About

I’m Melanie Nelson, a project manager and data geek with a PhD in bioscience and a long-standing interest in productivity. I’m currently a project manager at a scientific software company. Before that, I was an independent contractor and consultant, and before that I was a group leader in scientific informatics at a midsize biotechnology company. I’ve also been a contractor at a large contracting/consulting firm, a scientist, a database architect, and a department head at a small biotechnology company.

This is a site about management, productivity, science, software… and the intersection of all those things. For a while, I wrote column for Chronicle Vitae. You can find those articles via my Vitae profile.

I have a lot of other interests that I don’t write about (much) here:

• I also write children’s books.
• I run a tiny indie publishing company that focuses on short writing.
• I love to travel and I finally made a website where I can write about my travels.

You can email me at melanie@beyondmanaging.com.

You can find me on Twitter at @melanie_nelson.

You can also find me on LinkedIn.