Stream: Open Mainframe Project
Time: 12:15 - 13:00
This talk discusses the challenges and successes of leading an open source project such as the Open Mainframe Project. What would we like our leadership to do? How would we like them to see the world differently?
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Donna has more than 30 years of financial service, technology, marketing, and executive management experience spanning the asset management, software development, consulting, and non-profit industries. Prior to joining Phoenix Software as their Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Business Development, she served as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for SHARE Association, the first and largest independent technology association user group. Prior to joining SHARE, she served in various leadership positions where she provided a wide‐range of strategic, technology, operational, and marketing guidance and support. Donna has been involved with the Open Mainframe Project since she was the Executive Director for SHARE Association and has continued during her tenure at Phoenix Software. She has been a member of the OMP Marketing Committee since 2019 and currently serves as the Chair of that committee.
Louisa’s an experienced professional within IBM with 10 years’ spanning diverse roles across consulting, software development and acquisitions. In addition, Louisa has just finished a Degree Apprenticeship to support her role in business leadership. Louisa is the chairperson of the open-source project Galasa within the Linux Foundation which included taking this project to adoption, in addition, she’s also a product management role overseeing a portfolio within IBM Z.
Elliot is a Product Manager at the Broadcom Mainframe R&D Centre in Prague focused on modernizing the way we work with the mainframe. Over the years, Elliot has been heavily invested in improving the maintenance experience for z/OS software. More recently, Elliot has been a key contributor to the Linux Foundation Zowe open source software framework. Zowe provides solutions that allow development and operations teams to securely, manage, control, script and develop on the Mainframe like any other cloud platform and is the first open source project based on z/OS.
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