Baker Tilly’s solution architects achieve AWS Black Belt in Migration

What is the AWS Black Belt program?

The Black Belt program is a course designed by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network to help partners enhance their specializations expertise and build new practice areas through specialists within the Partner community that possess in-depth and hands-on knowledge in AWS domains including Machine Learning, Analytics, Database, Security and recently – Migration.

The AWS Black Belt in Migration is a new multi-week training program offering specialization in AWS Migration that includes deep theoretical and practical experience with a specialist. The program includes live learning sessions through lectures, webinars, labs and walkthroughs, culminating in a hands-on capstone project. To successfully graduate from the migration program, each participant’s capstone project must deliver a migration readiness assessment (MRA), full scope of work for the project and a video presentation explaining the MRA results and statement of work (SOW), as well as pass a final exam.

While AWS offers a variety of certifications to learn more about how their tools and services work, the Black Belt in Migration program focuses more on strategy. Specifically, what third party tools and funding options are available to utilize during a cloud migration process. “This program is definitely a broader scope of not just technical knowledge, but different funding programs and tools available to you, even if it’s outside of AWS,” said Baker Tilly’s senior cloud architect Nick Schumann. As this is a more comprehensive program, only AWS Advanced and Premier Tier partners are invited to participate.

After the completion of this new program, four Baker Tilly solution architects are now certified Migration Black Belts. Our cloud customers will now have access to solution architects that have passed the AWS Associate and Migration certification and proven their skills through guided hands-on lab exercises and the delivery of a personal capstone project. The following solution architects are four of only a select group of AWS partners that hold this certification:

• Andrew Clark – Senior Solutions Architect
• David Oyebanji – Senior Consultant