Dr. Gili Mendel is a senior technical lead and a manager of the Rational Visual Editor project at the IBM Raleigh Lab. Gili's team is responsible for Rational's rich client development tooling and has committer responsibilities on the Visual Editor Eclipse open source project. Gili has spent the last 11 years at IBM leading various system and application projects. In the last three years, Gili has focused on rich-client tooling technologies.