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Derek Winchester

Founder at #init6

Ashby, Massachusetts, United States

I am a results-driven, performance-focused IT executive with exceptional management skills and extensive experience in IT management, project management, and business development. I am adept at leading and mentoring cross-functional teams to improve overall performance as well as developing and implementing strategic initiatives to achieve organizational goals and increase productivity and efficiency. I am a tech-savvy articulate communicator; with outstanding interpersonal, organizational, problem-solving, and business strategy and operations acumen.

Derek Winchester	Points
Academic	0
Author	61
Influencer	141
Speaker	0
Entrepreneur	0
Total	202

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

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#init6

Founder

https://www.linkedin.com/company/init6-networks/

Company Type: Individual

Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed

Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed

Number of Employees: Undisclosed

Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Cloud 31.99

DevOps 65

Industry Experience

Publications

1 Article/Blog

Azure ML/AI vs. Google Cloud ML/AI: It’s Time You Learned the Difference
LinkedIn
March 16, 2022

If you’re a network engineer who’s managed to avoid the impacts of machine learning and AI on your current role, your time has come. Yes, superior AI beings will soon come for your PuTTY installation and your favorite coffee cup. We’re just kidding. The machines don’t drink coffee.

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Tags: Cloud, DevOps

1 Book

Devops: A Roadmap For Tomorrow's Network Engineer
Amazon
October 22, 2022

This book explicitly discusses Network Engineering and the processes involved in it. Recent technological advancements have made Network Engineering gain significant attention, and people are now proactively choosing this as a career. It's a perfect time to work in this field as this is now one of the most well-earned and top of enterprise list professions. DevOps is a set of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that improves an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster rate than traditional software development and infrastructure management processes"

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Tags: Cloud, DevOps