Nathan Ford
Senior Director, Life Cycle Optimization
Woodbury, Minnesota, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNathan Ford is a senior analytics and AI leader with nine years of experience building high-impact data science teams for large-scale retail energy operations. As Senior Director of Life Cycle Optimization at NRG Energy, he leads a 20+ member organization that has driven multi-million dollar profit improvements through price optimization, personalization, forecasting, and risk reduction across an $11B retail revenue business. He pairs deep domain expertise in energy load and retail analytics with pragmatic AI deployment—cutting bad debt, improving fraud detection, and extending customer lifetime value through scalable propensity and retention models. Known for aligning technical roadmaps with executive strategy, he moves models from research into measurable commercial outcomes. Based in Woodbury, Minnesota, he combines formal analytics training from NC State with hands-on operational experience at ERCOT and major corporate programs, bringing both regulatory insight and product-minded execution to complex utility challenges.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Corsicana High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at Baylor University
Github Skills (11)
data-science9
data-analysis9
python9
data-structure9
pandas9
data-structures9
google-docs2
spreadsheet1
machine-learning1
artificial-intelligence1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
natethedrummer/pretrial-release
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 39 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 5 months
natethedrummer/bail
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.