Nicholas Key
Consulting Senior Director at Huron
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Key is an IT leader and Consulting Senior Director with over 16 years of higher education experience driving strategy, governance, and large-scale operational teams. He has led teams of 60+ staff and managed portfolios of 100+ projects, blending program and change management with UX-led application and data initiatives. His background spans academic technology, IT services, cybersecurity alignment, and funding-model planning, with a knack for translating executive priorities into actionable governance and stakeholder engagement. A Certified Scrum Master and ITIL practitioner with a master’s in journalism, he brings strong communication and facilitation skills to technical transformation. Uncommonly for a senior director, he contributes to scientific codebases—debugging and improving Fortran-based atmospheric model diagnostics—demonstrating hands-on technical curiosity. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he combines institutional knowledge with consulting rigor to help universities modernize service delivery and data strategy.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Norman High SchoolLeadership Program, Organizational Leadership, Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership at MOR AssociatesProposal Development, Proposal Development at Shipley AssociatesMPW, Professional Writing, MPW, Professional Writing at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (10)
debugging10
fortran10
debug10
numerical10
numerical-methods10
numeric10
scientific-computing10
modeling10
interpolation9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Repository for MPAS models and shared framework releases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on debugging and extending existing Fortran code related to potential vorticity (PV) diagnostics within the MPAS-model. They implemented and refined PV budget calculations, and addressed issues related to interpolating data to the dynamic tropopause. The commits involved changes to core atmosphere modules, including modifications to the calculation and handling of various physical quantities. These changes were aimed at improving model accuracy and diagnostic capabilities.
pythonmpas
nickszap/tpvTrack
Sep 2014 - May 2020
Tracking tropopause polar vortices
Contributions:3 releases, 111 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 9 months
polartracking
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