Biographical sketches of authors

Karl Gottschalk   IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: karlgott@us.ibm.com). Mr. Gottschalk is a Web Services Technical Strategist in the Emerging e-Business Technologies area of the IBM Software Group. He has helped formulate IBM's Java, XML, and Web services strategies for the past four years. He joined IBM in 1968 and has held positions in the areas of program design, program development, program maintenance, and information development. Mr. Gottschalk has published several articles in the IBM Systems Journal on the topics of usability, system and network management, and enterprise Java. He holds an M.A. degree in English literature from the University of Mississippi, an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.B.A. degree from Duke University, and an M.A. degree in liberal studies from Duke University.

Stephen Graham   IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: sggraham@us.ibm.com). Mr. Graham is an architect in the Emerging Technologies organization in the IBM Software Group. He has spent the last several years working on service-oriented architectures, most recently as part of the IBM Web Services Initiative. Prior to this work, he was involved as a technologist and consultant with various emerging technologies such as Java and XML, and before that he was an architect and consultant with the IBM Smalltalk consulting organization. Before joining IBM, he was a developer with Sybase, a consultant, and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Mr. Graham holds a B.Math degree and an M.Math degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

Heather Kreger   IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: kreger@us.ibm.com). Ms. Kreger is a senior architect in the Emerging Technologies area of the IBM Software Group. She represented IBM as a member of the Java Management eXtensions (JSR0009) Expert Group. Her years in lead positions in network management, combined with her experience on the IBM Web server and WebSphere Application Server products, gives her unique insight into the problems and solutions for managing applications and e-business. She has contributed to the specification, reference implementation, and compatibility test suites for the JMX Reference Implementation and authored “Java Management Extensions for application management” in Vol. 40, No. 1, 2001, of the IBM Systems Journal. She was also involved in management issues with other standards bodies, including: The Open Group Management Program, the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) Application Management Work Group Chair, and WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) JSR (Java Specification Request) Expert Group. Ms. Kreger is currently the lead architect for Web Services in Emerging Technologies, and recently authored the document, “Web Services Conceptual Architecture.” She chairs the IBM Web services architecture team, holds an associate position on the IBM AIM Architecture Board, and is the Specification Editor for JSR109: Implementing Web Services in the Enterprise being led by IBM.

James Snell   IBM Software Group, 4400 Silicon Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27713 (electronic mail: jasnell@us.ibm.com). Mr. Snell is an architect and strategist in the Emerging e-Business Technologies area of the IBM Software Group. He is the voice of the Web Services Insider on IBM's developerWorks Web Services Zone and a coauthor of a new book on SOAP-based Web services. He joined IBM in March 2001 and has been focused primarily on the area of Web services development. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Snell was an enterprise solution architect working for a variety of independent software companies. He has been actively involved in Web-based development since 1994.