2020 A Year In Review

• Leading the delivery of  one-of-a kind Application Modernization Navigator   of a Pharmacy Benefits Management system currently running in the mainframe.
• Led the first two Remote Application Swift Navigators creating the Playbook for Remote Event Storming and other remote collaborative modeling practices.
• GoToMarket Remote App Modernization Navigators https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/resources-for-remote-software-teams/how-to-conduct-a-remote-event-storming-session
• Self Published Book on Practical Microservices 
• Self Published Book on Emergent Trends on Modern Applications 
• Improving the quality and number of recipes in our App Modernization Cookbooks and opening our tools like SNAP to broader VMware commnunity.
• One of the lead Influencers in MAPBU Services Marketing measured in Published articles and blog posts, internal documents and views
• Top articles including How to Build Sustainable, Modern Application Architectures https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/practitioners-blog/how-to-build-sustainable-modern-application-architectures
• CKA and CKAD Certified in 2019. Conducted training for both Labs and class AppTx App Services on How to get certified on Kubernetes.
• Taught broader MAPBU organization on How To  Conduct Remote Scopings. 
• Taught Multiple (> 5) Swift Modernization Workshops across Pivotal and VMware for Scaling App Modernization
• Working with R&D to bring Spring Transformation Tooling to market. Created Spring Bootifier with Tim Dalsing which is now used in the implementation of Tanzu Workbench Spring Bootifier Transformer. Currently aligning with Spring R&D effort on automated cloud native remediation of Java applications.
• Created Kafka battle-card for App Services sales 
• Anchored One Off a Kind Kafka  Real Time Inventory Engagement and created collateral for App Modernization For Streaming workloads deck 
• Creating App Services pipeline at our top customers - Over 375+ individual Travelers participants attended the Should This Be A Microservice webinar on Tanzu enablement see  Over 2500 views on linkedin.
• COVID 19 Project - Facilitator of Remote Swift Event Storm and Boris exercises. This client is a small startup who worked with Labs Seattle 4 years ago on an app to connect in home carers with medicaid recipients. Since COVID 19 they've expanded their platform to now connect essential workers with childcare providers. They're experiencing a huge demand for this service. Unsurprisingly, there is a huge demand for this service. They are currently rolling out to public hospitals in LA.
• Working across discovery teams to formulate the Discovery scoping and workshop process.