Nico van Niekerk

President & CEO Nicsysco Inc

Westlake Village, California, United States

About

Specialties: Business Intelligence Engineers Big Data Architects Super fast analytics Stealth Data Technology -- Data that doesn't exist cannot be hacked.

Experience

  • President & CEO at nicsysco.com
    1995 - Present · 31 yrs 6 mos

  • Principal Data Scientist and Architect at William O’Neil and Company Publisher of Investor's Business Daily
    2017 - 2017 · Less than a year

    Optimized databases for mass printing with Océ Document Designer. Improvement of process run times: -- Barcode processing project: Seven hours reduced to 2 minutes. -- Radius calculation: Fourteen days, more than 600 server reboots, involving hundreds of support personnel and SQL servers in India, China, Los Angeles and Texas, reduced to 4 hours with zero server reboots and no additional support staff required. Optimization included server hardware, networking, SQL Server configuration, stored procedures, interaction with other applications, and documentation. Trained management, senior developers and DBA’s into the optimization of architecture, design, coding and implementation. Compiled and documented standards for developing optimized T-SQL code and applications with focus on dealing with terabytes of data. Drastic improvement in production and maintenance, saving the company millions of dollars in overtime, support, reruns, and penalties for not achieving deadlines.

  • Principal Data Scientist and Architect at American Homes 4 Rent
    2016 - 2016 · Less than a year

    AH4R engaged a Microsoft team to build a reporting system for their 50,000 single-family rental homes and after 8 months (and $5 million) failed to deliver due to poor design and system architecture that were imposed on the MS team. Convinced the board that fixing the architecture would fix the underlying problems. Redesigned the business and system architecture, sold solution to the board, trained in-house team, coded and successfully implemented reporting system that produced the desired results within 6 weeks.

  • Principal Data Scientist and Architect at Pacific Western Bank
    Aug 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Liaised with senior managent to determine impact of existing practice of sensitive data handling, and a solution to mask and present data to users outside and inside of their "white room". Exported their ACH+ databases into a single repository to enable complex search predicates on all columns to identify sensitive, personal data that required masking before data is exposed to user applications.

  • Business Systems Analyst, Principal Data Scientist and Architect at American Universe
    2012 - 2015 · 3 yrs

    • Consulted with owners, researched best practices for user interaction, database backend, and most efficient webpage interaction with backend, designed solution. • Design and development of social media-based Internet presence for global operations using .Net 4.5, MVC, MVVM, Javascript, SQL Server 2008 R2. • Hands-on consulting on planning, development, beta, and social media interaction.