Thomas Barlen

Thomas Barlen is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist for System i hardware in the IBM Systems and Technology Group Client Technology Center team based in Germany. He has held several technical positions in his 24 years with IBM, including an assignment to IBM's International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Rochester, Minn., center. He writes extensively, teaches IBM classes worldwide and is a frequent speaker at conferences on all areas of System i communications, security and single sign-on. Thomas can be reached at barlen@de.ibm.com.