Summary
Dean Harrison is a seasoned lead consultant with over 30 years of deep expertise in workload automation and batch processing across z/OS mainframes and Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms. A developer and analyst at heart, he is a long-time REXX practitioner and the creator of the Workload Automation Programming Language for z/OS, released in IBM Workload Scheduler 9.3. He spent over a decade at IBM as a workload automation specialist and now advises clients at HCL Technologies, bringing both hands-on engineering and operational leadership. Known for bridging legacy mainframe reliability with modern cross-platform automation, he also has practical international management experience running EMEA teams. Based in Dundalk, UK, he combines deep technical craft with a rare longevity in an often-changing tooling landscape.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer