Biographical Sketch: Ray has spent most of his career at IBM in the performance analysis and capacity planning end of the business in Poughkeepsie, London, and now at the Washington Systems Center. He is the major contributor to IBM’s internal PA & CP tool zCP3000. This tool is used extensively by the IBM services and technical support staff world wide to analyze existing zSeries configurations (Processor, storage, and I/O) and make projections for capacity expectations. Ray has given classes and lectures worldwide. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland where he taught part time at the Honors College. He won the prestigious Computer Measurement Group’s A.A. Michelson award in 2000. His recent virtual sessions “Getting Started in Performance Analysis & Capacity Planning” workshop held for attendees in China and India was well accepted.