Steve Watson

About Steve Watson

Strategic and forward-looking professional with a solid career record of driving…

Experience

1. Advisor Digital Solutions Architect

   DXC Technology

   Feb 2019 — Present

   Interact with clients, Product Managers, and Developers in order to envision, model and provide efficient and sustainable models aligned to business needs.Collaborative engagement with teams and clients and providing mentoring as required.Identify business requirements and requirements of stakeholders.Design the entire system based on the business needs and requirements.Select the appropriate System Architecture and individual components of the system.Identify technologies for the implementation of each component and connections between the components leveraging my certified systems engineering expertise.Control the Architecture during the iteration of the system.Currently supporting a major client in the design/implementation of a cohesive, automated IT Service Management solution across multiple business units based on a suite of Open Text and DXC developed applications. Developing integrated solutions to bridge the gaps between the tools and data transfer/enrichments. Supporting the DBA team in addressing some of the issues related to high availability using PostgreSQL clusters and PgPool as the HA front-end. Creating enrichment jobs to ensure Configuration Items (CIs) have accurate and enriched data prior to ServiceNow ingestion.

Education

• The University of Alabama

  BSCS, Computer Science

  1969 — 1976

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  Master of Technical Management, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Skills

• Project Management
• New Technology Integration
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• Storage Solutions
• Strategic Planning
• Program Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Business Case Preparation
• Management
• Team Building
• Microsoft Project
• Service Operation
• Discipline
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
• Vcloud
• Visionary Thinking
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Ibm Mainframe
• Technology Integration
• Testing
• IT Strategy
• Business Process Improvement
• Information Technology
• Information Management
• Software Development
• Mind Mapping
• Earned Value Management
• Problem Solving
• Itil V3 Foundations Certified
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Documentum
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Balanced Scorecard
• Sysml
• Itil
• R&D
• Pmp