Nick Batara, PhD

As part of our data team, I help build and maintain the systems that turn large volumes of complex, messy carrier and shipping data into accurate, reliable information our customers and teams depend on. - Working with high-volume, intricate data — millions of shipment and invoice records, each with their own rules and edge cases - Handling many formats and industry standards, bringing disparate sources together into something consistent - Spanning the full data lifecycle — ingesting, modeling, and transforming data alongside the team - Keeping data trustworthy enough to drive real customer and business decisions

• Developed software to migrate historical exchange data to Snowflake cloud database • Developed command line tool to provide external vendor commodities data to clients within the firm • Updated micro-service topology of production q/KDB database serving a global user base • Supported business users with database performance, data processing and availability issues

Lead technical consulting and project management services related to a wide variety of matters involving software, cybersecurity and databases. Services: • cybersecurity review • software architecture • software verification and validation • data analytics and business intelligence development • expert reports and testimony • damage assessments for insurance claims • product development involving software • digital forensics for mobile, desktop and server devices Client industries: • software • government • energy • consumer electronics • healthcare & biomedical • construction • Insurance & legal

Consulting on a wide variety of electrical engineering and computer science matters involving software and databases.

Contributed to development of cloud infrastructure project written in Python and Java built on Amazon Web Services.

• Developed and maintained user-friendly and computationally efficient simulation tools to model complex physical systems. Built visualization tools to gain insight into results. • Built tools to perform statistical analysis on large, multidimensional data sets from multiple sources. • Presented work regularly to colleagues for feedback and to disseminate research methods. Documented work in peer reviewed scientific journals.

• Purchased, configured and managed hardware & software for Windows & Linux servers. • Provided timely hardware and software support for ~50 users. • Managed support for high performance computational clusters. • Led training sessions to familiarize colleagues with computational resources and tools.

• Synthesized novel fullerene and small molecule compounds for organic photovoltaics using macro-scale chemistry techniques. • Characterized electronic properties of compounds using advanced techniques including EPR, NMR and Electrochemical Methods. • Coauthored peer-reviewed literature. • Delivered regular presentation updates to colleagues.

• Maintained cultures of marine bacteria using solid and liquid growth media. • Isolated and characterized biologically derived compounds to understand iron uptake by marine bacteria.

Investigated spontaneous pattern formation in semiconductor thin films grown via photoelectrodeposition.

Emphasis in semiconductor materials with focused coursework in computational mathematical methods and nanophotonics.

Focused coursework in organic, inorganic, computational chemistry.