Antonio Couto

Throughout +25 years as an IBM Mainframe Solutions Expert, I was responsible for assessing, presenting, designing, developing technical proposals, and installing solutions on DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, VTAM running on z/OS, z/VM and VSE environments. Besides system programmer experience, I was also an application developer. Combining the mainframe, and +12 years of distributed/cloud environments expertise, with a well-developed communication and leadership skills, I’ve properly articulated value propositions that enabled customer’s mainframe modernization initiatives, business readiness and IT transformation for the Digital Economy. As an IT Consultant, acting as trusted advisor, I have spoken at many recognized IT conferences and channel partner events, written IT related articles and been interviewed by renowned magazines and newspapers.