Spencer Nelson

About Spencer Nelson

My definition of success is creating the greatest positive impact I can on those around me, at the largest scale I can manage, while still maintaining a personal connection with them.I have always loved solving problems, from figuring out how things can or should fit together to solving logic puzzles to just making things more efficient. It is what lead me to software engineering and design. Seeing the connectedness of things and people, learning more about them, reasoning out how and why they are who or what they are, and figuring out ways to help them be and do more is what drives me forward today.

Experience

1. Senior Ux Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Mar 2019 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Lead and managed a team of UX Engineers prototyping Office Mobile applicationsHired and managed the first UX Engineering intern in our studio including oversight of their project and onboarding them with our prototyping platform and productsCo-lead multiple mentoring rings for E+D new hires, both university hires new to the industry and experienced industry hiresCoached and lead the Engineering portion of a summer university internship program run through M365 CoreManaged and lead team sprint planning, execution and reviewsLead the engineering efforts for the Fluent Mobile Icon set, building a delivery pipeline from Sketch to make the icon assets available for engineering consumption

Education

• Utah State University

  BA

  1996 — 2002

Skills

• Iphone
• Game Design
• Xcode
• Opengl
• Mobile Games
• Directx
• Game Development
• Mobile Applications
• Ios Development
• Computer Games
• Objective-C
• Perl
• Javase
• Game Programming
• Php
• Programming
• Sql
• Eclipse
• Ios
• Android
• C#
• J2me
• Perforce
• Subversion
• Mobile Devices
• Video Games
• Java