Get To Know Alvin
I’m a senior analyst in Forrester’s enterprise structure (EA) precedence, offering steerage to know-how architects worldwide on evolving a related, fashionable, and precious structure observe. Serving to organizations remodel their IT working mannequin — particularly, service administration, infrastructure and operations, DevOps, migrations, and course of automation — has been a spotlight of mine.
I’ve spent over 30 years working in excessive tech, with the final 20 years centered on aiding organizations with their digital transformations by way of adjustments of their know-how, governance, processes, and organizational construction.
My company profession began with ASIC verification earlier than transitioning to storage structure, the place I centered on requirements (Fibre Channel, SMI-S), interoperability (former SNIA ICTP subcommittee chair), and growth (US patent US6742020).
My 20-year consulting profession started at EMC Consulting Group, the place I centered on infrastructure and course of optimization. At Accenture, I served as a technical lead, serving to shoppers combine acquisitions into their IT group and infrastructure. And as an architect at Datalink, I developed consulting choices centered on IT modernization efforts, comparable to information heart transformations and cloud technique.
How merchandise and requirements are designed isn’t at all times how they’re understood and utilized by clients. I’ve had the privilege of collaborating on merchandise and requirements after which seeing how they’re really used. Watching how clients are capable of innovate and repurpose services and products to satisfy their particular wants has been a supply of each schooling and inspiration for me.
Alvin’s Analysis Focus
As a part of the Forrester Choices for Expertise Structure & Supply service, my major accountability will probably be serving the roles of platform, infrastructure, and know-how architects. I will probably be researching strategies, practices, and rising issues for these roles, in addition to subjects comparable to platform engineering, technical debt, and know-how lifecycle administration.
The 2 core questions I goal to deal with are:
How does the know-how architect select the mix of present and rising IT-focused applied sciences that can present the optimum outcomes for his or her group? And the way do they successfully talk this to their management?
How do these know-how decisions affect organizations when it comes to value, personnel, time, agility, buyer expertise, and innovation? This contains utilizing and increasing technical debt as a framework for evaluating the affect of IT selections past the scope of simply software program growth.
As a result of this covers a really broad vary of subjects, I will probably be working with a number of colleagues to make sure that all of Forrester’s subject material experience is integrated into this evaluation. Particularly, I will probably be working carefully with analysts Tracy Woo (cloud), Lee Sustar (IT infrastructure and operations), Brent Ellis (mainframe and SRE), Naveen Chhabra (IT automation), Andre Kindness and Octavio Garcia (community), and Invoice Martorelli (service sourcing and administration) to assist create an method to comprehensively assess the IT choices of a company. And I will probably be working to point out how this framework applies throughout Forrester’s protection areas, so I will probably be participating with many others to make sure that their protection and subject material experience is integrated into this method. You must count on not simply stories and blogs but in addition instruments to assist exhibit these ideas and the way they apply to your particular wants.
