Derek Poon

Derek Poon has worked in the IT industry since 2000. Derek began their career as a Help Desk Technician at GSA, then moved to Northrop Grumman Information Technology as a Software Engineer. In 2004, Derek transitioned to Northrop Grumman TASC as a Software Developer. In 2006, they joined Lockheed Martin as a System Engineer and Release Manager. Derek then moved to North Point Technology as a Systems Engineer in 2014, and is currently employed as a Cloud Engineer at Whiteboard Federal Technologies since 2020.

Derek Poon has a Master of Science (MS) from George Mason University and attended Penn State University. Derek also has certifications from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and CompTIA, including an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (obtained in March 2016), 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 (obtained in March 2015), and Security+ (obtained in April 2014). Derek also holds an AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification.