, and advanced management. Fichera was also an early employee at Egenera, Inc, an early blade server pioneer.

Fichera has been in the computer industry for over 30 years, and has held positions in software development, product marketing, sales management and has consulted with a wide range of large end-user companies on data center technology and strategy.

Fichera earned a bachelors degree in computer science, operations research and statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

More recently, he designed and wrote SoftWare Interrupt Services (SWIS) as part of porting VMS to the Itanium Processor Family, has helped staff several Alpha-to-Itanium porting seminars, and has worked on the VMS scheduler support for I64 hyperthreads.

Kevin FitzPatrick is the Global Business Manager for Bruden Corporation. Prior to this, he was the OpenVMS Evangelist for Canada and the world wide Senior Solutions Enterprise Architect for HP helping customers transition their current computing environment (OpenVMS, Tru64, HP-UX, Linux, Windows) to Integrity based solutions. Prior to joining Digital/Compaq/HP, Kevin worked with a system integrator and also with a financial data company. Kevin has 22 years experience with enterprise applications and its related hardware/software

Erik has been involved with the development of (Logica)CMG's OpenVMS based SMSC (Short message service Centre) - the subject of todays talk.

Currently Erik heads the group of SMSC development Architects.

Recent projects include clusterwide logical names, OpenVMS Alpha Memory Management Internals book, system service logging, and implementing system service interception on OpenVMS I64.

Andy was a member of the original VMS design team. He designed and implemented the VMS file system, and has done considerable work in the VMS I/O system and exec. Andy has been responsible for a variety of security work in VMS, and participated in the des ign and implementation of VAXclusters, particularly the cluster file system. He has acted as project leader for a couple of VMS releases and has consulted on many projects in VMS over the years.

Andy has participated in research in distributed security, and consults in security and cryptography.

Andy has acted as architect or consultant on a number of VMS projects, including Posix for OpenVMS, OpenVMS / Windows NT Affinity, DII COE compliance, and a number of Unix portability projects. He also works in the area of file system and storage manageme nt software.

In an alternate reality, Andy spends time with community orchestras, carpentry, and flight simulators.

Ann McQuaid is General Manager of the OpenVMS / Alpha Systems Division, including Tru64 UNIX, and is responsible for ensuring we successfully fulfill our commitments to our Alpha customers by delivering the committed roadmaps and facilitating their transition to the HP Integrity servers while maximizing customer retention to HP. Ann and her team work with their partners within BCS and across HP to deliver to customers the business values that derive from the Alpha RetainTrust Program - customer engagement, products, services, ISV partners, and business practices. In addition, Ann is the BCS staff executive sponsor for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) driving a virtual team to develop a comprehensive plan for the continued success in the FSI business.

Most recently, Ann was the General Manager for Hewlett Packard's OpenVMS Systems Division, responsible for worldwide engineering, customer satisfaction, quality, and business management of the OpenVMS Systems product portfolio.  Ann's team has ported OpenVMS to the HP Integrity servers based on the Itanium chip set and isworking with key vertical and horizontal software partners to bring end-to-end solutions to mission critical OpenVMS customers.

Since joining Digital Equipment Corporation in 1981, Ann has held various management positions including Director of Engineering, Operations Manager and Chief of Staff for the OpenVMS Division. Her responsibilities included worldwide engineering of the OpenVMS Systems product portfolio, developing and delivering operational and strategic goals for the OpenVMS organization, Out Source partner management, Oracle Relationship Management, and Executive and Strategic Communications. Prior to her chief of staff role, Ann managed the OpenVMS Product and Business Management group.

Ann has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern New Hampshire

James has delivered many Decus/Encompass/bootcamp presentations for over 17 years.

Jeff has taught at Boot Camp and OpenVMS Ambassador sessions for seven years. He has helped over 60 customers successfully port applications to OpenVMS on the HP Integrity platform.

Jeff enjoys contributing to the success of OpenVMS from his home in Minneapolis.

Later he learned RTR and provided local RTR- and OpenVMS-support to OMX, one of the world leaders in fully electronic exchanges. Today Robert also provides RTR-support to many of OMX' customers worldwide as well as RTR-training when needed. In December he also became an OpenVMS Ambassador and is now getting more and more involved with Swedish customers transitioning from Alpha to Itanium.

Karl has decades of experience programming on UNIX and on VMS. He has provided consultation to customers porting software from UNIX to VMS and from Alpha to Itanium.