Derrius Quarles

Derrius Quarles is the Co-Founder of BREAUX Capital. Prior to this, they worked as a Product Manager for the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from October 2019 to February 2020. In this role, they provided technical assistance and change management assistance to the Strategic Integration Administration during phase 1 of the legislative priority to modernize the troubled child welfare information system – MiSACWIS – to a platform-as-a-service software. Derrius also completed use case and institutional analysis to research and highlight the key pain points across the State of Michigan’s 83 local MDHHS county offices, 5,861 active foster homes, and 144 licensed Child Caring Institutions (CCI).

Derrius also contributed to the analysis and scoring of 18 robust proposals submitted via publically issued RFP with specific scrutiny of proposed solution modularity, legacy systems integration, real-time analytics/reporting capabilities, and human-centered design approach. Derrius also crafted the foundational draft of external user stories to provide engineering teams with a comprehensive understanding of the pains experienced by state residents seeking to become licensed foster parent or renew licensure. Lastly, they drafted and defined the phase 1 product vision and outcomes-based product roadmap to formalize the exact business goals and KPIs that would be monitored to define product success.

Derrius Quarles has a Master's of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Their focus is on Education Entrepreneurship, Business, and Education. Derrius also has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Biology from Morehouse College. In addition, Derrius has certification from Google in both Google Analytics Fundamentals and Advanced Certificate, as well as a certification from HubSpot in HubSpot Growth Driven Design Certification and HubSpot Inbound Marketing Certification.