Rick Weaver is a Director in IBM Cloud leading the US East Cloud Advisors. Rick has extensive experience working with some of IBM’s largest clients around the world. Rick has led work in helping clients around the world improve their practices around DevOps, Software Engineering, Agile Adoption, Automation, and Cloud implementation. In prior roles, Rick has led Rational Lab Services for AP and China, IBM’s SOA Tool strategy, helped drive the internal transformation of IBM tool development and integration, and has led the worldwide technical sales team for WebSphere Tools. Rick lives in Dallas, Texas and has worked for IBM for 25 years