Biographical Sketch: David Lytle is a Principal Engineer/Global Solutions Architect with Brocade Communications, Inc. in San Jose, California. He lives, and is based out of Woodstock, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. He has been with Brocade, and working in this position, since January 2007. In his role, David specializes in Fibre Channel solutions and specifically in System z Technologies and provides sales enablement assistance to Brocade OEMs, partners and customers. He is a 44 year veteran of the IT industry and has held positions such as District SE manager, FICON Solutions Architect, Consulting Systems Engineer, SAN Sales Specialist, Storage Sales Specialist, Post Sales SE, Senior MVS Systems Programmer and Senior Programmer. He has worked at McDATA Corporation, REAL Solutions, Inc., Storage Technology Corporation, Amdahl Corporation, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Florida and Computer Technology, Inc. He is a military veteran and served honorably in the US Air Force. He is a 1969 graduate of Florida Technical College and a 1973 graduate of Jones College in Jacksonville, Florida with honors in Business Administration, Computer Programming. He has participated regularly as a SHARE user conference speaker and on its discussion panels. He has been a speaker at EMC, HDS, HP and IBM events around the world. He is an instructor for the Brocade Certified Architect for FICON (BCAF) professional certification class. He has published several papers which have appeared in z/Journal and in The Journal of Computer Resource Management. He was among the first recipients of the prestigious BCAF certification in 2008. David has won the prestigious Best Vendor Session at SHARE on three different occasions.