Joshua Nelson
Project Manager
Education
- Dean's Honors List (all semesters)
- President of ACM Student Chapter
Experience
- Directed a cross-functional team of 15 to deliver a critical software upgrade 3 weeks ahead of schedule and 10% under budget.
- Implemented Agile/Scrum methodologies across the engineering department, increasing sprint velocity by 25% within two quarters.
- Identified and mitigated key project risks, preventing a potential $50K budget overrun on a major enterprise deployment.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to engineer and deliver core Project Manager solutions with 99.9% uptime.
- Participated in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 25%.
Projects
- Implemented distributed consensus protocol with leader election and fault-tolerant replicated state machine.
- Benchmarked throughput reaching 100,000 tasks/second across a 5-node cluster.