In the last 20 years, Derek has helped transform how people work at federal agencies like National Archives and National Institutes of Health and at companies such as Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One. While at Capital One, he lead their company-wide Jira Align/Enterprise Insights implementation. He is also the founder of Agile Baltimore, a community organization dedicated to promoting Lean and Agile in the Baltimore, Maryland region. He has written over 600 articles and has published 2 books.