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George Spafford
VP Analyst
George Spafford is a Vice President Analyst for Gartner, covering DevOps / DevSecOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). His publications include hundreds of articles and numerous books on IT management, as well as co-authorship of "The Phoenix Project," "The Visible Ops Handbook" and "Visible Ops Security."
Previous experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Spafford consulted on ITIL, IT strategy, Information Security and overall IT service improvement. Mr. Spafford holds an M.B.A. from Notre Dame, a B.A. in materials and logistics management from Michigan State University and an honorary degree from Konan Daigaku in Japan. He is a certified ITIL Expert, a TOCICO Jonah and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
Professional background
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Senior Manager
Pepperweed Consulting
Principal Consultant
Spafford Global Consulting
Founder
Areas of coverage
Infrastructure and Operations Leaders
Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management
Education
M.B.A., University of Notre Dame
B.A., Materials and Logistics, Michigan State University
Certificate in Asian Studies - Japan, Michigan State University Honorary Degree, Konan Daigaku
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1How best to implement and scale DevOps or DevSecOps in large IT organizations?
2How best to implement and leverage site reliability engineering (SRE) in enterprise IT organizations?
3How does I&O leverage platform engineering?
4How do we scale a DevOps effort?
5How do we reboot a stalled DevOps effort?