Kurt Acker joined Direct Systems Support in Jan of 2022 while continuing to represent Sine Nomine Associates (SNA) as their Principal IT Architect in July of 2020. Before taking on these current responsibilities, Kurt worked as Marriott International's IT Architect for Mission Critical Systems for just over 4 years. With z/OS, z/VM, Linux and z/TPF being utilized on their mainframes, Marriott provided a nice transition from working as the New Workload Solution Architect East coast team lead at IBM. Before that in person customer facing role, Kurt worked for IBM in Endicott NY at the z/VM development lab.
Kurt graduated from Binghamton Universities Thomas J. Watson school of Engineering with a degree in Computer Engineering followed by an Executive MBA from Binghamton’s School of Management.
2022 started with the completion of Leveraging LinuxONE to maximize your data serving capabilities Redbook. During the pandemic, Kurt also helped bring back a virtual version of the Hill Gang Linux on z focused user group and spoke at various virtual events. 2019 accomplishments at Marriott include but were not limited to being part of a small team that won MongoDB’s Innovator of the Year Award for the work we did moving shopping traffic from z/TPF to Linux on IBM z Systems and Best Session Award from presenting our effort at SHARE in Phoenix AZ.