Talent transformation is one of the hardest parts of cloud adoption. Learn how Capital One leverages a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to drive cloud fluency across their organization and radically accelerate their cloud migrations. Capital One’s innovative cloud talent transformation program has enrolled thousands of technology associates from both development and operational teams, resulting in over 600 AWS certifications and counting. Hear about the lessons Capital One learned from their early cloud training efforts and how they pivoted their strategy towards an outcome-based learning strategy tightly coupled with their CCoE to improve compliance with their architecture standards and controls. This session will also highlight how the CCoE serves as a feedback loop for the enterprise’s cloud transformation with innovative open source tools built to measure the progress of migrations and accelerate end-user adoption.  

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“The hardest part of the transition to cloud
computing is really the talent transformation.”
A committed agent of change who
constructively disrupts the status
quo to drive the enterprise
adoption, migration, and talent
transformation of Cloud Computing.
#1 challenge facing
enterprises is lack of
skilled candidates
1.7M cloud-related job
vacancies due to skill
shortages worldwide
Accelerated cloud adoption at
Capital One by achieving
critical mass of cloud-fluency,
where it became a self-
sustaining transition.
TALENT TRANSFORMATION
Established enterprise cloud
operations at Capital One that
ensured production readiness,
compliance, and automated
self-assessments.
CLOUD ENGINEERING
Developed a proven and
practical transformation
framework that offers a
scalable approach to
accelerating cloud adoption
programs for enterprises.
INNOVATION AT SCALE
Speaker at AWS re:Invent
Executive Summit.
Published by Capital One
DevExchange and AWS
Enterprise Collection.
INDUSTRY EXPERT & LEADER
DREW FIRMENT
CONTACT INFO
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solving the talent gap
requires a new set of
skills for the cloud
you already have the
people you need to
succeed in the cloud
you’ve got to get to
critical mass for a self-
sustaining model
As Director of Cloud Engineering at Capital One, Drew
served as a core member of the Cloud Center of
Excellence, leading a variety of engineering and adoption
initiatives for their next generation of infrastructure.
Drew established the Enterprise Cloud Operations team,
founded the Cloud Engineering College, and has earned
all three AWS associate-level certifications.
1000
AWS
CERTIFICATIONS
80%
MIGRATION
GROWTH
80%
COMPLIANCE
GROWTH
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REAL-TIME
APIs
OPEN SOURCE
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Much of the advantage is really in infrastructure

4. With over 1.7 million cloud-related job vacancies,
the lack of appropriately skilled candidates is now
the #1 challenge regarding cloud computing

5. Unlike IT skill shortages in the past, solving this
skills gap is extremely challenging, given that
cloud brings a new set of skills

7. You already have the people you
need to succeed with the cloud

8. Scientists discovered that when just 10 percent of the
population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will
always be adopted by the majority of the society

9. Once the number of committed agents grows
above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame

10. what does a committed agent look like?
associate-level AWS certification
well-versed in the company-“isms”
actively engaged in doing and disrupting

11. You've got to get to a critical mass where it becomes
a self-sustaining transition to a different model

12. the cloud center of engagement is the tip of
the spear for accelerating cloud adoption

13. Cloud Center of Excellence
Training
Identity
management
Asset
management
Reference
architectures
Cost and account
management
Hybrid
architecture

14. foster learning communities
establish a common cadence
provide meaningful 1:1 help

15. integrate your company-“isms” into the curriculum
& offer hands-on labs and workshops

16. sustainable transformation relies on
the community to pay it forward

17. create a visible scoreboard
measure your “where & why”

18. Ignore Ignore Ignore “No” “No”
I said
“No”
dammit
“Oh No” “Oh f@*$”
Rest of World
Enterprise IT
Time
Adoption
Enterprise IT Cloud Adoption Cycle
© 2012 Simon Wardley

19. measuring cloud transformation
value
efficient
effective
measuring cloud transformation

20. value
efficient
effective
accelerating from laggardsaccelerating from laggard

21. value
efficient
effective
… to industry leaders… to industry leaders

22. LIVETWEET FROM CAPITAL ONE ALL HANDS, NYC
“You have to be a
digital native company
if you want to attract
digital natives”
Dr. Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon

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