SCMG Meeting Richmond
April 23, 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.

Peter Sevcik
Peter Sevcik is president of NetForecast and is a leading authority on network traffic, performance, and technology. Peter has contributed to the design of more than 100 networks, including the Internet, and holds the patent on application response-time prediction. He tries to separate fact from hype and describe a vision of the networked future in his Business Communications Review magazine column. Peter is a senior member of the IEEE and serves on the conference advisory boards of Next Generation Networks and Networld+Interop.

Linwood Merritt
Lin started his data processing career in 1970 as a Simulation Analyst and has been a US CMG member since 1984. He has served as Subject Area Chair, Assistant Program Chair and Program Chair for CMG and served as Project Manager of the "Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance" project of SHARE for 11 years. Lin is currently Regional Chair of Southern CMG and a Subject Area Chair for CMG 2008.

Lin has published 19 CMG papers and presented at 30 SHARE conferences. He won the CMG 1997 Mullen award for the presentation "Performance Data from the Server to the Intranet: Getting the Data and Reporting It," and presented it at UKCMG in 1998. He is now working as a mainframe Capacity Planner at Bank of America in Richmond, Virginia.

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

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