IEEE FWCS DevOps Meeting was a success!

The IEEE FWCS Computer Society and the Consultant’s Network hosted a meeting to discuss DevOps on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. This meeting was a panel session in which four technical professions shared their real-world experience with implementing DevOps in a variety of different production environments. The panel consisted of the following members:

James Gress: James is a DevOps leader with 25+ years of experience in software delivery. He currently runs a global team specializing in implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery across multiple industries, technologies, and software platforms. He is experienced in software architecture across multiple software languages, supporting custom software developer tools, and custom automation tools on new and legacy platforms.

Dmitry Melanchenko:  Dmitry Melanchenko works for Salesforce.com and runs a DevOps Meetup group in Tampa.

Om Hemant Patel: Om Hemant Patel is an avid agilist with over 20 years of technology experience in various industries from consulting, healthcare, telecommunications and digital content management. After an early career in traditional project management, he has been helping clients such as atex, Disney, Ernst & Young and PwC with enterprise agile transformation. His professional experience spans the US, Canada, LatAm, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Dan Williams: Dan Williams is a Senior Principal Software engineer at Raytheon with 28 years of experience in the computer science field across DOD and NASA. Mr. Williams has been involved with Agile / Lean since the early 2000s and is a certified Scrum Master and certified instructor for various agile courses. He is currently the Agile Lead for the Cooperative Engagement Capability program applying Scaled Agile and DevOps.

The meeting was well attended and many questions were asked. A video of the event was created and can be viewed online at: https://youtu.be/P3vW8lhjNXM