Biographical Sketch: Jim Elliott Consulting Sales Specialist IBM Canada Ltd. Jim is a Consulting Sales Specialist at IBM Canada and has worked at IBM for 37+ years. He is the product manager for the mainframe operating systems at IBM Canada. Jim is also the Linux Champion for IBM Canada and in that role is the public spokesperson on Open Source and Linux issues. As a System z sales specialist his primary role is to support the System z business partners for General Business customers across Canada. He is a graduate of the BC Institute of Technology, has co-authored over 20 IBM RedBooks, and is an active speaker on information technology across the US and Canada.