Nick Nicholas
Business Analyst And Standards Architect at Education Services Australia
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nicholas is a multidisciplinary Business Analyst and Standards Architect with over two decades of experience marrying technical depth and policy insight to solve complex interoperability problems in education and research. Based in Greater Melbourne, he blends hands-on software development (including document tooling and XML/Asciidoc processing) with data and conceptual modelling to maintain national standards like the Systems Interoperability Framework for Australian schools. His work spans standards management, metadata and identity frameworks, and open-source infrastructure, and he regularly translates strategic outcomes into precise technical requirements and policy. A former computational and historical linguist, he brings a rare combination of lexical rigor and system design—evident in past contributions to digital libraries and text-processing engines. Practical, methodical and stakeholder-focused, he excels at clarifying new domains and driving pragmatic, standards-based solutions at scale.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Greek, Greek, Esperanto, klingon, German, French, Latin, lojban
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
metadata10
docbook10
docx10
asciidoctor10
converting10
iso10
ietf10
asciidoc10
routeros10
xml10
sketchup10
converter10
manpage10
microsoft-word10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
metanorma/csd-metanorma-training
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
CSD authoring training as presented in CalConnect XLIII
Contributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
csdauthoringcalconnecttraining
nsip/registration-data-set
Jun 2016 - Mar 2022
Documentation and JSON and XML Schemas
Contributions:52 commits, 8 PRs, 55 pushes in 5 years 9 months
schematronxmlxml-schemaschemasjson-schema
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