Jay Palat is a Consulting IT Specialist for IBM as a member of IBM Software Services WebSphere for IBM, servicing the IBM Global Account. Jay has been a lead architect and developer for IBM internal projects, as well as for external clients and business partners, developing solutions for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal. He has an active interest in Web 2.0 technolgies, open source, and virtualization. He has a Masters of Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in CS from University of Pittsburgh.