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Higher Learning

Prepare Your People for the Public Cloud

There’s a lot to know about cloud operations. Is your team up for the challenge?

Whether they’re sysadmins, developers, just coming to the IT field, or seasoned data center pros, your team members are the planners of the new way to build information technology systems.

They will design the future of an application, an ecosystem, a product, or an enterprise. They will analyze cloud offerings, cloud providers, third-party vendors, and objectives. They’ll design for eliminating failure, stateless environments, auto-scaling, flexibility, security, and accountability.

Higher Learning: Preparing Your People for the Public Cloud features experts in professional development, training, and certification in a roundtable discussion. They share their experience building workforce learning and development programs that put your people on the learning path to cloud adoption success.

What you’ll learn

  • Where to get started with cloud training & certification
  • How to build a cloud team (or retrain your existing team)
  • Cloud operations roles and responsibilities

Meet the Experts

Scott Barneson

Scott Barneson

Director of Learning Products, AWS

As Director of Learning Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Scott leads a team focused on inspiring individuals to acquire, validate, and deploy skills that enable them to unlock their potential and realize their objectives when building on the AWS cloud. During his 9+ year tenure at AWS, Scott has held a number of leadership roles across product management, business development, and partner development. Prior to joining AWS, Scott led acquisitions and investments for a software division of EMC, specializing in IT operations management and emerging cloud technologies.

Drew Firment

Drew Firment

VP of Cloud Transformation, A Cloud Guru

Drew Firment is SVP of Cloud Transformation at A Cloud Guru. He works closely with business and technology leaders to accelerate cloud adoption. Drew was previously Director of Cloud Engineering at Capital One where he led enterprise cloud operations within their Cloud Center of Excellence and migrated the early adopters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into production. He founded Capital One’s cloud engineering college that drove a large-scale talent transformation and earned a patent for measuring cloud adoption and maturity. Drew is recognized by Amazon as both an AWS Community Hero and Alexa Champion for his efforts building inclusive learning communities.

Alana Fitts

Alana Fitts

Director of Sales Strategy, CloudCheckr

When she’s not working with customers on solutions implementation for public cloud, Alana leads cloud management strategy at CloudCheckr. A unique hybrid of technical understanding and business consultation, Alana is ready to demonstrate how to make profit margins grow, and expenses shrink in the most complex cloud infrastructure.