Derek Helmick Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, FL, US

San Francisco, California, US

- Led projects for cost recapture of $13.2m Annual Recurring Review rearchitecting AWS Cloud image pipelines ($2.16m) and CloudFront ($11m)- Worked in cross functional teams managing and investigating high severity reliability incidents- Worked with finance and product management to forecast COGS cloud spend, find opportunities for optimization across AWS.

Iriving, TX, US

Led a team of 12 systems engineers, cloud architects, and security engineers assisting client customers in solving their cloud engineering problems.Managed a book of 4-8 clients contracted with Foghorn for DevOps engineering services as an Account Manager, Technical Lead, and Principal Architect. Created the Foghorn University program whereby cohorts of.

Iriving, TX, US

Created and managed a suite of IaC frameworks to allow a wide range of engineers to successfully deploy infrastructure, speed development time, and increase billable margins.

Iriving, TX, US

Built out infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring and the like for enterprise and startup clients migrating to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud platforms.

Atlanta, GA, US

Worked with development and product management team on building and releasing microservice applications utilizing Go, AWS, and Kubernetes framework.

Waltham, MA, US

Here, I deployed mobile applications and production servers on AWS with a variety of clients on projects both independently and on large -sometimes, very large- teams. The tool set is pretty much what you'd expect: aws, chef, github, jenkins, hockey, jira, etc. During down time, I took up Go (golang) to build a ticketing portal for clients to interface.

Waltham, MA, US

In this role, I provided support to both medical professionals and researchers using an app as it progressed through FDA clinical trials. I regularly travelled to clinical and trial sites to provide in-person support to clinicians who needed assistance accessing and decrypting database and debugging logs. During this time, I also started creating tools to.

Waltham, MA, US

In this position I wrote automated functional, load, and security tests for mobile and web applications. The tools for this position were jira, appium, selenium webdrivier, python, and the android and ios sdks. It became rote after a while, but between updates to the test suites, other interesting projects cropped up. This was where I started our.

Consulted on communication and data strategies for lobbying as part of our organization's association within the National Sustainable Agricultural Association on the 2012 Farm Bill. In this position also managed a USDA grant to implement EBT and Debit-Credit card access at regional farmer's markets as part of USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program.

In this position, I consulted for electoral campaigns, trade associations, lobbying groups, and elected officials.

Organized and later consulted for fundraising, early-vote and registration campaigns for College Dems 2010 election cycle.

Recruited and managed volunteers (150+) and interns (14) for voter contact and outreach covering one-third of congressional district.-Managed program to make over 74,386 voter contact calls and knock more than 8,411 doors.Worked extensively with VAN and NationalField software to conduct targeted voter contact based on models and projections set by DCCC..

Provided support for clients and campus consultants on topics including Listserv, MVS, UF Webmail, Gatorlink mail and other services. Assisted CNS documentation coordinator by writing and editing end user support documentation.

Director within Chomp the VoteOrganized and moderated forums on national healthcare and economic policy.Crafted messaging for events and communicating with student body about voting issues.Designed, implemented and maintained social networking platform.Represented Agency at regular voter registration drives and political events.Managed Agency volunteers at.

Worked to and successfully helped elect Randy Wells to Gainesville's Fourth City Commission District.Extensively used VAN to target voters for mailer, canvassing and phone banking operations. Coordinated and participated in debate and policy prep with candidate for forums and other public speaking engagements.Recruited, led and managed volunteer and intern.

B.A., Philosophy

A.A., Philosophy