Nick’s professional journey began a long time ago and was driven by a natural curiosity about computers and coding. This led to several opportunities of producing gaming and music software on a variety of old-school PC platforms. He did a stint at Apple back in the day where he learned about QA and testing, and his passion migrated into preventive quality and proactive process improvement. Nick then worked for decades in the QA space, most of that time at Microsoft trying to improve the quality and delivery of Project, Word, and eventually embedded automotive and infotainment products. He spent his post-Microsoft career in Program Management roles where he can apply process improvement principles and what he learned in QA to make companies and their development ecosystems better.
When he is not trying to make things better, you will find him outside climbing, skiing, or his number #1 passion: whitewater rafting and kayaking. Nick has boated every river you’ve likely ever heard of in the Northwest and Idaho and has spent a lot of time in Costa Rica and Ecuador enjoying their bountiful collection of warm waters. His personal top achievement was rowing himself down the entire 270 miles of the Grand Canyon on a 3-week expedition in August of 2018.
