Harvey Watts

Technical leadership for a global BPO and professional services provider, engaged for architecture governance and to build lasting capability in the delivery teams. - Worked with the offshore Scrum Masters to strengthen delivery practice and working relationships across a distributed team. Sprint reviews, demos and mid-sprint validation of requirements. - Led knowledge transfer on AWS, DevOps practice and modern architectural patterns, through coaching, code review workshops and architecture design.

Consulting for several large multinationals (banking, utility, consumer) helping them perform vendor selection processes (RFI/RFP) drawing on my broad IT experience including Cloud, for example private cloud and workload migration. Running workshops to assure application owners and legal that AWS would meet and sometimes exceed their requirements. Developing architecture on AWS to support the business.

Solutions Architect for the business transformation programme.

MS Exchange email migration to SaaS - Work with stakeholders to find current email likes & dislikes. - Investigate possible solutions & vendors. - Key team member in procurement process; scoring, testing & due diligence. - Plan migration of all users and data to Google Apps for business (Gmail). - Manage from a technical viewpoint the Google Apps migration vendor. - Assist some users with the change. Physical Datacentre & WAN migration to IaaS - Create architectural artefacts showing as-is landsca