Meet the zEnterprise Experts
Michael Baskey - Chief Architect, Management Standards
Jennifer Bucher-Brown - System z Business Development & Emerging Technology
Michael Dickson - IBM Systems z, Midrange Hardware Offering Manager
Paul DiMarzio - Application/Workload Strategist, System z Brand
Richard Eng - IBM Software Group, Manager Technical Strategy
Willie Favero - Sr Certified IT Specialist, DB2 for z/OS
Jeffrey Frey - IBM Fellow, System z Architecture and Design
David Kang - Executive Project Manager, IBM Software Group Strategy & Technology
Martin Packer - Mainframe Performance Principal - Worldwide Banking Center Of Excellence
Frank Wisnewski - System z Product Development Team Lead
IBM System z on YouTube
Subscribe and watch System z videos on YouTube (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Blogs and forums
- Destination z
- Mainframe performance
- Growing up z
- Common Sense
- Destination z discussion forum
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS discussion forum
Blogs and forums outside IBM
- Mainframe (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- IT Toolbox - DB2 on z/OS (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- IBM Mainframe Forum (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- IBM Mainframe Forum for Beginners & Students (link resides outside of ibm.com)
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David Kang
Executive Project Manager, IBM Software Group Strategy & Technology
David Kang is an Executive Project Manager for the IBM Software Group and has responsibility for the overall software strategy on System z including the new zEnterprise. David has been with IBM for 10 years holding various positions in IBM hardware and software. *
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Michael Dickson
IBM Systems z, Midrange Hardware Offering Manager
Michael Dickson is a member of the System z brand team and focuses on mid-range servers. Mike has been with IBM for over 11 years holding various other positions related to the mainframe. *
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Jeffrey Frey
IBM Fellow, System z Architecture and Design
Jeff has been with IBM for 27 years and is currently a lead architect for the zEnterprise system and the URM platform management function. *
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Jennifer Bucher-Brown
System z Business Development & Emerging Technology
Jenna Bucher-Brown is a market manager on the WW System z team responsible for development and early adoption of new technology such as zEnterprise. Jenna has been with IBM for 25 years holding positions in Sales, Global Services and Global Marketing, predominantly working with customers *
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Frank Wisnewski
IBM Systems and Technology Group, System z Product Development Team Lead
Frank is Product Development Team Lead for the z114 and z196 and has had various technical and management positions in both product development and manufacturing with IBM for 27 years. *
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Michael Baskey
Chief Architect, Management Standards
Mike Baskey is the lead technologist for SWG defining the Service Management strategy for zEnterprise. He’s been working in system Z for over 31 years and is responsible for IBM’s cloud standards strategy. *
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Paul DiMarzio
Application/Workload Strategist, System z Brand
Paul DiMarzio has responsibility for the System z brand technical strategy with respect to emerging applications and support for heterogeneous workloads. He has 25 years experience in IBM, most of it with System z operating systems and middleware. *
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Richard Eng
IBM Software Group, Manager Technical Strategy
Richard is the Manager of the SWG Technical Strategy Team and has had various management and sales positions with IBM for 26 years. *
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Martin Packer
Mainframe Performance Principal - Worldwide Banking Center Of Excellence
Martin is a well-known Performance guy, with over 25 years of experience helping customers manage their systems. He has also been involved in the development of performance analysis tools which are widely used inside IBM - for its Performance Consulting practice. Martin also takes a keen interest in modern computing technologies in general, and how they can be used in the z/OS mainframe environment in particular. *
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Willie Favero
Sr Certified IT Specialist, DB2 for z/OS
Willie Favero is currently a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist working with the Data Warehouse for System z Swat Team at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab. *
Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z
This blog is for the open exchange of ideas relating to deploying workloads on DB2 for z/OS
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