I'll Help You Sift Through the Voices and Set Clear Priorities

Nic has the technical background to innovate, the vision to enable new experiences, and the organizational skills to execute. He clearly understood the opportunities to provide value for our customers. With all his disciplines, he collaborated well and effectively with the executive team, designers, and engineers.

Nic is a thoughtful product owner who really cares about his customers and the market. He interacts closely with engineers to find creative solutions to customer needs, given tight resource, time, and budget contraints. He's flexible when needed, and remains firm on product requirements when it's the right thing to do. Together we built a successful new product from the ground up. I would be very happy for an opportunity to work with Nic again in the future.

Nic is an ideal product manager. It helps that he understands the product from a technical perspective, keeps a good relationship with marketing and Customer Service to meet expectations, and helps out with QA when needed. As a bonus, he writes beautiful haiku-like acceptance criteria which always made the job more fun. I had the pleasure of working with Nic and would look forward to working with him again in the future if given the opportunity.

I gave Nic the ridiculous task of creating a scheduling system for a medical school residency rotation.

He did it!

That was only one of many times he impressed me. I first met Nic while I was doing a consulting job for North Coast Engineering. I had to convert their old Novell 3.11 system to 4.1 and it was going to be a long task. Somebody there brought in his son and asked if he could help out. It was Nic. I started giving him tasks and he kept knocking them out. I remember thinking... "I don't know who this High School kid is, but I'm going to make sure I have his number. Smart kids like this are a rare find." I'm glad I kept in touch because I don't think I would have pulled out the contract job without him.

I worked with Nic in IT at Sonoma State. Nic brought fresh and creative approaches to several problems and was instrumental in our adoption of a new help desk solution. I would be thrilled to have the opportunity to work with again. I can wholeheartedly recommend both his work and the experience of working with him.

Very bright and smart. A lot of things to learn from Nic. Amazing person to work with, and a great leader to have in a team.

I highly recommend Nic, he is very technically focused and collaborative, building network technical communities and sharing within the CSU system.