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Contact Information:
Ray Wicks
E-mail: Contact
7642 Red River Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: 561-687-8205 |
Biography:
Ray Wicks is a world-renowned Capacity Planning expert who has been working in the performance analysis and capacity planning area for over 30 years.
Ray has spent most of his career at IBM in the performance analysis and capacity planning end of the business in Poughkeepsie and at the Washington Systems Center. He is the author and architect of IBM's internal performance analysis and capacity planning tool named CP2000. This tool is used extensively by the services and technical support staff world wide within IBM to analyze existing z/OS configurations (Processor, storage, and I/O) and make projections for capacity expectations.
In support of this effort, Ray has given classes and lectures worldwide. Throughout IBM, Computer Measurement Group (CMG), IBM Expo and SHARE, Ray is widely respected as one of the top experts in this field. He won the prestigious CMG A.A. Michelson award in 2000 placing him among the elite in the field of computer performance analysis and capacity planning. His one-day workshop titled "Topics in Performance Analysis & Capacity Planning" held at a recent CMG conference was filled and well received.
Ray earned a BA in Philosophy and his Masters in Mathematics. Before his tenure at IBM Ray taught at the City University in New York and Marist College in New York. Ray also was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland for two semesters lecturing at UMD's Honors College.
Ray is a high regarded and experienced instructor. Ray also lectures at many IBM conferences worldwide and at the annual international Computer Measurement Group (CMG) conference.
