Marson Tech Ventures (MTV) is a Washington-based business & technology consultancy and advisory collective that partners with companies and organizations to define, design, and deliver elevated experiences to customers, partners, and employees by leveraging relationship, service, and technology design services.With more than two decades of practical experience as a technologist and enterprise business leader, Nick brings a unique blend of technical solutions architecture, stakeholder-obsessed relationship & experiential design, and functional business expertise to his clients and partners.

Nick led the creation and growth of the Technology & Platform Strategy practice at Studio Science, including the formation of a Salesforce Consulting Partner practice. This team of technologists delivers the Studio’s strategy and design experts’ visions; making them a reality for customers.Studio Science is a design and innovation agency specializing in the design of brands, products, and services for people.Founded in 1998, Studio Science exists to help smart businesses deliver experiences that work better for customers, partners, and employees.

Owner of three global services providing secure access controls for AWS and Amazon teams.At Amazon Consumer Cloud Security (C2S), we automated surveillance and access controls over Amazon's massive cloud infrastructure using machine learning and cutting-edge AWS products. Our teams enabled Amazon Software Developers to create and deploy secure software. Our systems protected the hundreds of thousands of micro-services that swarm together to deliver customer experiences like online shopping, asking Alexa about the weather, playing video on your fireTV, sending a gift card to a friend, and tuning into Twitch.Our team operated with an engineering-centric culture, where software developers drive prototyping and productizing tools that increase productivity for building on Amazon's infrastructure. We worked closely with experts from technology teams, security professionals, and business leaders across Amazon and AWS to automate security and regulatory requirements.

Owned strategic direction and advisement of AWS’ largest customer account by leveraging a dedicated account team of 30+ public cloud professionals driving adoption, innovation, and education of public cloud services.

Led and mentored a high-performing team of customer-facing software development engineers and consultants.Grew the team from four to fourteen consultants operating in four time zones.

Featured Customer: Logitech | Lausanne, SwitzerlandRole: Technical Lead - Salesforce Custom App Engineering TeamProvided Technical Lead direction for an advanced, customer-facing product support and community site using the Salesforce Force.com platform, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Salesforce Community Cloud. https://community.logitech.com/

Featured Customer: Salesforce | San Francisco, CARole: Technical Lead - Salesforce Custom App Engineering Team• Developed and launched a custom Salesforce Community Cloud and Ideas app for the Salesforce Investor Relations Team. The customer used the application at their annual Dreamforce customer conference during live sessions with their investor community.

Featured Customer: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (Roche Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics) Basel, Switzerland | Mardrid, Spain | Indianapolis, INRole: Technical Lead - Google Apps Migration Engineering TeamLed a team of software development and migration engineers on a global Google GSuite deployment to 93,000 Roche employees. 40TB of mailbox and PST data were migrated from on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers in four global data centers to a new GSuite organization. Roche’s user base spanned 157 countries around the world.

HoverCrowd is a SaaS crowdsourcing platform that enables companies to innovate and get more work done with the power of their crowd. Conceptualized, developed, launched, and accelerated the service through MVP, beta, and acquisition stages.HoverCrowd was acquired in December 2014 by an industry-leading crowdsourcing company.Launched HoverCrowd while working at Appirio (see above).

Led the execution of a technology roadmap and managed projects from inception to delivery.Deployed a state-of-the-art virtualized data center at Clabber Girl Corporation.Architected a highly-available mobile virtualized data center for INDYCAR’s Timing & Scoring team.Delivered highly-scalable, on-demand web resources for INDYCAR’s Race Control product, streaming video, and IndyCar Nation fan sites by leveraging cloud service providers Amazon Web Services and LiveStream.

Owned the design and delivery of technology infrastructure providing streaming video, timing & scoring results, and social media feeds to fans live from every IndyCar event leveraging cloud service providers Amazon Web Services, Wowza, Conviva, and Level 3.Mentored fellow teammates and led regular knowledge transfer and sharing sessions.

Led the migration from Exchange 2003 to a highly-available, geographically-dispersed Exchange 2007 messaging platform.Avoided $150k+ in capital costs through infrastructure virtualization efforts using VMware.

Owned technical delivery for SMB and government IT systems administration contracts.

Upgraded networking equipment at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Supported help desk functions for First Indiana Bank.Performed client system upgrades at Roudebush VA Medical Center.

Managed and supported data center and endpoint systems powering an in-house trading floor.

Developed internal financial applications and reports for on-premises trading and portfolio operations.

Provided client desktop support and helpdesk phone support to end users.

Upgraded client and server computer systems and learned the art of crimping Ethernet and coaxial cables.