Rick Garcia is a Chief Architect, experienced Emerging Technologist, passionate Technology Solution Evangelist, versatile IT Executive and innovative CTO. He has a track record of leading extended teams through vision and influence. Industries include Consulting, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Retail, CPG and Energy.
Strategy & Business Innovation
Organization Transformation, Design and Shared Services
Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application & Cloud Architecture
Emerging Technologies (Tech, Automotive, IoT, Cloud to Legacy migration and coexistence)
Vendor Relationship Management & Outsourcing
Keynote Speaking & Industry, Customer and Developer Evangelism
Technology Adoption (IoT, DevOps, HDFS, Hadoop, Cloud - Azure & AWS)
TOGAF, Zachman & Lean Architecture Implementation, Organization Scalability & Management.
Innovative and lean implementations of ITIL and ITSM.
Rick has specialized in rapid transition to pragmatic and lean Enterprise Architecture, transitioning to innovation-driven and lean DevOps, quick cycle testing of Emerging Technologies to determine benefit and implement the game changers, design thinking/ system thinking and end-to-end architecting and implementing of Internet of Things concepts through deployments.
Personal interests include running, swimming, baseball and riding my motorcycle.
