Dru Hershey
Technology Program Manager at Pearson
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDru Hershey is a Technology Program Manager with nine years of experience leading large, multi-platform, global programs—most recently driving Pearson’s Salesforce transformation across Sales, Marketing, and Service Clouds. He blends change management, learning & development, and product-focused program delivery to reduce costs and improve service, having saved millions through LMS and training lab optimizations earlier in his career. Known for building cross-functional teams and translating complex technical initiatives into simple, actionable plans, he manages portfolios, P&L, and vendor relationships with equal fluency. A practical continuous-improver and persuasive communicator, Dru pairs a BA in English with deep operational chops in analytics, Six Sigma-informed process redesign, and ITIL-adjacent practices. Colleagues rely on his upbeat, can-do leadership to keep high-visibility programs moving at pace while developing and coaching teams of 20+.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Education, BA Education at North Carolina Central UniversityBA English, BA English at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (4)
com-port10
mud9
docker-container5
docker3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drewhershey/sneezymud
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
The "official" SneezyMUD that runs on sneezymud.org port 7900
Contributions:12 PRs, 117 pushes, 55 branches in 5 years 5 months
runs
drewhershey/sneezymud-tools
Aug 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
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