The Southern Computer Measurement
Group (SCMG) is a
regional chapter of the Computer Measurement Group, Inc. (CMG). CMG ( www.cmg.org ) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals
committed to sharing information and best practices focused on ensuring the
efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through
measurement, quantitative analysis and forecasting.
The SCMG is proud to announce our Fall 2016
Meeting, an all-day event on October 20, 2016 at
MetLife – Gosling Conference Room (Bldg.
2 (MET2), Floor 02, Room 400)
101 MetLife Way
Cary NC, 27513
ð LAST CHANCE - HURRY: REGISTER NOW!! (Due to the impact of Hurricane
Matthew, we are extending the registration period out to OCT. 17)
This covers Breakfast and Lunch.
We
need to confirm the number of Registrants so that we can properly plan the
catering. We also need your Registration
information in order to get a list to MetLife Security so that we will have
visitor badges ready for you the morning of Oct. 20 when you arrive in the MET1
lobby.
To REGISTER, go to the SCMG website @ https://www.cmg.org/southern-cmg-regional-meetings/ . You can use a PayPal account or credit
card. Your registration payment through
the PayPal button logs your registration.
AGENDA:
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8:00-8:45 ET
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Registration
/ Breakfast
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Speaker BIO
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8:45-9:30
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Breakfast
provided with Sponsor Session:
AppDynamics
Jonah
Kowall
“The differing ways to monitor and
instrument”
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Jonah Kowall is the Vice President of market development and insights
at AppDynamics, helping drive the company’s product strategy, roadmap and
vision, while developing entry into new markets and providing valuable
technology and business insights to fuel the accelerating and broad-based
demand for the company’s Application Intelligence Platform.
Jonah comes to AppDynamics with a diverse background including 15 years
as an IT practitioner at several startups and larger enterprises focused on
infrastructure and operations, security, and performance engineering. These
included running tactical and strategic operational initiatives, going deep
into monitoring of infrastructure and application components. In 2011 Jonah
changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance
monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM). His research focused on IT
leaders along with CIOs along with speaking at many conferences a year. Jonah
led Gartner's influential application performance monitoring (APM) and
network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) magic quadrants and
research as a research vice president.
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9:30-10:30
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Rick Weaver
“Best
Practices - Populating Big Data Repositories from DB2, IMS and VSAM”
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Over
the past 25 years, Rick Weaver has become a well-known mainframe expert
specializing in database protection, replication, recovery and performance.
Because of his vast expertise, he has authored numerous articles, whitepapers
and other valuable pieces on database technologies, and frequently spoken on
the subjects of database recovery and performance at conferences, symposiums
and user groups.
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10:30-11:15
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Ann
Dowling
“Capacity Management Is Still Relevant”
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Ann
joined MetLife in April 2016 as the Director of Capacity & Forecast
Engineering. In this role Ann will build on her extensive background
working at IBM in various disciplines including capacity planning, process
architecture, performance engineering, and offering management. Her
professional passion is Capacity Planning in support of the business and how
it drives the applications that consume resources on the IT
infrastructure. Ann’s most rewarding work has been leading teams to
consolidate toward a common ‘best practices’ approach to capacity
management. She did so for a series of consolidations of independent
data centers within IBM which evolved into her role as the global Capacity
Management process owner. That work grounded Ann’s move to consulting
services with external, non-outsourced customers to evaluate their capacity
management capabilities, identify strengths and gaps to then build a roadmap
for improvement. The next step was working with a specific, large
account to lead a team on the implementation phases of the roadmap that gave
Ann a more hands-on role working directly with the engineering and operations
teams and management. She has been on the planning committee and speaker
for various IBM and CMG technical conferences. She was an instructor
for IBM’s Architecting for Performance class and author of a four-part series
on “Exploring Analytics to enable the Business and Service Value of Capacity
Planning”.
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11:15-11:30
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Break
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11:30-12:30
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Kyle
Parrish
CMG
2015 Mullen Award Winner
“Too
Big to Test: Breaking a production brokerage platform without causing
financial devastation”
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Kyle
currently works as a Director of Technology Risk in the FI Information
Security group at Fidelity Investments. Kyle joined Fidelity in January
of 2011 as a Director of Performance Architecture charged with driving
end-to-end testing of the Fidelity Brokerage systems. Prior to joining
Fidelity, Kyle worked as a consultant for over 13 years, after a career in
both the private sector and a university research setting. Kyle’s roles
have spanned everything from program management to performance engineering to
security, across industries as varied as airlines, financial services,
manufacturing, retail, pharmaceuticals, and state government.
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12:30-1:30
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LUNCH
provided with Sponsor Session: Cirba
Dan
Adirim
“Capacity Management for Hybrid IT”
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SVP, Customer Management
Dan Adirim has nearly 20 years of experience leading change in IT organizations.
As SVP for Customer Management, Dan represents the voice of our customers and
is responsible for enabling our customers’ success.
Prior to joining Cirba, Dan spent 5 years as an executive at TD Bank
Group where he led multiple initiatives to improve the maturity of the IT
Operations organization including: automation, configuration management and
application performance monitoring. Dan has also served as VP, IT Strategy
and Architecture at Loblaw Companies Ltd, Canada’s largest retailer, and
began his career at Accenture delivering complex initiatives to enable
clients’ business strategies.
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1:30-2:30
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Igor
Trubin
“Is Your Capacity Available?”
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I
started my career in 1979 as an IBM/370 system engineer. In 1986 I got my
PhD. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia) and then
worked as a professor teaching there CAD/CAM, Robotics and Computer Science
for about 12 years. I published 30 papers and made several presentations for
international conferences related to the Robotics, Artificial Intelligent and
Computer fields. In 1999 I moved to the US and worked at Capital One bank in
Richmond as a Capacity Planner. My first CMG paper was written and presented
in 2001. The next one, "Global and Application Level Exception Detection
System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at CMG 2002 and
was presented again at UKCMG 2003 in Oxford, England. My CMG 2004 paper about
applying MASF technique to mainframe performance data was republished in the
IBM z/Series Expo. I also presented my papers in Central Europe CMG
conference and in numerous US regional meetings. I continue to enhance my
exception detection methodologies. After working more than 2 years as the
Capacity Management team lead for IBM, I had worked for SunTrust Bank for 3
years and then got back to IBM holding for 2+ years Sr. IT
Architect position. Currently I work for Capital One bank as IT Manager
for IT Capacity Management group. In 2015 I have been elected to the CMG (http://www.cmg.org) board of directors. Blog: www.Trub.in
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2:30-3:15
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Shawn
Lundvall
“zBNA: Theory and Overview”
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I started my IBM career in 2001 in
Poughkeepsie in the Systems Architecture group writing the Principals of
Operations. In 2005 I got the opportunity to do hardware design of the fixed
point unit. In 2007 I moved to Richmond supporting clients as a Client Technical
Specialist. In 2013 I joined the Washington Systems Center as a Software
Engineer and am now a developer for zBNA and zPCR.
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3:15-3:30
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Break
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3:30-4:30
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Ken
Christiance
“IBM GTS Cirba Case Study “
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Ken Christiance – Distinguished Engineer with 28 years’ experience in
IBM. He has been working in Strategic
Outsourcing field since 1993; experience that spans service management
architectures, virtualization/server management and analytics. Ken is currently a member of the
Technology, Innovation and Automation team that supports architecture and
solution design for system automation, virtualization and distributed server
management. Ken is patented and
published for technologies that provide usage accounting and billing, policy
based automation, network design, virtualization and service management
tooling
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4:30-5:30
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SCMG
Committee Meeting
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4:30-5:30
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BOF
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Optional: a breakout room will be reserved for folks who
would like to hold an impromptu BOF or post SCMG informal opportunity to network.
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