Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you all a great holiday week!
We are wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving! We hope this holiday week provides a chance to reflect, recharge, and to reconnect with friends and family.
In that spirit, we continue to be incredibly thankful for everyone in the Nexus Community. Your commitment to building in Maine (whatever that is!) and willingness to help your fellow Mainer inspires us every day.
This week we have a new slate of job postings, a handful of events, and we are profiling Kate Simmons - Strategic Partnerships Lead at the Maine Trust for Local News. Lastly, while don’t have a date locked in just yet… we are cooking up a member appreciation event in January. Stay tuned!
As usual - if you want even deeper connections and direct access to everyone in the Nexus community please apply here to join us in the Nexus Slack group.
It’s Thanksgiving in Maine and Baxter the Moose - the lovable mascot of Nexus Maine - is having a delicious Thanksgiving meal with his woodland friends. Style of Pixar.
What’s in this newsletter
Event Highlights
Swag
Jobs & Talent
Member Spotlight: Kate Simmons
Event Highlights
December 3: Mainebiz Bangor 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes Forum 2025
December 10: E2Tech Annual Winter Celebration
December 11: Pre-Holidays OWASP Maine AppSec + Software Engineering Event
January 21: Maine Outdoor Economy Summit
Nexus Member Appreciation Event Coming in January: Stay Tuned!
Check out our Events Calendar for more. Are you an event owner? Submit your event here to be added to the calendar!
Nexus Swag
Don’t forget… we have swag at the Nexus Swag Store!
Nexus Jobs & Talent
You can view open jobs here or submit your own. Every job posted is affiliated with a Nexus member.
Hiring:
Rely is hiring a full stack engineer.
Nexus Contact: George Matelich
McKesson is hiring a Director of Product Management
Nexus Contact: Jacob Flanders
MedRyhthms is hiring an Office Manager & Executive Assistant
Nexus Contact: Brian Bousquet-Smith
Omnic is hiring a variety of roles (VP of Engineering) (Senior Python Developer, AI/Machine Learning) (Senior Ruby on Rails Developer)
Nexus Contact: Shaun Meredith
BlueGoldOne is hiring a senior full-stack developer
Nexus Contact: Nate Dionne
Fleet is hiring a number of positions (Software Engineer) (Quality Assurance (Quality Analyst)
Nexus Contact: Carlo DiCelico
FYI - There are more postings in the #Nexus-Jobs channel in slack. If you are looking for great talent or considering your next move please reach out to Jimmy and George and we’ll help connect you!
Member Spotlight: Kate Simmons
Career/Bio
Do you ever think of life as “before Maine” and “after Maine”?
Before Maine for me:
A short story: I had the luck of sailing from Ireland to Portugal on a classic yacht called Brilliant. I was thrilled to discover that the first mate on that trip and I both worked in the environmental movement in Washington, D.C. Years later, we caught up for lunch at the Hawk and Dove, and she said to me: “I’m quitting my job to go be full-time mate on Brilliant. There’s one spot left on the paid crew, for the cook. Come with us.” I said: “Well, that’s lovely and we both know I have no idea how to cook.” By the time lunch was over, I was convinced. Walked back to the office, called the captain who was delighted and more than slightly mystified that I wanted the cook job–and then I quit my job at the national Sierra Club to work on a sailboat.
That leap set the course for everything that followed.
Why Maine
Maine quickly proved to be the rare place where I could pursue serious, meaningful work while living near some of the best places in the world to sail. That lunchtime decision eventually led me to Maine – to deckhand/cook jobs on some incredible boats, to leading state house and congressional campaigns, to meeting my husband while racing to Monhegan, working for the Roux Institute and learning heaps about AI and being race crew on the 12 metre Gleam. Now, I put it all together—strategy, connections, partnerships, and grit—to support growth at the Maine Trust for Local News, the state’s largest source of local news.
Away from the Keyboard
Living in Limerick (an hour from Portland) means I stay sane by always having a project going—usually in the garden, or in the kitchen. And I’m always looking for the next project, so please send ideas.
Lets talk
If I had one piece of advice it would be: do what you love and your people will find you.
Political organizing, partnerships at Roux, and working in advertising has connected me to some incredible people in this state. If you have an idea, need an introduction, or want to talk about big, ambitious things—reach out. I’d love to connect.
Thank you for making this community special, everyone! See you on Slack.
George & Jimmy
Thank you to our sponsors Maine Community Bank, The Roux Institute, and Maine Technology Institute for supporting Nexus Maine.
