Giorgio Ventura

The earner has acquired knowledge of applying Enterprise Design Thinking and its value. As a Practitioner, the badge earner finds opportunities to try it out in their every day work.

Earners of this badge have deep knowledge of blockchain concepts, such as smart contracts, ledgers, business networks, participants, and Hyperledger Composer. Badge earners also know how to model and build a simple blockchain network and a JavaScript application that queries the ledger.

This badge earner understands how to create simple to complex applications in the Node-RED flow editor. These applications include a Node-RED boilerplate that uses JavaScript and built in IBM Bluemix; a REST API; Watson cognitive applications that can translate text, analyze tone, replay audio and video, and send tweets to Twitter; and a Facebook Messenger bot that uses the Watson Conversation service.

Technical Specialists in this Job Role have expertise in analysis and description of business processes, and their translation into functional and non-functional IT requirements. Business analysts act as the interpreters between the worlds of IT and business. Typical examples of the deliverables are functional and non-functional requirements, use-cases, process models, and impact analysis.

This badge holder has a understanding of the essentials of IBM Cloud. Through an online course they have learned about the IBM Cloud platform and gained hands-on experience using the Cloud Foundry command-line interface and the IBM Eclipse tools for IBM Cloud. The badge earner has used these tools to deploy and modify basic applications using a managed service in IBM Cloud.