Paul Nelson
Crew Member at Trader Joe's
Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Nelson is an experienced technology and people leader with a decade-plus track record of aligning cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver customer-focused products on time and on budget. He has led internationalization, localization, and language software efforts at Microsoft and SIL International, translating complex technical roadmaps into practical delivery plans and improved team capability. Known for a continual-improvement mindset, Paul combines program management, product ownership, and hands-on process design to raise quality and capacity in distributed teams. His background spans platform-level work (mobile browser and Windows embedded globalization) to directing language-software and translation services in diverse cultural contexts, reflecting both technical depth and cultural fluency. Based in Daytona Beach, he pairs an MBA from Duke with a BS in Business Information Systems, and brings an influencer-style leadership approach that helps others contribute their best. An unexpected throughline in his career is that he repeatedly bridges global customer needs with engineering execution to create solutions that delight end users.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Duke University - The Fuqua School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BS) Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Information Systems at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (28)
audio-recording10
linguistics9
ipa9
music8
converter8
webapp7
pdf7
audio7
windows6
css6
linux6
python6
factory6
csharp5
html5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sillsdev/IPA-Help-WebApp
Jul 2017 - Sep 2020
WebApp version of the IPA Help tool
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 2 months
webappipa
PaulNel/BloomDesktop
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 73 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 3 months
letgrow
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