Nick has been involved in networking since 1997, primarily focused on service provider networking and large scale, high performance networking. Nick has been employed by regional Internet Service Providers, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), The University of Illinois, and he has been contracted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a cybersecurity consultant and instructor. From 2003 to 2023, he held various roles designing and building the International Supercomputing Conference network (SCinet).
Nick has worked extensively with emerging and disruptive technologies, protocol and hardware interoperability, and has been active in the IPv6 community in one form or another since 2002.
Nick works as part of the Energy Sciences Network Planning and Architecture group. He leads the implementation and community of practice for the IPv6-only mandate at the US Department of Energy, and actively participates in the USG IPv6-only task force and co-chairs the IPv6 Operations group within the IETF.
His areas of focus are large scale network architecture, traffic engineering, QoS, and IPv6.