1. TPF Certification Task Force Spring 2001 TPF User’s Group Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada Barbara Malloy (Sabre)

2. Who Benefits from Certification? 4 TPF Technicians 4 TPF Technicians, who would seek to be certified, by providing formal recognition of specialized skills and abilities, opportunities for career advancement, improved portability of marketable skills, new educational options, and enhanced compensation advantages. 4 TPF Employers 4 TPF Employers, who could set formal criteria for identifying key technical employees and skills, better evaluate the effectiveness of training providers, and have measurable criteria for identifying and hiring qualified employees and contractors. 4 TPF Educators 4 TPF Educators who would be providing training in support of TPF Certification.

3. Task Force Goals 4 To determine specific disciplines for technical certification in TPF. (i.e. applications, systems, performance, communications, etc.) 4 To determine levels of expertise for certification (programmer, engineer, architect, fellow, etc.) 4 To review existing classes and create syllabi that will aid TPF professionals in choosing training classes that will be valuable in gaining certification. 4 To recommend new classes to the TPF training community that will help students gain certification. 4 To recommend the order in which the IBM should create the certification tests.

4. Task Force Resources 4 TPFUG Web page which currently contains: TPFUG Web page –“TPF Training Available from IBM and Vendors” prepared by Amir Rakha (IBM) –“Go to the Head of the Class” by Alan Sadowsky, TPF Today –“Discussion of What and Why of Certification” by Harvey Showyin, Amdahl 4 TPF Certification Mailing list:Mailing list: –To subscribe send an email note to listserv@tpfug.orglistserv@tpfug.org –In the body of the email message, place the following line: –subscribe certification youraddr@yourdomain.com where: youraddr@... is your fully qualified internet mail address

5. What Next? 4 Open discussion to address known issues and bring up new issues, including: –Standard measurement of qualifications. –Areas of specialization and certification. –How and where would testing be done? At the TPFUG? At key IBM locations? At key TPF customer locations? 4 Looking for volunteers to form and lead sub-teams (broken up into TPF discipline) to address the individual TPF disciplines for certification and determine the syllabi for certification and report back to the Task Force.

6. Task Force Chairs Barbara Malloy (Sabre) barbara.malloy@sabre.com Betty Steele (EDS) betty.steele@eds.com