Years of professional IT experience
Hi, I’m
DEREK PRITCHARD
Oxford,MI
Summary
Solutions driven IT professional looking to further advance my career in digital process automation with an organization where I can add value by shaping and executing their process automation journey, and whose culture encourages the growth of its employees, both professionally and personally.
Overview
16
7
Years of Process Automation experience
Work History
Comerica BankAuburn Hills, MI
Domain Architect, UiPath Platform
07.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for the design, and detailed plan for migrating from on-prem infrastructure to the UiPath Automation Cloud Platform. Directed all aspects of the team in order to have a successful migration
- Directly managed the daily operations of the robotic automation program. This also entailed providing necessary and timely communication about the health and value of the automation program to senior management team
- Responsible for ensuring our cybersecurity, audit and risk management teams have a proper understanding of how robotics process automation works to help define policies that coincide with the company's risk tolerance
- Partner with senior management to determine the KPI’s of how we will measure the pipeline to ensure all levels of management can make educated decisions for work prioritzation
- Established and oversaw the 6 quarter roadmap for the UiPath Automation Platform
- Improved our automation discovery process to utilize Automation Hub & Task Capture which has sped up the discovery phase and brought repeatable standardization to the process which enhanced the downstream development phase
- Recognized as the Team lead and mentor for the development team, providing development/troubleshooting assistance, educating on new UiPath services and assigning in development work
Comerica BankAuburn Hills, MI
Principal Engineer, UiPath Platform
05.2018 - 07.2020
Job overview
- Established the UiPath Center of Excellence to define platform governance for our development model, from business engagement, development, deployment and operational support to ensure the delivery of quality solutions and a great experience for our business users
- Partnered with senior IT management and business stakeholders to showcase our automation technologies and guide them towards accomplishing their process automation goals
- Utilized my relationships to plan, coordinate and execute major platform upgrades with minimal impact to our business partners to ensure a positive experience for our user base
- Responsible for product vendor relationship, including pricing, contract negotiations and ensuring we are included in early release programs to take advantage of new product features
- Assisted senior management in defining future strategy for operational support as the technology matures and increases its footprint in the organization
- Defined solution architecture for various large-scale initiatives, including automating the fulfillment of service requests coming from ServiceNow to help relieve understaffed help desk team.
Comerica BankAuburn Hills, MI
Sr. Staff Engineer, UiPath Platform
05.2017 - 05.2018
Job overview
- Designed the UiPath platform infrastructure in Azure Cloud and coordinated work with various teams/vendors to ensure infrastructure/platform was installed/configured as designed
- Lead all UiPath development and operational support for the organization, provide guidance and direction for all other UiPath resources including internal resources and vendors
- Build great relationships with various infrastructure and operations teams to influence IT priorities, meet deadlines and hit target goals.
Comerica BankAuburn Hills, MI
Sr. Staff Engineer, SharePoint/ServiceNow
02.2014 - 05.2017
Job overview
- Coordinated efforts of service vendors, product vendors and internal staff to implement company’s first ServiceNow instance
- Coordinated with multiple teams across the organization to ensure the ServiceNow infrastructure design and implement
- Designed and implemented Comerica’s first CMDB within ServiceNow by capturing all IT assets from various discovery technologies using ServiceNow import sets and transformation mapping.
- Defined SharePoint development best practices for Comerica SP developers to follow
- Delivered and showcased a SharePoint solution to streamline major incident communications within the organization
- Developed SPTimerJobs within Visual Studio to gather User Profile information into an incident communication list
- Led SharePoint Administrator Training classes
- Developed CA Service Desk workflows to automate the approval process of Change Requests
Ford Motor Co. (via TekSystems)Dearborn, MI
SharePoint Engineer
04.2012 - 02.2014
Job overview
- Designed and implemented a more efficient SharePoint infrastructure as well as orchestrated an effective SharePoint User Model across multiple departments to relieve some of the SharePoint administrative burden
- Developed workflows via SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio to eliminate manual communications between department employees
- Lead meetings across multiple departments and management teams on how to automate manual work processes utilizing SharePoint and how to better integrate department systems within SharePoint Intranet
- Saved department 200K by developing a user dashboard within SharePoint as an alternative to a custom .NET web application proposed by IT.
Econ Global ServicesBirmingham, MI
SharePoint Developer
10.2011 - 03.2012
Paragon SolutionsCranford, NJ
SharePoint Developer
04.2011 - 10.2011
Computer Sciences CorporationWest Orange, NJ
Technical Developer
11.2010 - 04.2011
CommonHealth LLCParsippany, NJ
Application Developer
05.2008 - 11.2010
Education
Oakland University, College of Business
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems
Skills
- UiPath Robotics Process Automation Platform
- UiPath Studio
- Uipath UI & API Automation Development
- UiPath Orchestrator
- UiPath Automation Hub
- UiPath Task Capture
- UiPath Intelligent Document Processing
- UiPath Insights
- UiPath Apps
- Uipath Automation Cloud
- Microsoft SharePoint (2007, 2010, Online) – Administration, Development
- ServiceNow – Administration, Development
- SQL
- Active Directory
- C#
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Azure
- AWS
- NET
- XML
- CA Service Desk – Development
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
- Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configuration
- UiPath Developer
- UiPath Business Analyst
- UiPath Solution Architect
Timeline
Domain Architect, UiPath Platform
Comerica Bank
07.2020 - Current
Principal Engineer, UiPath Platform
Comerica Bank
05.2018 - 07.2020
Sr. Staff Engineer, UiPath Platform
Comerica Bank
05.2017 - 05.2018
Sr. Staff Engineer, SharePoint/ServiceNow
Comerica Bank
02.2014 - 05.2017
SharePoint Engineer
Ford Motor Co. (via TekSystems)
04.2012 - 02.2014
SharePoint Developer
Econ Global Services
10.2011 - 03.2012
SharePoint Developer
Paragon Solutions
04.2011 - 10.2011
Technical Developer
Computer Sciences Corporation
11.2010 - 04.2011
Application Developer
CommonHealth LLC
05.2008 - 11.2010
Oakland University, College of Business
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems