Dave Watson

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ABOUT DAVE WATSON

Solution Architect and AWS Cloud Specialist with extensive experience across the Manufacturing, Utilities and Financial Services industries. Trusted advisor to leading global manufacturing companies on their digital transformations and cloud journeys, and their business and technology strategies.Proven ability to govern multiple IT programmes delivering business-critical projects. Trusted to define and deliver high-profile, complex and essential solutions using a broad range of technologies. With excellent problem solving capabilities and a strong customer focus.• Architecting and delivering cloud and hybrid solutions for companies across many industries, driving digital transformations. Focussing on business objectives, time to value and scalability.• Presenting AWS technologies and solutions at international industry events.• Thought leadership, sharing best practices with customers, publishing articles and training content, producing demos to educate customers and AWS architects.• Building cloud-based Software as a Service offerings, removing upfront costs and deployment barriers. Transforming traditional applications to exploit the advantages of cloud deployments.• Technical authority for projects across multiple programmes, delivering to various types of facilities: factories, assembly lines, test beds and offices, for a manufacturing company.• Deployment of shop floor control and measurement applications and integration with enterprise systems, including Manufacturing Execution Systems and data warehouses.• Architected mobile app, mobile payments, customer-facing web, 3rd party integration and identity management solutions for a financial services company.• Definition of full-stack solutions from front-end technologies (web or mobile app) to backend (APIs, integration, data stores and warehouses), applications and infrastructure.• Experienced at directing delivery teams using Agile and Waterfall methods.• Architectural leadership and governance: ensuring solutions support the business objectives and align with corporate strategies, leading a team of geographically-dispersed architects.• Communication of complex technical solutions to a broad and non-technical audience, translating technical concepts into easily understandable ideas.• Effective influence of key internal and external stakeholders, understanding their concerns and requirements, demonstrating how the solution satisfies their needs.• Application implementation and integration expertise supported by strong infrastructure knowledge.