John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for 30 years. John was the founder of Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, focusing on Tivoli consulting. John is a leading infrastructure management architect in the enterprise systems management space. He has delivered over 10,000 hours of training on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is considered an expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. John has authored over six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management. John was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems, a lead software developer of IBM Enterprise "Z" TMON-MVS/CICS by Landmark Systems, and a developer MICS by Morino Associates. He also developed IBM SystemsView products for Candle Corporation and Infrawise Inc. in the 1980’s. He served as an automation manager at GE Capital and Exxon. Currently, John is the CEO of his self-funded Zabovo corporation. John is known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog. He also has two podcast series on clouds called “Cloud Cafe” and “Cloud Droplets.” John is also the co-host of Redmonk’s “IT Management Guys” podcast series.
