SpringOne Platform 2017 Donald Fossgreen, West; Thomas Squeo, West "Initiating shifts to new technologies in established companies is a challenge. It can be expensive, both financially and in the disruption it can cause across the enterprise. We will explore how choosing the right tools, partners, and methodologies can reap rewards across a large diverse company. Although you may have never heard of us, West Corporation is a leader in communications technology. We power some of its most crucial tools, including large portions of the 911 service, conference call audio, school closure and emergency notifications, and much more. Earlier this year it was announced that we are being purchased by the private equity firm Apollo. In this presentation we will talk about how we determined what we needed in order to take our development to the next level, how we decided on Pivotal Cloud Foundry over Red Hat OpenShift and others, why Spring became a basis for being Cloud ready, and our steps towards building a center of excellence at scale. In addition, we will discuss the ramifications of the private acquisition on the process and how it made us focus and refine our path to success. You will leave with a set of ways to improve your own technology procurement by making it more agile, iterative, and collaborative so you end up with the right product at the right features creating value right away."

1. Bringing New Technology to Legacy
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Don Fossgreen – Principal Platform Architect
Thomas Squeo – SVP, Transformation and Enterprise Architecture
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2. West Corporation
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3. Challenges & Opportunities
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4. Addressing Challenges,
Capturing Opportunities
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5. West’s Journey;
from Cloud-last to Cloud-first
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6. Why PAAS & Cloud Native Platform as our
keystone initiative?
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7. Competitive & Defensible;
Framework for West’s selection
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8. Beyond Tools,
Transforming our teams
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9. A journey of a 1000 miles…
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10. 10
West is hiring

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West Opportunities Business Intelligence Analyst (2)
Business Analyst (2)
Data Center Technician (1)
Data Warehouse Analyst (1)DBA (3) SQL,NoSQL
Data Scientist (3) Data Engineer (3)
Reporting/BI Engineer (3)
SQA/E, Director(1) SQA/E, Manager(3) SQA/SQE(5)
SWE, Director(1) Manager(3)Tech Lead(2)
SWE, Full Stack(4) Mobile(3) Voice(2)Framework(2)
Telco Systems Admin(2) Provisioning Engineer (2)
Capacity Management Engineer (1)
Enterprise Architect, Network (1)
Enterprise IT Security Engineer (2)
Systems Engineer(2) Network Engineer (3)
West is hiring

12. Questions…
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13. Learn More. Stay Connected.
West.com
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