Derek Hansen

Partner

2020 - Current

Product Strategy Consultant

2018

Work with clients to craft a market-defining vision that incorporates capabilities from emerging technologies. Analyze revenue growth opportunities and build product roadmaps to deliver high value, customer focused features.

Chief Research Officer

2018 - 2018

Support founders in ongoing manner in all areas of continued evolution of vision, strategy and execution discipline. Specific focus on decentralization excellence.

Director, Product Strategy, School and Student Services (SSS)

2016 - 2017

Oversee the design, development, testing, and of all School and Student Services customer-facing technology, including the School and Family Portals. School and Student Services offers private K-12 schools a combination of software and professional services that make it easy for parents to apply for financial aid, and for school administrators to manage the process. The School and Student Services product was acquired from NAIS by Education Brands in April 2017.

Director of Engineering

2014 - 2016

Provide the technical vision to complement the business vision, setting the tone and direction for the company’s technologies. Primarily responsible for the technical delivery and development of Nimble AMS. Collaborate with product management to ensure the right features are being delivered based on data-driven decisions. Oversee the roadmap team to bring innovative features to market that unlock new possibilities in the way associations do business. Lead the technical recruitment and mentorship of engineers to build technical leaders within NimbleUser.

Lead Software Engineer

2013 - 2014

Software Engineer

2012 - 2013

Utilize Salesforce.com and the ASP .NET platform to provide an enterprise level solution for Association Management Software.

Founder

2012 - 2014

Owner of several websites and mobile applications designed to solve unmet needs in the marketplace. BooksForTigers.com – RIT students can now find the textbooks that they need for the cheapest price across the internet in a matter of seconds. Previously, the workflow to find just the textbook that was required took several minutes. The technologies utilized were PHP, jQuery, HTML, CSS, AJAX, and a Ubuntu 10.4 server.

Software Engineer Co-Op

2011 - 2012

Assisted in the development and architecture of a content conversion and delivery system that delivers law publications to law students across different mediums. The system converted Word documents into HTML5 for e-readers and well-formed XML for Thomson Reuter’s WestlawNext product.

Technical Co-Op

2010 - 2010

Worked primarily with the internal search optimization team. Tasks included writing scripts to analyze log files to improve search performance, implementing Google features into a custom interface, and investigating new possibilities and pursuing their implementation.