Stream: Virtual Room 6
Time: 15:30 - 16:30
This is a discussion among women who are veterans of the mainframe world, looking back and looking forward. The pannelists are ready and waiting to answer your questions on wokring in a mainframe world.
Resli Costabell is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and coach. She specializes in applying the art and science of psychology. Resli’s clients and assignments are wide-ranging; she has taught group dynamics to IBM, coaching to Procter & Gamble, and presentation skills to Disney. Resli has delivered GSE keynotes on topics such as Motivating & Influencing; Credibility, Confidence & Charisma; and Dealing With Difficult People. She works all over the world… basically, wherever they’ll pay her to go. Resli loves working with mainframers. Truly. She loves their values, their quirky humour, their intelligence, and their enduring appreciation of Dilbert and Monty Python.
Mary has been involved with mainframe since 1987. She worked in the Storage and MVS arena for a number of years before taking up a role in Customer Relationship Management promoting ITIL as the standardised enterprise IT delivery framework. In 2004, Mary took time out to focus on family. She returned to the IT industry in 2017 and now works in Mainframe IT Security Services at Allied Irish Banks
Michelle’s career in IT started with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics before Computer Science became a faculty in its own right in many universities. She has spent over 30 years working in IT – not just on IBM mainframes but also on Windows and variants of UNIX. Michelle currently managing teams worldwide within UNICOM.
I’ve worked on the IBM Mainframe since 1985, starting as a trainee programmer after spending a few years doing ‘odd jobs’. I’d left school with A levels, deciding against university as I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had actively chosen to avoid IT, I didn’t think it was for me, but fell into it by chance and have loved it ever since. The technical side of IT is my passion, there is always something new to learn and challenge myself with. My career has spanned nearly 4 decades, during which time I have successfully balanced a family life and career. I regard myself as a successful woman in IT. Here are a few things that helped me succeed • I would always count myself as an equal in a team, not a woman amongst men • I worked out what success looked like for me, what I was aiming for and then worked toward it • I thought outside the box, was proactive in finding the solution to some of the barriers that existed, especially when juggling career and family • Be the best, research things and be sure of your ground • Its OK to say no, but be clear why you are saying no • You may think that everyone knows more than you, but actually they probably don’t • Its OK to clarify things, you are probably asking the questions that others want to ask • Take notes and learn from them, refer back to them instead of asking the same thing over again My most valuable item in my career is a blue index book, I’ve used it for notes for the last 25 years, still add to it and still refer to it.
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Resli Costabell is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and coach. She specializes in applying the art and science of psychology. Resli’s clients and assignments are wide-ranging; she has taught group dynamics to IBM, coaching to Procter & Gamble, and presentation skills to Disney. Resli has delivered GSE keynotes on topics such as Motivating & Influencing; Credibility, Confidence & Charisma; and Dealing With Difficult People. She works all over the world… basically, wherever they’ll pay her to go. Resli loves working with mainframers. Truly. She loves their values, their quirky humour, their intelligence, and their enduring appreciation of Dilbert and Monty Python.
Mary has been involved with mainframe since 1987. She worked in the Storage and MVS arena for a number of years before taking up a role in Customer Relationship Management promoting ITIL as the standardised enterprise IT delivery framework. In 2004, Mary took time out to focus on family. She returned to the IT industry in 2017 and now works in Mainframe IT Security Services at Allied Irish Banks
Michelle’s career in IT started with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics before Computer Science became a faculty in its own right in many universities. She has spent over 30 years working in IT – not just on IBM mainframes but also on Windows and variants of UNIX. Michelle currently managing teams worldwide within UNICOM.
I’ve worked on the IBM Mainframe since 1985, starting as a trainee programmer after spending a few years doing ‘odd jobs’. I’d left school with A levels, deciding against university as I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had actively chosen to avoid IT, I didn’t think it was for me, but fell into it by chance and have loved it ever since. The technical side of IT is my passion, there is always something new to learn and challenge myself with. My career has spanned nearly 4 decades, during which time I have successfully balanced a family life and career. I regard myself as a successful woman in IT. Here are a few things that helped me succeed • I would always count myself as an equal in a team, not a woman amongst men • I worked out what success looked like for me, what I was aiming for and then worked toward it • I thought outside the box, was proactive in finding the solution to some of the barriers that existed, especially when juggling career and family • Be the best, research things and be sure of your ground • Its OK to say no, but be clear why you are saying no • You may think that everyone knows more than you, but actually they probably don’t • Its OK to clarify things, you are probably asking the questions that others want to ask • Take notes and learn from them, refer back to them instead of asking the same thing over again My most valuable item in my career is a blue index book, I’ve used it for notes for the last 25 years, still add to it and still refer to it.
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Resli Costabell is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and coach. She specializes in applying the art and science of psychology. Resli’s clients and assignments are wide-ranging; she has taught group dynamics to IBM, coaching to Procter & Gamble, and presentation skills to Disney. Resli has delivered GSE keynotes on topics such as Motivating & Influencing; Credibility, Confidence & Charisma; and Dealing With Difficult People. She works all over the world… basically, wherever they’ll pay her to go. Resli loves working with mainframers. Truly. She loves their values, their quirky humour, their intelligence, and their enduring appreciation of Dilbert and Monty Python.
Mary has been involved with mainframe since 1987. She worked in the Storage and MVS arena for a number of years before taking up a role in Customer Relationship Management promoting ITIL as the standardised enterprise IT delivery framework. In 2004, Mary took time out to focus on family. She returned to the IT industry in 2017 and now works in Mainframe IT Security Services at Allied Irish Banks
Michelle’s career in IT started with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics before Computer Science became a faculty in its own right in many universities. She has spent over 30 years working in IT – not just on IBM mainframes but also on Windows and variants of UNIX. Michelle currently managing teams worldwide within UNICOM.
I’ve worked on the IBM Mainframe since 1985, starting as a trainee programmer after spending a few years doing ‘odd jobs’. I’d left school with A levels, deciding against university as I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had actively chosen to avoid IT, I didn’t think it was for me, but fell into it by chance and have loved it ever since. The technical side of IT is my passion, there is always something new to learn and challenge myself with. My career has spanned nearly 4 decades, during which time I have successfully balanced a family life and career. I regard myself as a successful woman in IT. Here are a few things that helped me succeed • I would always count myself as an equal in a team, not a woman amongst men • I worked out what success looked like for me, what I was aiming for and then worked toward it • I thought outside the box, was proactive in finding the solution to some of the barriers that existed, especially when juggling career and family • Be the best, research things and be sure of your ground • Its OK to say no, but be clear why you are saying no • You may think that everyone knows more than you, but actually they probably don’t • Its OK to clarify things, you are probably asking the questions that others want to ask • Take notes and learn from them, refer back to them instead of asking the same thing over again My most valuable item in my career is a blue index book, I’ve used it for notes for the last 25 years, still add to it and still refer to it.
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Resli Costabell is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and coach. She specializes in applying the art and science of psychology. Resli’s clients and assignments are wide-ranging; she has taught group dynamics to IBM, coaching to Procter & Gamble, and presentation skills to Disney. Resli has delivered GSE keynotes on topics such as Motivating & Influencing; Credibility, Confidence & Charisma; and Dealing With Difficult People. She works all over the world… basically, wherever they’ll pay her to go. Resli loves working with mainframers. Truly. She loves their values, their quirky humour, their intelligence, and their enduring appreciation of Dilbert and Monty Python.
Mary has been involved with mainframe since 1987. She worked in the Storage and MVS arena for a number of years before taking up a role in Customer Relationship Management promoting ITIL as the standardised enterprise IT delivery framework. In 2004, Mary took time out to focus on family. She returned to the IT industry in 2017 and now works in Mainframe IT Security Services at Allied Irish Banks
Michelle’s career in IT started with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics before Computer Science became a faculty in its own right in many universities. She has spent over 30 years working in IT – not just on IBM mainframes but also on Windows and variants of UNIX. Michelle currently managing teams worldwide within UNICOM.
I’ve worked on the IBM Mainframe since 1985, starting as a trainee programmer after spending a few years doing ‘odd jobs’. I’d left school with A levels, deciding against university as I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had actively chosen to avoid IT, I didn’t think it was for me, but fell into it by chance and have loved it ever since. The technical side of IT is my passion, there is always something new to learn and challenge myself with. My career has spanned nearly 4 decades, during which time I have successfully balanced a family life and career. I regard myself as a successful woman in IT. Here are a few things that helped me succeed • I would always count myself as an equal in a team, not a woman amongst men • I worked out what success looked like for me, what I was aiming for and then worked toward it • I thought outside the box, was proactive in finding the solution to some of the barriers that existed, especially when juggling career and family • Be the best, research things and be sure of your ground • Its OK to say no, but be clear why you are saying no • You may think that everyone knows more than you, but actually they probably don’t • Its OK to clarify things, you are probably asking the questions that others want to ask • Take notes and learn from them, refer back to them instead of asking the same thing over again My most valuable item in my career is a blue index book, I’ve used it for notes for the last 25 years, still add to it and still refer to it.
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