Derrick Mateja

Military Service:

• Rank: Sergeant

  Branch/Position: Marine Corps

  Period: August 2012 - August 2017

  Occupation: 6252 - Fixed-Wing Aircraft Airframe Mechanic, AV-8/TAV-8

  Security Clearance: Secret Clearance

  Duties Description:

  Fixed-Wing Aircraft airframe mechanics, AV-8/TAV-8, inspect, maintain, and repair aircraft hydraulic/pneumatic and structure systems along with corrosion control maintenance.
  
  Work center supervisor providing leadership to junior Marines to ensure correct workflow, access to equipment, and safety guidelines were being upheld/maintained properly.

  Collateral Duty Inspector: overseeing maintenance on large volume of aircraft and observing and issuing final approval on maintenance work orders completed by junior marines.

  Phase Maintenance Coordinator: Managed project workloads and coordinated workflows from 4 differnt shops when aircraft accumulated so many flight hours and required schedule tear down and inspection of various parts of the aircraft.

  Training courses:

  • Naval Air Technical Training Center Certificate
  • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Marine Unit Cherry Point Certificate
  • Naval Aviation Organizational Level Maintenance Activity Work Center Supervisor Course Certificate
  • Naval Aviation Organizational Level Maintenance Activity Organizational Maintenance Activity Certificate
  • Marine Corpse Good Conduct Medal

Work history:

• Job Title: Aviation Airframes Mechanic

  Company: U.S. Marine Corps

  Period: August 2012 - August 2017

  Role Description:

  • Phase Coordinator: Managed project workloads, coordinated workfows, and
  led a team of over 20 Marines to ensure timely completion of phase
  maintenance and documentation.
  • Collateral Duty Inspector: Oversaw maintenance on a large volume of aircraft,
  issued fnal decisions on fight send-off status.
  • Work Center Supervisor: Provided leadership to a team of 20-30 Marines,
  mentored junior Marines, and ensured correct workfow and access to work
  tools.
  • Airframes Mechanic: Performed removal and replacement of hydraulic
  airframe components, troubleshooting hydraulic systems, and conducting
  sheet metal/carbon fber repairs on AV-8B Harrier. 

• Job Title: Software Engineer

  Company: Guaranteed Rate

  Period: February 2019 - February 2021

  Role Description:

  • Worked on a team that developed an app aimed at delivering a mobile
  experience to receive on the fy information about the current state of a
  mortgage and providing the ability to complete a few mortgage related
  tasks.
  • Converted from a web app to a mobile app (iOS & Android) built with
  Shadow-CLJS and React Native
  • Later on migrated the app from a public store distribution model (iOS &
  Android) to an in-house Enterprise solution using Microsoft App Center
   

• Job Title: Software Engineer

  Company: Revenuewell

  Period: February 2021 - January 2024

  Role Description:

  • built an iOS app written in Swift (native iOS) from the ground up that
  provided users with contact lists, appointments list, analytics on dental
  practice statistics and telephone usage using a third party VOIP PBX along
  with call history logs, visual voicemail and push notifcations.
  • Ported over multiple web ui widgets into a new web experience to reduce the
  complexity of developing these components that were originally in a private
  npm package.
  • Rebuilt a legacy appointments web app with a refreshed UI in Typescript, with
  mobile responsive funtionality which was also added into the iOS and Android
  app using an iframe,  removing the need to build the same app for mobile.  

Education:

• St. Patrick H.S.

  High School

  Period: August 2002 - May 2006

• ITT Technical Institue

  Bachelor's Degree – Information Systems Security

  Period: August 2006 - September 2010