Biographical Sketch: Mr. McCracken is an advisory software engineer with IBM Corporation, specializing in storage management software products and solutions. His current role is technical assistance to software and hardware vendors who are attemping to establish interoperability between their products and Tivoli storage management products, e.g. Tivoli Storage Manager. Mr. McCracken holds a Master's Degree in Systems Management from USC. Mr. McCracken brings a broad industry background to his current role, having worked in the Aerospace, Energy, and Defense Electronics industries.