BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Independent Consultant

Reginald Garner is currently a Media Matrix Engineer/Livestream Operator at the Christian Cultural Center. His in-depth knowledge of livestreaming platforms and technologies; such as YouTube Live and Facebook Live has led him to managing and supporting livestreaming events and digital content for this mega establishment.

In addition, he has over 35 years of mainframe IT experience. Previously, Reggie worked for HCL Lab Services as a Group Manager.  He was responsible for providing his clients with z/Workload Scheduling technical support and training. Reggie has deep institutional knowledge and is experienced on the z/Workload Scheduler. As part of this knowledge, he worked closely with clients and peers in educating them through formal presentations.  In Reggie’s spare time, he enjoys riding his bike, gardening, and spending quality time with his family.

The Home Depot

Russ Biringer is a staff software engineer at The Home Depot.  Russ has over 30 years of experience driving innovation and excellence in IT operations.  Russ began his career in IT as a UNIX administrator at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and has been employed by The Home Depot since 1998.  Russ leads a team of Dev/Ops engineers that work to improve the performance, resilience, and efficiency of critical software infrastructure components.  Russ has been working with Workload Automation for 18 years, first as a user, and more recently as the lead Workload Automation administrator.  Russ is married and is a father to 2 sons and 2 stepsons.  In his spare time, Russ enjoys hiking, photography, martial arts, and racing remote control cars competitively.

Voya Financial

Harry Hanlon is a software development consultant with Voya Financial.  Harry has over 30 plus years of IT experience.  His position requires him to work closely with Unix/Linux administrators, the network team, DBA’s, security administrators, application developers and groups implementing new/changed processes to provide efficient, automated processing.  Specifically, his responsibilities include implementation of new instances of IBM Workload Scheduler on servers, maintenance of existing servers, additions, deletions, and maintenance of the IBM Workload Scheduler environment for business needs, as well as disaster recovery planning, architecture and testing for the automation needs.  Running approximately 115,000 production jobs a day and 90,000 in non-production.  And introducing many types of advanced job types.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Suzanne Luckner is seasoned IT professional with over 15 years’ experience in technology services and project management. She is currently responsible for leading a team of Workload Scheduler for Z platform administrators supporting various areas of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. She advocates to always be your authentic self, even when it goes against the standards. In her free time she enjoys abstract painting, cooking new recipes, and taking care of her two young children.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kurt Wagner has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 15 years and was first introduced to Workload Automation over 12 years ago. He started as a scheduler, moved on to lead a team of schedulers, and is now also assisting in admin tasks. During this time, he has been providing automation strategies for the Student Information System at UW-Madison as well as the HR and Financial systems which are used for all 13 Universities of Wisconsin. In his personal time, he is an avid sports fan and still actively plays several sports, most of all soccer. He and his girlfriend love to travel, hike, and try new foods.

Discover Financial Services

Michael White began his journey with TWS 8.6 more than ten years ago. Since that time, he has consulted for a state revenue agency, a bio-tech firm, and the Federal government. He has invested his most recent 5 years at Discover Financial Services, where, among other key initiatives, has worked to successfully launch the 10.1 version for the company’s data warehouse division. If he finds himself with any spare time, he can likely be found either fixing something on his house, mowing his lawn or plowing his driveway, depending on the season.

SEB Financial Group

Daniel Jäghammar, from Sweden, was introduced to mainframe during his internship in the end of 2016 where batch scheduling caught his attention. After 3 years of batch scheduling, he then moved on to become a z/OS system programmer which he’s been doing since. When he’s not working, he keeps himself busy with different sports, the most fun for him is Football or as you say in America “Soccer” and then there is also golf which has grown on him recently.