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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

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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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