Randy Baumgarte
IBM CIO Z Platform & Strategy Architect
Middletown, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRandy Baumgarte is an experienced mainframe architect and strategist with over 15 years in enterprise IT, currently shaping z/OS platform and CIO-level strategy at IBM. He brings deep hands-on expertise from long tenures at Western & Southern, Reed Elsevier, and GE, where he maintained and modernized z/OS and z/VM environments and led systems programming and architecture efforts. Randy blends operational rigor with strategic planning, translating complex mainframe requirements into reliable, auditable solutions for large financial and publishing organizations. He contributes to open-source tooling—improving cross-platform compatibility and GUI behavior in a Linux Evernote clone—demonstrating practical coding chops beyond purely architectural work. Based in Middletown, Ohio, he pairs a University of Dayton computer science foundation with a track record of stabilizing and evolving critical enterprise infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical leadership when migrating legacy workloads and defining platform roadmaps.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Dayton
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
qt10
debian-packaging8
pdf-processing5
html5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
baumgarr/nixnote2
Jul 2012 - Dec 2017
Nixnote - A clone of Evernote for Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1044 commits, 62 PRs, 326 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Randy primarily focused on modifying the application's codebase to improve its functionality and address specific issues within the note-taking application. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in adapting the program's behavior, such as adjusting the default notebook, altering the application's behavior, and resolving issues related to printing. Further, the user was responsible for modifying both the code and packaging scripts to address the need for compatibility with various operating systems. The user also contributed to the improvement of the GUI, including the display of content from attachments.
nixoslinuxevernote
yuki792/NeighborNote
Jul 2010 - May 2013
Contributions:433 commits in 2 years 10 months
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