Biographical Sketch: Richard is a z Systems Executive I.T. Specialist. He is currently a lead with Systems Lab services team that provides hands on assistance to customers. He been with IBM for 18 years and has 26 years of experience on z Systems. Richard's current area of focus is Cloud, Linux, Mobile, and Virtualization. His skillset includes z/VM and KVM virtualization, systems management and security software, J2EE and related middleware.