Nicholas Shields
Operations Research Analyst at Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office- Claim this Profile
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Ron Synakowski
Nicholas, in many ways you are the heart of our team. You have on-boarded all of our interns and PAQs and teaching them how to contribute in a real work environment. Then they all go on to be some of our highest performing team members. Thank you! You also seem to manage an innumerable number of on-going and potential use cases, keeping an eye out for the owns that advance our enterprise capabilities. Thank you!
Joseph Caudle
Nick showed himself to be a very able educator while serving as my Teaching Assistant during the first term of Duke TIP at Trinity University in the summer of 2012. He was always ready with an explanation to make sense of difficult topics in Mathematics and showed great enthusiasm for the subject and concern for the succes of all of our students.
Ron Synakowski
Nicholas, in many ways you are the heart of our team. You have on-boarded all of our interns and PAQs and teaching them how to contribute in a real work environment. Then they all go on to be some of our highest performing team members. Thank you! You also seem to manage an innumerable number of on-going and potential use cases, keeping an eye out for the owns that advance our enterprise capabilities. Thank you!
Joseph Caudle
Nick showed himself to be a very able educator while serving as my Teaching Assistant during the first term of Duke TIP at Trinity University in the summer of 2012. He was always ready with an explanation to make sense of difficult topics in Mathematics and showed great enthusiasm for the subject and concern for the succes of all of our students.
Ron Synakowski
Nicholas, in many ways you are the heart of our team. You have on-boarded all of our interns and PAQs and teaching them how to contribute in a real work environment. Then they all go on to be some of our highest performing team members. Thank you! You also seem to manage an innumerable number of on-going and potential use cases, keeping an eye out for the owns that advance our enterprise capabilities. Thank you!
Joseph Caudle
Nick showed himself to be a very able educator while serving as my Teaching Assistant during the first term of Duke TIP at Trinity University in the summer of 2012. He was always ready with an explanation to make sense of difficult topics in Mathematics and showed great enthusiasm for the subject and concern for the succes of all of our students.
Ron Synakowski
Nicholas, in many ways you are the heart of our team. You have on-boarded all of our interns and PAQs and teaching them how to contribute in a real work environment. Then they all go on to be some of our highest performing team members. Thank you! You also seem to manage an innumerable number of on-going and potential use cases, keeping an eye out for the owns that advance our enterprise capabilities. Thank you!
Joseph Caudle
Nick showed himself to be a very able educator while serving as my Teaching Assistant during the first term of Duke TIP at Trinity University in the summer of 2012. He was always ready with an explanation to make sense of difficult topics in Mathematics and showed great enthusiasm for the subject and concern for the succes of all of our students.
Credentials
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Machine Learning in Business
MIT Sloan School of ManagementApr, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Microsoft Technology Associate: Database Fundamentals
MicrosoftMay, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
CompTIA Security+ ce
CompTIAMay, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
Public Sector Data Governance Professional
Institute for the Certification of Computing ProfessionalsJul, 2020- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Operations Research Analyst
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Oct 2019 - Present
CDAO Use Case Program Manager building analytic MVPs to demonstrate data capability within the DAF. DAF Data Fabric - Data Pipelines LOE Lead and transition support. Contract Officer Representative (COR) managing CDAO data science contracting efforts. CDAO Use Case Program Manager building analytic MVPs to demonstrate data capability within the DAF. DAF Data Fabric - Data Pipelines LOE Lead and transition support. Contract Officer Representative (COR) managing CDAO data science contracting efforts.
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AFWERX
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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AFWERX Fellow (AFRL/RGO)
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Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
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Security Defense Research Specialist
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Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Developed standards and governance for data management, controlled distribution, and analysis within OSD CAPE/JDS.
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Operations Research Analyst
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Feb 2016 - Oct 2019
Developed data governance, conducted personnel and readiness analyses, and data cleansing processes supporting the Army National Guard Reserve Component Manpower System (ARNG RCMS). Led a system recovery team to analyze, diagnose, and resolve data quality issues after full system failure and recovery.
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Faith Direct
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Operations Specialist
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Jun 2014 - Apr 2016
Developed analysis and reporting capabilities to track financial trends, database management, web application testing. Processed bi-monthly financial data exceeding $13MM and coordinated disbursement of funds to hundreds of clients. Developed marketing and email campaigns. Developed analysis and reporting capabilities to track financial trends, database management, web application testing. Processed bi-monthly financial data exceeding $13MM and coordinated disbursement of funds to hundreds of clients. Developed marketing and email campaigns.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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United States
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Defense & Space
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Developed virtual instrumentation capabilities and best fit scenarios for optical parameters of dual electron spectrometers supporting the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Mission (MMS). Publication: Avanov, L. A., U. Gliese, C. J. Pollock, et al. 2013. "On the calibration and use of Dual Electron Sensors for NASA's Magnetospheric MultiScale mission." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2085 Developed virtual instrumentation capabilities and best fit scenarios for optical parameters of dual electron spectrometers supporting the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Mission (MMS). Publication: Avanov, L. A., U. Gliese, C. J. Pollock, et al. 2013. "On the calibration and use of Dual Electron Sensors for NASA's Magnetospheric MultiScale mission." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2085
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Research Assistant
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May 2011 - Aug 2011
Conducted analyses on GOES satellite x-ray data to identify solar flares. Implementation of background subtraction methods and filtering processes for a power-law distribution. Conducted analyses on GOES satellite x-ray data to identify solar flares. Implementation of background subtraction methods and filtering processes for a power-law distribution.
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Education
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2014 - 2017
Penn State World Campus
Master of Professional Studies, Data Analysis -
2010 - 2014
The Catholic University of America
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Minor in Theology -
2006 - 2010
Nolan Catholic High School
High School Diploma
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