Monte Bauman

About Monte Bauman

Monte Bauman helps client\'s design and deploy risk mitigated operationally excellent super-hyper-converged server solutions using LinuxONE branded technologies provided by IBM and by the LinuxONE partner ecosystem.

Experience

1. Z System Technical Support - Certified IT Specialist

   IBM

   Jul 1983 — Present

   Monte Bauman, Certified IT Specialist and z Systems Technical Support Professional, began a career in IT in 1983 hiring into the IBM Glendale Lab where he assisted a development team to build and test mid-range mainframe servers (4300s, 9370s, 9221s). Monte was given a Division Award for work on STX/370, a diagnostic operating system. Monte Bauman became a Large Systems Systems Engineer (SE) in January of 1991 in Columbus Ohio working with enterprise clients specializing in 9021 systems support, enterprise printing support (3800/3900), and MVS support. In the mid 90\'s Monte Bauman became a mainframe seller for a time, before returning in late 90\'s to the role of a regionally designated specialist large systems SE. Monte Bauman became a \"new workloads\" specialist at the turn of the century, technically supporting customers as they embarked upon emerging technologies on the mainframe, such as Java and Business Intelligence and Linux. The past several years Monte Bauman has been focused on LinuxONE and Fit for Purpose analysis, helping customers understand the fit of z Systems Linux solutions as well as the processes appropriate to repeatedly and effectively map software to hardware meeting IT optimization criteria for requirements and cost.

Education

• The Ohio State University BSEE

  Electrical Engineering

  1979 — 1983