Derek Whyte
VP Client Services at FCV
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Derek Whyte's Overview
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- VP Client Services at FCV
- Past
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- Senior Project Manager at Blast Radius
- Director of Information Technology at Stockgroup Media Inc.
- Multimedia Project Manager at International Publishing & Development
- Education
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- University College of the Fraser Valley
- College on New Caledonia
- Recommendations
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21 people have recommended Derek
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Derek Whyte's Summary
Derek Whyte is the VP of Client Services at FCV.
Derek leads the company’s Project Management Office (PMO) responsible for designing and implementing best practices in project management. Derek also leads the company’s Quality Assurance department (QA) responsible for delivering projects of the highest quality calibre.
With over fifteen years of experience, Derek has led a number of large projects at FCV for TELUS, TransLink, Microsoft, Overwaitea Food Group, the Rick Hansen Foundation, and the Canadian Tourism Commission. Previously, Derek worked as a Senior Project Manager at Blast Radius responsible for successful project delivery for clients such as Regence, Intrawest, EA, Nike and Brand Jordan.
Derek also spent eight years as Director of Development for Stockgroup/StockHouse responsible for product development and delivery of the company’s financial portal tools for clients including National Bank Financial, Credential Direct, Sun Life Financial, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the Associated Press.
Derek holds a Computer Information Systems degree from the University College of the Fraser Valley.
Specialties
Project Management, Project Delivery, Interactive Website Development, Social Networking, Web 2.0
Derek Whyte's Experience
VP Client Services
FCV
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
July 2007 – Present (4 years 8 months)
Derek Whyte is the VP of Client Services at FCV.
Derek leads the company’s Project Management Office (PMO) responsible for designing and implementing best practices in project management. Derek also leads the company’s Quality Assurance department (QA) responsible for delivering projects of the highest quality calibre.
With over fifteen years of experience, Derek has led a number of large projects at FCV for TELUS, TransLink, Microsoft, Overwaitea Food Group, the Rick Hansen Foundation, and the Canadian Tourism Commission. Previously, Derek worked as a Senior Project Manager at Blast Radius responsible for successful project delivery for clients such as Regence, Intrawest, EA, Nike and Brand Jordan.
Derek also spent eight years as Director of Development for Stockgroup/StockHouse responsible for product development and delivery of the company’s financial portal tools for clients including National Bank Financial, Credential Direct, Sun Life Financial, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the Associated Press.
Derek holds a Computer Information Systems degree from the University College of the Fraser Valley.
Senior Project Manager
Blast Radius
Public Company; 201-500 employees; WPPGY; Internet industry
November 2006 – March 2007 (5 months)
Worked as a senior project manager at Blast Radius responsible for successful project delivery for clients such as the Canadian Tourism Commission, Regence, Intrawest, EA, Nike and Brand Jordan.
Director of Information Technology
Stockgroup Media Inc.
March 1999 – September 2006 (7 years 7 months)
Derek spent 6 years at Stockgroup (StockHouse) as the Director of the Development Department. Derek and his team of 10 developers, designers, DBA’s and interaction architects were responsible for developing and maintain Stockgroup’s leading financial portal StockHouse. StockHouse is developed in a combination of SQL Server ASP and ASP.net and powered by a cluster of SQL Server 2005 databases. The website has grown to 90 million page views per month with 900,000 unique vistors.
Derek Whyte's Education
University College of the Fraser Valley
Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems
1996 – 1999
College on New Caledonia
BCIS, Computer Information Systems
1993 – 1996
Derek Whyte's Additional Information
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Sailing
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Project Management Institute (PMI) Vancouver Power Squadron
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- Honors and Awards:
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• Awarded the Vancouver Stock Exchange Scholarship for academic achievement in the field of Computer Information Systems
• Awarded the Canwest Publishers Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement
• Awarded the Vancouver Foundation Bursary for overall Academic Achievement
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