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

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Website: www.beechermadden.com

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