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Professor of Practice
Department of Sport Management
FLG 308
P.O. Box 118208
Gainesville, FL 32611-8208
(352) 273-0669 | nestler.scott@ufl.edu
Scott Nestler is a business analytics “pracademic” (practitioner-academic). He currently serves as Professor of Practice in the Department of Sport Management, College of Health & Human Performance at the University of Florida. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Information Systems & Operations Management in the Warrington College of Business. Previously, he was Director, Research & Development, as well as Principal Data Scientist and Optimization Lead, at SumerSports; Director, Statistics & Modeling at Accenture Federal Services; and Associate Teaching Professor and Academic Director of the MS in Business Analytics program in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Scott is a 1989 graduate of Lehigh University with a BS in Civil Engineering where he received his commission as an officer through the U. S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. He earned a PhD in Business and Management (Management Science and Finance) from the University of Maryland in 2007 and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1999. He also earned a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in 2013.
He retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel in 2015. In his last Army assignment, Scott served as Director of Strategic Analytics at the Center for Army Analysis, an internal Army think tank. Scott’s other tours of duty include assignments as an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School; Director of the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics at West Point; Chief of Strategic Assessments at the US Embassy—Baghdad; Force Structure Analyst in the Pentagon; and Director of Computer Operations at West Point.
Scott won the Barchi Prize from the Military Operations Research Society in 2010 and was recognized by INFORMS with the Volunteer Award (Gold Level) in 2019. Scott has earned and maintains the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) and Accredited Professional Statistician (PStat) certifications. He has published numerous articles and is co-author (with Wayne Winston and Kostas Pelechrinis) of the book “Mathletics.”