Marc I. Smith
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Marc I. Smith is a mainframe educational programs consultant with ProTech Training. He spent 28 of 33 years at IBM as a member of the IBM mainframe community. He began his mainframe career working with VM/HPO and VM/ESA development before moving on to planning and managing VM Early Support Programs (ESPs), marketing z/VSE and z/VM until moving into marketing and channel enablement positions within the IBM zSystems hardware family. Marc was a Z Academic Initiative University Ambassador in Texas, working to recruit colleges into the program and started bringing students to SHARE and other IBM conferences to see the mainframe and meet people who work on/around the mainframe. He is also one of the IBM team members who brought Destination z into existence and managed the online community until his retirement from IBM in 2012. He was announced as an IBM Z Champion for 2018 and has been an active member of the IBM Champion program ever since.
The VM Workshop Celebrates VM’s 50th Anniversary
October 17, 2022
This year’s VM Workshop was special in several ways. First, this is the first face-to-face workshop since the world went virtual due to COVID-19 in 2020. And second, we were able to celebrate VM’s 50th anniversary in Binghamton, New York—the home of IBM’s VM development team, and where I had the pleasure of working with […]
ArticlesBringing New Talent to the Mainframe Workforce
January 2, 2020
IBM Z Champion Marc I. Smith on how to engage next-generation mainframers