Derek S. Gaudet Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Leading multiple squads of Software, Data, and ML Ops Engineers. Delivering technical solutions by establishing the strategic vision, allocating talent and facilitating execution. Together, we build applications, data pipelines, and APIs to drive data-driven insights for Underwriters, Actuaries, and pricing analysts. We assist in model development, deploy AI/ML models, conduct integration tests, design data visualizations and ship home-grown applications to help our business assess risk, pricing guidance, and claims insights.

Boston, Ma, Us

Modernized the way various business units ingest content with advanced analytic solutions (big data/AI). Leveraged OCR, NLP, NER, computer vision and other machine learning techniques to comprehend and take action on unstructured data. Established vision and product roadmaps for multiple engineering squads to make our profit centers more efficient. API and event-driven design. Completely cloud-native architecture.

Boston, Ma, Us

Fundamental responsibilities included:- Establishing, articulating and executing the overall cloud-based Data Strategy and Roadmap.- Analyzing feasibility, cost ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential programs.- Managing products with a high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity to meet product KPIs.- Ensuring delivery of scope, partnering with delivery teams to ensure user stories are clear, removing barriers and resolving open issues/questions. Constantly acting as the voice of the customer.- Leading 2-3 agile squads as we deliver incremental improvements and new features for our core products (data lake, analytics environment, data science/modeling tools). - Developing products with an AWS -first tech stack (S3, RDS, Redshift, EC2, EMR, Athena, DMS, Kinesis, Glue, STS, EBS, Lambda, API Gateway, Lake Formation, SageMaker, Presto, Hadoop, Hive, etc.). - Brokering relationships with contractual support teams to accelerate the delivery of new technical capabilities.

Boston, Ma, Us

Fundamental responsibilities included:- Planning and implementing software solutions for enterprise adoption- Developing and enhancing a pay-as-you-go model for our internal/external cloud platforms- Developing and owning a new product that will act as the primary data storage platform for cloud operations Areas of Focus:- Cloud architecture- Infrastructure planning- Financial pay-back modeling- Amazon S3 and cloud storage platforms- Software development and delivery- AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Bamboo, JIRA, Kafka, RabbitMQ, NiFi, and Hortonworks Data Flow

Boston, Ma, Us

Fundamental responsibilities included:- Testing, evaluating, and implementing software/hardware solutions for enterprise adoption- Developing an innovation pipeline for process improvements and new product development- Leading an OKR-based strategy initiative to refocus a large department that specializes in software development and cloud architectureAreas of Focus:- Cloud architecture- Enterprise file share & sync solutions- Enterprise strategy planning and alignment solutions (OKR and Hoshin Kanri methodologies) - Innovation pipeline development- Hardware & software evaluations (mostly around conferencing technologies)

Boston, Ma, Us

Fundamental responsibilities included:- Planning, coordinating, and managing software releases. This included major, minor, and mirror production code deploys.- Assessing customer requirements and translating them into release plans for technical counterparts.- Collaborating with system engineers and developers to complete deliverables on schedule and according to strict processes.- Tracking and analyzing performance metrics.

Boston, Ma, Us

Fundamental responsibilities included:- Assessing project requirements and tailoring plans to meet their unique needs. - Generating cost estimates, work orders, and service briefs.- Communicating with internal and external customers, vendors, and other teams for the completion of standard project/service deliverables. - Explaining complex/technical ideas and issues to various audiences.- Engineering solutions based on resource, time, and financial constraints. I managed IT projects that coincide with office openings, relocations, restacks, and consolidations. My primary focus was voice and data equipment implementations but am capable of other IT related activities that require coordination. A typical office relocation project would include upgrading the phone systems to SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunks and ensuring that the telecommunication equipment coincides with the businesses current IT standards (phones, router, switch, UPS, OOB, WAAS, ACNS, NAS).

Boston, Ma, Us

Project coordination for real estate activities with a focus on network infrastructure. Typical work efforts include office relocations, reorganizations, expansions, openings, and closings. Other tasks involve network equipment deployments and implementations. All assignments align with strict processes and procedures to ensure 99% Live Day availability.

Davis, Ca, Us

Managed students through an intensive leadership and economics conference. I facilitated leadership development exercises, group strengthening challenges and assisted with economic classes.- University of Colorado- Boulder, CO (July 2010)- University of Texas- Austin, TX (June 2011)- College of Wooster- Wooster, OH (July 2011)- Cornell University- Ithaca, NY (July 2011)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Financial Management

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Management And Information Systems Mgmt

International Business

High School Diploma