Derek spent his career in Information Technology building infrastructure solutions first in the mid 1990’s building Enterprise Computing solutions with Compaq, DEC, and HP servers and then move into Virtualization with VMWare and has managed both the Physical and Virtual compute infrastructure at Emory University. Currently, Derek is migrating Emory University to Amazon Web Services. The current shift in Information Technology is to break down the barriers between the operations and development teams. Derek is on the forefront of working with Developers at Emory to build out DevOps solutions centered around OpenStack, Docker, and Puppet. ©