IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Preface

Richard Abdullah is a Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems Strategic Alliances. Prior to joining Cisco Systems in 2001, he worked in technical capacities within various service providers. He has spent 19 years in the IT industry focusing on networking and most recently on network security solutions. He holds a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan, Dearborn.

Markus Belkin is a Network Architect with IBM Australia. He has worked in the IT Industry for 10 years and works predominately with Cisco technologies. He specializes in routing and switching, security and optical technologies. He has an MCP, MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, and CCDP and is currently working towards his Routing and Switching CCIE.

Mike Dougherty is a Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, California. He has worked in the industry for 16 years supporting Cisco networking equipment ranging from routers and switches to security and unified communication solutions. He obtained his CCIE in Routing and Switching in 1996 and is currently working on his CCIE in Security. Mike is a technical consultant working in Strategic Alliances under the business development umbrella at Cisco Systems, Inc.

Wlodzimierz Dymaczewski is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist with IBM Software Group in Poland. Before joining the Tivoli Technical Sales team in 2002 he worked for four years in IBM Global Services where he was a technical leader for several Tivoli deployment projects. He has almost 13 years of experience in systems management, recently specializing in security. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Poznan Technical University, Poland. Vlodek is a Certified Deployment Professional for Security Compliance Manager 5.1 and Risk Manager 4.1 as well as for some Tivoli automation products (TEC, NetView®, and Monitoring).

Vahid Mehr is a Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems Strategic Alliances working on joined architectural solutions with IBM. In his more than 13 years of experience with Cisco he has been in various customer consulting and alliance development roles. Prior to this, he was a Software Engineer working on Object Oriented programming. He has a BSEE from the University of Colorado and resides in San Ramon, California.

Frank Yeh is a member of the IBM Corporate Security Strategy Team who works in Costa Mesa, California. He has more than 25 years of computing experience in a variety of functions including Operations, Support, MIS, Development, Sales, and Business Development. Prior to joining IBM, Frank served as the Strategic Architect for Access360®, a pioneer in the Identity Management space that was acquired by IBM in October 2002. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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