Todd W. Arnold IBM Systems and Technology Group, 8501 IBM Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262 (arnoldtus.ibm.com). Mr. Arnold is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1978. Joining IBM, he initially worked on optical character recognition systems for high-speed check-processing systems. Since 1985, he has worked in development of high-security cryptographic products, with a particular emphasis on the requirements of the banking and finance industry. He was responsible for the development of the first IBM smart-card product, which won the “Most Innovative Smart Card Product of 1989” award at the European Smart Card Application Technology (ESCAT) conference. Mr. Arnold received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for this work in 1989. He is an author or coauthor of eight patents and has contributed to several ANSI and ISO standards in the area of security. Mr. Arnold is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Anne Dames IBM Systems and Technology Group, 8501 IBM Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262 (annedamesus.ibm.com). Ms. Dames is a Senior Software Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. She received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Johnson C. Smith University in 1984, joining IBM that same year. She initially worked in product engineering on dot matrix printer products including the IBM 4214, IBM 5224, IBM 5225, and IBM 3287. She later joined the IBM Proprinter development group, which produced printers for the personal computer market. In 1990, she joined the Application Solutions laboratory and worked on the first IBM home banking solution. Since 1993, Ms. Dames has worked in development of high-security cryptographic products, with a particular emphasis on development of the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture host APIs and cryptographic firmware. In 2005, she received an M.S. degree in computer science, with a concentration in interdisciplinary networking with emphasis on information security, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Michael D. Hocker IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (hockerus.ibm.com). Mr. Hocker is an Advisory Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. He joined IBM in 1977 after receiving a B.S.E.E. degree with honors from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His first assignment involved firmware design for the 308x series Processor Controller Power/Thermal Interrupt Handler, followed by continued work with the large-systems processor controller for bipolar processors. After a period of time writing software for the OSA Support Facility, Mr. Hocker became increasingly involved with the System z I/O subsystem embedded firmware (device driver and ancillary components) that support the 4758 cryptographic adapter. Current work includes responsibility for the application-specific components of all versions of the System z Hydra I/O subsystem cryptographic embedded firmware, and responsibility for future development of those components. He is a co-author of 15 patents and several publications, and the recipient of an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for design, development, and implementation efforts for the 4764 System z I/O subsystem firmware.

Mark D. Marik IBM Systems and Technology Group, 8501 IBM Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28262 (mdmarikus.ibm.com). Mr. Marik is a Senior Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. After receiving a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1981, he joined IBM, working initially in testing and development of communication microcode for the IBM 4704-2 banking display. He subsequently focused on device firmware development in the IBM 4736 ATM, IBM 3624 ATM high-speed SDLC adapter, IBM 3892 Document Processor/Sorter, IBM 4772 Banking Statement Printer, and IBM 4779 Magnetic Card Reader Encoder Terminal. He also worked on several custom OEM projects. Since 1997, he has worked in development of high-security banking and financial cryptographic products, with an emphasis in embedded CP/Q and Linux device-driver development for communications and cryptographic ASICs, as well as embedded application performance enhancements using feedback-directed program restructuring. He is an author or co-author of six patents and five technical disclosure bulletins.

Nancy A. Pellicciotti IBM Systems and Technology Group, 1701 North Street, Endicott, New York 13760 (napellus.ibm.com). Ms. Pellicciotti is an Advisory Software Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. She received a B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from Clarkson University and joined IBM in Endicott, New York, in 1983. She started her career in the support processor area of Endicott Processor Development, contributing to the delivery of the 9370 and 9371 systems. She continued in System z hardware development, working on components of the Support Element (SE) and later on the Hardware Management Console (HMC) that supports System z servers that ranged from the 9221, 9672, 9673, and 9674 to the z900, z990, and the recently shipped z9* server. She began her work on the Crypto team in 2000 and is currently the Crypto focal point for SE and HMC functionality, most recently supporting the Crypto Express2 for the z9 server.

Klaus Werner IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (wernerkde.ibm.com). Mr. Werner is a Senior Development Engineer in the IBM Systems and Technology Group, working in processor firmware development. He studied communications engineering at the University of Cooperative Education of Stuttgart and received his Diplom-Ingenieur degree in 1984. He joined IBM that same year to work in the bring-up and test of CMOS processors. Mr. Werner has worked on projects in a variety of areas including RAS, system-feature development, and processor firmware development for the IBM 9221, CMOS G1 to G6 processors, z900, z990, and z9. In 1995 he joined the Crypto team, working on System z cryptographic support for G3 through System z9. Mr. Werner is currently the System z Firmware Focal Point for Crypto.

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