Derek Parks Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worldwide, Be

As a dedicated Project Manager at Televic, I oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects within the Passenger Information System sector. My role involves coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure that project goals are met on time and within budget, while maintaining the highest standards of quality.Key Responsibilities: • Project Planning & Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, define scope, objectives, and deliverables, and manage project timelines and milestones to ensure successful delivery. • Team Leadership: Lead and motivate project teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring clear communication across all levels of the organization. • Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, addressing their needs and expectations, and providing regular updates on project progress. • Risk Management: Identify potential risks and implement mitigation strategies to address challenges and ensure project continuity. • Quality Assurance: Implement rigorous quality control processes to ensure project outputs meet or exceed client expectations and industry standards.Achievements: • Successful Project Delivery: Led multiple concurrent projects, resulting in customer satisfaction, overhead reduction and faster delivery timelines. • Process Improvement: Streamlined project management processes, improving efficiency and reducing overhead. • Client Satisfaction: Consistently achieved high client satisfaction scores by delivering projects that align with client expectations and requirements.With a strong background in transportation technology and software, I am committed to driving project success and contributing to Televic’s mission of being market leader in Passenger Information Systems.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

As a Network Project Engineer at Nomad Digital, I specialized in the execution and management of engineering projects that drive innovation in transportation communication systems and WiFi. My role encompassed a range of responsibilities from project design and planning to implementation and delivery, ensuring that we meet our clients' technical requirements and project objectives.Key Responsibilities: • Engineering Design & Development: Lead the design and development of engineering solutions, ensuring they meet technical specifications and industry standards. • Project Coordination: Manage all phases of project execution, including scheduling, resource allocation, and budget management to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery. • Technical Support: Provide expert technical support throughout the project lifecycle, addressing challenges and implementing solutions to ensure smooth project progress. • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with clients, suppliers, and internal teams to gather requirements, manage expectations, and ensure alignment with project goals. • Quality Assurance: Implement and oversee quality control measures to maintain high standards and ensure that project deliverables are both reliable and effective.Achievements: • Successful Project Delivery: Spearheaded multiple passenger WiFi projects, resulting in enhanced system performance, a successful product launch, or meeting critical deadlines. • Process Optimization: Improved engineering workflows, leading to a major increase in efficiency and a reduction in project turnaround time. • Client Satisfaction: Achieved excellent from clients through effective communication and high-quality project delivery, enhancing client relationships.With a background in transportation technology, project management and software, was dedicated to driving engineering excellence and contributing to Nomad Digital’s commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions and exceptional client experiences.

Woodbury, New York, Us

Field service engineer focused on FAI (at Factory), on-site field service troubleshooting and remediation for LRV and Bus CAD/AVL and PIS applications across the US.

Full scale development and design of a well rounded scope of web applications.Agile backfill development for projects across many business verticalsCreate Product Design Documents for delivery on projectsProject management/TrackingAnalytics and payment processing architectureResponsive and Accessibility implementation and developmentDesign and development of full-scale web applications that offered cloud services for small businesses.HTML5, PHP, JavaScript, CSS3, Angular, React, Redux, jQuery, MySQL, WordPress, Node

Development of B2b eCommerce application for various channels (web, ios, android)Program management for B2B website, including bug tracking and wiki page creation.Design of full-scale web application offering B2b eCommerce solution.Technical design and documentation for all technical projectsHiring and on-boarding of development department resourcesImplementation of analyticsGraphic and logo design for various technical projectsHTML5, PHP, Javascript, CSS3, React, Node

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Development of all Marketing and business-related customer facing applications.Implemented Google analytics codes on all marketing pages. Created tagging system for analytics programs; ran visitor and user behavior reports in Google analytics systems for business stakeholders.Identify and implement front end technologies to replace outdated systems used prior.Content creation, template development in Adobe CMS system.Creation of onboarding documentation as I was the first hire of the new department. Architect new processes for design and development of marketing products. Worked with a cross functional team to collect stakeholder requirements that were refined to create product design documentation.Trained new team members, created onboarding curriculum and maintained a browser lab for the development team.Created all new pixel perfect veritas product pages based on mockups that were released late November 2016.Developed new global header navigation for veritas.comDesigned and implemented social share buttons and functionality.Java Stack, Restful API, Angular , jQuery, HTML5, CSS3

Lead Architect and developer evaluate and implement SEO friendly infrastructures in HTML and Javascript to new and existing applications.Developed documentation, testing, standards. Implementation of Bootstrap, Foundation, and Jquery frameworks.GTK and GTK+ open source application development and styling.Lead special projects implementing salesforce and page tracking frameworks.Design and development of GTK+ Python Browser for cloud application. Utilized PyGTK open source framework. Created custom VMs for front end development and testing. Worked directly with the QA team to define, refine, and maintain testing plans for front end and mid-ware applications company wide.Worked with the marketing team to define analytics tags and reporting structures.Implementation of Adobe analytics tagging and code snippets on all customer facing pages.Integration of DAY CQ CMS system for marketing, customer care and business folks.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Front End Engineering Lead on JSP/HTML/JS/CSS tools for University of Phoenix products for faculty and students. Managed a team of developers that supported multi-functional teams globally.Designed and supported projects for UoP Classroom and Curriculum products. Resource planning, project management, and code reviews.Worked with a cross functional team to create and maintain training courses and curriculum.Architecture for UI development systems and processesImplementation of JavaScript and CSS libraries, documentation, and trainingSpecial projects lead with emphasis on accessibility and responsive design.Specialized in web site Accessibility standards and practices for the entire network.

Cupertino, California, Us

Architecture of JQuery implementation for Apple retail DB management.Development of HighChart application that allowed Apple retail stakeholders to maintain/enable/disable client DBs.Created responsive/mobile friendly Dashboard UIScrum master and leader for daily agile scrum meetingsAgile backlog grooming and sizingMember of cross functional team for Apple Retail applicationsBackfill Temp Position

San Jose, Ca, Us

Technical liaison between the marketing product owners and the development teams in Chennai, India, Paris, France, Singapore and San Jose locations.Lead Web Developer on CMS architecture for Marketing Landing and Campaign pages.Designed and built a fully customized proprietary CMS system for marketing publishing.Managed training and curriculum for new hires.Wire framing of marketing emails, landing pages, and sign up and log-out flows.Semantic HTML development for Marketing email campaigns; including browser-compatibility and client testing for each HTML and TXT email sent via third party vendors.As a member of the site speed team, decreasing load time and efficiency of pages without losing functionality and providing graceful degradation for browsers that were not up to current PayPal standards by designing new front-end infrastructure.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Design and integration for dynamic front end Web and WAP applications.Created CSS and JSP/XHTML/JS templates for use by JAVA engineering group including Conversion of static HTML and graphic mock-ups to Java Struts/Tiles architecture.Provided architecture and wireframes for engineering teams based on graphical designs and mockups. Enlisted in cross-functional engineering/marketing groups to refine project/product requirement documents and wireframe models.Worked with QA group to identify, determine, and understand reported bugs and company procedures.Converted front-end code base from handwritten JavaScript to jQuery.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Designed and developed editorial based web properties and sites, revamping the UI to provide better navigation and more standard facades. Created DHTML/CSS templates to be used on various editorial properties, offering a smoother site flow and uniform pages. Enhanced editorial properties by adding to dynamic features and functions tailored to directory users.Developed desktop widgets for use with Yahoo! Directory feeds and services, using custom JavaScript and XML technologies.Contributed to web search production changes as the acting directory web developer.Performed end-to-end, system integration, load testing, cross-browser compatibility and full UI verification tests on development code.Configured and maintained QA UI testing labs, offering testers many OS/Browser combinations for cross browser comparisons.

Other, Computer Software Engineering

Diploma, General Education