Keith Watson
Director of Devops @ADP
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Devops @ADP
Bristol, GB
Director of DevOps to provide leadership across all aspects of DevOps for the ADP European HCM product. Responsible for providing technology leadership in continuous delivery and for building strong relationships with operations teams to set high standards for release quality, pace and automation. In addition, creating the strategy and plans for the use of innovative new technology and best practices in enterprise-wide product delivery and governance for release management of the product. So far we have developed a continuous delivery pipeline using industry standard tools such as Jenkins Blue Ocean, Octopus Deploy, Ansible and Docker which has enabled us to develop, test, build and deploy new APIs in minutes rather than weeks and months.Written articles and presented at various conferences includingDelivery of Things (IOT) Continuous Delivery Conference 24-25 Apr 2017 DevOps & Microservices Summit - 27 Apr 2017 - Chair and Speaker DevOps Conference - 24-25 May 2017 - DevOps Awards - 18 Oct 2017 - On judging panel - and presenter at Delivery of Things (IOT) Continuous Delivery Conference Berlin 22-24 Apr 2018Software Testing News 21st March 2018Chaired and presented at Agile/DevOps Expo 4th Oct 2018Presented at the National DevOps Conference London 16-17 Oct 2018Judge for National DevOps Awards on 16th Oct 2018Invited to be Speaker at IOT DevOps Conference in Berlin - 8th-9th Apr 2019 http://deliveryofthingsworld.com/en/). Invited to be Speaker at Women in IT conference 25th-26th Jun 2019Invited to chair and present at Agile/DevOps Expo 17th Oct 2019Judge for National DevOps Awards on 22nd Oct 2019
EDUCATION
Open University
MBA (Master, Business Adminstration
Eston Grammer School
O Levels, O Levels
University of Southampton
M.Phil, Computer Science
Durham University
B.Sc, Applied Physics with Electronics
University of Durham
B.Sc, Applied Physics with Electronics
South Park Sixth Form College
A Levels
SKILLS
ABOUT KEITH WATSON
A highly proficient senior manager with 30 years of experience at all levels of software development, test, quality assurance, infrastructure and customer support. 16 years management experience working in an international organisation building software development teams in India, Eastern Europe and Russia. Responsible for ensuring the successful executive approval of product plans, assessing and recruiting top talent, implementing business strategy, managing portfolio risk, reshaping corporate culture and restructuring organisations for efficiency and effectiveness. Now seeking the next rewarding opportunity to make a successful impact as an executive in a client focused team.Specialties: Software Development (DevOps, Agile, Iterative, Waterfall), CRM, International ERM, Recruitment, Top Talent assessment through competency based techniques, project delivery, Financial management, Business Process Management (BPM), Change management, TQM, Audit compliance Problem Solving
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