Paco NATHAN

Current

• Principal Scientist, Data Insights at ShareThis

Education

• Stanford University
• Stanford University
• California State University-Stanislaus

• United States Military Academy at West Point

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Recommended

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Connections

296 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Paco NATHAN’s Summary

Breadth of professional experience: 25+ yrs eng., 7+ yrs mgmt. I build critical infrastructure, recruit and manage teams, write lots of great code, and work well within diverse/distributed groups.

Most focus for employers and clients has been on Internet applications, distributed computing, large data sets, analytics, and visualization. My role generally blends business and technology: analysis, strategy, communications on the business side; system architecture and development expertise on the technology side.

Conversational in French, basic skills in Russian, Farsi, some Japanese.

Other work at times as a writer and instructor – also, avocationally, as a performance art producer for events including Robert Anton Wilson, Negativland, SRL.

Paco NATHAN’s Specialties:

Technology:
• system architecture
• leveraging open source
• distributed computing ("cloud")
• Hadoop on AWS
• software lifecycle
• quantitative modeling
• outsourcing in Russia (SPb)

Business:
• engineering management
• highly distributed teams
• international business
• communications
• recruiting

Paco NATHAN’s Experience

• Principal Scientist, Data Insights

  ShareThis

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Paco NATHAN’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS , Computer Science (Systems) , 1983 — 1986

  Stanford, CA:

  Activities and Societies:

  Roble Hall, Residential Computing, "Dr Quantum and the Operators" (local band, keyboards/vocals)

• Stanford University

  BS , Mathematical Science (ORSA) , June 1982 — June 1986

  Stanford, CA:

  Activities and Societies:

  (see grad school listing)

• California State University-Stanislaus

  Math, Computer Science 1982 — 1982

  Turlock, CA:

  Activities and Societies:

  Math program, pending Stanford transfer.

• United States Military Academy at West Point

  1980 — 1982

  West Point, NY:
  Deans List each term, top 5% military ranking.

  Activities and Societies:

  Company E-3, Company F-2 (plebe year), Sandhurst military competition, Debate Team, "Striker" (local band, keyboards).

Additional Information

Paco NATHAN’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Paco NATHAN’s Groups:

•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    SF Bay Area Ivy Plus Alumni
•    Friends of ROWE
•    Softec: The Central Coast Technology Association
•    Amazon Web Services Community Network
•    AT&T Alumni
•    Cloud Computing
•    Green
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    The R Project for Statistical Computing
•    Visual Analytics
•    Bicycle to Work!
•    Text Analytics
•    Presidential Classroom Alumni and past and present staff and volunteers
•    S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
•    Hadoop Users
•    Northern California Cloud Computing Professionals

Paco NATHAN’s Honors:

• Apple Design Award (2004) - Runner-up, "Most Innovative Apple Technology Performance Demo", Symbiot iSIMS
• NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence (2003) - Hands-on network security
• Wired "Top Ten Picks" (1993) - FringeWare, Inc.
• NASA Tech Briefs Award (1986) - Air Traffic Control UI
• Stanford University Dean's Service Award (1985) - Residential Computing
• Eagle Scout (a long, long time ago...)