Nick Beaird Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

The market for cloud technology and services is increasingly accelerating driven by the need for sustainable business growth. Success in this market requires taking a customer business outcome approach and engaging with a broader set of stakeholders to bring innovative solutions, services, and partnerships to our customers. The Customer Business Outcome approach requires vertical relevance, clear articulation of business value, and a transformation vision on how to evolve across multiple horizons. The approach we have built starts with top business outcomes at a vertical level and breaks them down to the right use cases/scenarios. We then take the KPIs our customers and benchmark relative to industry average and leaders to quantify a leap in maturity. Finally, we prioritize and sequence the transformation architecture and capability maturity model. This ensures we are innovative on our offerings and have a voice internally and with customers that drive tighter alignment, accelerated business outcome delivery, and a simplified transformation plan.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

We identify best-in-class blockchain assets; analyze the market cycle; accumulate during the down cycle; and take profits during a surging market.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Built and led the Global Solution Architect organization to work with our customers to establish their Digital Transformation Strategy and build a migration path to the Industrial Internet. Specifically, we helped customers prioritize their key business outcomes, define a target state reference architecture, develop the business case, and plan a strategic roadmap for delivery. Created and delivered offerings providing the ability to combine business strategy with technology solutions to solve complex business problems and deliver outcomes to our customers.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Re-built and led an organization of business development and solution architecture professionals to create innovative service offerings and developed new partnership models. We created, built, and launched cloud based solutions and services to enhance the value proposition to our customers. We also were responsible for creating and managing new business development programs and solution architecture methods for our analytics based solutions.Our team of sales, solution architect, and technology professionals designed competitive strategy and innovative offering design to support the launch of Oracle Engineered Systems. The Big Data and Data Analytics platform consisting of Exadata, Exalytics and Big Data Appliance provided transformational opportunities for our customers to leverage modern technology to innovate their business models and launch new products and services.

Chicago, Illinois

Engaged with information technology, operations, marketing, and business owners to architect services offerings to delivery a modern technology platform. This innovative architecture offering integrated business operations from the field into the corporate enterprise on a common platform to improve customer service models, identify new business opportunities, and simplify the operating rhythm of our clients business.

Chicago, Illinois

Collaborated with our clients to design and implement business analytics solutions that were tied to driving their financial performance. We transformed businesses by moving their operations from paper based systems to digital solutions, enabled product pricing based on newly available market data as opposed to historical market analysis, and designed modern technology architectures that facilitated the adoption of continuously emerging technology.

Acquired into IBM from PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship

B.S. Industrial And Systems Engineering, Engineering, Economics

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha