Stream: Suzuka
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Title:
What do new mainframers need to know about performance management? Everyone talks about it; everyone is doing it – or are they?
Abstract:
Whether you are checking your bank account, ordering your grocery or booking your holiday, if your transaction takes a long time, it’s so easy to move to a competitor’s offering. Losing a customer is very easy. Winning them back is a costly affair. This session will discuss the critical nature of performance management in a mainframe world, why ALL organisations need to stay on top of it, and how you can build a rewarding career in performance management. Be ready to be blown away with how we can harness technology and know-how to help save your company costs, drive better throughput, and deliver exceptional customer experience.
Understanding key concepts will help you have better conversations and open doors to career success. After attending, you will be able to …
Underpinning our conversation will be real-world case studies based on personal experience.
Presenters:
Kim Mortensen: Performance Practice Lead | Kim has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Starting as a mainframe Cobol developer, through to becoming a DB2 Systems Programmer. He has been directly involved in helping organisations address performance challenges for many years and has many war stories to share. kim_mortensen@bmc.com
Gabriel Guth-Kaltschmied: Technical Solutions Consultant for z/OS Performance | Gabriel has been working in IT for almost 25 years. He has worked as an IT Project Lead, Mainframe Performance Manager, and Mainframe Test Datacenter Manager. He brings great perspective to the world of performance. gabriel_guthkaltschmied@bmc.com
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Kim Mortensen is a BMC Solution Engineer with focus on Performance - currently being the practice lead of the BMC Compuware performance Team in EMEA Kim has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Starting as a mainframe Cobol developer back in the mid 80’, moving on to the booming Business Intelligence market of the 90’ and getting back into z/OS and System programming working with Db2 for z/OS. Kim is now working with major companies around the world focusing on Performance and cost reduction
I am a BMC Solution Engineer with focus on Performance. I joined Compuware May 2020 coming from the second largest swiss bank. I have more than 20 years experience in IT and all the time on the Mainframe. I started my IT career in the Airline Industry as a junior System Controler. During 7 years i could grow up to a shiftleader. Changing to the banking business but still in IT and the Mainframe aera, I continued to grow. First in batch controlling, then changing from operation to application development. After 2 years of PL/1 development I came back to the infrastructure side as Test System Manager. Finaly I ended up as performance manager driving the production systems to the business peaks and responsible for WLM as well. I ike to dig into SMF Records and look for tuning potential on customers Data.
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