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 (Certified Scrum master and practitioner) 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
implementation 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.

Matt in on the Steering committee for the NY APLN (http://www.aplnnyc.org/)

Follow me at: http://twitter.com/mattganis 

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