Derek Mercer Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Nc, Us

St Augustine, Florida, Us

• Co-founded startup that built and maintained a SaaS application to track employees time off requests in English and Spanish. • Utilized Ruby on Rails and React on top of the AWS infrastructure that included Elastic Computing Cloud and RDS: Postgres as well as Mailjet, Devise and ActiveAdmin.• Application also included mobile access for employees to submit time off requests, approve time off requests and view the time off team calendar.• No funds raised; all expenses were incurred by founders.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

• Recruited by the Founder (lawyer) to create a SaaS application to automate a legal practice; responsible for building and leading a team, managing expenses, and owning P&L.• Collaborated with the Founder and leveraged engineering expertise to design an API backend built with Ruby/Rails and a frontend built with JavaScript (Ember) on an AWS Infrastructure.• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and onboarding the entire organizational staff of 12, assisting with fundraising efforts, and successfully articulating the value message, raising ~$2M in funding.• Integral in designing the interactions (UX) and interfaces (UI), including establishing a partnership with box.com for document and file management and Exago for business intelligence and reporting.• Oversaw building the product and establishing demos showing the product's value, delivering software currently running in the founder’s firm successfully, and shifting the focus to launching sales.

San Ramon, California, Us

• Served as VP of Operations and was responsible for Customer Success, Professional Services, Support, Accounting, Finance, Legal, and HR, as well as assisting the Technology team and QA in enhancing product usability and performance, supporting the cloud based talent management solution company that raised $11M of Series A funding to scale the business.• Oversaw a team of 10 while maintaining a $4M budget and had full P&L ownership, providing strategic direction and guidance in establishing effective and efficient business units throughout the organization.• Addressed the issue of no revenue recognition and accounting for contracts by partnering to build a financial model that gave a significant lift and removed the use of 3rd parties.• Analyzed struggling products and collaborated with customers to identify pain points and secure resolutions, improving performance and features and contributing to retaining key customers such as Panasonic, Cisco, and Disney.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Utilized Java, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript on Heroku and AWS Infrastructure• Recruited to develop a business model and product offering that included a quick visual personality assessment and developed a backend API in Java that could produce a high volume of assessment results while aligning with other people and jobs.• Performed as Product Manager and CEO and throughout tenure, processed 600K assessments and transacted at a rate of 10K assessments per day, securing partnerships and integrations with Oracle, iCims, Montage Talent, Military.com, Snagajob, and more.• Delivered the organization’s first product to developer conferences and hackathons to inquire about what developers would build with a personality API and identified Learned Careers, Matchmaking (Dating), and Marketing as the primary use cases.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

• Founded and served as CEO of the organization, providing SaaS solutions for all aspects of recruitment, onboarding, performance, and compensation management, providing the ability to unlock individual resources' creative energy, talent, and passion.• Led the organization in pioneering both software-as-a-service (SaaS) and talent acquisition and management software, resulting in Taleo (now Oracle) acquiring the company in 2008 for $150M (5X recurring revenue, 3X total revenue).• Leveraged engineering background and staffing knowledge to design and program the 1st version and continued to assist in writing code and leading product teams, hiring and mentoring product managers, with many receiving promotions to Director and Vice President.• Delivered a product with depth, speed, and ease that separated it from the competition, winning various awards, and was used in multiple languages and locations worldwide.• Late 2003, with $4M in revenue and a few banner customers, secured $33M from top-tier venture firms Questmark Capital and Tudor Ventures.• Secured large enterprise customers such as Disney (first enterprise solution implemented across all Disney brands and properties), HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Nestle, Unilever, and Wynn Casinos.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

Accounting Systems

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