Key People
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer is one of the owners and managing directors of IntelliMagic. He holds a Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology. He has over 20 years of experience in I/O performance analysis, and has numerous publications on this topic, including the book "MVS I/O Subsystems" that he wrote with Pat Artis. Gilbert is a frequent speaker at industry events such as CMG. Prior to founding IntelliMagic, Gilbert was CEO and co-founder of Consul, an enterprise security software company.
Els Das
Els Das is the other owner and managing director of the company. She holds a Master's degree in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked in the IT business for over 10 years, specializing in Storage Performance since 1999. Prior to founding IntelliMagic, she was the development manager of the performance software at Consul.
Brent Phillips
Brent Phillips is responsible for the IntelliMagic business in the Americas. Prior to IntelliMagic, he co-founded Entact Information Security Corp. in 1999 and sold it to ASG Software Solutions in 2002. Brent has also served as the President of Consul's US operations, and has spent 8 years in a key management role at Teubner & Associates (acquired by Esker Software). He earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University.
Frans Mulderij
Frans Mulderij is EMEA Sales Manager and responsible for the IntelliMagic customer contacts in the Benelux and for the IntelliMagic partners in Europe, Middle-East, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to IntelliMagic he worked as Account Manager and Sales Manager for various companies in the Software, IBM Mainframe Hardware and Services environment.
John Ticic
John Ticic joined IntelliMagic as a consultant in 2008. He started as mainframe systems programmer in 1984 and maintained, tuned, and upgraded a large number of MVS-based systems. John has extensive experience in planning and implementing large XRC and GDPS/PPRC installations. Furthermore he developed many STK/SUN VSM performance analysis tools.
John Baker
John Baker joined IntelliMagic as a consultant in 2007. Previously, John worked for 10 years on the mainframe performance team of a large bank where he was instrumental in a variety of strategic performance projects such as implementing WLM Goal Mode, GDPS/Data Mirroring, and merging acquired workloads.
Brett Allison
Brett Allison is a senior consultant with IntelliMagic focusing on storage performance management for distributed systems environments. Prior to joining IntelliMagic he spent 12 years in IBM Global services where he architected and implemented storage performance management and capacity planning tools and services for outsourced customers. In addition to storage systems, he has extensive performance analysis experience in SAN fabric, operating systems such as AIX, Windows, Solaris, and Linux and application environments including J2EE. He co-authored ‘DS8000 Performance Monitoring and Tuning' and has spoken numerous times at conferences including CMG and the IBM Storage Symposium.
