Derek Schmidt

Derek Schmidt is a highly experienced professional with a diverse background in engineering and project management. Derek currently serves as the Director of Product Engineering at Motivair Corporation since February 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from January 2020 to February 2022, where they held the positions of HPC Customer Project Manager and Sr. Hardware Engineering Manager R&D.

Schmidt's previous roles include serving as the Sr. Manager, Mechanical Engineering R&D at Cray Inc. from July 2019 to December 2019, Mechanical Engineer at Cray Inc. from November 2015 to June 2016, Technical Project Manager and Staff Mechanical Engineer at Lenovo from October 2014 to January 2015, and Assistant to Head of Physics Department at Taylor University from June 2005 to September 2005.

Their extensive work experience also includes a long tenure at IBM as a Staff Engineer - System x Mechanical Server Development from June 2006 to September 2014, and as a Research Assistant for T.E.S.T. Satellite at Taylor University from June 2004 to August 2004.

Derek Schmidt's expertise lies in product engineering, project management, and mechanical engineering within the technology industry.

Derek Schmidt attended Taylor University from 2002 to 2006, where they pursued a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics.