Strong leadership and technical management skills in
Software Development, Quality Assurance, IT and Analytics

Profile

Articles

My 20+ years experience in software development includes 10 years in managerial
positions at startup and medium sized high tech companies. For the last 12 years I have
built engineering departments for early stage startups (to 40 engineers), turned around
demoralized teams within a public company, organized several offshore groups and
setup SCRUM agile processes.

360 degree technical management
Mathematics & Modeling, Software Engineering, Architecture,
Support, Networking, Agile Processes, IT

Video Lectures

Gregory Shapiro Data Mining
Jon Kleinberg Social Networks

Current Interest

        I have been investigating different alternate architectures, technologies and applied
mathematical algorithms for the development of online audience analytics and targeting,
Cloud Computing (Hadoop & Map-Reduce) platform, information retrieval, real-time data
analytics and  stochastic modeling of dynamic routing in very large SaaS deployment.   I
am building an innovative brand monitoring and management solution for social
networks.

Tags: Kalman Filter, Bayesian Networks, Conjugate Gradient, Back-propagation Neural
Networks, Support Vector Machines, K-Mean, Principal Component Analysis, Factor
Analysis, Differentiable manifolds, Java, C++, Hadoop, Map-Reduce, Lucene, Conditional
Random Field, Support Vector Machines., Scala, Ruby on Rails

“Equally effective in team
building, project management
and technology leadership,
Patrick possesses the roll-up-
your-sleeves skills and attitude
that make him an invaluable
part of our management
team.”       

Barbara DeLury
President and CTO BiggerBoat

Conferences & Events

Predictive Social Modeling using ML (ACM Silicon Valley) Mountain View CA Nov 10
Multimedia & Semantic Web (SVST) Oakland CA  Nov 24
Wine tasting and Cloud Networking (Cloud meet-up) Mountain View CA Dec 11
Map your Brand's Twitter Social Network (CIO/IT exec meet-up) Mountain View Dec 15
Social Computing JHTC Mountain View Jan 12
SF Bay Lucene/SolR meet-up Mountain View  CA Jan 21
Fast Search Indexer Technology  SDForm LinkedIn Mountain View CA Jan 27
IBM Smart Planet Cloud Computing Solution Santa Clara CA Feb 9
Facebook API Conference Palo Alto  CA  Aug 23
Rails 3.0 Tutorial for Newbies Mountain View CA Sept 4
Managing your operations the Google Way Mountain View CA Sept 8
Netflix's move to EC-2  Mountain View CA Oct 14
Global CRM Santa Clara CA Oct 19
HTML5 for Ruby Developers Palo Alto CA Nov 10
Data Mining Camp San Jose CA Nov 12 &13

Cupertino Toastmaster Club meets every Monday 6:30-8:00 in Sunnyvale

patrick@pnexpert.com www.linkedin.com/in/patricknicolas

Patrick Nicolas

Turning ideas and technologies into software solutions

Loans that changes lives

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