I'm well familiar with this narrative that human beings are a plague on the planet. Are you saying that we are nature's big mistake? That the gifts that make us human are worthless? That would make us an exception to every other species on Earth. Every species on Earth has unique characteristics that enhance the resiliency and the robustness of the ecosystem and that propel evolution to a new step. Are humans an exception to that? Are we just the evil beings that are in the way of beauty and life? Or is it that we have not yet applied the gifts that make us human toward their true purpose as a civilization? And what is that? It's to contribute to the furtherance of life and beauty on Earth, to make the world even more alive and more beautiful. All of this ecological destruction hasn't actually worked, you know? I mean, if we're making us happier and happier, maybe you could justify it, but it's not even doing that. And the irony is that our happiness, fulfillment, joy, thriving is actually readily available and it doesn't depend on more technology, more resource consumption or anything like that. I don't know if you've traveled a lot, but if you have, like, where do you find the happiest people? Are they in London? Are they in Tokyo? Are they in New York? Or are they in, you know, the Gambia? But the animating principle under those priorities is love of life. So I said first priority is to preserve whatever pristine ecosystems are still here, which is, like, especially the Amazon, the Congo. But even like any small wetlands or like any place that has health in it, we protect it. And the second priority is to restore, regenerate the broken places, especially agricultural soils. And then third is to stop dousing the world and poison all the time, herbicides, insecticides, toxic waste, radioactive waste, electromagnetic pollution, et cetera, et cetera. I think that is partly what's behind the insect apocalypse. And then fourth priority, and in my mind it's a distant fourth, is to reduce carbon emissions. It can't hurt, you know, it's putting, like, more stress on a system that's already stressed. The principle is, whatever you say, it comes from a trust in our collective purpose and the purpose of each individual human being, which is to contribute to life and beauty on earth. And when I speak to anybody, it could be ExxonMobil Executive, and I'm standing in the knowing that this person on a deep level cares about life, has places that are special to him, and that on some level wants to serve life, wants to be a force for positive change in the world. If I stand strongly in that, then he knows that I'm an ally. He knows that I'm actually on some level on his side, even if I disagree with his opinions and he'll listen to me. He won't be, like, people can feel how you see them. People have an internal guidance system, like we can sense. And if I'm truly willing to see the best in him, then my words will have power. He'll trust me. He'll know that I'm not just trying to convert him. I'm not trying to convince him. I'm not trying to dominate him, to, like, fight his evidence and logic with my superior evidence and logic and make him run away with his tail between his legs. The nature of the revolution that we are in right now is in how we understand ourselves to be, who we are, therefore who we are being. Now we have to stand in the new human, which is actually the ancient human also. The new human, which is, like, yeah, I am here to give to the world. I'm here to receive and to give, to be part of evolution, to be part of the planet coming more and more alive. Every stage of evolution has been becoming more alive of the planet, from the first eukaryotic cells to the first multicellular organisms to plants to flowering trees. Like the world got more and more and more alive. That's what life wants. It's to live. And we are the latest creation of nature for the same thing. When we stand in that and see each other as that, then we'll, we'll figure out what you're doing.


I would love to introduce Louise, Lozay, Fanau. We're so happy to have you here this afternoon. My name is Rebecca Nichols and I'm moderating this interview. I heard that you are a native San Franciscan and I would love to know where you were born, some of your early history with your parents, Jenny brothers or sisters, children. I'd love to know who they are and a little about them. Well, I was born in 1930 at the old Franklin hospital, which is no longer in existence, you know, near church in Dubos. I think it's Louise and Davies now. Oh wow, okay. But it was a nice little hospital at that time. I think you have a baby picture with you. I would love to see it. This is when I was about one year old. That's my corner. And these other pictures here are of my life a little later on when I became a professional dancer. Beautiful, beautiful baby. I have my finger up like I'm teaching something because that's part of my life too. Right, it all comes. Your parents, what were your parents' names? My father's name was Louis Orleur in Germany. His name was Stella, and he came from Northern Germany near Bremenhofen. And when he was about 21 years old, and he met my mother here, and she was from Missouri, and they met at a dance. Right. At a ballroom on Upper Market Street. And then they settled down, they had my brother first. What was his mother's name? Ralph. He is not living any longer. A profession that he... He didn't actually have a profession. He kind of was like a hippie at that time. He had to... A free thinker. He was a free thinker and a free liver. And he just went and did his thing. He was older than you. He was about five years older than I was. And so I was born, and then we moved to Prague Street. My first home as a baby was on Prague Street. Now Prague Street is closer to Daly City going east. It's below our mission. And so shortly after that, they bought a home in the sunset area on 34th Avenue. That's the first home that I really remember was on 34th Avenue. And there's a lot of fog out there. Sure. And those days, at the end of our block, there was nothing except sand dunes. And that's all built in. Since the Second World War. And they put up a lot of cracker... Quick houses, yes. But my first home was on 34th Avenue. Where did you move from there, do you remember? Baker Street. It's close by here. My father was a grocer. He would open grocery stores and he would stock them. And then he would sell them. And this was his forte. And so he opened and closed about 50 stores in his lifetime. So a lot of the grocery stores we have, they're still in existence. All around the history. All around the hate area. All these little stores that you see were opened by my father. What do people know as his name? The Stelling's Grocery is. Okay. And for just a little while, a few years ago they still had retained the name of the Stelling's Market on Parnassus, I think it was. Wow. And they just recently changed that. That was the last of the name. So in this area, you hear about how old were you? About what year was this? Oh, I was just a little baby then. I was only about three years old, four years old. And then when we were out on 34th Avenue, then I was five years old out there. And then the Depression came. And came with a thunder clap to my father because he had invested in a lot of stores. Sure. And he lost a lot. And he also had someone that was very unreliable that he trusted that took advantage of him. And so he lost a lot. And at the same time that that happened, our family fell apart. A lot of pressure. He started to drink. And he was not the same person that he was before he drank. And he had a lot of talent, even though he did drink. He was always able to provide a good home for his wife and his children. But when he drank, he was a monster.  And actually, before Hitler came into power as strong, he would collect pictures of Hitler and have them in an album. And he would show them to my brother. And he thought that he was the greatest thing that ever happened to Germany, which most of the German people thought too. In the beginning. In the beginning. When he went off the deep end and we became enemies, you know, they became our enemies in the Second World War. Everyone in the family that was German, stopped talking German. And he got rid of his strapples right away. We didn't want to go to concentration camps like the Japanese, you know. And they were contemplating that possibility. Wow. So, yeah. Interesting. That was my father's side of the family. My mother's side was, they were a little illustrious. We have a signer of the Declaration of Independence. I told you we go back to Washington. We have an aid camp. Wow. It's all documented in our family history. Wow. So it's their mother's line. My mother's side, yes. In Dolling Park in Missouri. Do you know who it was that signed it? Yeah. Thomas Stone. Oh. And this was my grandfather of that same line. Let's take a close look. Who became first an accountant at Gump's. And then became the treasurer of Gump's. And then finally the executor of their estate. Wow. And he was highly thought of by the Gump's people. That's a very famous department store art center. I was a little girl when he would take me through Gump's. And they would collect beautiful arts objects. Sure. It came from the Far East in those days. I mean, like that big Buddha that's in the Dolling Park. That was donated by the Gump's family. Wow. To the park. Wow. And they had statues. And I would go through it with him. And one time he opened up a little tiny jeweled case. And he said, watch this Louise. And I must have been about four or five years old. I never forgot it. It flipped open.  Turning this way and that way. Just in that little tiny box. Right. So they had treasurers. It was a high end department store for people with a large size purse. And wanted things that they couldn't find normally. And stood for quality. God says a long time in San Francisco. He lived in the Gaylord Hotel for all the time that I read. Where was the Gaylord Hotel? That was... We're part of the city. It was downtown. Not on Powell Street. But in that area? In that area. Maybe Grant. It's still there. Yes. I know the name. I've been told that your life, if you could, maybe more. But could be broken into five parts. Just about. Just about. And I'd love to know more about each of those parts. And maybe you can tell me. And let's take it from there. Okay. Well, of course I was a student, first of all. Growing up in San Francisco as a student was wonderful. I had everything at my disposal. Being artistically inclined. I studied piano. And I had wanted to be a concert pianist. And I studied with a concert pianist until I was 14. And I should say between the ages of 12 and 14, I studied with Zephyr Reed. Over on near Devisadero Street. Was there a studio you'd go for your lessons? She had me come after I started with her for a while. I guess she liked me well enough. She wanted to coach me every day. So I had to go there every day. And she was a magnificent teacher. And the things that I learned, then I still complied. Wow.  And it really opened up music for me. I really didn't know too much about it before then.  With the German family, that's sort of like the Bachian families. You know, they all play instruments. Sure. This is the way they raise their kids. That's part of their education. And they are strong disciplinarians. And they tell you, you're going to practice now.   I never tried to find a teacher for myself. They would always present a teacher. Wow. So it was very good. Very lucky. Very, very fortunate. So one part of you is the learning. Yes, the student. And when I was in high school, a very important thing that I learned was typing. And I guess I had that connection already from piano. And so I was an excellent typist. And I could type over 100 words a minute. Wow. So which later on served me very well to help me to raise my children. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself. That was the early part. And also the dancing. She took dance classes. I took dance lessons with Halpern Lathrop dance group. Where was that? Peter's Wright School of Dance. And that was in what area of the school? And that is, I don't know the exact street. Sure, sure. But it's like close to Sacramento, California. Gotcha. Right. In that general area, Lyons, or a little further down from there. Sure. I don't know if there's still an existence. How long did you study dance? I studied dance for seven years before I became a professional dancer. How old were you then? When you were professional. I became a professional dancer when I was 21. But I'm getting ahead of my five thumbs that I did. Next after I became, was a student and very proficient. I also won an award in school as a top scholar. I won the American Legion Award for all-round student. And so I was very interested in school and learning. I've always loved books. I love to read. And so then after I went through school, I married very young when I was 17. That was because of the dissolution of my family. And I was lonely for a relationship of a family. Sure. I had been going from an aunt. I lived with my father's sister while I was growing up. A German family. And then various foster homes. And I was very lonely. And so I had this fellow who was five years older than I. And he was a return marine who was after the Second World War. The Second World War stopped. It came to a conclusion when I was 14. And so I married him and then I had two children. What were their names? Lois and Bruce. And Lois is a magnificent painter. Wow. Her father was a painter. He had a lot of artistic. He designed book jackets. And he was a great cartoonist. But she became a very classical, beautiful, she paints in acrylics and oils. And her good things was just magnificent. It's in the family. It's very strong. And my son is also very artistic. But he became an electrical engineer. Or I should say a construction engineer. He works in Kansas City now and a power plant. That's how we... So that's a whole area of my life that was very important that I support my children. And that first husband had abandoned myself and my two children. And he was very unstable after the war and he just disappeared. And left me with the children. And I had to find some way to support them. And so that's how I got into dancing professions. Where were you living at this time? I was living on Market Street. Close to Church & Debots. I mean, it's up a little bit on Market Street. Closer to the Mint around there. And close to the dance studios of Guilhermo Del Oro, who was a very famous Spanish dancer, dance teacher. And so I was... So that's two parts of your life? Yes. Then I became the professional dancer. And I wound up in Las Vegas. And because we heard from one of the studios, the Halprin Studio, they were talking about opportunities open in Las Vegas for dancers to get jobs. And I desperately needed money to support my children. And I was told that they changed their shows every nine weeks. And so I would be sure to get a job because women were not very stable. They were having children. They were having divorces. They were having a going. And I would certainly be able to get a job there. So my friend from my youth, Camila Bonix, that I grew up with, loaned me $70. I was destitute at this time. And I went up to Las Vegas and I didn't have an agent. I just had my good looks and my seven years' experiences learning dancing, classical dancing, flamenco, modern dance, and ballet. That was my classical training. And I got a job right away at the Sands. I would love to see some of your photos. The first job I had practically was with a person that owned a part of the Sands and that was Prince Sinatra. So it was kind of an interesting thing that I should fall into to this. I think we could just go through a few of those. Briefly. Sure. Some of the people that I worked with in Las Vegas. What we want to try to do is stand up behind there. And this was a time when there was nothing in Las Vegas except desert. Of course. And only seven things. But it would be really helpful if they were stood up. Perfect. Because then we could get rid of the clear. So there's Oshawa Square you are. And the photo end right here is the tallest one in the group. And that's right. I mean, that's Trimini Ranchi. Trimini Ranchi. And this was Carmen Miranda. And that's you? Yes. And this is the Dorsey Brothers. Yes. And also Xavier Krugat. But I don't have a picture of him. Right. The time. That is in San Francisco. This is in San Francisco. Later on in the 70s when I came back. And I was a model, a powers model at that time. And I posed at the American Legion of Honor. Beautiful photo. This picture. Where I had previously danced as a girl. Wow. In small concert work. And then this is Frankie Lane. You know the picture of me. And that's not true. What is it? Autographed? Yes, it's autographed. To Louise? To Louise with love. Not an embossed one. Yeah. And have some nice stories about him. And this is when he was younger. Sure. He was a little older. He was a great gentleman. And a very kind person. He was very, very nice to all the production dancers and singers. And he was... If anyone was in the hospital he saw that they got roses. Any of the girls. He was just very kind. And who is this right here? This is Eddie Albert. That's right, okay. Yeah. And these are the Martinez Flamenco dancers. And there's me. What is this from? I'm dancing. That's part of the book that I've written called Poems for Young Dancers. All during this time I started writing poetry when I was in Vegas in the 50s. And I became a reclusive poetess all my life. I didn't like what I saw going on and what they call poetry to me was not poetry. Sure. And I was very upset by the... And that's just the end of it there. It was wonderful. Okay. Some of the people I worked with. Yeah, that's wonderful. I want to bring this to the 8 Ashbury a little bit. Yeah. So when you came back and you moved to the 8 Ashbury area, what was that about? Well, what was that about? No, what year about? Did you move back? The year 78. Okay.  I had the opportunity to take care of my children. And that way I was always interested in science. And so I had the opportunity to become a secretary to many people, to many doctors. What brought you back to the 8? Well, I met and married my present husband. I met him at a dance, a church dance in Hollywood. Wow. And I was on his way back to Samoa. And I was on my... I was just living there at that time. And we married after a whirlwind courtship of about two months. We've been married now for 34 years. Wow. We have a home in Tonga. We have a little picture of our little home in Tonga. He was a prize fighting champion in Tonga. Very powerful man. Good man. Kind heart. Tonga. Where's Tonga? It's mid-central South Pacific. It's below Samoa, west of Tahiti, north of Australia, and east of New Zealand. It's mid-central South Pacific. It's a kingdom. The last Polynesian kingdom. That's a whole story in itself. That's when I became a teacher. Because I needed to get... We only have about eight minutes left. I wanted to pull it all together. We're probably going to be asking you back. But to just quickly finish the five we talked about.  You tell me all five. The student goes with the dancing. Sure. So you tell me all five. Then the mother and... Teacher. Then mother and then the dancing, professional dancer. Then secretary and a teacher. Teacher. And you're being a writer as well? Yes. And you've written a book? I've written a book called... There is a historical novel of Tonga. Oh, wonderful. Is it fiction or not fiction? It's a historical novel. Oh, beautiful. It's based on fact. Beautiful. Very interesting time in Tonga's existence. I would tend to think that even now, living in the Haydashbury as you do in this area, around a lot of creative free thinkers, it leaves you the space to be yourself when you go home. Yes. That's probably why a lot of people live in Haydashbury. I have never publicly read my poems or any of my works before. I would love to have you read something if you have something you enjoy that you've written. Oh, I wanted to show you my little poem. Did I show you my little poem? Yes, I did. I'd love to publish but it's called. I'd love to hear it. Well, this is why I became a reclusive poet. Sure. And it's called Poems for Young Dancers. Okay. It's called Our Poets. Many are the golden-throated frogs that bellow all around. Many are the singers who would sing without a sound. There are those who are far wiser, wiser far than they, that sit beneath the palm and think and say not, yea, nor nay. And this is called a search. Straight, strong words of truth I seek. Nothing vague, nothing weak. Symbols forceful, simple, and true. Getting classic clarity for homage to. So that was my philosophy and why I became a reclusive poet for so long. And I'll read one more to finish this off. And this was called The Heart of a Mystery. Early spring has passed. Grows now summer's glow. Planted seeds now quickly spring and tender seedlings grow to quickly take on newborn life, fresh, strong, and sapling new, and all life's old complaints do fade and falter in their view. What miracle of life lies here that science can't discern? When to the moon and back we've flown, yet every seed that air was sown spontaneously springs to life and owns its portion of this earth. Spontaneous thrust, the seedling's power, whence comes this awesome thing? Prime mover, Yahweh, Allah, God? His name's diverse as tongues above, who holds with power this mighty key and founding all its mystery. That of creative life. That's beautiful. I could understand why you live in a hate actuary. I could understand the inspiration I've heard on your life that you've given me as well. And I'm sure those that will see this take 50 years, 100 years from now, can understand why you're a part of this community. I ask you one last question. If you had a net and you could capture a moment in life that for whatever reason was most inspiring to you and that somebody was watching this video 50 years from now could listen and watch and learn, what moment would you catch and why? Was most inspiring to me? Yes. Was when I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That was the most right thing I ever did in my life. And I have been in that church for 50 years as a teacher, as a conductor of music, as a librarian, and have a great many people that I love very dearly and have been very supportive all my life. And it's been a great guiding light for me. The Spirit of the Lord has been with me since that time, to this present moment. And that was undoubtedly the greatest moment of my life. I think that's beautiful. And hopefully it's understood by those who watch this in the future. And I am honored to have you here. I want to tell you thank you so much for sharing your moments with me and putting them on tape with this video or a list of your projects of the Hade Ashbury. And I can see why you are a resident of the Hade Ashbury and part of this family. And again, thank you so much for being here. And it's a wonderful addition to the library. Thank you for sharing. You're welcome.


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I'm a police officer with the Warcher police We've just come to your mum and dad's house, and we're just looking for Megan. She's been reported missing. Have you seen her at all? Hello, she came on she came on Friday for about an hour. Yeah, then she Left about nine. Okay. I went to McDonald's. Yeah That's 30 year old lab technician Ross muck Cullum talking with a Warwickshire police officer in reference to three-year-old Megan Nubra 30 year old still living at his mom and dad's house Lab tech these are all red flags who had been reported missing a sure while earlier on that very same day All their Ross gives a story about his and Megan's whereabouts on the Friday that had just passed police suspect that he's keeping something from them as he had been the last known person in contact with her what Ross Didn't know was that by the time this call had been made police had already accessed a Megan's mobile phone Which had been located in some undergrowth of Hermitage Road in the village of Whitwick, Leicestershire All evidence at this point led to Ross knowing more than he was letting on Believe it or not to Ross and Megan didn't know of each other's existence prior to June of 2021 But that was all due to change when Megan was about to do an audit in a laboratory at her workplace Ibstock brick a brick manufacturer in Northwest Leicestershire Megan who had recently joined the company's HR department along with some others Had been carrying out a data protection and privacy assessment involving paperwork and files stored once again in the company's laboratory It was here the two crossed paths for the very first wasn't that against HR standards working Time to say they got on like a house on fire would be an understatement This is what Joe Howard a senior lab technician had to say in regards to the pair's relationship Only weeks after they'd first met. There was a time I observed Ross and Megan at work throughout July of 2021 Megan would come into the lab and they were almost acting like a couple on occasion I caught them hugging and kissing in the lab itself Ross was a reliable worker However around the time he started seeing Megan his behavior changed I assumed that he had stopped taking his ADHD medication. He had done it in the past So I recognized the behavior immaturity and teenage like would be the best way to describe it He became boisterous swearing at people and using highly inappropriate language It isn't clear why Ross stopped but certain ADHD medication can lead to problems in the bedroom So I'll leave you to put two and two together seeing as a new relationship had started to develop make sense Like but she's an HR. What is it? I know HR in America. They like they like the people you call you having problems with people like looking at you at work or touching you at work or Saying things that are not appropriate at work. They say you're having a hard relationship Other than the testimony from Joe Howard There isn't any other public sources to paint a picture of what the pair were like at work The same could be said for outside of work Megan's family nor Ross's were aware of how close the two were it wasn't kept a secret But it wasn't serious enough for their families to know of their presence That was all about to change on the 7th of August 2021 though and when the families were finally aware that the two were an item one would be dead the other facing decades in jail Friday the 6th of August at 2021 was like no other for Megan wake up go to work Come home and enjoy the weekend. Nothing in particular was planned for that summer's evening She was going to spend some time at home with her parents. That's where she lived However, that would all change when she received a text message from Ross a If you are editing your own videos, this is above average Go crazy. What a beat-up at mine tonight. My parents aren't home So she got ready and told her family She was off for a walk down the park with the man from work that she called Ross and off she went But as you know, she wasn't going to the park. She was heading to Ross's home This is the last time she would ever be seen alive on camera Getting in a little fiat Shortly after 8 p.m. Megan arrived at Ross's home in Colville, Leicestershire and stones throw away from Ibstock brick We don't know any specifics of what happened when she arrived But what we do know is that within the first of 40 minutes. Yes the first of 40 minutes She would be attacked by Ross McCullum in the front room an attack that would leave her dead He had strangled her but to make sure the job was finished He wielded a knife from the kitchen and hacked away at her neck in an attempt to decapitate her He failed in doing so but caused 14 stab wounds in the process now You might be scratching your head thinking to yourself why how? Why why it seems that Ross might have been hiding something away from everyone a sick fantasy That eventually played out when Megan arrived his actions following her death lay out his true intentions And even a potential to go on to kill again an initial cleanup at the front room was underway Using bedsheets and towels he cleaned up as much of the crime scene as he could before Discretely placing Megan back into her own car along with a bunch of personal items and everything used in the murder In the midst of attempting to shift all the physical evidence away from his parents home Ross called Megan's phone various times and left messages to distance himself further Just prior to 9 p.m. Ross left his parents home on winter clothes and headed in the direction of Loughborough College Phone analysis would reveal that at around 9 o'clock 4 p.m. Megan's phone first entered Hermitage Road roughly one mile away It wouldn't leave that location over the next 20 minutes or so Ross continued his journey towards Loughborough College passing by Charlie Road and it was here Megan's body was removed from her car and thrown over a four-foot brick wall at 9.51 p.m. The car arrived at its final destination Loughborough College's Fitness Center car park However, well, he thought his plan was going up until this point would make no difference because as soon as he's not going well at all He entered the grounds he would be caught on cctv Hey arrived and said cc terrible idea tv footage would also capture the moments He disposed of the rest of the heavily blood-soaked evidence in nearby bins along with him getting changed into some new clothes Will never stood a chance in trial I Hope you got a life sentence Minimum 27 because I know y'all like to do minimums at least give my eye minimum We still need motive. Like what was why? Why would he do that? And how do we know he did that? Like the the the corn part the Jerk The year jerk. I know How long is this footage? Okay, he does some other stuff too Okay Back out Shirt too little This is a terrible plan It don't even seem like he had any thoughts of Camera And then I feel like in the uk when it's a m Like there's there's cameras everywhere like they're gonna see you driving her car on roads They're gonna look back on the path you took all type of stuff He did all this for nothing. They get caught I love shopping the railroad Did he at least burn the stuff or no?  Follow him It's strange to think that a man who would attempt to outsmart the eventual police investigation Would be so outlandish to dispose of the evidence in such a A college place Maybe it was the fact that the summer holiday was fully underway So next to no one would be in attendance at the college or maybe his ego was so inflated He thought that making it so obvious would make the evidence harder to find But as you will soon find out determined family members and detectives would solve this case within days What a surprise leaving the college grounds ross made his way towards love britain center a rough 15 minute war From here he called for a taxi and made his way home in a final beard to attempt to cover his tracks He made one last phone call leaving this voice message Help babe, it's ross.  Um You know, it's probably nothing. Probably friends go to sleep, but uh, yeah, I'm just worried that's all I had a fun time earlier Um, yeah, I'll see you tomorrow Bro crazy To do this knowing that you did what you did Talk about I had a fun time earlier. Haha. Like what what you mean by that? Like that's cynical in itself Okay Ross showed no remorse in the fallout of the murder from attempting to dispose of the evidence To leaving an affairious voicemail his actions up until this point Showed that he was a cold-hearted killer with some experts believing he could go on to kill again Take a listen to what he did when he arrived back home and see what conclusion you come to For roughly two hours after that voicemail was left Ross began to browse the internet for serial killers and murderers Just upstairs from the room where he murdered megan only hours earlier But thoughts of getting caught also crossed his mind Who cut your hair in prison and how much do you pay? You could say then that his internet usage was a glimpse into his sick twisted mind after soaking up all the content You giving them a whole internet trail for everything like Cryptic print whatever related to murder. He opened up a porn website of the extreme kind Analysis of his pc showed that he was on there for roughly 17 minutes I think we all know what took place over those months Bro was searching for the she was searching for the right she was searching for the right one for 16 minutes And then one minute of Bliss is crazy As the sun began to rise on august 7th 2021 john lubra megan's brother received a frantic phone call from his parents Worried but trying to keep a level head john sprung into action first calling megan's phone But to no avail so he along with one of his friends drove to ibstock Remember that's where her workplace was in a beard to at best locate her car once again efforts failed The warwickshire police were informed of megan's disappearance And as some of you may know with megan being a non vulnerable adult They wouldn't get involved in a search at first but they did assist with family inquiries After ampr leads were followed The police alerted megan's family that her car had been spotted on one of their cameras on nan panton road This would have been minutes after megan's body had been See i'm saying Cars spotted on nan panton road One of their cameras on nan panton road This would have been minutes after megan's body had been dumped on hermitage road So john made his way over to nan panton road He canvassed the area but there was still no sign of her car Exhausting his search efforts he switched tactics and decided to locate her phone instead As you know i was on from her disappearance It was still turned on because it was ringing However, there was a slight problem after contacting apple to see if they could locate megan's phone John was told that the team who specializes in doing so weren't going to be in until monday the night But after figuring out he could do it himself via megan's iCloud login details There was finally a new case A signal had been emitted from a country lane You guessed it hermitage road Family and friends rushed to the area to find the phone but the location wasn't specific So it wasn't going to be an easy job The warwick shoe police were called in for assistance The search went on for hours But it was eventually found by a police officer deep inside a large overgrown hedge Surrounded by brambles at the side of a field When police managed to get into the phone there were tens of messages and calls from none other than ross mccullum This new revelation along with the name ross being mentioned to police as the man megan was going to meet Just before she went off the radar meant he was the number one suspect Initially a kidnapping inquiry was opened and it wouldn't take police long before they could locate ross A quick look through the chat history showed that the pair had worked with each other So off the police went to obstruct brick and obtained ross's personal details by 6 45 pm on saturday the 7th of august 2021 less than a day on from when megan was last seen police attended ross's home address to take him in for questioning However, he wasn't home at the time Hi is that ross? Hi ross, my name's Mia. I'm a police officer with the worcester police Hello, um, we've just come to your mum and dad's house. Um, we're just looking for megan. She's been reported missing Have you seen her at all? She came on friday. I've been talking. I've been trying to call her though. Um, she came on She came on friday for about an hour. Yeah, then she She left about nine ish. Okay. I went to mcdonald's. Yeah And then she could be called or text when she got home. She never never did She never did.  Okay. And where are you at the moment? I'm in lufbra right now. You're in lufbra. Okay. What are you up to in lufbra? Sorry, what are you up to in lufbra? I'm just on a having a few drinks in lufbra. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. No worries. Um, where abouts are you? Um, I'm at this point you're getting nervous. Where about are you? He was um, what? Worcester officer, so I have no idea where abouts uh anything is but uh, I can sure find it. Is it the gripping is it? It's science bits. Do you know the road nine or anything like that? Are you whenever even a relationship you and megan? Yeah Never Never I learned this young bro Never get into a relationship with somebody you work with anyway Let's just let's just x that out Do not fuc k your co-workers It's not gonna end well in any way Did she say anything of where she might be going or where she might be? Yeah And she didn't say where she'd be going today all she said is that she'd meet you know How come she didn't stop just he's just making this up on the fly Is it Bear with me one second. Sorry. My sergeant's just swinging go ahead sarge The sergeant We'll do no worries. I'm just speaking to russ on the phone at the moment. Um, I'll give you an update shortly. Yeah already done Yeah, at this point. She just hold on.  Let's focus Sorry russ So just my sergeant didn't give me. Um, so she said that she couldn't stop last night Did she say why she couldn't stop she just said she couldn't stop and then she came around after that Okay Nothing at all Yeah, okay Um, yeah, you're obviously worried about her. Yeah Have you known her for a long time I've known her for a couple years They're good because the lawyer was right because the way that he's selling all of this like he's definitely Like I get the feeling like if they wouldn't have caught him like he's definitely like we'll do it again Because he's too comfortable It's too comfortable. Like he's not stuttering. He's not anxious.  Not that you're aware of um Okay, okay, and What vehicle do you drive russ? Sorry, what vehicle do you drive? Company what no what car do you drive? I don't drive you don't drive Um, I mean, I appreciate I've probably ruined your night out now by worrying Um No, they're they're really worried about her as well.  This is like this is just this is this guy And I thought that's why they know that he had the ability to do it again But he's unwavered. Okay. Um, are you planning on coming home soon? Uh, I'll be home tonight. Um, I can well I can go. I'm at Sainsbury's now. You at Sainsbury's now In love bra. Okay All right, then. Um If you were mine, I've just got some other bits to do. I need to speak to my control room and stuff like that Are you planning on staying there for a bit? Then are you? Um, let me give you a ring in five minutes. I just need to sort some Details out and stuff and I'll give you a ring back if that's okay rocks Okay, well, that's out there trying to enjoy his last night as a free man. All right. No worries. I'll speak to you shortly Thank you. Bye Ross's father arranged for him to be picked up from love bra later on that evening and by 11 30 p.m Police were once again back at the address to take ross in for questioning What initially began with a kidnapped inquiry would soon turn into a murder investigation though after ross made this confession to police I'm dc gallagher for moral cheer, please um At this moment in time we have reason to suspect your involvement in the disappearance of mega new greek And as a result i'm arresting young suspicion of kidnap So you do not have to say anything I may have a defense you don't imagine one question or something which you may later align in court Anything you do say may be given an evidence I'm just gonna pop some handcuffs on you. All right You cannot put these on for us Is that the penguin candy shirt he got on? Can y'all can't see it behind me. Is that it? Yeah, that's fine. No worries Can you feel that? Yeah There's a little bit of room in it. Okay In relation to Megan can you tell us where she is?  Tell him you got something in your ear What is it? Okay What's in relation to Megan? Can you tell us where she is? Say again Talk down the police station Can you tell us can you tell us here just quietly what house he lives? What is that? Nella, what is it? What kind of location is it? Charlie road whereabouts in the label? Okay. Is she alive? The officer is not getting what are you saying? Okay All right, do you want to come with us? Yeah, okay Is she alive? No Okay All right, do you want to come with us? Yeah Did that officer just have one leopard print? What is going on? Yeah, she's Hitting by all the leaves at the minute She'll see if I just let her know where we are low key if he didn't admit like this would have been a hard find right Very full just cancel my panic alarm now just down So you need a suit a tux even I don't need a suit I ain't wore a suit since ever I don't think I ever put a suit on in my life Like yes, I did for like eighth grade graduation It isn't clear whether Ross told police where Megan's car was but only three hours after being arrested the car was located Given all the evidence stacked up against him and his own confession of knowing where Megan's dead body was It led to a murder charge being placed against Ross However, only weeks later He would go on to plead guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he lashed out at Megan as the result of a Counter this in turn triggered an episode of PTSD Which would be his defense when the trial swung around because if you didn't guess it by now that plea wasn't Accepted by the prosecution and so he would have to go on trial in a nutshell Ross's defense as you've just heard was that an episode of PTSD led him to kill Megan And y'all believe this Said the PTSD emerged due to him being warped multiple times as a young teenager one of the perpetrators allegedly Stephen beadman Stephen had been handed a life sentence back in 2016 for the warpin murder A 15 year old schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood This story was actually cooperated by a work colleague at the trial Six months before the murder took place Ross opened up to him to tell him what happened Nothing specific, but just the fact that he was warped as a young teenager However, Stephen died due to a cardiac arrest in 2021 So he was never taken in for questioning in relation to this case nor would he have gone on trial It took the jury just 91 minutes to find Ross guilty of Megan's murder He would go on to be sentenced to life with the minimum term of 23 years in prison I think it's clear to see that Ross had He's gonna be out of 53 that's crazy And it's a girl life taken he's out of 53 like these like the sentencing will never get unamazing to me Like this is the dumbest level of sentencing Some kind of goal to attempt to become Britain's next serial killer His actions after the murder back this theory Sadly, Megan would have to fall victim in order for Ross to be caught though And you can thank his sloppy decision making for that Believe it or not The police actually said had it not been for Ross leaving the phone on and telling them where the body was They more than likely would have never found any of them or if they did it would be years down the line I would like that's the same thing. I just said like if they wouldn't have found if he wouldn't have told them Where it was never doing finding it Start by thanking our incredible family friends and everyone who has offered love and support over these difficult 16 months I'd also like to thank the prosecution barristers, mr. Kameh and mr. Pryor As well as di Jenny Heggs at DC Charlotte me and DC Carrie Potter along with the officer It's a feeling I would insist that Megan will never leave our thoughts Meg was an exceptional person through and through She was and is loved by all who knew her and was nothing but pleasant to those she came into contact with She had a whole life ahead of her She was about to buy her first home and was excited for everything she had coming up She was so eager to start the rest of her life. She ended up losing the one she was living All right, man All right, man, it's crazy man. I'm scared to raise my daughter in this world man I got to do it, but I you know I'm saying But it's weirdos like this guy out there and I was Unlimited amount of weirdos out here. So all you can do is just hope to Give them that third eye like pay attention never lack always keep your eyes on never ease up like 2023 on earth is a scary time. Tell her leave it like common. I'll go


Please a warm welcome welcome back for Chris So out of curiosity How many people attended the event in Amsterdam? Wow Wow that that is impressive So for those of you that did attend it it is a similar Conversation that we're gonna have today We've evolved even just in the past three months with our implementation and adoption of it for it So I'm gonna bring some of that into this presentation as well For those of you that did not attend One of the the more common Themes that we heard in Amsterdam was a concept of change We're seeing IT organizations Kind of morph that we're seeing them adapt to some of the concepts Chris was just talking about with agile lean and The need to move faster is really driving How IT organizations are operating so there's a lot of conversation out there around change and and how we see organizations adapting to that Trying to stay on top of what the business needs And more importantly how to survive Within an organization So a little bit about myself before I get more into the depth of the material As Steve said I've been in IT for about 20 years. I'm just over and a large majority of my career has been focused On different functions within IT and more specifically around Driving the adoption and the influence of leading edge bleeding edge approaches within the organization Within my last company where I spent about 18 years a Big chunk of that was experimenting with companies like IBM with HP with Microsoft and others out there as they wanted to Look at bringing new technology into the enterprises That company was a very large grocery company that serviced several million people across the country had about 200 Locations and about 220,000 employees. So it was a great test bed for some of these companies to come in Prior to leaving that organization. I had responsibility over enterprise automation and leveraging concepts like artificial intelligence and True Yeah, process automation runbook automation kind of you name it that was all inclusive of my responsibilities Over the past couple years, I decided to take a switch and I joined Oracle I've been with them for just over two years now and my key role there is Around service management, but I'm also leading some efforts around digital transformation that we'll get into later on on the deck Before I get into the meat of the story I wanted to share a story with everybody kind of what drove me to the first implementation of it for it At this large grocery company So I'm sitting in my office one day and I get a phone call from the CIO and He says we need to be in the CEO's office in 30 minutes Never a great conversation. You're thinking do I have a job? Is it being outsourced? What's going on there? So I kind of get my thoughts together and I think about really the context behind it The CIO did not really know what this meeting was going to be about So I start walking over you know across the street to where the CEO's office was Sit down at the conference table that was within his office And he asked one simple question He says how can we reduce the spend and IT? IT is one of our largest budgets He had this grandiose vision around doing things in the retail operation space Reinvesting some of the money that he was spending on IT back into the business so at the time I was a little perplexed by What he was asking you know, I thought that we had progressed from more of a Order taker to a service provider for our business We had the best of breed solutions. We were spending a lot on software. We were spending a lot on on people But the reality was is I wasn't looking at that overall service which IT was providing as a cost prohibitor for the company moving forward So I asked the CEO to give me a day or two to think about it and I started talking with various folks around the organization Started talking with some of my peers in the industry with this challenge that the CEO had given me and I stumbled upon one of my peers at Hewlett Packard HP who said hey, we're getting into this Brand-new thing. It's called IT for IT It's a consortium of a bunch of different companies and they're all contributing to this new standard That might be a good thing for you to look at So we started having some conversations around it and ultimately I got back to the CEO and said I have an idea I know that we're spending a lot on software. I know that we're spending a lot on people How about I dig into this new approach and see if it's not Some place that we could end up saving some money So that's exactly what we did We started sourcing all of the software all of the tools that were out in the environment We talked with all 1200 employees We surveyed their laptops through discovery technologies We had interviews with people and what we found out was there were 1300 IT tools and Applications that were deployed across 1200 employees There's no way that we could have consistency with that people were downloading whatever they wanted. They had open source. They had Software that we were paying licensing for and ultimately People across departments and IT and sometimes even within the same department weren't using the same tools weren't speaking the same language and Found that it was very difficult to get work done We also discovered that we had 1500 unique business applications that IT was supporting So between the two of them 2800 applications that IT was either managing supporting deploying So on and so forth So ultimately we jumped into the IT for IT effort We found a way that we could use the structure of IT for IT And this is way back in version 1.1 of IT for IT To identify our solutions come up with rationalization approaches Think about leveraging the automation that we were already doing with an IT and Optimize that towards the process Ultimately getting people to use the same software When we initially started the effort we were targeting about 20 to 30 million dollars of savings By the time I left the company about two and a half years ago We had reached 70 million dollars Since that point I believe it's up an additional 20 to 30 million dollars Where they've reached almost a hundred million dollars in savings through the rationalization efforts So how did we do it? We took the framework for IT for IT and each one of the value streams around it and Through these interviews and the surveys and the discovery that we did with every single person We mapped the applications based on the purpose and the the function that those applications serviced Back into each one of the value streams What this graphic is showing you here and apologize, it's a little bit small But it's showing you that as we mapped out each one of these applications We had an overabundance of certain applications based on the value chain service monitoring for example 280 applications just for doing monitoring with an IT That's absurd You know no wonder when we said well This is saying that the CPU is high and this one saying that the CPU is within normal We didn't know how to react to that we weren't efficient as an IT organization Because we had gone out we had purchased the best of breed software But in almost every single case it was duplicated But what was interesting as we started to map all this out against the IT for IT value chains is That we had deficiencies we had core pieces of this reference architecture that we had absolutely no tools for So when you look at that reference architecture and you understand here the inputs and outputs across each one of the Components of it or the boxes that you see there in the diagram There were certain things that we thought that we were doing as a very mature ITIL organization that we weren't doing Or it was being done manual in some cases We then broke it down even further and here is where you can see you know looking at that service monitoring track under the Detect a correct value stream That we just had Tool after tool after tool after tool and granted some of those were large So they could have been application suites like you know BMC or HP in some cases But there was no consistency and because we had all of these unique or disparate tools None of them or very few of them were actually integrated across the board So we were asking our employees to use Probably three four times the amount of tools That they needed So as an example as we went through and we mapped all this out and then started through the rationalization effort We could take the 280 Service monitoring tools that were there and able to reduce it down to 15 and Then across the various teams whether that was application development whether that was data center operations whether that was Just the core BSM team themselves They were all using the same tools They were all speaking the same language and they could do very efficient handoffs across teams Ultimately the work effort led to creating a reference architecture of our own within IT We called this the ITOM reference architecture and what it did was it pulled all of the tools Across all of our IT service management functions into one view and we could see exactly how Automation played in that picture we could see how the cmdb played in that picture and Ultimately how these teams needed to operate and more importantly how they could grow in the future So if they wanted to buy a new tool, how would that interact based on the IT for IT model? So who here has not heard of Oracle? As I said in Amsterdam not here to sell anything I'm with the internal IT group, so you don't need to worry about architecture slides or or any of that But I wanted to share some statistics. I think everybody's heard of Oracle, but they may not know To what extent or how you know large we are in the industry As I started compiling all these statistics together I found a couple things very interesting one is I didn't realize that we were deployed to about 22 billion devices So every time that you get the Java update on your phone or your PC and you're screaming at Java Guess what? You know we're responsible for that We have in total about 152,000 employees and contractors and Like many other companies out there. We're in a mode of Transformation we hear the shift to the digital enterprise we hear digital transformation. We hear agile dev ops so on and so forth Oracle's no different About a year ago at our conference in San Francisco We made it an announcement that we're moving away from the software business Not necessarily software itself, but the way that we do software so one of those those major points That came out of this is as we shift from a software company We want to become a cloud company. We want to offer all of our software in the cloud to our customers Which also mean that internally within IT we had to adopt what we were telling our customers So all of the on-prem software data center centric software and applications that we had within IT We had to get into our own cloud With our CEOs ambition and our CTO's ambition of becoming the largest cloud company in the world You know we have to start at the roots of the organization So we started scrambling around, you know, how are we going to do that? But in order to understand how we were going to do it we had to understand how we got to where we were So many years back way before I Adjoined the company Oracle had gone through a massive amount of acquisitions and Like any company that does acquisitions integration standardization is always one of the hardest things to do We had multiple ERP systems. We had multiple Email systems multiple service management platforms And there really was no standardization across the company and through each acquisition that was done It was acceptable to have all of these Kind of snowflakes if you will out there in the environment From an IT perspective that became extremely difficult to manage that As each acquisition happened we now had to support a new ERP system or a new email system or whatever it may be each network was unique each Kind of employee profile was unique So it made it extremely difficult to sustain that approach So then we got in this mode of hey, let's adopt ITIL. ITIL is going to fix all of our problems We're gonna have one standard framework for managing IT And in all honesty, we adopted ITIL and we did it a hundred percent We adopted it as if we were a level five maturity organization So everything in that ITIL book got implemented And what ended up happening is IT started alienating themselves from our internal customers And in some regards to our external customers as well that relied on Oracle for support We said we're gonna take these multiple ERP systems and shrink them down to one IT knows what's best for our business And we're gonna do all the work on their behalf We said we're going to standardize we said that we're going to reduce the amount of Offerings that we could give our business because after all, you know within IT. We thought we knew what the business wanted But in all reality That ended up alienating us even further Our customers no longer wanted to work with IT and as a result During that phase we saw new IT organizations not pseudo IT Complete IT organizations being spun up Specific the lines of business within the company. So now we had the problem of all right Well, we said we were going to standardize all of our our applications and hardware and all of our IT assets but now we have Three IT organizations that do or five it five IT organizations that do Change management that do incident management that Have their own access and controls around specific infrastructure that nobody else does So that created a bigger challenge than just the duplication of software itself As all of these unique IT organizations started to spin up Across the enterprise we ended up slowing ourselves down tenfold compared to where we were before We didn't know how to operate let alone as one IT organization or three four five IT organizations So What we would look at in terms of a project delivery being maybe three to five months before it was now taking two years Our customers were getting more and more frustrated With IT and at this time we started to see some of the dynamics change within the industry things like iPhones, you know everybody had an iPhone and what happens when you have an iPhone you download an app It's intuitive you get it in seconds. That's what our customers were expecting from us and we could not deliver We started seeing things like cloud computing like dev ops like agile starting to come around us And I can remember it was 2007 just down the street from here Gartner was having a conference called catalyst And it was the first time that Gartner publicly came out and said If companies don't start looking at cloud start don't start adopting cloud They're not going to survive in the future The model of having your own data centers and managing your own data centers and having high cost resources Is no longer sustainable For any organization and and I was kind of floored when I when I heard that They were also talking about some of the concepts around big data and internet of things But the cloud discussion itself um, especially being an old infrastructure guy kind of took took me to heart that I may be out of a job in the future Over the course of the past two to three For five years give or take depending upon what industry you're in you start hearing terms like continuous integration continuous delivery You start seeing it organizations trying to restructure to say how do I get out of this itel structure? And more into that lean or agile approach And it's a big struggle for a lot of companies Our customers are expecting That we deliver at a much quicker pace that we're not soliciting requirements in two years later Delivering a project that is no longer matched to those requirements Internally within oracle. We've seen the same thing As an it organization as I mentioned previously We're focused on cloud 100 percent of what we're doing within it is matched towards that goal of being a cloud first organization Being a consumer of our own technology And to give you a couple of stats which mark heard one of our CEOs came out with At open world a couple years ago Is he predicts by 20 25 100 percent Of all dev and test Will be out on the cloud that that will no longer sit on prem other than maybe a developer's Laptop when they check out an environment We're seeing or he's predicting I should say 80 percent of production is going to sit in cloud So just a quick show of hands who in the room has not Started deploying the cloud Yeah So we're seeing that explosive change out there cloud gives you the dynamics to be able to quickly deploy You know scale it down when it's not needed scale it up when it is needed elasticity containers some of the new technologies that are coming out almost on a daily basis now Are enabling us to move at a much quicker pace But what we found internally within it is if we continue operating in an it model cloud does nothing for us except give us a new compute platform So we've had to change a lot of our processes a lot of our procedures For supporting cloud So another story very similar to the ceo story I told before About a year ago my ceo or cio calls me again another you know, not great conversation around If we do not Change the way that we operate within it Within five years. We will no longer be an it organization It will either be outsourced Or move to potentially another it organization within the company And so he presented a unique challenge to his leadership team, which is what can we do? To bring value to our customers and to Continually deliver value but move it that much quicker pace Keeping in mind that our number one objective still was to move everything to the cloud We had to support the evolution of our company that was also going through that same objective So I brought back some of the experience that I did with my previous company And said hey, here was a framework that we tried Um, I'm not going to share a ton of detail around it. I'm primarily because at that point in time Methodologies and frameworks Were basically a four letter word within oracle, you know, they wanted to Do their own thing their own flavor of everything So I said I'd like to go investigate this and see if it applies to what we're doing within oracle and he left it at that and So we started With a small team and we built that team as an agile team to go and take a look at It for it and applying that with our transformation So we started out with some of the the the core things we looked at it We looked at dev ops We said should we operate as a waterfall organization? Should we start looking at agile? We knew that we had to change As an it organization, but we didn't really know how We knew that we could use it for it for part of it, but not all of it We wanted to use it for it is the base For our digital transformation efforts We had a pretty big problem though When we went back and started looking at All of our processes all 26 itel processes We only had two that were actually connected to an asset management solution And what you don't see up there is we had no cmdb So we had no centralized Management around configuration items in the environment our processes were all standalone And just like the the previous company I was at each process had its unique tool And the tools were not integrated in any way at all So we weren't effective when it came to service management We weren't effective as an it organization because everything was isolated in nature So then we started looking at pulling it for it into this We started looking at what were the inputs and outputs of each process segment within the value streams What did we need to concentrate on and again looking at this holistically across all 26 processes We knew at some point we needed to change from this traditional model To more agile like So we kept that in the back of our minds as we started re-engineering all of our processes We knew that they had to be integrated We knew that information had to flow from process to process And we had to streamline these processes as much as possible So that we could operate at that new expected approach So we started with configuration management that was our keystone for all of the other processes But instead of having a tool To manage a cmdb like so many of us have out there We said why don't we let the automation take care of that? If we're going to build a cloud solution We're going to use automation to deploy to manage to do everything around configuration management within the cloud Why don't we just have it more as a reporting mechanism than an actual cmdb So we changed our approach We took some people out of the equation that would manage a cmdb or our asset management solution before that We started looking at some of these new ways of working so change management can be done via automation Versus having a complex change approval board Release management can be fully automated other than somebody reviewing the package and approving it And we could start looking at methods like extreme programming And have your test models done before you even develop the code Over time And this took us about seven or eight months We could take all 26 itel processes And shrink that down to 15 instead of buying tools And figuring out the process we started with the process and then did tooling associated with it As mentioned we leveraged it for it As the core foundation for all of our process re-engineering What we ended up doing was taking years and years of process development ever since That very robust itel implementation and threw it out the door We decided we were not going to use any of this Rather we were going to lean on it for it to help prescribe Exactly how we were going to operate as an it organization Anywhere from strategy to operational support All of that was included in this What we then did was we said we need an actual operating model Not just a process framework, but an operating model that we can start figuring out How are we going to work as an it organization? So we leaned on ceb to help us out with their digital enterprise model To understand How agile could be applied to a very traditional i and o organization How could we have that business relationship that we've never Fully understood or have never been able to successfully accomplish And so we leaned on ceb for that We then analyzed multiple agile frameworks that were out there And this was the biggest challenge for us Within it Um oracle it has 7500 people in total. We support 40 000 developers and we have You know an Exorbitant amount of business partners that we work with on a daily basis The scaled agile framework Was something that we could leverage And it applied Perfectly on top of it for it for being able to operate in a fast efficient and predictable model We could take things like centralized decisions push them down into teams. We could allow teams to be self-forming in some regards We could become More of that rapid delivery mechanism that our business was expecting So if we look at where we started in terms of it for it We started at the beginning and that was first understanding What we needed and how we would operate As we rebuilt or re-engineered all of these processes We had four value streams that we started out with the four from it for it that you see and we mapped the processes against those And started creating agile teams within oracle To re-engineer rewrite redesign each one of these processes We started with the select few to test out that model configuration management as I said was Kind of the keystone to everything But we did that in parallel with change management with incident management with test management So that we could create this cohesive process model behind that As we started developing these processes We started thinking about how could each Execution point within the process be handled by either a tool or more preferably automation With the ultimate goal of not having a single person needed to execute these processes. They're just done behind the scenes We then expanded on that. We looked at other value streams, especially strategy to portfolio the requirements to deploy those types of Value streams so then we could understand. How did we interact with the business? How could we actually build solutions and make sure that the requirements? That the business had of it were continually met So not that the old process of get requirements up front deliver two years later It's a checkpoint throughout the way and that's something scaled agile Helps us understand as well We then looked at completing this We looked at the architecture function, which is something that We within our it organization abandoned years ago. So we're Implementing architecture into the environment So as I said each one of these Lays over one another very nicely So if I look at strategy to portfolio for example, we can look at the safe concept or piece For strategy and it plays into each one of those processes very nicely We look at tooling and all of our tooling has been realigned back to those processes Something that that you'll see through these slides is we haven't gone out and invested a tremendous amount in enterprise software to achieve IT for IT We're able to do this with very common open source products And get that consistency across it to where they're using the same products Whether that's Jira whether that is Confluence whether it is a couple of Homegrown types of tools We've simplified just like with my last company the number of products that we have to manage our IT processes Here's another one looking at requirements to deploy and this is Really holistic of that project life cycle. So once I get requirements and once I understand what's strategic for the organization How do I build solutions? How do I leverage things like scrum like xp like lean and agile? to continually Put releases out To continually drive value back into the organization Here's an example of you know, again, how we're using open source tools So if I'm managing source code You know, it could be a tool like get it could be a tool like subversion using Hudson and Jenkins for deployment chains one of the unique things that we found with this is that When we were analyzing all of our tools It created a new type of culture within IT So in years past, for example, infrastructure teams and application developers were highly segregated So through the use of Our process re-engineering the adoption of several different frameworks We now have those teams working directly together We're seeing roles change in the environment that we don't have A server engineer. We have a dev ops engineer that handles both application and operating system We're seeing concepts like software defined data centers Where everything in our environment is being transferred to code So it's really changing not only the way that we do it, but the skill sets within our IT organization And I'm going to breeze through a couple of these since we're running short on time here Um Once we understood kind of the The model around how we would operate Whether that was from a process standpoint or the digital enterprise standpoint from ceb Or even some of the project methodologies Like agile scrum lean that we would see through the implementation of safe We then had to think about how we operated As an IT organization holistically So what we did was we ended up restructuring the functions With an IT not necessarily from an org chart perspective, but really What we delivered within IT Around the IT for IT framework. So we looked at our portfolio management We could align that to strategy to portfolio We looked around project delivery those dev ops types of skill sets Put that into requirements to deploy So what we've ended up doing was Before where it was a very siloed organization based on technology discipline It's now aligned back to Not only our internal processes, but the overall framework of IT for IT So where did that get us? We're about a year into this transformation The goal is by 2020 That will be completely transformed from running a bimodal or multimodal IT organization Which we are currently into 100% of this digital enterprise model We've gone through one implementation of this where they've tested out New processes, new procedures, new tooling The whole agile methodology Where that went live two weeks ago That consisted of 64 application components About 700 virtual servers all running in our cloud environment We saw things like the provisioning of a virtual server within our IaaS environment go from Roughly two months To about two hours give or take including all validation We're seeing a tremendous amount of productivity gain based on re-engineering the processes Leveraging some of these newer technologies and Getting consistency across the IT organization Over the course of the next year our goal is to reposition 100% of the applications that we have That are hosted in our data centers to this cloud environment And our plan is now that we have a tested framework in place To lean on what was developed over the course of the past year We've also seen a heavy dependency on automation So we've been able to eliminate about 80% of where human was involved In the IT processes before eliminated And give you an example change management. We all do change management When we re-engineered that process we went from a 10-day Request to approval cycle to 24 hours Rob England has a thing out there. He's also known as the IT skeptic That's called kill the cap and we took that into heart to say We want to reinvent how IT is done within Oracle And we were able to leverage Various tools and frameworks out there to make that happen We don't see this complex and heavy overhead around review, approval, implementation We can put the trust into our people We can get consistent through the use of automation so that you don't need the heavy overhead And with that being said I'm going to leave you with one quote And this is one of my favorite quotes out there Which is essentially saying you know we're going to go through a journey and it's not necessarily Um What's important during that journey you're going to learn as you go through it But as you get to the end of it You're going to realize you know the importance of all of the events that have kind of built up to that Okay Thank you for your time Grace, thank you. Please take a seat Lots of questions coming in and surprisingly um First one was very early on The oracle introduction slide said you had seven and a half thousand Folks in it and you supported 40 000 internal developers. Why do you not see them as part of it? So the 7500 and great question 7500 Is specific to The internal roles that are needed to Either support application development or cloud team or Lines of business so as I was talking about we ended up with five distinct it organizations That's actually down to three at this point And each one of those it organizations has a customer that they support So the 40 000 developers are actually supported through our Product development it organization technically. Yes. They are part of it But we count them separately because they're developing products that we sell out of the marketplace, right? Let's see Do you use the configuration management component to capture the it service throughout its life cycle? So if we look at the new model And what we started operating with over the the course of the past year We use tools like Kafka We use tools like chef and Get and a couple of other tools in there That through real-time analysis because they know what's been deployed They're keeping a repository of information that we can always go back and say this is the current state of your configuration items What we're seeing in cloud is things are spinning up and spinning down so quickly That we abandoned the traditional cmdb So that we could keep up with the dynamics Okay, so related. Can you say a little more about how you Went about Selecting the tools you said you didn't spend a lot of money on enterprise software What was the process for us selecting tools? So one of the the unique Opportunities that we had Out of the three it organizations. We were the first to go out into the Oracle's public club it was still Basically, you know a concept we had a couple of customers on it But nothing at scale And as we were developing the cloud product itself We partnered with our cloud team to say these are the types of tools enterprises would need it or would need So we did a ton of analysis. We looked at various tools that were out there But we built the model so it was very modular and flexible in design So if we decided that chef was not the right tool for us We could replace that with you know, what other type of automation or orchestration platform Okay, all right um Back to the retailer example, how do you how did you measure the cost savings at the retailer? What metrics were the best to show the savings? So we did it in two different ways We did it one by Product elimination So as we went through and rationalized The entire suite of products we were looking at more enterprise types of solutions So we went with a couple of things that kind of replaced say 2030 50 isolated products So as we eliminated all of these products that we were paying for obviously, there's You know substantial savings right there The other Savings that we measured was through labor savings itself in some cases that was head count reduction In other cases we were looking at productivity That was seen through the automation and another tooling. Okay Thank you Sounds like this is from someone who's been through a alienation phase themselves It seems like you're saying the that using it for it helped free you from the shackles of itill Is that right and if so can you say more about how I mean? Shackles, so that's a great word It for it Supported itill in my previous company So we leveraged That framework or reference architecture to complement their itill implementation because itill is That four letter word at oracle we used It for it for actually getting away from it and we did it in a manner that we did not tell people Outside of that initial group That we were adopting an industry reference architecture to build all of our processes upon And once they saw wow, this is really efficient. This works great. We said oh by the way Guess what we used Yeah, I hear that quite a lot. Don't mention the word just get on just do it. Yeah Uh, what role do you see the technical staff like DevOps engineers and developers playing in an organization like the open group? Within the open group or just in general Uh, well the question is specifically an organization like the open group So like uh coming together and working on uh on standards and I I think um How do I want to say this? I mean it's a good question. If you look at the dynamics of How technology is changing? Every year and a half to two years. We're seeing a significant Transformation within the it technical skill sets five years ago. It would be very normal to have a technology specific role today Those types of roles are being morphed into more of the dev ops types of roles more specialized generalists so What I I've always recommended to my staff and others in the industry is The more that you can collaborate socialize Um either through forums like this or through other dev ops types of Mechanisms, that's the best thing to do right now. Um We need to stay on top of it and it's very difficult to do with how it continually is reinventing itself right now right, okay How much of your effort was spent on gaining insight into the effects of the changes that were made? Ii next to the primary functional changes. Did you have a strategy in place to actually show their effects? So there was a very structured reporting Um and analytics piece behind both of them So one of the things I always want to do is not just adopt something and say, oh, yeah, it worked. I feel that it works better What you need to do is continually sell this and improve upon it So with both implementations, it was a Continual review. Um typically six months After the implementation to say, where do we need to tweak things? Where are we not getting the value that we expected? And we do that across all four value chains With the oracle implementation because we're also adapting Agile into the it organization We actually have Structured teams that that's what they're chartered for So just like you would develop a product or an app dev team would develop a product We have an app dev team that is specific to the processes and they go through the same approach that everybody else does Okay Can you elaborate on how you went about automated discovery and mapping of it components? Curious to know why a tool such as service now was not deemed feasible um So in my previous company, um, they actually had very robust discovery capabilities We were in a state of going from BMC remedy to service now So when this mapping was done Actually both showed up there Because we were at that transitional state And even when I left the company Two and a half years ago, which was two years into their service now implementation. They still had both running so Multiple discovery tools were used from a Desktop or a client perspective. There were tools like HPCA that were used In the data center We used BMC discovery. We used Um, some other types of things. We did not use the service now discovery but It was able to effectively get all software that was deployed Yeah, through the the various tools that we used. Okay Um getting close to having to what percentage of the transformation budget was targeted to retraining and or sourcing changes So in the previous company, it was more of a grassroots effort So as we did Rationalization most of the training came internally. So there was not a significant amount of budget Associated with it even though we were recouping a large amount of money In oracle, we're taking a different approach because we're completely uprooting The structure the methodologies and the framework within it And we're completely abandoning itel We're spending a significant amount of money on training retooling And whether that is to understand the methodologies or that's even to train people in the new tooling that's You know, that's being implemented Um, which is why you see a three-year implementation on this. You know, we're touching a lot of people We're also training the business as we go through this So the business goes through the exact same Methodology training that it does because our goal is that they're going to be operating together Okay, um two two quickies And you kind of answered what the oracle view on this is already I think but can it for it replace itel completely I don't believe that it can and if you look at how it for it's been constructed It leverages pieces of itel. It leverages pieces of cobit and iso and you know various other frameworks that are out there It's kind of the best to breed figuring out what's worked out there in the industry If you talk to Anybody out there, you know, whether that's the gardener the forester And even some of the dev ops folks That they'll say itel is not dead, but itel Is dated And what we see is some of these new things like agile adopting pieces of it But doing it in different ways so My advice to companies is You know figure out as you're going through your digital transformation Is what pieces are actually critical to support itel? You still have to do change management. You still have to do incident management But how you do it can be done completely differently. Okay. And last one, uh, have you written a case study of your Experience of using it for it and the transformation and if not, can we get one? And it wasn't me asking the question. It's down I co-authored a piece That hp had done a couple of years ago And we're actually in the process of writing one specific to oracle right now So whomever asked that question, you know hit me up and Be more than happy to have you as an early adopter of that white paper. Okay. Chris. Thank you very much. Absolutely Thank you very much


I'm Janet Fagan and today we are going to be using the portrait as a way to explore self-expression and identity. So we're going to be using materials that you can make yourself or that you probably have on hand at home and will need to be in a place where you can see a reflection of yourself and hopefully have a good light source on one side of your face.  You can go into your bathroom if you like sit in front of the mirror in there if you have a lamp that you can pull in there with you to create a light maybe turn off all the other lights except for the lamp. Even a hand mirror will work well if you can prop it up on something to keep it steady while you're drawing. That's a great tool or a makeup mirror maybe on the stack of books or something to keep that handy. The other things that you're you're going to need you're going to need some paper that you can that you can work on a couple of sheets. I also have part of a paper bag here that I'm going to be using. You might want to get that ready and then you'll see that I also have several piles of different colors that I've cut out from magazines so make sure these are magazines that nobody's reading or wanting to look at again but I have I have separated the colors into reds oranges and yellows or warm colors blues greens and purples or cool colors and then some darks just to make them a little bit easier to find. The other thing that I've done as a way to prep my materials is I've done some I've done some writing. So this is just different thoughts that I've had pieces of poems that I've written some stream of consciousness thinking just words that are meaningful to me and I've taken colored pencils a regular pencil and a magic marker and just put them in different blocks trying to use different handwriting different ways to make these blocks of texts feel feel different. I have a I have a couple of light ones for areas where I may want to have a little more light and then I have some deeper darker ones for areas where I may want to show some some darker areas or some shadows. So if you want to prepare that or you can look for text from other sources this is just a page and index out of an old atlas that is actually out of date because the world has changed since this atlas was created and so I was able to pick it up at the Goodwill for just a couple of bucks and I've had it for a long time I use it every now and then and I just decided to pull a page out that represents Seattle so Seattle is on this index page and that's where I'm from. So there you have it some materials to get us started and then once you're set up in front of your mirror with your light you're going to start with just some really general observing and get this hand mirror out of the way. So I'm just using a number two pencil here and this will work just fine for you. You're also going to need scissors today and a glue stick. So observing I'm looking at myself I'm looking at myself head on and I'm just going to create a very simple line drawing of myself because what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a line drawing and then I'm actually going to cut it up and I'm going to cut out the shapes that I find to create positive and negative shapes that I can then turn into collage elements and stencils. So I'll show you what I mean about that in a minute but first I'm just going to take some time to sketch out a very simple likeness of myself so I'm starting with a big oval for my head and then a cylinder for my neck line for my shoulders a line suggesting the scoop of my t-shirt that I have on and then I'm going to just give myself a little bit of help keeping things organized in my drawing with a proportion map so I made a center line top to bottom a center line again from side to side to just give me a guide where my glasses are going to fall and then a center line representing the bottom of my nose between the eye line and the chin and then one more center line for my mouth between the bottom of the nose and the chin. Okay so I'm going to start I'm going to start with my glasses because they're they're giant and I can see them really well and they make a big a big shape so just starting with the bridge sketching out the big shape of my glasses this will come into into playing a little bit and then I'm going to look at the just the outline of my nose not worried about the details I just want very very very simple shapes so what I see is the the side of my nose flares out into the sides of my nostrils and then the bottom of my nose is kind of a wave making room for my nostrils and then the bottom of the ball of my nose which comes down my mouth I'm going to look at it closed and not moving so I can get a feel for what the outline of my mouth looks like okay so just really simple top and bottom lip I'm extending my chin just a little bit because I got kind of a little bit off track from my proportion lines there so I need a little more length for my chin and now I'm going to look at the big patterns of light on my face I see there's a big pattern of light on the side here it goes down behind my glasses and then I'm noticing that my hair is a shape kind of goes off the page like so kind of triangular away from my head and then come my hair comes in defining the side of my face so I'm getting these lines here along the side of my face that are defined by the hair okay and I'm going to go over this drawing a little more carefully now because I'm going to cut it all out in just a second and I want to make sure I know where to cut now that I have my my drawing outlined and emphasized I'm going to go ahead and and cut it out and I'm going to just show you an example of what we're aiming for this is an example that I did at home just to give you an idea of where we're going with this so you can see here that this is the the negative shape of my drawing and this is the positive shape of my drawing so the positive shape is actually the what I've drawn the drawing itself and the negative shape is all the space around it and these are going to be our tools for building our portrait so the first step is not to not to cut it out to this degree the first thing I want to do is cut out just the outline or the silhouette and you'll see why in a sec so I'm going to just do that now got my silhouette cut out and I'm just looking at the paper that I brought with me and I am going to use this brown paper and you'll see I did the same thing when I made the demo and this is this is the cut out so I'm going to cut out the shape of my silhouette from the brown paper so I'm just laying it flat I'm going to give it a nice dark outline use this paper as my working paper and collage this on like so as a starting point but I think I'm more interested in this so I'm going to pick this up and use this as my background and that's already starting just with that just with that addition I'm starting to tell the viewer a little bit about myself with this portrait so it's starting to already have a little bit of self-expression in it just with the choice of the background the color that I'm using for my head and face and you're gonna whoops can't hang on to the glue stick and you are going to have a lot of these fun choices to make as you go so everything that you add can share can share a little bit about who you are how you see the world what you think is important things that you would like people to know about you this art is a super effective way to communicate about who we are and what we care about to the world sometimes it's easier to make a piece of visual artwork with a message that is meaningful to us rather than to actually speak the words to someone so it's a great way to express yourself okay so next step I've got my silhouette on my background now I want to start building in the features that I have in my drawing and the way that I'm going to do that is I'm going to cut them out just like I did in the demo and I'm going to show you where we're going with this so this is this is the demonstration that I did yesterday and you can see I had my hair up but it's the the idea is using text that has meaning using colors to define yourself and you want to as your as you're expressing your identity in your portrait you always want to have in the back of your head that you're making a you're making a piece of artwork and you want it to be harmonious so that the choices that you make should flow together in a way that your whole composition is united and we'll talk about that more as as we go but you can see here for example I use this dark blue to float through the composition and carry the eye from the top to the bottom and side to side and also choosing the the text in the background really helps to pull things together too and also actually gives me more leeway to use more variation in the face if I have something unifying the whole composition okay so I'm going to cut out all of the individual shapes here so that I have them to work with this is where the fun part happens because you get to start making those creative decisions how you want to define yourself here so I am excited to use the text that I created so I'm just going to think for a second how do I want to show though I think I'm going to go with because I want to draw attention to my eyes I'd like to emphasize them so I'm going to go with a color that has a good attractive quality and that's red so I'm going to go into my red text and I'm going to lay my my eye shape over the top of the red text and I'm going to cut out the red text for my eye shape so to make that a little bit easier I'm just going to go into the text and separate it from the other blocks of text and the other thing that I'm going to do to make it a little bit easier is I'm going to flip it over so that I can trace not on the text itself but on the back so I've also flipped over my my template or my shape at the same time because you want them both to be facing the same way so you don't get a reverse of that shape I want to do just to sort of orient myself is I'm going to go for the big shape of the hair and so looking at my reflection in the mirror I know that the light is coming from one side so I'm going to try and emphasize that so just to make things a little bit more straightforward so that I can start to see where I am I'm just going to take my pencil and I'm going to outline the edges here and then once I do that I can see where I want the color to go so I'm going to start with some light on the right side and some deeper darks on the left and I'm just going to have fun building this so I'm just laying it in right now just so I can get a sense for how I want to cut it so now I'm just going to take a few minutes and and fill in the hair and get that I want it by shaping the edges a little bit to match what I have in my drawing doesn't have to be perfect I'm just thinking of big general terms right now you can always tighten things up later but for now just keeping it really nice and loose idea for how you can go back and forth between tracing out your templates to give details of your features and then using your templates just to spatially show you how to fill in different areas so if I go back and look at the the finished demo you'll notice that I'm just hitting a few key shapes and I'm even going back in and drawing with the marker to kind of pull things together so it's really up to you how you determine you know what do you want to emphasize in the piece that I'm working on now I'm emphasizing the colors in the hair and what I see through my vision which is a poem that I had written yesterday in this piece I'm emphasizing the the color in the nose the highlight here and then really the the pattern in the hair of the of the bricks echoing sort of the pattern down here in the body of the of me of the person so this is something that you can sit with you can think about what the right choices are for you what you want to include maybe you want to take some time to do some writing away from this for a little while to think about introducing that element into into your piece in the headband here I have a crow that was a crow so it's a poem about a crow I have a poem that I love that is about one of my favorite birds the crow that I included in the headband and so you can see that it just has a little bit of the text giving just a clue into that so you don't have to tell the whole story but the more glimpses that you can give into what's important to you and who you are this will become a more personal portrait that expresses your identity all right so thanks for exploring this with me and have fun hanging out with your reflection and thinking about these tools and how you're going to put them together