Chris Derry

Experience

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  Western Illinois University

  Mar 2001 - Feb 2005

  Assisted two Marketing & Finance professors. This was a part-time student worker position in addition to my full time MBA graduate studies.(Note: Left position when State Farm position accepted)Duties included:- Development of a course website for a Marketing professor- Researched and created a presentation on a marketing publication- Organized and populated statistics for a research project by the interim Chair of Marketing & Finance Assisted the University's Apple technician through various computer support activities. This was a part-time student worker position in addition to my full time undergraduate studies.Duties included:- Second level support solving service tickets from the helpdesk.- Assembled, set up, and configured the University's computer labs- Answered support questions for both PC and Mac computers

  • Graduate Assistant

    Aug 2004 - Feb 2005

  • Technical Assistant

    Mar 2001 - Aug 2004
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  State Farm ®

  Mar 2005 - now

  Duties include:- Serve as Team Lead and representative for seven Bank Mainframe developers- Prioritize and delegate a wide variety of development work across State Farm Bank's entire product line- Lead planning sessions and showcases for management buy-in- Design and build databases for State Farm Bank's data storage architecture- Serve as a subject matter expert across State Farm Bank for data design, data architecture, and data storage activities Gather requirements and design relational computer databases and models.Duties include:- Collaborating with business partners to determine the requirements for new databases and tables or changes to existing data stores.- Use ER Studio and other design tools to create and update database models- Work in a team-based project environment Application development for the Auto division of State Farm's Systems department.Duties included:- Gathered business specifications and requirements for changes to the system mainframe software- Developed programming solutions to meet the business requirements- Thoroughly tested changes and implemented in a project environment- Supported existing software for incident and problem resolution- First on the call list for issue resolution

  • Data Analyst & Product Owner

    Jan 2017 - now

  • Data Designer

    Mar 2010 - Jan 2017

  • Systems Analyst

    Mar 2005 - Mar 2010