Matt Ganis has held many lead
architectural and managerial roles in IBM over his 22 year career.
He was hired into IBM as an MVS/JES3 system programmer in White
Plains, New York in 1985. After moving into the networking arena,
Matt became a member of the core team responsible for building and
deploying the first centrally controlled TCP/IP backbone network for
IBM. Based on that work, he was involved as the chief architect of
several new commercial TCP/IP based networks for IBM:
Internetworking1.1 and the commercially offered ISP backbone
(ibm.net). Matt was also a key architect in the development of IBM
Global Network's consumer based TCP/IP offering (which was later
sold and merged with AT&T's Worldnet).
Matt was also responsible for the creation of the first IBM
Corporate level firewall to the Internet - which is largely credited
for exposing the general population of IBM to the power of the
Internet. He is one of the co-architects of the SOCKSv5 protocol
(RFC1928), which is incorporated in almost all of the WWW browsers
today as well as many TCP/IP Client applications.
For the past six years, Matt was involved in creation and
operation of the Internet infrastructure that served the Olympic Web
Sites for the Atlanta, Nagano and the Sydney Olympic games. Part of
the work in the Sydney Olympics led to the creation of a patent
entitled: "Gathering of enriched web server activity of Cached web
content".
Just before the Sydney Olympics, Matt was asked to be the IGS
representative to a newly forming organization called: iCAIR (the
International Center for Advanced Internet Research) in Evanston
Illinois. The iCAIR center is a joint venture of IBM, Cisco and
Northwestern University. The mission of the Center is to Accelerate
Leading-Edge Innovation and Enhanced Digital Global Communications
through Advanced Internet Technologies, in Partnership with the
International Community. The Center accomplishes that mission by
undertaking projects in four key areas: advanced Internet
applications, advanced middleware/metasystems, advanced
infrastructure and policy.
Matt is currently part of the www.ibm.com corporate webmaster
team. As the lead architect for www.ibm.com Matt has responsibility
for the end-to-end architecture of IBM's corporate portal,
specializing in User Identity applications.
Matt is also the lead architect of the International Space
Station's Amateur telescope (ISS/AT) project. The goal of this
endeavor is to place to a telescope on the space station that would
be used (free of charge) by any interested individual or group of
individuals (worldwide) - especially schools in the range of K-12.
This is a project of the Astronomical League in conjunction with
NASA and Vanderbilt University. He is the lead webmaster for the
Astronomical League's website (http://www.astroleague.org)
Matt is also currently 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 as well as a Master of Science degree in
Astronomy from the University of Western Sydney Australia. He has
authored or co-authored over 20 papers in both of his fields of
interest ranging from programming techniques/System
Administration/TCP/IP networking to topics on Stellar Evolution and
Radio Astronomy.
AFFILIATIONS:
* Agile Alliance
* Pace University Alumni Mentor
* Academic
Ambassador from IBM to Pace University
* Mentor to several
undergraduate students, and graduate/doctoral students
*
Westchester Amateur Astronomers
* Astronomical League
*
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
* Employee: Northwestern
University iCAIR (Center for Advanced Internet Research)
* Member
- Alpha Chi Honor Society
* Member - Phi Eta Sigma Honor
Society
* Member - Who's Who in American Colleges and
Universities, 1985
* Member - IEEE Computer Society
(Affiliate)
* Member - International Amateur/Professional
Photoelectric Photometry
* Member - American Association of
Variable Star Observers
* Fellow of Dyson College (full Fellow
Status)
* Member ACM
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