Analyst Profile

Chris Saunderson
Sr Director Analyst
3 years at Gartner
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27 years industry experience
MO USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Chris Saunderson covers automation and orchestration methodologies at Gartner, with a primary focus on the life cycle of systems from build to run to retire. Mr. Saunderson has 10 years of experience as an automation architect, architecting task and process automation solutions to address IT needs. His coverage includes the impact of automation and orchestration on the IT operations organization. He has an emphasis on improving the programmability of infrastructure elements, and the improvement of system availability and maintainability.
Chris Saunderson's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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Innovation Insight for Continuous Infrastructure Automation
05-Aug-2021 -
Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 2022
27-Jul-2022 -
Demystifying Chaos Engineering for I&O
05-Jul-2022
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I&O Leaders That Automate, Win: Demonstrating Value Is Key to Success
29 June 2022
On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars
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IT Symposium/Xpo
17 October 2022 - 20 October 2022 -
IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference
21 November 2022 - 22 November 2022 -
IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference
06 December 2022 - 08 December 2022
Upcoming Gartner Events
Background
Previous Experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Saunderson worked for more than 25 years as a systems administrator, systems engineer, researcher, internal product manager, and as a program manager and lead architect for automation and orchestration initiatives. He scoped and delivered IT automation and orchestration initiative primarily around IT systems management: OS patching, OS provisioning, regulatory and internal policy audit and compliance, integration to other systems (IDM/Service Desk/Asset Management). He provided governance/architecture for orchestration enablement for workflow creation/acceptance for cross-domain orchestration cases: Closed Loop Incident Processing/Continuous Desired Configuration Management/Change Management Integration.
Professional Background
Maptek, System Administrator, 2 years
SingTel Optus, Senior Network Engineer, 2 years
Sprint, Technology Architect IV, 18 years
Education
B.A., Library and Information Management, University of South Australia
Languages
English