Biographical Sketch: Matthew joined IBM in 1989 and started work on CICS mainframe products before moving to the distributed platform. In 1997 he moved to the Java Technology Center working initially as a "Java Evangelist" before joining the IBM Sovereign JVM team. After helping to design and implement the IBM JVM for Windows and AIX, Matthew joined a small team developing high performance garbage collection and shared classes technology for CICS, IMS and DB2. In 2002 he mentored a successful Extreme Blue project on Aspect Oriented Software Design before joining the IBM incubator project of the same name, during which time he became a committer on the AspectJ Eclipse project specializing in integration with OSGi. In 2007, Matthew returned to CICS to lead the architecture, development & delivery of what became the IBM CICS Explorer and the "New Face of CICS" in CICS TS V4.1. He was the technical lead for end-to-end support of OSGi application development, deployment and management in CICS TS V4.2. Matthew is currently the architect for Agile Deployment, part of the cloud support in the "CICS TS V5.1 open beta".