Derek Thrasher Email & Phone Number

Framingham, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Led a cross-functional team: Guided a team of 30-45 developers within the SAFe framework, promoting collaboration and efficient project delivery.Optimized workflow and delivery: Facilitated PI planning, optimized workflow, and supported PI execution, ensuring projects stayed on track.Empowered team leaders: Coached team leaders on Agile methodologies, work breakdown structures, and RACI charts for clear ownership and accountability.Championed clear communication: Provided over-communication to ensure alignment across stakeholders, especially during complex and groundbreaking projects.Developed adaptable leadership: Utilized a situational leadership style to manage diverse skillsets within the Agile Release Train (GUI, Mobile App, Linux, Cloud development).Agile problem solver: Leveraged expertise to coach teams in identifying risks, generating plans, and iterating quickly based on new learnings.Team formation expert: Successfully built a cohesive new team from scratch, guiding them through team development stages.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Empowered high-performing teams: Led a 5-person firmware team as both Product Owner and Scrum Master, fostering collaboration and technical expertise.Improved team efficiency: Increased team productivity by sharing reusable firmware modules across devices, minimizing redundant development efforts.Enhanced communication and transparency: Championed collaborative design practices, ensuring all team members were aligned with project goals and user needs.Streamlined release process: Developed a new release process ensuring comprehensive testing coverage, minimizing post-release issues.Developed strong Product Owners: Coached product owners on breaking down project work into milestones, estimating effort, and utilizing velocity for predictable delivery.Cultivated a high-performing team: Successfully built a cohesive team from the ground up, guiding them through team development stages and fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Led smart receptacle development: Coordinated firmware for a Lutron Clear Connect smart receptacle, ensuring seamless communication and functionality.Enhanced manufacturing integration: Collaborated with a third-party manufacturer to integrate their testing process into Lutron's quality standards, maintaining high product quality.Customer-centric innovation: Analyzed customer needs at a beta site to inform product development decisions, prioritizing user experience.Pioneered new technology: Introduced NFC technology for product configuration at Lutron, enhancing user convenience.Championed high-quality tools: Led a team in developing a bug-free and modular C# configuration tool using the Model-View-Controller architecture, streamlining manufacturing processes.Empowered knowledge sharing: Promoted knowledge transfer as an Atlassian Jira and Confluence administrator, fostering collaboration within the organization.

Coopersburg, Pa

Elevated product quality: Designed and developed high-quality firmware for Lutron LED Drivers using C programming, contributing to improved product performance and reliability.Improved communication and control: Implemented numerous features for DALI communication, an industry standard for lighting control systems.Enhanced efficiency and collaboration: Championed object-oriented programming techniques in C++ for improved code maintainability and streamlined development processes.Automated testing: Developed the Power Monitor application to automate unit testing and performance analysis of LED Drivers, optimizing the testing process and reducing manual effort.Demonstrated adaptability: Successfully transitioned back to an embedded position, leveraging expertise to develop an automation software (Power Monitor) that significantly reduced testing time.Customer-centric focus: Actively addressed customer concerns throughout the year, providing technical support and solutions to field service engineers and resolving unexpected issues.Strong communication and leadership: Effectively managed communication and task prioritization within the Kea new product development team.

Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Enhanced customer experience: Resolved customer-facing bug fixes in C for STM32 microcontrollers, improving product performance and user satisfaction.Streamlined engineering workflows: Developed an auto-updater for internal C# tools, ensuring all engineers had access to the latest versions and promoting efficiency.Bridged communication gaps: Acted as a manufacturing liaison, fostering information flow between design and production teams.Proven problem-solving skills: Travelled to job sites to troubleshoot live issues and collaborated with field service engineers to resolve customer problems.

Amherst, Ma

The two main research projects I was apart of were EnGarde (4th author Mobisys 2013) and NFC_WISP (3rd author Ubicomp 2013). Between these projects I collaborated with Microsoft Research, Intel Labs Research, and the University of Washington. On both of these projects we used a MSP430 (low-powered processor by TI) processor and used Near Field Communication (NFC) found on mobile phones to not only communicate wirelessly but also harvest energy creating a completely passive device that has little affect on the phones battery life.EnGarde:Message for more info or check outhttp://lass.cs.umass.edu/~gummeson/MobiSys13-EnGarde.pdfNFC_WISP:Message for more info or check outlink N/A

Supervise student during testing periods. Am responsible for protecting the system against cheaters.

Amherst, Ma

2 Month REU ProgramWorked with the Computer Engineering Department to:• Implemented a visualization tool using Java• Used Co-View relationships between YouTube videos to create a graphical view• The tool allows a user to browse thousands of videos and see the relationship between videos• The tool also provides information such as popularity and tagged keywords.• Future works of the tool will include being used as a keyword suggestion system and a way to filter videos to view the relationship between popular videos

• Filing test defect reports and customer returned materials along with Recording test error codes.• Created Parts Lists & Drawing for Sikorsky’s CH53K Helicopter – Fly By Wire Bonding Cable• Standard work procedures for operators in order to comply with Lean six sigma Principals• Analyzed Statistical Process Control Data and Quality Clinic Process Charts in order to improve research and development processes. • Populated Records, Revised Test Method Sheets, Assembled Department Billboards (ACE)

Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Engineering