Darren Surch
IBM Professional Certificates: IBM Skills Benchmarks for Mainframe Security Administrators
IBM has released 2 new IBM Professional Certificates to benchmark the skills required by early tenure mainframe security professionals. IBM has collaborated with Interskill Learning to provide the two comprehensive learning paths of online mainframe security courses, videos, assessments, and exams that teach the foundation level and intermediate level skills required by this key mainframe […]
IBM Professional Certificates: IBM Skills Benchmarks for the Mainframe Industry’s most Pivotal Job-Roles.
IBM’s skill benchmarking IBM Professional Certificates for new-hire and early-career mainframe Application Programmers, Systems Programmers and Systems Operators, now serve as mainframe career milestones, recognizing foundational, intermediate, and advanced mainframe skills! IBM has collaborated with Interskill Learning to provide comprehensive learning paths of on-demand mainframe courses, videos, assessments, and exams for each mainframe role. New-hire […]
IBM Releases 16 New IBM Digital Badges for z/OS Mainframe
IBM has released 16 new mainframe focused IBM digital badges mapped to IBM Training Partner Interskill Learning’s release of new and updated z/OS elearning courses. They form part of Interskill’s online resource of over 300 mainframe courses, simulations, videos, assessments, and labs, all benchmarked by over 130 IBM Skills Badges and Professional Certificates. For more […]
134,000 reasons that Mainframe Skills are Flourishing!
In 2016, in a landmark collaboration with Interskill Learning, IBM awarded an IBM digital skills badge to a mainframer for completing an online curriculum of mainframe skills training. Little did anyone know the impact this beginning would have on global mainframe workforce skills. Today, after 7 years, IBM has just awarded its 134,000th IBM digital […]
Landmark Collaboration between IBM and Interskill Learning creates IBM Professional Certificates for IBM Z.
A landmark collaboration between IBM and IBM Business Partner and IBM Digital Badge Program member Interskill Learning, has brought the future of digital credentialing to the IBM Z mainframe computing industry. Just released, the new IBM Professional Certificates are rigorous and sophisticated, IBM digital credentials featuring a stackable badge credential methodology and trackable, verifiable, analyzable […]
Interskill wins 2nd Training Industry Award for 2021!
IBM Business Partner and IBM Digital Badge Program member Interskill Learning has received a second 2021 award from Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning. Interskill is now on both the prestigious Training Industry ‘2021 Top IT Training Companies‘ Watch List, and on the Training Industry ‘2021 Top Online Learning Library […]
Getting to know Interskill
Background My name is Darren Surch, COO of Interskill Learning, Americas. A proud mainframer for a quarter century, I have helped design and implement mainframe workforce training programs for Z mainframe organizations on every continent except Antarctica! (Penguins don’t make good COBOL Programmers apparently.) And one more thing that’s just so seismic I have to […]