Derek Wheelden

At Big Room Technologies, I led the initial Material Kitting Application pilot for a major U.S. defense shipbuilder, from discovery through production deployment. I designed its user experience and interaction flows in Figma, turning paper-based shipyard processes into a centralized workflow that reduced daily manual work by approximately 3–4 hours per user.

I provide technical direction alongside another senior engineer and lead feature teams while staying involved in product decisions, design, implementation, and production support. The broader Operations Management Portal expanded to support more than 300 users across material kitting, warehouse logistics, and reporting.

At Dirigo Design & Development, I worked with the CTO to define Button, an embedded e-commerce platform, and built its initial prototype. I helped evolve it from in-person and phone sales into an online platform supporting thousands of season-pass purchases.

I also independently conceived, designed, built, and deployed Sous, a smart cooking application with a natural-language recipe pipeline, and Moji, a browser-based multiplayer party game. Both products are publicly deployed and have active users.