Kevin Beard joined BIAS as a Sales Director in March of 2020. Prior to joining BIAS, Kevin worked as an Oracle Technology Account Manager in Austin, TX, where he was responsible for business development and delivery of sales for Oracle's core technology database products. In 2014, Kevin left Oracle to advance his career by expanding his sales capabilities into professional services and engineered systems as a Sales Director with an Oracle platinum partner based in Dallas, TX. He has worked as an Oracle-centric partner ever since. In his free time, Kevin enjoys focusing on an active and healthy lifestyle with hobbies such as weight training, yoga, and​​ mountain biking. ​Kevin is a native Texan living in St Petersburg, Florida since 2016. He is returning to his former home of Austin, TX in March to continue serving customers in his current role with BIAS.

Eddie is the son of a distinguished Army Veteran who grew up in a small town named Colon in the country of Panama. He has been living in Atlanta, GA since 1998 providing IT consulting services across the US. He joined BIAS in June of 2018 to take on a new successful journey in his career as a Territory Account Executive. In July of 2020, Eddie accepted the Role of Deputy CTO at BIAS which allows him to share innovative ways to apply technology to solve business problems and help organizations to achieve financial and operational efficiencies. Eddie loves to tackle tough problems, and to educate others on the art of the possible. He believes that through education we can improve the lives of others and the wellbeing of the country.

Prior to joining BIAS, Eddie worked as an Oracle Master Solutions Architect in Atlanta, GA where he was responsible for assisting in business development, and enterprise architecture development covering Oracle Engineered systems, Oracle's core database products, and Oracle Cloud technologies. He was part of Oracle’s Elite Engineering Exchange team which was responsible for bridging the gap in the information feedback loop between customers and product development.

Eddie’s career has exposed him to many viewpoints, which are crucial for developing Enterprise solutions and being able to lead companies through technology transformation initiatives. He has worked as an Apps Developer, Apps DBA, Data Warehouse developer/DBA, Data Architect, Technical Project manager, Performance Engineer, and various management roles covering development teams and operations teams. Eddie has been part of teams tasked with transforming and modernizing many technology stacks over the years: he has worked on Data Center Modernization, Application Rationalization, Cloud Adoption, and Digital Transformation initiatives.

In his free time, Eddie likes to focus on catching up on trends in the financial markets and spending quality family time with his wife and 3 girls.

Eddie loves activities such as swimming, whitewater rafting, and bike riding.

• Brian is the Chief Executive Officer at Collier IT and an Oracle ACE Director for Systems Technologies He has over 37 years in the Information Technology field starting in the US Navy in 1981. Although proficient in many technologies his passion has been in the Operating Environment, Engineered Systems, Data Center grade servers, Big Data/Hadoop, and storage. He has been teaching for Sun Microsystems / Oracle since 2000. Brian actively writes a blog and provides formal presentations on various Oracle and related technology topics.

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• I have over 20 years of experience in Developing, Architecting, performance tuning Oracle and SQL applications.

• Managed people and lead technical teams in both software development and CI/CD space using Puppet.

• Designed, developed and extended data models both in OLTP and OLAP environments.