Derek Holt

About Derek Holt

Passionate about leveraging expertise in product development, market analysis, and…

Experience

1. Customer Experience Project Manager

   Omnibyte

   Sep 2025 — Present · Fargo, ND, US

   Lead project planning and execution, defining scope, goals, and deliverables with stakeholders. Develop and present detailed project plans, objectives, timelines, and schedules, ensuring technical feasibility and efficient workload distribution. Proactively identify and assess risks and issues, presenting clear mitigation strategies and taking decisive action with regard to customer and company impact. Manage and track project progress, ensuring delivery is on time, within scope, and within budget, with consistent attention to established baselines. Communicate status, trade-offs, and escalated issues confidently to executive leadership and customers in a timely, direct, and honest manner. Coordinate internal resources and third parties, and manage customer expectations and conflict professionally. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness across the organization.

Education

• North Dakota State University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Minor in Business Administration, Manufacturing Engineering

  2009 — 2014

Skills

• Autocad
• Lean Manufacturing
• Continuous Improvement
• Dmaic
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Pro Engineer
• Root Cause Analysis
• Industrial Engineering
• Cura
• Simplify3d
• Process Engineering
• 5s
• Machining
• Design for Manufacturing
• Autodesk Meshmixer
• Testing
• Solidworks
• Time Study
• Cad
• Kaizen
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Product Development
• Gd&T
• Process Capability
• Autodesk Inventor
• Inventor
• Ptc Creo
• Engineering
• Finite Element Analysis
• Kanban
• Product Design
• Fmea
• Six Sigma
• Pfmea
• Spc
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Minitab