Biographical Sketch: Troy Crutcher graduated from Illinois State University in 2007 with a bachelors degree in Computer Science. While there, he completed an internship with IBM and started right away in the Build and Installation department upon graduation. In August of 2012, he joined the IBM Academic Initiative program. Currently, he works on IBM client and university relations, with the intent to foster the next generation of enterprise systems programmers. He is also the zNextGen representative for IBM.