Derek Dillman
IT Leader | Strategic Systems Engineer | AI Adoption Expert | Building Tomorrow’s IT Infrastructure Today
- Role
- IT Manager at Harvard Integrations
- Location
- Sioux Falls, SD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Derek Dillman
Personal StatementI\'m a technology architect with a proven systems engineering approach to harnessing infrastructure and artificial intelligence for organizational excellence. You can find me on the cutting edge of AI and technology, while accomplishing what needs to be done to make company IT departments attain high levels of productivity and respect within any company I work for.Infrastructure ManagementServer Technologies: VMware Expert, vCenter, Windows Server, PURE Storage, RAID, Hyper-V, ProxMoxNetwork Architecture: Firewalls, VPNs, Switches, VLANs, APs, Sonicwall, Cisco, Sophos, FortiNET, Ubiquiti, MerakiIdentity & Access: Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Entra, Permissions Management, OktaMonitoring & Analytics: PRTG, Veeam ONE, Power BI, ManageEngine LogAnalyzer, SPLUNK, EventViewer, SyslogsCloud & Modern WorkplaceMicrosoft Ecosystem: Microsoft 365 Expert, Office 365, Azure Compute, Microsoft GraphWeb Technologies: Website Development, Hosting, WordPress, HTML, cPanel, GoDaddyAutomation: PowerShell, Batch, Zapier, PowerAutomate, PowerApps, Make.com, APIsSecurity & ComplianceSecurity Solutions: Microsoft Defender, KnowBe4 Phishing, Rapid7, Tenable, Arctic Wolf, SophosCompliance Tools: SANS Security Certificate, OSSIM Deployment, IDR/IDSBackup & Recovery: Veeam, Cohesity, RAID configurationsArtificial IntelligenceLLM Implementation: OpenAI Azure Services, Early ChatGPT Adopter, Fine-Tuning Models, Claude AI, Azure Foundry, n8n AutomationsVector Databases: Pinecone, ChromaDB, SupabasePrompt Engineering: 3+ years advanced prompting techniquesComputer Vision: YOLO5-based camera object recognition, Frigate implementationAI Applications: Cognitive Search, AI Agents (CrewAI, Crawl4AI), Azure chatbot prototypes, Playwright, Browser AutomationsContent Generation: Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, Multimodal projects (Moondream LLV)Leadership & Business AcumenManagement ExperienceTeam Leadership: Led multiple technical teamsStrategic Skills: Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Positive AttitudeProject Management: Trello, Notion, Microsoft Planner, AirTableBusiness ApplicationsCRM Expertise: Salesforce Administrator, Sage CRM expert, Sage 100 ERP AdministratorDoor Access SystemsSoftware DevelopmentLanguages & Tools: Python, Node.js, Next.js, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub, Vercel, SDKs, n8n, Render, ReplitDatabase Solutions: SQL Management, Supabase, PostgresSQL, SSRSDeployment Tools: Chocolatey, WSUS, BatchPatch, venv, Docker
Experience
IT Manager
Jan 2026 — Present · Sioux Falls, SD, US
IT Manager responsible for the security, stability, and scalability of corporate technology assets in a fast-growing manufacturing company.
Education
Southeast Technical Institute
Associate's degree
2005 — 2009
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