Nicholas W. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

I advise and provide a variety of services to exciting data related startups. I specialize in helping these companies come up with an effective plan on how they should collect and use data to optimize their business. This can range from helping them build their initial data science team to how they should architect their data pipeline for massive scale, and everything between. Beyond startups I provide advisory services to companies that are industry leaders in big data and analytics.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

As Director of Decision Sciences I was responsible for the following areas:- Providing leadership and guidance to one of the largest and most highly respected data science teams around- Ensuring that our group was providing effective services to all corners of the organization- Providing critical analytical skills to the fraud and abuse team- Communicating the health of the business on a daily basis to the executive team and providing long-term analysis on the dynamics of social data - Partnering with the data services group to ensure we were working hand-in-hand- Continuously recruiting for all areas of the business- Leading the development of actionable, automated and concise company wide dashboards- Developing an productive and rewarding team cultureOf all of our accomplishments, I am most proud of the team DJ Patil, myself and many others helped put together.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As Director of R&D, I divided my time between:- Consulting technical leadership- Researching industry trends within the analytics and data warehousing space- Educating employees and clients on trends and technologies- Developing added value platforms and tools for our clients- Providing pre-sales support to our account management team- Executive team duties

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a Solutions Architect I provided technical leadership and development expertise to Kinetic Networks clients. Beyond client engagements I worked extensively on recruiting, pre-sales, company operations and employee training.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

As a Business intelligence consultant, I provided technical leadership on strategic projects. Work included:- Team leader and technical architect for the initial research and prototyping of the internationalized version of the finance channel for Strategy.com- Team leader and technical architect for the narrow casting sub-system of the first European affiliate for the Strategy.com Financial Channel. This required leadership of a team of up to 10 people with the goal of producing an internationalized set of financial alerting services for a large investment bank.- Assisted Microstrategy’s technology division in planning future requirements and functionality for the MicroStrategy 7 product range.- Technical architect for the design and implementation of several multi-terabyte data warehousing solutions, using MicroStrategy 7 and 6 as the front-end reporting tool.- UK practice lead for Narrowcast consulting engagements, managing a team of consultants and being responsible for the technical architecture of all large-scale projects.