Derek Nye

Fulfillment Supply Innovation · La Vergne, TN

• Built a custom Python data model converting customer takeoff orders into NetSuite assembly and work order imports, generating over 20,000 work orders in six months.
• Reduced complex SKU order processing from days to minutes by automating the translation of customer orders into warehouse instructions.
• Developed a pallet assembly and truck layout optimization model converting customer orders into efficient warehouse loading plans.
• Created operational dashboards and visualizations in Excel, Matplotlib, and NetSuite Analytics to track key metrics for management.

DataAnnotation · Remote

• Performed data annotation, labeling, and validation across diverse datasets to improve machine learning model accuracy.
• Identified patterns, inconsistencies, and edge cases in training data, applying structured quality-checking methodology to ensure reliable outputs.

Landmark Recovery · Franklin, TN

• Forecasted daily admission rates with Excel-based models, informing staffing and capacity decisions across a 24-hour intake operation.
• Built scheduling automation tools using Excel VBA macros, replacing manual coordination for a 14-nurse remote team.
• Managed 14 remote intake nurses and a 24-hour scheduling team, ensuring full day and night shift coverage. Implemented training programs for telemedicine, communications, and patient assessments.

San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency · San Diego, CA

• Conducted case investigations and structured patient interviews to collect medical history and risk-factor data for communicable disease surveillance, working entirely within HIPAA and county data-privacy requirements.
• Coordinated across hospitals and laboratories to confirm findings and drive timely response to antibiotic-resistant infection cases.
• Delivered COVID-19 isolation and quarantine guidance, translating public health protocols into plain language for the public during active emergency response.

California Health Corps · San Diego, CA

• Paid volunteer nurse position filling in for nurses in skilled nursing facilities with active COVID-19 outbreaks, including some of the first facilities in San Diego County to have known outbreaks.
• Worked directly with COVID-19 positive patients in locked-down units, providing nursing care including medication administration, feeding, and toileting, and giving updates to families who weren't allowed on the unit in person.

Rady Children's Hospital · San Diego, CA

• Provided intensive-care monitoring for neonatal and pediatric patients with congenital heart defects, including support for patients on ECMO.

Rady Children's Hospital · San Diego, CA

• Provided direct patient care support, including bathing, feeding, mobility assistance, and vital signs monitoring.
• Restocked unit supplies and updated shift-change signage to keep the floor running smoothly.

American Medical Response · San Diego, CA

• Transported and treated patients requiring basic life support care, including limited medication administration, splinting, bandaging, and CPR.
• Worked as an EMT Transporter on the Children's Hospital Emergency Transport Team, a collaborative effort between Rady Children's and AMR, responding to neonatal and pediatric emergencies alongside a Children's Hospital RN and respiratory therapist.
• Worked as an EMT Field Training Officer, instructing new EMTs on inter-facility transports and emergency calls across San Diego County.

XCOR Aerospace · Mojave, CA

• Served as maintenance tech and part of the test crew on the Lynx 5K18 LOX/Kerosene rocket engine, maintaining and fabricating pressure lines and preparing the engine for test days.
• Composites technician for carbon fiber and fiberglass parts used as both real and mockup flight articles for the Lynx suborbital spaceplane.
• Researched composite tank production for holding cryogenic fluids for the second iteration of the Lynx suborbital spaceplane.

San Diego, CA

Creative, 2007 to 2009

• Taught one-on-one and group sessions on professional and consumer creative software, including Final Cut, Logic, Aperture, and the iLife and iWork suites, adapting pace and language to each person's skill level.
• Promoted into the Creative role from the sales floor.
• Recruited by Apple corporate in 2008 and 2009 to produce music beds for live company events in San Francisco, on two month-long special assignments.

Mac Specialist, 2005 to 2007

• Sold Mac hardware, software, and services in one of Apple's highest-traffic stores, including full holiday peak seasons.
• Recommended configurations based on how each customer actually worked, not off a script.