Josh Haines: Finding Success with Digital Transformation
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This is a podcast episode titled, Josh Haines: Finding Success with Digital Transformation. The summary for this episode is: <p>This episode’s guest is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuahaines/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Josh Haines</a>, he is the Global DevSecOps Capability Manager & Software Factory Founder at <a href="https://www.rolls-royce.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rolls-Royce</a>. In this episode Josh shares his journey over the past few years focusing on Digital Transformation within the Defense organization at Rolls-Royce. His mission has been to empower the development of modern applications to both serve his business partners within the organization and their customers. Josh hasn’t done this alone and he shared many of the things he’s learned and the resources that have helped he and his team to reach many milestones. </p><p><br></p><p>We talk about many things but a few to point out:</p><ul><li>Don’t just rely on your technical skills, lean into the people side</li><li>Learn from resources from outside your organization, books are your friend</li><li>Start small and build the value flywheel over time</li><li>Give yourself time, this is a marathon </li></ul><p><br></p><p>We'd love to hear from you! Reach out to <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/9b8e5049-3269-4d01-a208-ec35aa12083d/podcast@sep.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>podcast@sep.com</strong></a> to share your feedback on this show.</p><p>You can find more information about this podcast at <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/93ecce9c-0530-4661-a507-b77e2748f4ee/sep.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>sep.com/podcast</strong></a> and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!</p>
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Josh Haines is an Enterprise DevSecOps Specialist and Senior Materials Engineer with 15 years of experience solving problems in complex industries. He is a Lilly Scholar who worked for Honeywell Aerospace and Johns Manville before re-joining Rolls-Royce ten years after an internship. In 2020, he transitioned to a full-time role in the Digital Transformation team. This completes a gradual pivot from creating digital tools to help with engineering work, to starting and running a Software Factory at Rolls-Royce, to a full career in “digital and data.”
As a three-time small business owner and recovering serial hobbyist, he loves to learn new skills and is passionate about lifelong learning. He incorporates his self-taught abilities as a developer, skills coach, and DevSecOps enthusiast into projects both professional and charitable.
Raman has spent his career at SEP, starting as an engineer out of Rose-Hulman. He is now CEO and President. Raman leads SEP in building exceptional software products and stronger teams by collaboratively identifying the right product to build, executing the project, and leveling up our clients' teams' software practices.