John Derwent Email & Phone Number

Evanston, Il, Us

Instructor for a variety of courses over time including Introduction to Predictive Analytics, Mathematics for Modelers, Intro to Statistics, and Data Science and Research Practices. Currently, main faculty for Data Science and Digital Transformation, a course introducing students to the idea of digital transformation through a lens of data science use cases.

Providing subject matter expertise for program design, curriculum development and course instruction for new certificate program covering Predictive Business Analytics targeting a remote audience. Co-developed program goals, course descriptions and student objectives as well as course materials for initial course. Participating in instructor selection, program direction and development and delivery of initial course.

• Consultant on not-for-profit grant applications and LOI submissions working to improve education opportunities worldwide.• Consultant for the planning, preparation and submission of research grant applications and peer reviewed publications for a research group in the field of visual neuroscience.• Grants submitted to government organizations including NIH/NEI and NSF as well as private funding organizations including The Whitaker Foundation, Prevent Blindness America, and The Midwest Eye-Banks and Transplantation. Funding requests ranged from approximately $10,000 to more than $1,000,000.

As part of the Advanced Analytics teams within the Center for Knowledge and Analytics, develop roadmap for and support advanced analytics training initiatives and content. Main areas of focus for the Advanced Analytics training program are creation of learning plans, program design and management of content design and development. Leads in determining topical areas of need, delivery mechanisms that scale and overall content methodologies. Supports consulting practice through formal and informal learning mechanisms.

Chicago, Il

Developing the documentation and training groups and own the content development strategy for growth stage software company.

Directed implementation of a global transformation project for IBM Business Analytics Education Services. Managed eLearning and technical operations teams promoting professional development among managers and front line employees. Primary contributer for design and implementation of content development strategy for IBM global training transformation driving a switch to major integration with larger partner network. Technical content and infrastructure expert on enterprise wide project to revolutionize the IBM training model working with internal and outside resources to implement new model.

Chicago, Il

Managed team of curriculum architects and developers who were responsible for design, creation, and deployment of customer and internal training materials. Developed methodology for multi-modal, single source content design and delivery - a first of its kind within IBM.Additional duties:• Led content development for internal enablement project of >200 enterprise architects, solutions engineers and consultants within IBM Business Analytics, increasing capacity of sales and delivery teams >300%. • Designed plan and acted as learning and development consultant for implementation group, enabling of a network of >100 global business partners.

Managed team with employees located in Asia, Europe and North America. Worked directly with Directors of training delivery worldwide to deliver positive customer satisfaction and to manage customer requirements. • Delivered integration project of SPSS education resources and content into IBM global delivery environment, expanding direct support of training offerings from 16 countries to 40+ countries.• Designed and implemented one customer and two business partner Certification Programs for the IBM SPSS Modeler data mining solution, completing IBM partner eligibility requirements for sales and delivery channel existent in 50+ countries.

Built instructional design team supporting global $3MM annual external training business. Developed team structure, methods and processes including hiring, onboarding and continued professional development of employees (internal and external) to fulfill business requirements. Supported 4 major product families covering 15+ products and curriculum of 80 courses. Led team with employees located in Asia, Europe and North America and external consultants in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States.• Supported 4 major product families covering 15+ products and a curriculum of 80 courses. • Led design and implementation of global education services evaluation system to gather, analyze and report information to business, marketing, education services and sales leaders.• Satisfaction and marketing survey launched simultaneously in 11 languages and 16 countries tracking >90% customer satisfaction and adding new lead generation channel for education sales• Designed and implemented customer Certification Program for SPSS Statistics.

Oversaw yearly budgetary, management and business driven goals and implementation of self-developed and team plans to accomplish said goals including new course ideas, marketing agendas, instructor hiring and mentoring, and overall project tracking. • Managed the on-site corporate learning environment including maintenance of hardware and software, design of environment, procuring new equipment and scheduling classroom usage.• Developed and delivered in-person and web-based distance learning modules for both technical knowledge and soft skills based courses.• Developed and implemented Partner Certification plan for implementation of contact center management product suite. • Trained and mentored top-level executives, sales forces and general services teams of international partner firms covering EMEA, Asia-Pac and North America as they added Apropos product offerings to their business lines.• Made member of the Employee Leadership Council, a team formed to be the employees’ advocate with top-level executives, in recognition of my product expertise and leadership within the professional services organization.

Ms, Phd, Applied Mathematics - Nonlinear Dynamics

Completed graduate studies in nonlinear analysis of dynamical systems. My dissertation work consisted of a bifurcation analysis of annular.

Bs, Honors Mathematics