Jeffrey Savit is a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, and manages
the Web Solutions department, responsible for Internet and Intranet
web technology.
He formerly was a member of Enterprise Architecture and
Emerging Technologies departments, where
he worked on World Wide Web, Java, remote LAN access,
DCE, and other technology areas. Before that, he managed
the Client Server System Software unit, responsible for large, business
critical VM/ESA systems, and for Unix, VMS, Windows NT and OS/2.
In addition to VM, he works with
MVS, Unix (Solaris), Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, and
Windows NT, including MVS supervisor state, PC BIOS level, and
Unix device driver programming.
He is past president of the Metropolitan VM Users Association (MVMUA), and an active participant in the VM-related Internet mailing lists. He has also presented talks on VM, the web, and client-server computing at Internet World, SHARE, GUIDE, CMG, the VM Workshop, SHARE GUIDE Europe, the VM Masterclass, Australasian SHARE GUIDE, Hillgang, MVMUA, and Modula-2 user meetings. He also taught classes on VM internals, performance, and problem determination. Mr. Savit also served on a computer science delegation to the People's Republic of China. He also serves on customer councils for Sun Microsystems and IBM.
Mr. Savit wrote Enterprise Java, VM & CMS: Performance and Fine Tuning and VM/CMS Concepts and Facilities, and the second edition of IBM Mainframes, and contributed to the VM Applications Handbook (Gary McClain, editor), The REXX Handbook (Gabriel Goldberg and Phil Smith III, editors), and The VM/ESA Handbook (Gabriel Goldberg and Phil Smith III, editors), all published by McGraw Hill. He has also been published in SIGPLAN Notices, a journal of the Association of Computing Machinery.
Mr. Savit has a Master of Science degree in computer science from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
In the picture, he's the one in back.
To contact him:
Jeff Savit Merrill Lynch 100 Church St, 12th floor New York, NY 10080-6512 U.S.A. Tel: 212/602-8256 Internet: jsavit@ml.com or jsavit@acm.org