Derek Oliver
San Diego,CA
Summary
Senior Information Technology (IT) professional with over 15 years of experience leading large technical teams, improving operational performance, and delivering measurable outcomes. Aligns customer business objectives with IT initiatives, leads technical validation for desired customer outcomes, and improves operational efficiency through the implementation of secure, scalable and resilient designs.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Practice Lead, Infra / Application Modernization
Google LLC
08.2022 - Current
- Secured technical win for first-ever Google Cloud $13M 3-year contract with University of California, Riverside
- Led discovery and designed technical architecture for $1.32M SIEM solution for Higher Education customer
- Delivered custom architecture for $200K API integration, Service Mesh and Kubernetes modernization project to large State Police agency
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
06.2021 - 08.2022
- Sold value of cloud services to Higher Education Board, captured first CA $3.5M/5-year deal for Google Cloud
- Designed future state for bioinformatics research customer, landed $400K SOW for cloud transformation
- Lead effort to charter inaugural Security Practice Group for Google Public Sector, won $80K Zero Trust POC
Senior Solutions Engineer
VMware, Inc.
04.2019 - 06.2021
- Brokered $500K data center migration and helped secure $2M 4-year ELA for local City government
- Lead POVs for software-defined services across public sector, produced $940K during first half of 2020.
- Lead for first ever $430K VMware Cloud on AWS deal for local government hybrid cloud modernization
Technical Account Manager
VMware, Inc.
05.2017 - 04.2019
- Engaged with Account Execs to map over 25 business objectives to VMware solutions across all accounts
- Delivered Best Practice Evaluations and Capability Assessments to IT leaders for planning and growth
- Accelerated adoption of VMware services through engagement in technology sessions and pilot projects
IT Program Manager
Agile Defense Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2017
- Led $287M IT Program to advance DARPA-enabled technological superiority for DoD National Security.
- Modernized aging legacy Data Center with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure to improve efficiency and increase operational performance by 30%
- Directed 24/7 Security Operations Center for DARPA employing modern Security Operations tools, techniques, controls and processes
Director of Operations
Salient Federal Solutions/Salient CRGT
10.2013 - 06.2016
- Led $22M Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) subsistence software application, achieved "Outstanding" ratings
- Orchestrated$1M of network engineering efforts across DISA to minimize downtime and lower latency by 50%
- Led $18M FDIC application modernization project leveraging DevOps principles, first-ever for FDIC
Education
MBA -
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Bloomington, INMS -
Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CABS -
General Studies, US Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, COSkills
- Python, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Terraform, YAML, JSON
- ML, Deep Learning (TF/Keras), Computer Vision
- DevOps, Cloud Computing, Solution Architecture
- Risk management, Cloud security, Zero trust access
- SAAS/PAAS/IAAS architectures and distributed apps
- C-level communication / enterprise transformation
- Grow and develop high performing engineering teams
Certification
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
- Caltech Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Program
- Certificate, Machine Learning Methods, University of California, San Diego Extension
- VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization (VCP-NV 2021)
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Military Service - Final Rank
Lt Colonel (USAF)
Published Work
An alternative optimization model and robust experimental design for the ASC-U simulation, Derek M. Oliver, 06/2007, Susan Sanchez, Darryl K. Ahner, https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/3400
Security Clearance
Top Secret - enrolled in DSS Continuous Evaluation as of 4/22/2019
Affiliations
Advisory Board, Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology, Shirley Marcos School of Engineering, University of San Diego
Languages
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Practice Lead, Infra / Application Modernization
Google LLC
08.2022 - Current
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
06.2021 - 08.2022
Senior Solutions Engineer
VMware, Inc.
04.2019 - 06.2021
Technical Account Manager
VMware, Inc.
05.2017 - 04.2019
IT Program Manager
Agile Defense Inc.
06.2016 - 05.2017
Director of Operations
Salient Federal Solutions/Salient CRGT
10.2013 - 06.2016
MBA -
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
MS -
Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
BS -
General Studies, US Air Force Academy
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