Biographical Sketch: Sam has worked exclusively on IBM Mainframe technologies since 1987 and is currently the Director of Product Management at Compuware. Previously he has lead product management teams, been an application developer, performance analyst, ISV developer on TMONMVS, systems programmer, and moonlights as a cat herder. Known to speak and write obscure dialects such as JCL, PL/I, Assembler, and IPCS.