Nic Whittaker - the people, trust and transformation

Zero Hour Podcast

Nic is currently Head of Platform Engineering and Devops at Virgin Atlantic Airways. Nic started out as a chemistry teacher in the mid-nineties. Experimenting with designing molecular modelling webpages for his students led him to switch into a career in Technology in 2000. He has worked across the development life cycle as a coder, a project and portfolio manager, a technical trainer, a solution and enterprise architect and in various delivery and operations leadership roles. He has worked in many industries including Manufacturing, Insurance, Film, Visual Effects and Broadcast. Key Minutes 15:00 - Why Virgin? 17:00 - The Virgin Brand and the people 18:15 - Leading Devops 20:00 - Why choose devops within transformation? 23:00 - Why was devops a better way to go for Virgin? 25:05 - Changing mindsets 33:00 - Delivering to the executives or the leadership team 39:55 - How a Third party supplier needs to act? 44:00 - Are you more Dev or more ops? 46:30 - Getting your hands dirty 48:40 - Multi-delivering for success 54:00 - Regular conversations with the business 57:20 - The type of person you would hire 58:30 - Ten quick fire questions Key Points - What should be consistent through any team or delivery is trust. - Put security throughout the whole project - Technology has to be delivering for the business. You can find Nic at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-whittaker-33a63a3/?originalSubdomain=uk Follow us: Twitter: @zero_hourpod Instagram: @zerohourexperience Website: www.beechermadden.com This podcast is sponsored by: BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com