First Person Meets… Jim Wilt – CTO | Chief Architect | Distinguished Architect – WVE
We meet Jim Wilt, a voraciously curious CTO, distinguished chief architect and engineering advocate. Jim’s having fun with a stellar profession with roles as CTO, CDO and chief architect across a large number of enterprise organizations. On this conversation we study his success and failures, and the way he can have learnt more from the latter. He takes us from being inspired by a Disney movie to learn to code on paper because he couldn’t afford access to a pc, to working in medical research and winning prestigious awards for huge organizations. He describes an important boss in McDonalds who taught him the worth of giving your best to every little thing you do, including the story of the janitor at NASA who sent a person to the Moon. Jim shares how he needed to be convinced of his own expertise, and shares the view that material success follows passion and focus – don’t waste your time being secure.
First Person Meets… Arno Schilperoord – Director Global Architecture & Digital Innovation at The HEINEKEN Company
We meet Arno Schilperoord, a worldwide leader for Heineken who believes that coding is magic and poetry, offering the chance to create something from nothing and infinite possibility. Arno tells us how studying physics and using computer models and writing computer code to assist in the evaluation was his way into IT. He says that in IT everybody was learning things for the primary time, and explains how designing resilient high-performance solutions was only a small step from his current practice of architecture. Arno tells us that great bosses are in a position to spot and resolve problems early, and that great leadership isn’t nearly technical expertise, it’s about awareness, timing, and making a culture of high performance and creating an environment where people feel secure and feel supported.
First Person: David Jones – Chief Architect – WVE
We meet David Jones – a chief architect, CTO and CIO who describes his work as elevating business technology strategy through architectural excellence. David introduces himself as someone who loves collaborating, doesn’t do politics and is at all times honest. He tells us how he got began by selecting to review electrical engineering inspired by his brother and a French pen pal, and espouses the worth of practical, in-industry training over academic learning (although he returned to his own school to show). David tells us how he was supported to speed up his profession by studying bleeding edge tech whilst he was working in an operational business, and the way that taught him a helpful architectural lesson: the most effective solution for the organization you might be in may not at all times be essentially the most current technical solution. David’s message to those starting out is to follow your passions, learn, and be open and curious – you never know where life will take you.