Lee James
Special guest
As Chief Technology Officer for Rackspace EMEA, Lee James is responsible for helping customers bring value to their business through the Rackspace portfolio. Lee’s an avid customer champion and vocal about our EMEA strategy, leading the strategic development of Rackspace EMEA products and services and serving as the executive sponsor for a number of our largest EMEA customers. Lee has more than 20 years of experience leading teams across large-scale, multinational and agile-based environments. He’s been instrumental in developing and implementing DevOps practices, cloud deployments, analytics platforms, edge computing solutions, digital strategy and IT transformation solutions to deliver significant business value to customers. His prior experience includes senior roles across BP, Betfair and GlaxoSmithKline. At Betfair, Lee was responsible for delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all of the European stock markets combined, each day. At BP, he was recognized for building the company's first multi-cloud platform.
Lee James has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Using Fortnite as Inspiration for Team Structure
July 7th, 2020 | Season 1 | 35 mins 30 secs
cloud, cloud computing, cloud team, fortnite, team structure
The cloud holds a great deal of promise for organizations — yet, many businesses have not achieved their expected cloud outcomes, often inhibited by poor cloud team structures. This episode of Cloud Talk shares insight on creating successful cloud teams inspired by a popular video game, in which players work in squads that are rewarded for collaboration, individuality and speed.