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Derek Whitaker

Derek Whitaker

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    VP, Government Operations at Finvi

  • Education

    • City University of Seattle

      2003 - 2005
      BS Computer Science

      Graduated with a 3.9 GPA with presidential honors for scholastic achievement.

  • Experience

    • Convergent Resources, Inc.

      Jul 1996 - Jul 2016
      CTO

      Mr. Whitaker has more than 25 years of Information Technology experience, including network engineering, VoIP telephony, and software engineering. He has extensive experience leading technology teams and initiatives, building call center systems, consolidations, and promoting, designing and implementing future generation software and VoIP based contact management technologies.

    • Self Employed - IT Consultant

      Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
      IT Consultant

      Strategic IT Consulting, including business plan, strategy, and development.

    • Ontario Systems

      Nov 2016 - Apr 2020

      Strategic design and development of software and VoIP telephony systems.

      • Senior Director Products Cloud

        Jan 2018 - Apr 2020

      • Senior Systems Architect

        Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

    • Finvi

      Jan 2021 - now

      • VP Government Operations

        Mar 2024 - now

      • Senior Director Government

        Dec 2022 - Mar 2024

      • Director, Voice of the Customer

        Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ScrumMaster

      Scrum Alliance

    • Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2020
      View certificate certificate

    • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

      Scrum Alliance
      Apr 2018
      View certificate certificate

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Derek Whitaker
      Technology Patent United States Patent and Trademark Office Feb 2014 A VoIP software based communication system for placing an outbound call to a target.
    • Awarded to Derek Whitaker
      Innovator of the Year Ontario Systems Oct 2012 The Innovation award was presented to Derek Whitaker of Convergent for his pioneering efforts in the development of new contact strategies and services made possible by the implementation of Ontario Systems new IP-based contact management system. His vision set forth a fundamental change, not only in Ontario Systems’ products, but in the Contact Management space.http://www.ontariosystems.com/create-media-archive-3