Hello, I'm Nick
I think a lot about how people make decisions and how organizations move from ambiguity to action.
My background cuts across strategy, operations, and finance, but I’m most interested in the intersection of behavior, brand, and systems. I like work that requires clarity, cross-functional thinking, and a mix of short- and long-term focus.
I’ve worked with multinational for-profit firms, nonprofits, and early ventures, and I care deeply about helping people & teams do better work through structure, tools, and sharper thinking.
What I'm Working On
Right now, I serve as Chief of Staff at a hospitality company called Porter that’s scaling across multiple locations and business verticals. I lead key initiatives and implementations across finance, tech systems, and operations: including our Accounting ERP rollout, all of our operational systems, and organizational & project management systems.
I also serve as Board Treasurer for Backpack Brigade, a Seattle nonprofit that delivers weekend meals to thousands of students each week. I lead the finance committee, manage our investment planning, and build the dashboards that help the board make better decisions.
I care deeply about helping teams run smarter using the right tools, design, and communications to support faster and more thorough progress.
Outside of my roles at Porter and Backpack Brigade, I started Downtown Run Club as a small, creative side project. It’s just a few of us meeting weekly for now, but the goal is to grow it into something more intentional: a way to blend movement, local identity, and design across cities.
I’m also studying Korean, drawn to the structure of the language and the idea of living and working abroad. I am a genre-agnostic reader who enjoys checking out new coffee shops (and now that I work in hospitality, am cursed to notice all the details - both good and bad). I enjoy architecture and urban design and build overly detailed planning systems in Notion. These things help me slow down, pay attention, and think more clearly.
Where I Started
Before I worked in strategy or operations, I was focused on storytelling. I thought I’d work in film. I spent a lot of time editing videos, building out a personal website, and exploring how structure, pacing, and framing could shape a story. Over time, I became more interested in how people and organizations make decisions. I started thinking less about the narrative itself and more about the systems behind it: why people act the way they do, how information flows, and what gets in the way of clarity.
At the University of Washington, I earned degrees in Business Administration and Economics. The business degree gave me technical foundations in accounting and systems, and the economics degree helped me think more critically about incentives, tradeoffs, and behavior.
While at UW, I co-founded the Applied Analytics Club, a student group focused on closing the gap between theory and practical decision-making. Our goal was to make analytics feel useful, not academic. We brought in speakers from consulting, policy, and tech; ran hands-on workshops; and hosted case competitions where students could work with real data and messy problems. I helped define the club’s direction, ran events, and handled partnerships. It became a space where people from different majors could think through real-world challenges together. That experience taught me how to lead without overcomplicating things, and how to keep momentum going even when there’s no clear map.
While in college, I joined Consilient, a marketing analytics and brand strategy startup. I worked directly with the founder and team on client deliverables like positioning decks, brand sentiment analyses, and financial models to support strategy and pricing decisions. I learned how to connect qualitative and quantitative thinking, and how to shape a recommendation into something a team could actually use.
From there, I moved to Deloitte, where I worked as an Analytics and Technology Advisory Consultant. My projects focused on credit, data governance, and privacy compliance. I worked with global banks and tech companies, helping clients align internal systems with regulatory expectations, often working across teams with very different levels of technical understanding. It was fast-moving, highly structured work, but it also required judgment and flexibility. I got more comfortable asking better questions, finding the next best step, and working across roles and incentives.
What I realized across these roles was that I like the space between functions. I’m not trying to specialize for the sake of it. I’m drawn to the middle where strategy meets systems, where different teams have to work together, and where someone needs to move things forward. In other words, where solutions have yet to be discovered.
Where I'm Headed
If you’re curious about how I think, what I care about, or where I’m heading, I put together a short personal pitch deck. It’s forever in progress, but as of now serves as a snapshot of what I’m building toward.
Contact
If anything here resonated or sparked a question, I’d be glad to hear from you. Feel free to send a note through the form here or reach out to me on LinkedIn.