Norbert Bieberstein

Norbert Bieberstein works for IBM’s SOA Advanced Technologies organization supporting worldwide publication and communication of SOA-related topics. He gained firsthand experiences from customer projects in various industries striving to migrate to SOA-based solutions. Norbert published several articles on SOA-related topics, coordinated the IBM Systems Journal issue 44-4 on SOA, and was the lead author of Service-Oriented Architecture Compass (IBM Press, 2005). In 2007, the book SOA for Profit was published, for which Norbert acted as one of the three lead authors. He also co-authored two IBM Redbooks: Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus and Enabling Applications for Grid Computing with Globus. In 1993, he published his first book, CASE-Tools. Norbert joined IBM software development labs as a software engineering consultant in 1989. In total, he has more than 27 years of experience in information technology and computer sciences. In his career, he worked as an application developer at a smaller software vendor and as a scientific programmer at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), where he received his Master’s degree in Mathematics and Geography. In 2006, he graduated from a corporate MBA program at Henley Management College in Henley, United Kingdom.

Robert G. Laird is an IT Architect with IBM in the SOA Advanced Technologies group, performing worldwide consulting for IBM customers in the area of SOA governance and SOA architecture since May 2006. He is a member of the industry TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) SOA Governance working group. Robert has more than 20 years experience in the telecom industry at MCI and Verizon Business. He was the MCI chief architect, leading the enterprise architecture group and working across the entire order-to-cash suite of applications. He led the development of the SOA-based single-stack strategy to simplify the multiple network and applications silos. Bob has driven the strategy, planning, and execution of MCI’s product development in the area of contact centers, IP/VPN, VoIP, IMS¿, and managed services. For OSS, he has led successful implementations to automate network provisioning, network restoration, and network management. Before joining MCI, Robert worked as a consultant for American Management Systems (AMS) and Ideation, Inc. He has a Master’s degree and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Purdue University and has been granted two patents in the area of telephony. He has spoken at various industry forums, written for the SOA Magazine, and been quoted in CIO Insight, Telecommunications, InfoWorld, and Computerworld.

Dr. Keith Jones is currently an executive IT architect with IBM in the SOA Advanced Technologies team where he focuses on the definition and implementation of service oriented architectures with leading-edge customers. He has 30 years experience in the IT industry as a systems engineer, software architect, strategist, and author of many middleware publications. Keith’s professional interests center on building transactional, message oriented and service-oriented middleware infrastructures in support of business processes in a wide range of enterprise environments. Most recently, these have included infrastructures at major financial services, retail services, automotive manufacturing, online media, and auction enterprises. Keith has a PhD in Chemistry and lives with his family in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Sanjay Bose

Norbert Bieberstein is a solution architect for the IBM Enterprise Integration team and is responsible for the team's worldwide communication. In his dual role, he gained first-hand experiences from customer projects in various industries striving to migrate to SOA-based On Demand solutions. He currently is completing his MBA at Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. In his communication role, he is delivering insight and best practices to IBM and customers in various forms. Norbert co-authored the IBM Redbooks Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus (SG24-6895-01) and Enabling Applications for Grid Computing with Globus (SG24-6936-00), wrote the textbook CASE-Tools (ISBN: 3446175261), and published several magazine articles on various IT topics. Norbert also worked as a technology manager in the IBM software partner organization, where he led the IBM OMG delegation during UML definition. He also acted as a software engineering (CASE) consultant to the IBM software development labs. Norbert has more than 25 years of experience in information technology and computer sciences. Before joining IBM in 1989, he was an application developer for a regional CIM provider and worked as scientific programmer at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), where he received his masters in mathematics and geography. He also holds teacher's degrees for higher education in Germany. He lives with his family near Düsseldorf, Germany.

Sanjay Bose is the Design Center leader for the IBM Enterprise Integration team. He has more than 12 years of IT industry experience, primarily focused on creating product architecture and design, articulating technical strategy, and designing enterprise application systems using distributed technologies. He currently leads the design center to identify IBM software portfolio requirements and to develop solution components and assets by engaging enterprise clients and IBM software product development laboratories. His areas of expertise include service-oriented architecture, enterprise service bus, Web services, J2EE, and e-business technologies. Sanjay also worked in product development on the WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Portal Server. He has published several technical papers and also has contributed to industry specifications and standards. Sanjay received his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, India and has completed MBA coursework at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Marc Fiammante is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003, with wide experience in large project architecture and software development on multiple environments. He is the chief architect of the European, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific Enterprise Integration Solutions team. Marc has 21 years of experience in IT. He has filed several software domain patents and has published several articles related to e-business technologies. He leads architecture teams in major industry projects. He has architectural and technical expertise with service-oriented architecture, Web services, enterprise application integration, and e-business and object-oriented technologies, including a number of software middleware systems, programming languages, and standards. Marc is a graduate engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Paris.

Keith Jones, PhD, is currently a leading IT architect at IBM Enterprise Integration Solutions, where he focuses on the definition and implementation of service-oriented architectures with leading-edge customers. He has 30 years of experience in the IT industry as a systems engineer, software developer, strategist, systems architect, and author of many middleware publications. Keith's professional interests center on building transactional, message-oriented, and service-oriented middleware infrastructures in support of business processes in a wide range of customer environments. Most recently, these have included infrastructures at major financial services, retail services, automotive manufacturing, online media, and auction enterprises. Keith has a PhD in chemistry and lives with his family in Boulder, Colorado.

Rawn Shah is the Community Editor (and, formerly, the SOA and Web services Zone Editor) for IBM developerWorks. Rawn has 12 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various roles including positions as a network administrator, an application developer, a vice president of a regional Internet service provider, a columnist, an author, and an editor. He has written more than 280 articles for dozens of technology magazines, including CNN.com, NetworkWorld, JavaWorld, NC World, Windows TechEdge, and LinuxWorld, and he was directly involved in the release of the industry-leading publications JavaWorld and LinuxWorld in the mid-1990s. His interests lie in finding new ways for facilitating the communication and collaboration of technical ideas and processes between distributed audiences and transferring this knowledge in meaningful ways to nontechnical audiences such as business teams. He and his family currently reside in Tucson, Arizona.

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Marc Fiammante

Marc Fiammante, IBM Distinguished Engineer, is worldwide chief architect of SOA engagements delivered by IBM’s SOA Advanced Technology team. Elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003, he has a 25-year background in IT with deep experience in large project architecture. His architectural and technical expertise encompasses SOA, Web Services, enterprise application integration, e-business, object technologies, middleware, standards, WebSphere® Application Server, DB2®, Java™, J2EE™, C, and C++. He coauthored Service-Oriented Architecture Compass and is Engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Paris and an Opengroup Certified Master Architect.

Keith J. Jones

Keith J. Jones leads the computer forensics and electronic evidence discovery practices at Red Cliff Consulting. Formerly Foundstone's director of incident response and computer forensics, his book The Anti-Hacker Tool Kit (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2002) is the definitive guide to securing critical applications.

Richard Bejtlich is a former Air Force intelligence officer, and is founder of TaoSecurity, a network security monitoring consultancy. He wrote the Tao of Network Security Monitoring (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Extrusion Detection (Addison-Wesley, 2006).

Curtis W. Rose, a former counterintelligence special agent, is an executive vice president at Red Cliff Consulting where he leads research and development efforts and special projects, and where he provides support to criminal investigations and civil litigation. He was a contributing author or technical editor for several security books, including The Anti-Hacker Tool Kit, Network Security: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2002), and Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2002).

Dan Farmer is author of a variety of security programs and papers. He is currently chief technical officer of Elemental Security, a computer security software company. Together he and Wietse Venema, have written many of the world's leading information security and forensics packages, including the SATAN network security scanner and the Coroner's Toolkit.

Wietse Venema has written some of the world's most widely used software, including TCP Wrapper and the Postfix mail system. He is currently a research staff member at IBM Research. Together, he and Dan Farmer have written many of the world's leading information security and forensics packages, including the SATAN network security scanner and the Coroner's Toolkit.

Brian Carrier has authored several leading computer forensic tools, including The Sleuth Kit (formerly The @stake Sleuth Kit) and the Autopsy Forensic Browser. He has authored several peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and has created publicly available testing images for forensic tools. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science and digital forensics at Purdue University, he is also a research assistant at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) there. He formerly served as a research scientist at @stake and as the lead for the @stake Response Team and Digital Forensic Labs. Carrier has taught forensics, incident response, and file systems at SANS, FIRST, the @stake Academy, and SEARCH.
      Brian Carrier's Web site, https://www.digital-evidence.org, contains book updates and up-to-date URLs from the book's references.

Rawn Shah

Rawn Shah is Community Editor (and, formerly, SOA and Web Services Zone Editor) for IBM developerWorks. He has 12 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various roles including positions as a network administrator, an application developer, a vice president of a regional Internet service provider, a columnist, an author, and an editor. He has written more than 280 articles for dozens of technology magazines, including CNN.com, NetworkWorld, JavaWorld, NC World, Windows TechEdge, and LinuxWorld, and was directly involved in the release of the industry-leading publications JavaWorld and LinuxWorld in the mid-1990s.