20 Little Things That You Can Do to Become an Experienced Successful Mainframe System Programmer Sooner Than You Think

Project and Program: Enterprise-wide, zNextGen Project

Tags: Proceedings, 2019, SHARE Pittsburgh 2019

Being the new system programmer in the team can be intimidating. How can one get up to speed of years of Mainframe knowledge and skills in the least amount of time as possible?

There are several methods that each experienced system programmer uses to be successful at their job role, many of these methods can help you become an experienced system programmer sooner.

Attend this session if would like to hear some of these methods that could help you reach success in your system programmer journey sooner. It is not about the years, but about how you spend those years and what and how you do things. You will be surprised to find out the small things you can do that can make a big difference in the way your increase your knowledge and experience.


(About the speaker: Meral is z/OS and mainframe storage team manager in one of the biggest banks in Turkey. The speaker has taught mainframe lessons in universities for 4 years. With more than 23 years of experience in the mainframe platform as z/OS system programmer, performance expert, team leader, she has built her team of young system programmers with whom she shared her experiences and learning methods. Now, she likes to share her teaching and learning methods with you.)-Meral Temel-ISBANK

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