Ryan Smith

About Ryan Smith

Global Chief Architect of IBM’s Cloud Advisory CoC organization, helping enterprises in all industries with many aspects of their hybrid cloud transformation including business and IT strategy, application modernization, containerization, technical architecture, operating model design and financial modeling. Product Owner for strategic assets including Cloud Advisory Tool (CAT / BlueCAT) and IBM Architecture Kit. These market-leading capabilities accelerate client transformation programs from the strategy and planning phase (Day 0) through migration, modernization and build (Day 1) and finally into manage and operate (Day 2).Global Offering Co-owner for the Enterprise Cloud Strategy offering within IBM Consulting, responsible for go-to-market strategy, operations, method and tooling, business development, training and delivery excellence.Co-author and Lead Instructor for IBM Garage Method for Cloud as well as five other methods. Instructor for 12 courses where he has trained over 1,200 sellers and technical professionals including classes such as the IBM Cloud Advisory Bootcamp and Complex Solution Architecture Bootcamp.

Experience

1. Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Adoption at Scale

   IBM

   Apr 2021 — Present

   As Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Adoption at Scale, Ryan will lead the transformation of clients\' IT portfolios and operating models while growing IBM\'s modernization capabilities and talent.

Education

• University of Florida

  Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science

  1994 — 1999

• University of West Florida

  Bachellor, Computer Science

  1999 — 2000

Skills

• Application Portfolio Management
• Leadership
• Integration Architecture
• Enterprise Software
• Windows
• Enterprise Architecture
• Db2
• Iaas
• Websphere
• Software Development
• Distributed Systems
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Systems Engineering
• Legacy Modernization
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Middleware
• Jee Custom Development
• Application Architecture
• IT Management
• Software Project Management
• Pre-Sales
• Websphere Application Server
• Web Services Management
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Soa
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Development
• IT Strategy
• Websphere Portal
• Project Estimation
• Esb
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Agile Methodologies
• Eai
• Databases