Summary
Derek Gooding is a CAD Administrator and .NET developer with 10 years of hands-on experience at Hammond Manufacturing, where he progressed from process engineering to building company-wide automation tools that improved output and allowed steady growth without increasing headcount. He excels at identifying repetitive workflows and automating them—first in methods engineering, then in design, and now across engineering as a whole—while maintaining customer-facing responsibilities and project delivery. A practical developer comfortable with WPF and .NET, Derek also contributes to hobby game development teams and brings a creative, systems-oriented mindset from his side projects into his day job. Known for strong communication and teamwork, he blends technical craft with an appetite for continuous learning and measurable operational impact.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer