Jackie Farrell has been a software engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation since 1986 and is currently a principal software engineer. She currently leads development of the DCE products for Digital UNIX. Jackie has a B.S. in applied math from the University of Vermont (1986), and studied distributed computing at Cornell University (MEng degree, 1993). Her previous projects at Digital include RT-11, DECtrade, and DCE CDS development. Jackie is happily married to Bernard Farrell, also a software warrior as well as the father of three amazing children, Eleanor, Lee, and Hayley. Jackie and Bernard are soon to be parents of baby Mingzhu, who waits patiently for them in Yunnan Province, China.