Chad Lich
Director Azure Infrastructure Specialist
About
Chad Lich has over 30 years of experience in information technology and is currently a Director Azure Infrastructure Specialist (Sales Guy) and formerly Principal Cloud Solution Architect for Cross Solution & Industry Innovation (Tech Guy) at Microsoft and has been with the company for nine years leading global enterprises in their successful digital transformation. Prior to Microsoft, Chad worked with Build-A-Bear and Intelligrated (Honeywell Company) as a director of BI and development, leading teams and building software to enable these businesses with data insights and tools that focused on adding value and business transformation. Chad holds a bachelor’s in information management from Webster University and an MBA from Southeast Missouri State University Harrison College of Business and Computing. Chad is also active as a contributor to STEM events in the St. Louis region, engages as a board member to a public institution and private STEM focused company, while also contributing to his local tech community as part of Azure and DOTNET Meetup groups.
Sessions at dev up 2025
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