Brad Anor-Beard

About Brad Anor-Beard

With over 10 years of experience in the hyperscale cloud industry, I’ve worked in roles spanning Finanxe and Technical Program Management. I currently contribute to Microsoft as a Senior Technical Program Manager in the Azure Competitive Hardware Analytics space, with focus on analyzing competitive advantages and disadvantages in hardware infrastructure and collaborating with across sourcing, hardware engineering, finance, and core engineering teams. While currently working in the competitive space, I spent 9 years in server fleet efficiency and fleet capacity optimization, as well as operational server forecasting and capital planning.

Experience

1. Sr Technical Program Manager - Azure Competitive Hardware Analytics

   Microsoft

   Jan 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Provide analysis on competitive advantages and disadvantages in the hardware infrastructure space. Work cross functionally with sourcing, hardware engineering, finance, and core engineering teams to provide recommendations on hardware planning decisions regarding storage, networking, and AI infrastructure. Create competitive insight communications for organization (>150) level report outs on new industry technologies and competitor product announcements regarding compute, networking, and storage infrastructure.

Education

• University of Puget Sound

  Bachelor's degree, Business

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Budgets
• Finance
• Strategic Planning
• Team Leadership
• Financial Analysis
• Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Investments
• Leadership
• Financial Risk
• Strategy
• Public Speaking
• Customer Service
• Mutual Funds
• Networking
• Marketing
• Analysis
• Loans
• Sales