Michael Nelson

Portfolio System Architect responsible for architectural decisions and artifacts to facilitate business objectives. Provide technical guidance to over 80 developers across 12 execution teams including design, implementation, and maintenance.

Cultural and process champion as a founding team member of a Tech Transformation initiative to promote adoption of industry standard practices and infrastructure.

Experienced Tech Lead, subject matter expert on multiple applications, responsible for feature delivery, ensuring best practices and mentoring colleagues.

Developed responsive web applications using React, Redux, Jest, Selenium, and Cypress. Maintained mock servers, custom React components, alerting and monitoring, and ensured accessibility standards were upheld.

Saved development and testing time enterprise-wide by creating an internal Chrome extension to automate test user authentication and environment routing.

Principal developer in Placemark's acquisition to integrate their industry-leading technology into Envestnet's platform through an AngularJS application.

Tech Lead for modernizing Envestnet's trading platform in React.

Developed proprietary web applications for financial advisors and led team with best practices in UI standards.

Developed internal trading applications for money managers with Tcl/Tk.

Proactively sought opportunities to innovate by creating a Pivotal Tracker API wrapper in Python that automated project management workflows.

Spearheaded a custom dashboard to monitor and display server health from Nagios' API supporting internal infrastructure teams.

Developed responsive websites with a proprietary PHP Zend Framework CMS.

Lead transition from proprietary PHP CMS to Drupal.

Monitored support system and resolved support tickets for production websites.

Developed dashboards rendering live data from Google Analytics and Facebook.

Developed UNT's Information Technology Shared Services (ITSS) website in Drupal 7.

Managed roles and access at a highly granulated level utilizing Workbench Access and implemented a workflow for posting and approving content.

Extended UNT's Drupal theme and modified for ITSS branding.

Performed Drupal training for UNT employees.

Migrated websites and data from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 for ITSS departments.

Contract to develop features for Service King website.

Developed a user rating workflow process for users.

Developed custom HTML, CSS, PHP, and jQuery.

Constructed and parsed SQL, XML, RSS.

Utilized SOAP protocol in PHP for web services.

Integrated Facebook API allows users to share a review.

Maintained sixteen UNT department websites under the Office of the Provost.

Developed custom HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and graphics.

Migrated websites to Drupal for efficient management of content and users.

Performed Drupal training for department managers to empower them to customize and maintain their content.