Bentze Perlmutter has 15 years of IT experience, working in various companies and holding positions in operations, QA, technical support, engineering, systems management, and production control.

His main area of expertise is batch and workload automation using tools such as Control-M and AutoSys. He has worked on complex projects requiring evaluation of solutions, design and planning, implementation, administration, and on-going support within large organizations, mainly in the financial industry.

Robert Stinnett has worked with automation systems on various platforms from mainframe to distributed since 1992. He has been using Control-M since 2003 when he was the lead for bringing it to CARFAX, the leading provider and pioneer of vehicle history reports, where he has worked for the past 10 years.

Robert is active in many Control-M communities, has given presentations at various conferences on the capabilities and cost-benefits of using an automated workload management platform, and has written a number of open-source utilities to help take advantage of and extend Control-M's capabilities on the distributed side.

One of the next big things he sees for automation systems is their integration with Cloud. He is currently working on projects that explore how Cloud can be used for providing capacity on demand as well as providing redundancy and scalability to existing automation and scheduling implementations.

Robert is also an active member of the Computer Measurement Group where he sees the role of automation in IT as one of the major reasons to have a sound performance and capacity management program in place to help manage the continuing technological evolution taking place in businesses.

He can be reached at <[email protected]>.