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Matt Ganis Matt Ganis has held many lead architectural and managerial roles in IBM over his 23 year career. Currently Matt is a Senior Technical Staff Member (and Certified Scrum master) within the IBM Sales and Distribution organization and part of the ibm.com site architecture team. In that role, Matt was instrumental in establishing one of first Extreme Programming teams for externally visible projects from IBM. He has helped to move nearly his entire organization (of over 200 project managers, developers, architects and information designers) into the world of Agile. He is also the community of practice leader of Agile@IBM, a galvanizing, grass roots effort of over 1,200 Agile practitioners whose aim is to help share methods, stories and advice – in essence, helping to change the way software is created in IBM. Previous to this, Matt worked within the Computer Networking organization of IBM where has a number of accomplishments to his credit, including: the deployment the first TCP/IP networks within IBM, the creation of the first IBM Corporate level firewall to the Internet (which is largely credited with exposing the general population of IBM to the power of the Internet) as well as being one of the co-architects of the SOCKS Version 5 protocol (RFC1928), which is incorporated in all of the WWW browsers today as well as many TCP/IP Client applications. He is currently the lead architect for the ibm.com Virtual Business Center – a Dual SIM SecondLife implemention of a traditional IBM Branch Office. This “virtual branch office” also serves as the 3D-interactive entry point for customers to engage with IBM across all of the other 17+ IBM “islands,” or regions, in Second Life. Matt is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Astronomy at Pace University in Pleasantville New York where he teaches at both the Undergraduate and Graduate level. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Information Systems from Pace University, a Master of Science degree in Astronomy from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and a Doctorate of computing from Pace University. You can reach Matt directly via e-mail or phone 914-784-5759.