Mooheng Zee IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (mzeeus.ibm.com). In 1988, Mr. Zee received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, joining IBM that same year in Poughkeepsie, New York. He started in the ESCON channel diagnostic group and then moved to the networking I/O development team to help develop the ATM networking products for the IBM eServer*. In his fifteen years in networking development, Mr. Zee has received several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and two patents. He is currently involved in the development and continued enhancement of the networking channel functions and OSN CDLC development.

Jerry W. Stevens IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (sjerryus.ibm.com). Mr. Stevens is a Senior Software Engineer in Application and Integration Middleware working in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the Enterprise Platform Solutions Architecture Strategy and Design Group for z/OS communications servers. He has more than twenty years of software development and design experience, primarily in networking. His primary focus is associated with the architecture and design of transport layer interfaces and device drivers.

Belinda L. Thompson IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (belindatus.ibm.com). Mrs. Thompson is an Advisory Engineer in application and integration middleware software development. She received a B.S. degree in computer science from Old Dominion University. She joined the IBM z/OS Communications Server team in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, in 1997 after a career as a UNIX** and Linux system administrator and programmer, network administrator, and application programmer. Mrs. Thompson was awarded an IBM Development Excellence Award. She is currently responsible for development of kernel device drivers for the Communications Server for Linux and Communication Controller for Linux on zSeries projects.

Joel A. Fowler IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (fowlerjaus.ibm.com). In 1979, Mr. Fowler joined IBM as a customer engineer in Moline, Illinois. In 1982, he became a program support representative, moving to Raleigh, North Carolina, in order to join the Network Control Program Level 2 Support and Change Team. Mr. Fowler joined the Network Control Program development team in 1998. In 2003, he designed and developed an IBM 3745 Communication Controller emulator to run on the Windows** platform, which was to be used for NCP software problem diagnosis. The emulator was later converted to a Linux application, which is used as the base for the Communication Controller for Linux product. In 2003, Mr. Fowler joined the Communication Controller for Linux design and development team, where he continues to be a lead developer for the CCL product.

Joel Goldman IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (jgoldmanus.ibm.com). Mr. Goldman received a B.E. degree in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1978. He joined IBM that same year in Kingston, New York. He spent 14 years at IBM Kingston before moving to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he joined the 8100 adapter development laboratory, working on hard-drive firmware and subsequently moving to a networking I/O development team. He helped to develop the OSA Support Facility and QDIO networking products for the IBM eServer. Mr. Goldman has received one patent. He is currently involved in the development and continued enhancement of the Networking QDIO functions.

Ping T. Chan IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (pingus.ibm.com). Mr. Chan is an Advisory Engineer working on the OSA development team. He graduated with a B.E.E.E. degree from City College of New York in 1984 and joined IBM at Poughkeepsie, New York, that same year. He has held various technical positions in the IBM eServer diagnostics and I/O areas. Mr. Chan has received several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his contributions in OSA development.

Thomas P. McSweeney IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (tommcsus.ibm.com). Mr. McSweeney joined IBM after receiving a B.S. degree in computer science from Louisiana State University in 1982. He worked for 13 years in Network Control Program (NCP) development and design, implementing numerous SNA networking functions in NCP, from SNA Network Interconnect (SNI) to APPN (Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking) performance routing. He continued his SNA networking career for several more years, enhancing and supporting the SNA networking functions for the IBM 2216/2210 router family and for the 3746 NNP. After a brief time working in the area of storage networking, he rejoined the SNA networking development area. He is currently the technical team leader of the Communication Controller for Linux (CCL) development team.

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