Stream: AppDev
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Mainframe modernization is about optimizing its use for what it is best at.
In this session, we will focus on how modernization can reduce the cost of mainframe usage and increase productivity of mainframe development teams which leads to improved business outcomes.
We will focus on specific strategies to accomplish this and what tools can help us during this process.
Started adult life studying a hardcore IT University trail and graduated in Business Information Systems. During my studies worked freelance in a variety of IT jobs ranging from BIOS programmer, IBM PC developer and trainer, mixing these short term contracts with worldwide travelling. After a few short stints as travel guide in Vietnam and scuba-dive guide on the Maldives, I finally settled down on the platform that we talk about today IBM mainframe (3090 at the time). Performed in many different roles for major companies like DOW Chemical, ABN-AMRO, ING, Telstra, SHELL and a host of government departments in the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Australia, Saudi Arabia and the USA; mainly Finance, Mobility and Logistics. Being Dutch therefore not afraid to learn new languages, I have extended that vocabulary with computer versions like FOCUS, IEF (aka CoolGen, CA Gen) and all the usual IBM/Z platform languages and tools. The last 10 years in the USA I have become a master of IBM-Z application development, coaching development teams on programming techniques and SQL/DB2. Advocating a more modern approach of development on the mainframe. Ultimately being one of the people trying to push the envelope in true DevOps on the mainframe. I now work for a company that enables me to show the world how that can be achieved!
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