Mr. Michael (Mike) A. Kaczmarski

Part of the IBM Software Group in Tucson, Arizona, he was appointed an IBM Fellow in 2009 for the significant impact he has had in Tivoli and IBM as a whole; particularly in the development of innovative software storage products, integration of the Tivoli portfolio and collaboration across organizational boundaries. He is the lead architect and principal author of the component integration strategy that serves as the blueprint for integrating Tivoli products within service and systems management. He is an acknowledged IBM expert in storage management as one of the original creators of the Tivoli Storage Manager product family, and as leader of the redesign of the TotalStorage Productivity Center. To be named an IBM Fellow is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona and National Technological University (NTU) with an M.S. degree in Computer Science, (1989).