Teresa Nick

Innovating nature-inspired cloud solutions to drive sustainable, performant, and resilient infrastructure • Creating sustainable infrastructure solutions to lower environmental impacts while maintaining performance, resilience, and security • Engineering MCP-based systems to support sustainable decisions and operations for data centers • Analyzing datacenter environmental impacts to inform efficiency at scale • Serving as Chair, Infrastructure Masons Sustainability Committee • Awarded Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) One CO+I Team Award (Q4 FY25) • Awarded iMasons iM100 (2023) • Served on US National Science Foundation peer review panel • Joined NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability by invitation • Joined Responsible Investment Forum (RIF) at Waddesdon by invitation • Courageous Leadership Champion for CO+I

Transformed global datacenter sustainability reporting • Led team of sustainability experts • Built digital platforms for metric aggregation, tracking, reporting, and alerting • Developed strategic innovations • Supported CDP and Microsoft Annual Sustainability Reports • Drove advanced computer network innovations • Served on Infrastructure Masons' Climate Accord Governing Body

Global datacenter sustainability reporting • Built team of sustainability data experts • Drove digitization through metric aggregation, tracking, and reporting • Developed strategic innovations • Supported CDP and Microsoft Annual Sustainability Reports • Innovated low-power augmented reality training solutions • Served on Microsoft's Sustainability Methodology Governance Council

Learning & Development and Sustainability teams • Successfully piloted new technical role at four globally distributed data centers • Built secure Azure-based data and analytics platform for quantifying impacts of technical IT training • Directed group projects for Emerging Leaders Program; taught cross-functional collaboration, critical thinking, agile methodology, and executive presentation skills • Designed and led development of a novel spatial AR training platform • Led global effort to enhance and expand critical environments training • Aligned corporate and business group stakeholders to identify, quantify, and report sustainability impacts at data centers

• Led 5 cloud deployments for real-time diabetes digital health products and R&D • Managed two data engineering teams with > 20 personnel, including a remote team • Guided product development to efficiently navigate multiple regulatory agencies • Supported R&D analytics and publications across the enterprise • Served on Diabetes Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) for countering cyber threats

Worked with clients to architect and analyze big data for IoT and other applications • Led technical assessment of IoT product expansion capabilities for consumer product company • Managed product development of 3 distinct IoT platforms at an aerospace client * Led data science team to identify >$100M digital marketing improvement opportunities at a US telco * Led predictive maintenance product design and build for a global logistics company * Worked with clients to architect and evaluate options for a Hadoop-based data lake for analytics at a Latin American bank * Guided product visioning for a predictive maintenance solution for a medical device manufacturer * Built an analytics framework and dashboard to monitor adverse events for a global pharmaceutical firm

• Innovated scalable, secure cloud analytics for biometric feedback, tracking, and alerting • Managed cross-functional team of hardware engineers, software engineers, and scientists • Developed biometric hardware • Created real-time mobile analytics algorithms • Executed original research • Presented novel results at scientific meetings Specific achievements: • Authored 7 patents • Built a cloud-based data-driven analytics and storage system • Created a cloud-based authentication system • Built a web API and infrastructure for data download • Installed an R Shiny server with graphical display of real-time database contents • Innovated a redesign of biometric hardware to enhance recorded neural signals • Created a novel algorithm for the real-time baselining and normalization of biometric activity on multiple timescales with limited computational resources

Developed hardware and software for the real-time visualization and feedback of physiological signals.

Served as Principal Investigator on multiple grants, managed/trained scientists, developed data acquisition methods and quantitative analyses, wrote data acquisition/analysis software, designed/managed secure laboratory intranet and database, taught various graduate-level seminars, authored scientific papers. Discovered fundamental principles of plasticity using integrative approaches spanning molecules to behavior.

iOS and Android development; 4 published apps

Built multi-node Hadoop distributed file system. Remotely managed Cisco and Supermicro servers, including installation of linux OS (Ubuntu server), Hadoop, etc.

Provided continuing education for students in a Fundamentals of Neuroscience course for Medtronic, Inc. This 2-hour course began with no assumption of neuroscience knowledge and ended with in-depth explanations of current understanding of the mechanisms of several neuromodulation techniques.

Course faculty for laboratory-intensive Neural Systems and Behaviour course. Taught diverse groups of graduate students and postdocs the neural bases and methodology of vocal learning.

Discovered biophysical bases of neural plasticity using time series analyses of electrical signals. Dissertation: "Development of excitability in the bag cell neurons of Aplysia."

* 35 semester credits of computer science/IT training * Graduate course work in operating systems, networks, and bioinformatics * Courses include System Administration, Network Programming, Information Security

Focus on Comparative Physiology. Undergraduate research in the laboratories of Robert Barth and Richard Wilcox.

Focus on the mechanisms of plasticity and its regulation. Undergraduate research in the laboratory of Abram Amsel.