Derek Flexer
Programme Manager at UK Ministry of Defence
Bradford-on-Avon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerek Flexer is a Programme Manager and senior programme director with eight years in defence digital transformation and over three decades of delivery experience across telecoms, defence and compliance. He currently leads complex, stakeholder-heavy programmes at the UK Ministry of Defence, applying a rare blend of technical understanding and diplomatic programme governance honed at TM Forum and Motorola. Derek has a track record of restoring under-performing initiatives, rationalising collaboration across global ecosystems, and driving standards and tooling adoption (Confluence, JIRA, GitHub APIs) to accelerate delivery. His background spans hands-on software engineering through to executive portfolio control and international compliance work across challenging territories. Colleagues value his ability to translate strategic intent into disciplined, auditable change while navigating voluntary-member dynamics and regulatory constraints. He combines chartered engineering credentials with practical PMO and Agile leadership that repeatedly turns complexity into clear, deliverable outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MAPM, MIET, C. Eng., CEI (II),, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MAPM, MIET, C. Eng., CEI (II),, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Hull, Southampton, Hatfield, Watford.
Github Skills (15)
user-roles7
forum7
api7
geographic5
apache5
catalog5
location4
json4
inventory-management4
rest-api3
java3
json-schema3
openapi3
payment3
api-management2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tmforum-apis/TMF638_ServiceInventory
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
TM Forum Open APIs (Apache 2.0) Service Inventory API
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
inventoryapiforumapacheinventory-service
tmforum-apis/TMF633_ServiceCatalog
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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