From SI to ISV at Speed
Kevin Francis
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/182
- The origin story of Kevin’s life – where he lives and family background
- A brief introduction to Kevin’s career background
- Kevin’s journey from SI to ISV
- What made Kevin focus on Microsoft technology
- An introduction to cognitive service
- With cognitive services, where does machine learning come to it?
- A discussion about the four projects Kevin have landed
- The type or areas of industries where it came from
- Discusses where the word Wildmouse came from and its history
- Introduction to Unearth product?
- Explained the four components of Unearth – Ingestion, Analysis, Discover and Intelligent Action
- Talks about Kevin’s journey to Unearth product
- Shares the lessons Kevin have learnt from Unearth and Wildmouse and the thing he did differently
- What part has Microsoft play in Kevin’s journey
- Explained the benefits of having an advisory board member in an organization
- The source in creating a great partnership with the Microsoft team
- Kevin’s thoughts about the engagement right with the Microsoft team
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Kevin Francis
Kevin Francis started his career in the early 1980s as a programmer. Along the way, he worked as a developer, architect, consultant, CIO. CTO and CEO. He has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with strengths in enterprise and solution architecture, channel/partner leadership and team leadership.
Kevin has designed and delivered architecture for many products over many years and across many generations of architecture and spent five years as a Microsoft MVP for Architecture. In addition to that, he is a successful channel manager with a lot of experience in guiding and running Microsoft partner businesses.