Derek Learning

• Joined Terida initially in quality assurance, concerned with white and black box testing of their proprietary software solutions and remained in that role for approximately two years
• Participated in moving the solutions from siloed captive offices to a cloud infrastructure as a service model for a diverse clientel.
• Moved to the systems administrator team to focus on requirements of FedRAMP standing, over saw documentation of vulnerabilities, adoption and evaluation of several different scanning tools to monitor deployed software, code base and cloud infrastructure configuration, in real time and as a matter of scheduled review.

Own and operate an incorporated small business; Authorized Service Provider for Measurement Canada

Manages all aspects of the business, servicing small and large retail concerns in the Maritimes for Class III and Class II legal for trade weighing concerns.

• Realized [Number]% improvement in reliability of [Software] through rigorous efforts to improve quality through integration testing and modifications.
• Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
• Performed user acceptance and integration testing to produce system enhancements and upgrades.
• Defined and administered standard testing architecture methodologies, processes and tools.

• Returned to the position of inventory control and purchasing officer.
• Refocused the role to make efficient and effective centralized purchasing and inventory levels the primary concerns of the role.
• Identified several weaknesses with forecasting of consumption, building tools to identify patterns in relation to seasonal demands that are fed by data and not solely dependent on experience.
• Reduced operating overhead, on-hand inventory and maintained ‘just in time’ on-hand presence to support our customers and prevent downtime and damage to their business.

• Transitioned to business administrator role in a small but separate division of Aggregate Equipment called Master Scales; took on administrative responsibilities of the division, became intimately involved with the sales, service and technical roles
• Managed multiple competing responsibilities and time sensitive challenges while rebuilding and maintaining Measurement Canada Accreditation (similar to ISO 9001) necessary for the division to remain in business
• Cleaned the years of stagnant inventory and sales allowing the company directors to properly assess and accurately evaluate the division.

• Put systems in place to ensure correct ordering, receiving, shipping and inventory for parts.
• Made simple and effective changes to ensure that information was communicated efficiently, and records were accurately maintained, insisting on accountability and proper filing of requests for parts and service.
• Updated the solely paper driven payroll process to data capture system so that information was processed in a timely manner, could be retrieved by authorized personnel on or off site and was archived for auditing purposes.

• Completed computer science degree in three years with 16-month internship for Nortel Networks in Metro Optical Dense Wavelength Multiplexing and De-multiplexing group
• Internship led to full-time employment in the firmware development group, over five years progressed from entry level programmer to member of rapid development team
• Worked extensively with offsite testing, destructive testing and functioned as ‘first point of contact’ for debugging test results
• Programmed mainly in low level firmware control using C and C like languages.