Executive Certificate
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Technology and Operations
Bio
Derek Shaw is the Senior Director of IT Services at Land O'Lakes. He is responsible for providing support to maintain 24x7 availability of all IT production systems and services as well as defining, designing and delivering infrastructure technology to enable future capabilities. Teams making up the IT Services organization include Application Operations, Customer Support Center, Database Services, Data Center Operations, Desktop Support, End-User Technology Services, Hosting Services, Middleware Services, Network Engineering, Server Engineering, Regional IT Services, Service Management, Telecom Services & Testing Services.
Land O’Lakes, Inc. is one of America’s premiere member-owned cooperatives. Land O'Lakes offers local cooperatives and agricultural producers across the nation an extensive line of agricultural supplies, as well as state-of-the-art production and business services. Land O'Lakes is also a leading marketer of dairy-based food products for consumers, foodservice professionals and food manufacturers.
Prior to joining Land O'Lakes Derek spent 6 years leading various Information Systems teams at Boston Scientific. He also spent 5 years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Space Command launching satellites and 2 years as a software developer for Netopia, a division of Motorola.
Derek holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.
