Brian Nelson
Director Of Product Management, Client Center at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Nelson is a product leader and former designer with 12 years of experience building client-facing reporting products at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK, where he leads Product Management for the Client Center. He blends a visual design background (BS in Graphic Design) and hands-on engineering contributions—having worked on back-end features and schema changes for the popular Octobox GitHub project—with strategic product execution. Previously co-founding a digital agency and serving in UX and designer/developer roles at startups and acquisitions, he excels at translating complex data and notification workflows into clear, usable experiences. Based in Bismarck, ND, Brian pairs entrepreneurial grit with cross-functional leadership to ship practical solutions at the intersection of design, data, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Graphic Design, BS, Graphic Design at Northeastern University
Github Skills (12)
ruby-rails10
rails10
notification10
github10
ruby10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
schema-design9
configuration-management8
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
octobox/octobox
Dec 2016 - May 2017
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 14 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Octobox application. Their commits include updates to configuration files for local environment setup and modifications to the notifications controller, indicating work on core application logic. Furthermore, the user made changes to the database schema and model files. These changes suggest a focus on the back-end architecture and data management aspects of the project.
inboxrailsrubynotificationsnotification
briannelson/briannelson.github.io
Mar 2015 - Aug 2023
Personal site
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 issues in 8 years 7 months
react
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