About

Nick has worked at the U.S. Treasury Department since February 2020. He is currently a financial data scientist at the Office of Financial Research where he supports the Data Products and Data Science teams.

He worked for the Fiscal Service as a financial program specialist with the Revenue Collections Analytics Team where he worked on numerous projects, interactive dashboards, report packs, and standard operating procedures designed to drive informed decision making in the organization.

He is an expert in Power BI and regularly teaches others how to use the tool for analytics, data visualization, and real-time automated reporting.

Nick completed a Master's in International Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. He has taken courses in a variety of fields, including econometrics, macroeconomics, and international trade and finance. His most recent research includes exchange rate regimes, the determinants of foreign direct investment in West Africa, and central bank reserve asset management.

Previously, Nick attended the University of Vermont, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science, with a minor in math. He was a TA for the Economics Department for four semesters and served as a resident advisor for incoming students in his building.

In May 2020, Nick published his first book, You Can't Always Get Where You Want, a collection of stories, adventures, and lessons from a land far, far away that few have heard of and even fewer will visit. The book serves as an introductory guide to the West African nation of Guinea, a nation straddling both the past and the future, where opportunity for growth and change sits at every corner. The book contains a healthy mix of entertaining encounters, frustrating setbacks, and surprises around every corner, all while examining one of the world’s most overlooked countries through the lens of an American Peace Corps volunteer, trying to decipher the culture and integrate in his new surroundings.

For 27 months, Nick served as a mathematics education Peace Corps volunteer in the West African nation of Guinea, where he taught algebra and geometry in French in a rural junior high school and managed the refurbishment of a local library in his village. He keeps in touch with his counterparts and host family from his community and still remembers fun phrases and proverbs from Pular, the local language in Guinea's Fouta Jallon region.

Physical fitness is an important part of Nick's approach to health and wellness. Nick enjoys riding his bike around the Baton Rouge area, swimming in the pool or the ocean, jogging in his neighborhood, hiking in national parks, and going to the gym.

In an alternate reality, Nick would have followed another one of his passions: cooking. Gastronomy is the art of using food to create happiness, and Nick has pursued this goal through a mélange of cuisines and a smattering of dessert offerings. He enjoys experimenting in the kitchen and sharing his creations with others.

Once an Eagle, always an Eagle. Nick earned the rank of Eagle Scout in high school in 2012 after completing a service project to replace a bridge and install trail signage at a nature preserve in his community. He has been awarded Vigil Honor membership in the Order of the Arrow and is a lifetime member of the National Eagle Scout Association.