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Greg Flurry is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM® Software Group's Enterprise Integration. Greg frequently travels to customers to help them define and implement service oriented solutions. His main focus is on WebSphere® Version 6 Platform Messaging technologies and the application of those technologies to customer solutions. As a prolific author, he has written about 50 articles in his career.
Greg started with IBM in Lexington, Kentucky, after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a BSEE degree. His first assignment was technology studies into the behavior of ink droplets used in the ink jet printers of that period. In 1980, Greg took an assignment in IBM Research to help bridge the gap that existed at that time between Research and the IBM development community. At Research, Greg dabbled with powerful (for 1980-1982) individual workstations, investigating alternate forms of human-computer interaction such as touch screens, tablets, wireless mice, voice recognition, and experimented with what today is called instant messaging. That work led to an assignment in Austin to develop IBM's own workstation, which eventually became the P-Series. With interruptions for periods of working on IBM Fellow projects, Greg filled roles in development and architecture for AIX® virtual terminals, graphics, multimedia and Java™. It was during this period that Greg started authoring articles for both internal and external publications. In 2000 Greg moved to IBM Software Group (SWG), taking a position in Emerging Technologies, where he led the teams that developed IBM's first private UDDI registry, an early version of the Web Services Gateway called the Web Services Bus, and added some significant, customer-driven enhancements to the Web Services Gateway.
In 2004, Greg joined SWG Enterprise Integration Solutions as a Design Center lead.
As part of that role, Greg helps customers define and implement solutions using IBM's
service oriented products. An important aspect of the role is identifying gaps in those
products, finding or creating technology to fill those gaps, and moving the technology into
IBM products. Another important aspect is identifying patterns of use and normalizing and
formalizing the patterns so they can be used with other customers.
Greg lives in Austin, Texas. His hobbies include volleyball, hiking, fishing, and especially
SCUBA diving.
Greg has published over 50 articles, dating back to 1998.
Selected articles are shown below.
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