Nathan Spillers
Web: http://www.nathanspillers.net ~ E-Mail: nathan.spillers@gmail.com
An accomplished IT professional with demonstrated success in providing leadership to architecting, implementing,
and managing mission-critical solutions across a wide spectrum of industries and technologies. Possesses a
diversified technical background with the proven ability to balance technological capabilities with organizational
realities in order to provide effective overall solutions.
Qualification Highlights
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Deep understanding of technology with a focus on delivering effective business solutions.
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Effective leadership skills with the proven ability to form and motivate teams.
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Polished and enthusiastic communicator and public speaker.
Professional Experience
Technical Specialist II, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN
2004 - Present
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Provides day-to-day technical and strategic direction to the Mayo Clinic Enterprise Data Warehouse activities
in support of clinical, research, and administrative analytics.
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Formed and leads an agile team dedicated to development and supporting Big Data technologies for eventbased, clinically-facing analytic applications, including components such as ElasticSearch, Hadoop, HBase,
and Storm.
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Formed and leads an agile team dedicated to loading phenotypic data into the Oracle Translational Research
Center product in support of phenotypic/genomic analytics for clinical and research audiences, including
components such as Oracle Database, Oracle Data Integrator, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise.
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Designed the technical approach for processing, storing, and delivering large volumes of unstructured textual
information in an IBM UDB DB2 data-warehousing environment.
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Designed the central IBM Information Server Data Integration architecture and strategic technical direction
for the section.
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Coordinated the initial phases of technical collaboration between Mayo Clinic and IBM in the creation of the
IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder product.
Unit Head, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN
2001 - 2004
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Supervised daily operations of multiple teams providing UNIX, IBM iSeries, DEC VMS, and storage area
networking infrastructure support for the Mayo Clinic enterprise IT environment.
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Managed multiple large yearly and special project budgets.
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Participated in many institutional strategic planning and enterprise IT management committees and
workgroups.
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Provided project leadership to many large strategic institutional initiatives including the Mayo Institutional
Digital Image Archive, the Life Sciences Genomics-based Data Warehouse, and the Film-less Radiology
PACS project.
Team Lead, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN
1997 - 2001
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Directed the daily operations of UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP/UX) and storage area network
infrastructure support teams.
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Managed doubling of staff and infrastructure, year over year.
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Mentored staff in large-scale heterogeneous UNIX administration, storage area networking technologies and
high-availability methodologies.
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Designed and implemented one of the largest (for the time) multi-datacenter storage area network clusters
and backup infrastructures based on Veritas software platforms in the United States.
Lead Consultant, FDA – National Center for Toxicological Research; Pine Bluff, AR
1994 - 1997
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Provided day-to-day programming support using C, VAX/VMS Assembler, Adabas, Oracle, and Oracle Forms
technologies via direct interaction with FDA principal investigators and research scientists.
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Implemented a wide variety of custom hardware and software solutions in the areas of computational
chemistry, statistical analysis, embedded systems, and data visualization efforts supporting fundamental
peer-reviewed scientific research in the area of biologic toxicology.
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Led and mentored the UNIX administration group.
Systems Programmer, University of Arkansas; Little Rock, AR
1992 - 1994
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Provided day-to-day programming support in COBOL and VAX/VMS macro assembler via direct interaction
with the offices of the registrar, financial aid, and student services as well as department chairs throughout the
faculty.
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Designed a software subsystem that automated the reconciliation of a student’s academic record to changing
graduation requirements and provided personalized coursework recommendations.
Consultant, Various; Little Rock, AR
1986 - 1992
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Acted as a self-employed and self-promoted consultant in providing software development services to a
variety of businesses in and around the central Arkansas region.
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Designed and wrote best selling commercial K-12 educational software packages for Senari Programs using
C and assembly language on Apple IIe, Apple Macintosh, IBM PC, and Commodore 64 platforms.
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Automated and enhanced the AT&T SARTS/REACT phone line testing software system using C applications
running on SCO UNIX communicating with Wang mainframes and Oracle databases.
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Designed and wrote a full suite of software packages for Employer’s Self-Insured of Arkansas, focused on
day to day insurance processes and detecting medical fraud using FoxPro.
Accomplishments
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Speaker, “Storage Challenges in the Medical Industry”, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota,
2006.
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Speaker, “Continuous Availability”, Society of Computer Applications in Radiology, 2006.
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Principal Investigator, “Intelligent Object-Based Storage Devices for Complex Bioinformatics Data”, National
Health Institute, 2004.
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Member, Storage Network Industry Association Education Committee, 1999-2000.
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Speaker, “Storage Area Networking Implementations in the Medical Industry”, Storage Networking Industry
Association, 1999.
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Recipient, “Outstanding Federal Contractor Award”, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and
Drug Agency, 1997.
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Recipient, “Best Seller Award for Educational Software – Algebra II”, Software Publisher’s Association, 1987.
Education
Concordia University, Saint Paul, MN
Masters in Business Administration
2012
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University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
B.S. Computer Science/Mathematics
1995