Nick’s career in the IT Industry started in 1997 as a Computer Specialist and Active Duty, US Marine. He found that he has always focused on automation and pattern recognition. That led to, discovering Compute Virtualization, including all of the benefits & efficiencies, gained which leads to... Business Value & Cost Savings.

Throughout his career he's been on the cutting edge of Technology leading multi-million virtualization projects in various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Logistics. From 2004 - 2012 he has overseen the project planning for many implementations in which he was responsible for the architectural designs, budgeting & forecasting, and enablement.

Then he took his Technologist skills to the IT Manufacturing industry and has been on the forefront of the Cloud-Native evolution. He joined EMC as a vSpecialist in Presales, aligned between EMC, VMware & Pivotal. His role has transformed into a Cloud Platforms Specialist at Dell Technologies with tight alignment to Pivotal. He interfaced with customers to help guide them in executing and accelerating their transformation efforts on Pivotal Cloud Foundry as it was getting to market. He worked with customers to define their strategic initiatives and focused on translating their defined outcomes into technology solutions with objectives to monitor, measure & meter progress.

In 2018 he joined Red Hat as a Sales Specialist for OpenShift. He’s now an ISV Partner Alliance Manager for Red Hat and has a portfolio of strategically managed Partners in the Storage and Data Analytics EcoSystem. He works with these Partners to go to market with a joint value proposition for solutions that are purpose built to provide Data Modernization for an Open Hybrid Cloud and Cloud-Native Workloads.

Since he came from this background and has lived through what customers are going through, he sees that IT Organizations must transform themselves, as well, to maintain a competitive advantage. The topic of DevOps has matured and gained traction over the years, he realized that it is not new. The concepts, methods, philosophies, strategies & tooling are evolving and maturing. DevOps is a journey, and it’s not the same for every organization. He believes innovation is derived from having cross-functional teams aligned to defined business outcomes. Every company’s culture shines when the priority is centered around open communication & collaboration.

In 2016, he founded the NashDevOps Community in Nashville to enable collaboration for business leaders, IT professionals and practitioners from our local businesses and across many industry verticals. The group meets monthly in Nashville, TN, to discuss these initiatives and learn from each other. Through that, he was able to establish DevOpsDays Nashville, their inaugural, 2-Day DevOps Conference. He was the Lead Organizer for the DevOpsDays in 2016 & 2017.