IBM Champions

Meet these 5 IBM Champions

Christoph Cuscoleca

 @Christoph Cuscoleca has been working with IBM i (and its predecessors) since 1994, and teaches IBM i in schools and Universities in Austria. Beside that he is doing technical and business consulting in Europe and east Asia. He is active in COMMON Austria and on the board of COMMON Europe. He is relentless in bringing both visibility and knowledge about the IBM i to students and professionals. LinkedIn

Dmitry Mironov

Dmitry Mironov is an AIX and IBM Power Systems expert. He is a co-founder of the AIXPortal, a Russian-speaking Power Systems community, and is active in COMMON.
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Robert Hansel

Robert Hansel is an expert on IBM Z security. He has recently spoken at SHARE and created a blog article based on the session. He has more than 30 years of experience in mainframes.
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Mark Fry

Mark Fry is a data and analytics expert, with a specialty in Cognos. He is active in answering questions at the Cognoise community. Check a recent article on the life and times of the traditional analytics power user.
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Saghi Amirsoleymani

Saghi Amirsoleymani is a vice president at Rocket Software, expert on Db2, and advocate for women in technology. You can read her recent article at the Open Mainframe project on Women in Technology Continue to Grow in Numbers and Contribution.
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Other IBM Champion activities of note

• Are you following the track of the Mayflower Autonomous Ship? It departed from the Isles of Scilly June 16 and is on its way! A number of IBM Champions are involved in this project - well worth watching and learning about, from automation to IoT to Edge computing. Discover more with the Uncharted docuseries: https://ibm.co/2TAH6FA
• Craig Kokay answers a question about SR vs Work Order priorities in Maximo in this article.
• Application modernization is all-important. Learn more in this iChime segment with Charlie Guarino and Paul Tuohy.
• Salome Valero has a passionate, funny, and very interesting conversation with Chema Castillo Amo at IBM Technology Virtual Summit/CodeZone. Watch recording: https://lnkd.in/dsWW9x7
• Ever had a love-hate relationship with drive-through orders? See what @Prasenjit Pusty thinks about them in Welcome to your talking & thinking drive-thru.
• Want to learn more about Watson Discovery? If you missed the session at the Data & AI conference, you can still review the deck from @Kohei Nishikawa's presentation. (Japanese)
• Many of the IBM Champions were involved in running and speaking at IDUG's spring event. For example, Michael Krafick presented the IDUG NA 2021 Session: "Unstoppable Force vs. Immovable Object: DevOps and the DBA” (20+ other IBM Champion IDUG speakers)
• @Ezriel Gross hosted a meetup for MainframerZ together with Nick Garrod from IBM on nightmare stories from the Mainframe!
• @Michael Tiefenbacher  supported the CP4D Innovation Jam
• @Andy Youens created a How-to video ... How to use Shells on IBM i
• @Bartosz Chrabski published an article about challenges in building complex products and how things can be simplified with IBM Engineering solutions
• Gregor Frimodt-Møller did an interview with IBM Nordics about Think 2021
• Reg Harbeck published When Mainframe Modernization Is Actually an Improvement: Building on Success article on TechChannel.com.

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