Derek Vaughan

Experience

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  U.S. Coast Guard

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2014

  Electronics Shop supervisor
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  True Frame Report

  Feb 2015 - Dec 2015

  Seattle vehicle inspector

  TrueFrame partners with participating wholesale auto auctions to perform body/structural inspections on vehicles and provides summary reports of those inspections in order to further document a vehicle’s history and current condition. TrueFrame Reports can help distinguish good cars with accident records and no structural damage from bad cars with accident records and existing structural damage. This benefits both buyers and sellers from wholesale to retail. Benefits: Auction consignors can get a higher value for their good cars with accidents on their history reports because a clean TrueFrame report shows the accident was minor and the vehicle is structurally sound. Dealers can sell these good cars with accidents on the history reports faster and for more money than they could without a clean TrueFrame report. Retail customers can be more confident in their purchase of the vehicle. Vehicle history reports have brought transparency to used vehicle transactions. In addition to title brands and odometer readings, VHR providers are also increasingly able to identify vehicles that have been in an accident and when/where that accident occurred. This is a positive step, since more information is better – anyone would want to know if the vehicle they are about to purchase has been in an accident before or not. However, due to limitations on the information available to vehicle history providers on those accident records, they are unable to provide significant details on the nature or extent of those accidents. While an accident record lets people know that a vehicle was in an accident, it is unable to identify whether the vehicle had rolled over and wrapped around a tree or if it was a minor fender bump in the grocery store parking lot (or something in between). As a result, all vehicles with an accident record on their history report are treated the same by prospective buyers (both wholesale and retail), greatly diminishing the values of those vehicles. Show less

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  SERCO inc

  Dec 2015 - now

  Field Service Engineer

  Maintain, diagnose, and repair manual and automatic access gates, turnstiles, intercoms, and video surveillance systems on US NAVY installations.