She is currently co-lead of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee and member of several related DMTF Work Groups. Heather was the IBM representative to the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group, as well as co-lead of JSR109 that specifies Web services deployment in J2EE environments and a contributor to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. Heather is also the author of numerous articles on Web services and management in the IBM Systems Journal, Communications of ACM, Web Services Journal, and other public technical work including the “Web Services Conceptual Architecture,” “WS-Manageability,” and her book “Java and JMX, Building Manageable Systems.”