Rick Nix

About Rick Nix

Highly experienced senior IT executive. Motivated, Strategic, Creative and Logical thinker. Loyal and Dependable with true \"leadership\"​ skills that succeed with high integrity and honor. Collaborative team-builder and catalyst for success and change. Rare qualities of incredible depth of technical excellence and formal university Graduate degrees. Grounded in military core values with a servant\'s heart.Account client leadership, owns the whole picture end-to-end, highly successful account turnaround leader. Data Center Steady State Delivery, Cloud and \"Transition & Transformation\"(T&T) expert. Former IT engineer with current deep technical skills combined with PMP-certified program/project leadership and enterprise-level datacenter management.Outstanding written and oral communicator.Strong retention numbers due to Leadership Strategies of “Delegate, Empower and Trust”. Proud that many of my teammates follow me from team to team, and even company to company.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Cloud Tower Services

   Atos

   Jan 2014 — Present

   Atos has reorganized and I was selected to lead the new CLOUD TOWER SERVICES. This new senior leadership position has overall responsibility for all Cloud activities affecting all North American commercial customers. Overall we are running tens of thousands of virtualized instances while I\'m also leading 25% of our team doing Transition and Transformation activities. Exciting new changes as Atos works to be the dominant company in North America for Cloud operations, as they are today already in Europe.

Education

• Peru State College

  Bachelors in Business, Business

  1992 — 1994

• Colorado Technical University

  MBA, Executive, Business

  2002 — 2005

• Colorado Technical University

  Masters in Technology Mgmt, Info Technology and leading IT team members

  2002 — 2004

• Colorado Technical University

  Masters in Project Mgmt, Project Management

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Vendor Management
• Solution Architecture
• Outsourcing
• Business Process Improvement
• Service Management
• Infrastructure
• Project Management
• IT Outsourcing
• Storage
• Requirements Analysis
• Troubleshooting
• Cloud Computing
• Managed Services
• Management
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• IT Strategy
• Call Centers
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Virtualization
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Servers
• Itil
• Team Leadership
• Information Technology
• Disaster Recovery
• Process Improvement
• IT Management
• Data Center
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Windows
• Incident Management