Biographical sketches of authors

Bodo Hoppe IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (bohopp@de.ibm.com). Mr. Hoppe is a member of the IBM global verification team in the German Research and Development Laboratory. He received a degree in electrical engineering, with emphasis on telecommunications, from the Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Germany, in 1993. At that time, he joined the IBM Research and Development Laboratory in Germany, where he has worked on hardware system verification of the IBM S/390 G3 Parallel Enterprise Servers. He worked on several generations of systems in microprocessor and system verification, and is currently working on hardware verification of an I/O adapter chip for future eServer systems. Mr. Hoppe received an IBM division award in 1996 for the G3 bringup and the hardware system validation effort of the IBM S/390 G3 Parallel Enterprise Servers. In 2000, he was awarded the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his verification work on the IBM z900 Server. Mr. Hoppe is an author or coauthor of several patents and technical papers.

Bridgette Arthur-Mensah IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (bfosu@us.ibm.com). Ms. Arthur-Mensah is a member of the IBM Advanced Hardware Verification team in Poughkeepsie, New York. She received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University in January 2001, at which time she joined the IBM I/O subsystem development team focusing on the verification of high-speed I/O switches for the z990 servers. Ms. Arthur-Mensah is currently working on the next generation of the switch for future zSeries servers while pursuing an M.S. degree in electrical engineering at Columbia University.

Edward W. Chencinski IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (chencins@us.ibm.com). Mr. Chencinski received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1980, joining IBM that same year. He was involved in the ES/3090 SCE and expanded storage hardware design, as well as the logic support element design of the ES/9000. In the early 1990s, Mr. Chencinski joined the G3/G4 CMOS cryptographic hardware processor design team, focusing on pervasive functions, simulation, timing, and modular exponentiation. He is currently a Senior Engineer leading the STI switch chip design team.

Sabina Joseph IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (sabinaj@us.ibm.com). Ms. Joseph is currently an Advisory Manager of the eServer Advanced Hardware Verification Team. In 1999 she joined IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, after receiving an M.S. degree in computer science from West Virginia University and a B.A. degree in mathematics/computer science from Seton Hill University. From 1999 to 2002, she held technical positions in zSeries CP and I/O verification. In 2002, she became a manager, responsible for zSeries and pSeries I/O verification.

Haresh Kumar IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (hkumar@us.ibm.com). Mr. Kumar is a Staff Engineer. In 2000 he joined IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, after receiving a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rochester. He has held various technical positions in the I/O hardware verification group of the zSeries eServer and currently leads the verification team of a switch chip.

Jose F. Silverio IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (silverio@us.ibm.com). Mr. Silverio received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1990, joining IBM that same year as a logical designer for an advanced I/O processor project. In 1995 he received an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University. He joined the Advanced I/O Connectivity Hardware Verification team in 1996 and is currently a Senior Engineer. In 1996, Mr. Silverio received an IBM Team Award for his work on S/390 G3 fast internal bus design. He received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his design verification work on the STI-to-PCI bridge chip for the S/390 G4 (1999), Multiprise 3000 (2000), and z900 eServer (2001) projects. Mr. Silverio recently received an IBM Invention Achievement Award for his work on the STI switch chip for the z990 eServer.