Derek L. Stack

• Guide design and validation new product components to improve product functionality and to reduce overall cost of the system without compromising quality.
• Lead a team of 20 domestic and international engineers performing preliminary engineering designs on all incoming opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate early-stage project obstacles to ensure successful project completion.
• Collaborate with product, sales, and operations teams to further develop innovative racking tailored to client-specific preference and project location while accelerating project timelines.
• Monitor project pipeline for collaboration with commodities managers to ensuring accurate demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory levels are achieved for product-specific components.
• Develop and implement business strategies to achieve company goals relative to improving speed and accuracy of all sales quotes.
• Benchmark and analyze financial performance and competitiveness of all company projects.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities with new and existing clients.
• Lead company thought leadership with white paper development and internal and consultant lead product testing and validation.

• Lead a team of 4 engineers performing engineering analysis, including structural calculations, for company products, in accordance with applicable codes and standards.
• Oversaw design and install of utility-scale ground mount solar projects in all project stages from preliminary to as-built construction level documentation for 8 EPCs totaling more than 2.23 GW.
• Contributed to internal and upstream supply chain QC operations including documentation, peer reviews, and First Article Inspections (FAIs).
• Managed all technical and procedural client Requests for Information (RFIs) and regularly interface with clients on coordination calls and site visits.

• Lead a team of 11 engineers in analyzing electrical and mechanical designs for existing and new construction of industrial warehouses, data centers, commercial offices, and multifamily real estate.
• Managed 8-12 simultaneous projects and coordinated all aspects of Enertiv projects from engineering design, system procurement and assembly, to installation and commissioning.
• Reviewed ground and roof mount solar PV plans, section details, grounding details, single-line diagrams, electric calculations, pipe racking systems, and metering designs for feasibility and data integration into Enertiv software platform via hardware deployment/software API.
• Designed detailed hardware solutions for granular electric and qualitative data sets relative to building performance, operations, and maintenance.

• Directed structural natural frequency mitigation analysis; created FEA models in ANSYS tuned and calibrated to test-data and designing modifications to structurally shift natural frequencies away from system forcing functions.
• LabVIEW software developer designing proprietary data acquisition software for predictive maintenance, and machinery monitoring systems.
• Performed on-site data acquisition / analysis of a .wide variety of industrial machinery including boiler feed pumps, gas turbines, compressors and synchronous motors.
• Standardized high-speed video analysis and motion magnification for projectile speed, flight path, blade vibration modal analysis, material deformation, fluid flow path, and particle dispersion for munitions development.

Lead Engineer, Coast Guard Station Fire Island

• Served as engineering leader for 30 engineers maintaining and operating 4 search and rescue response boats, station facilities, and 30 military housing units.

Boarding Officer: Federal Law Enforcement Officer

• Conducted vessel boarding operations and managed training of boarding team members while directing civilian vessel safety inspections and public boating safety awareness events.

Supply Chain Petty Officer: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett

• Maintained the ships' engineering budget, researched and procured engineering parts to maintain the ships' engineering plant with machinery including gas turbines, boilers, diesel engines, evaporator, various pumps, heat exchangers, and fuel and oil centrifuges.

Throttleman: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Midgett

• Operated and maintained ship's engineering plant including, diesel propulsion systems, boilers, gas turbine propulsion systems, diesel generators, air compressors, evaporator, various pumps, heat exchangers, and fuel and oil centrifuges.