SCMG Meeting Raleigh
April 24, 2009

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Igor Trubin
Igor started his career in 1979 as an IBM 360/370 system engineer. In 1986 he got his Ph.D. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University ( Russia ) and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics and Computer Science for about 12 years at the same University. Igor has published about 30 papers and made several presentations for different international conferences related to the Robotics, Artificial Intelligent and Computer fields. In 1999 he moved to the US and worked at Capital One Services, Inc. in Richmond as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG paper was written and presented by him in 2001 in Reno , NV . The next one, "Global and Application Level Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at US CMG 2002 and was presented again at UKCMG 2003 in Oxford , England . His CMG 2004 paper about applying MASF technique to mainframe performance management was republished in the IBM z/Series Expo. Igor continues to enhance his exception detection methodologies, and currently works at SunTrust in Richmond, Virginia.

Chris Molloy
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM working in the outsourcing area. With over 65,000 people supporting outsourcing worldwide for IBM, Chris' role is to inject innovation and new technology into the accounts in order to provide them a competitive advantage. Chris focuses on improving system management solutions for his customers. He is a frequent speaker at CMG, and holds a patent for some of his work in performance management and capacity planning.

Abstracts:

Presentations and Background Data for John Van Wagenen's Presentations
Pivot Tables/Charts: Magic Beans Without Living in a Fairy Tale (Presentation | Paper)
Paper: So you want to manage your Z-series MIPS?  Then detect & control application workload variance!
Presentation: Performance Monitoring Process for Out of Standard Applications
Presentation Spreadsheets (ZIP file)

Power of Control Charts (Presentation)
Igor Trubin

Information Visualization: A View From 30,000 Feet
Amit Sawant

Sponsors:

	Netuitive self-learning performance management software replaces human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to understand normal system behavior across IT silos, isolate root causes and forecast problems for mission-critical applications.
	EMC stores, protects, optimizes, and leverages information with the aim of contributing to their clients' success.