Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. Paul began their career in 1983 as a Hardware Engineer at NCR, where they had well-rounded digital hardware design experience and designed assembly-level firmware for high performance disk controllers. In 1993, they joined ACS Technologies as an Engineer and developed a size-reduced, cost-reduced, and enhanced reliability hardware platform based on the 68HC11 microcontroller. Paul then moved to Don Johnston Incorporated in 1996 as a Software Engineer and created the Discover products, which function as an extension to the OS to provide individuals with severe physical disabilities full control of the computer. In 2000, they worked as a Contract Software Engineer at United Airlines, where they ported the ticket reservation system from DOS to Windows NT using Visual C++ with MFC. Paul then joined ScriptPro in 2002 as an Embedded Software Engineer and was responsible for designing and implementing the firmware for the Automated Control Center (ACC) and the Collating Control Center (CCC). In 2009, they joined AGCO Corporation as a Senior Design Engineer. Finally, in 2005, they worked as an Embedded Software Engineer at QuVIS, where they were instrumental in porting the code from an IBM PPC403 to a PPC440 CPU during redesign of the main processing board and provided debug and integration testing of three major FPGAs.

Paul Nelson attended The University of Kansas from 1978 to 1982, where they earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Paul then attended Louisiana Tech University from 1992 to 1993, where they earned a B.S. in BioMedical Engineering.