Derek Schorsch

Derek Schorsch joined R. L. Townsend & Associates, Inc. in October 2007 and transitioned to WiszCo on January 1, 2008 when WiszCo was spun off from Townsend. Since 2007, he has been instrumental in the performance of several construction contract compliance audits. Derek possesses a broad range of business skills with a heavy emphasis on information technology, data collection and data management. He also has an in-depth understanding of operations through his experience at both large and small organizations, which includes exposure to diverse functions in both accounting and information technology.

In addition to providing data compilation, data manipulation and data management in the performance of contract audits, Mr. Schorsch also serves as the information technology officer for WiszCo and is responsible for managing and maintaining all data for both WiszCo and their clients.

Prior to WiszCo, Mr. Schorsch worked for Countrywide Financial as a Manager where he was responsible for all enhancements, break/fix objects, data updates and user cases in the PeopleSoft environment. Mr. Schorsch supervised documentation and approvals for all production changes and was responsible for quarterly SOX audits. In addition, he had the ultimate determination of severity and category of fixes, and developed technical and management reports relating to same.

Prior to Countrywide Financial, Mr. Schorsch began his career at TXU as a client support technician providing technical support to the executive management team while maintaining a 99.3% superior client satisfaction rating. Derek was responsible for all software and hardware needs for the executive management team.

Derek also worked for Capgemini Energy as a Systems Administrator Lead where he was responsible for the development and deployment of application and security patches for the entire company which consisted of over 12,000 workstations. After stream lining the software security update process, Mr. Schorsch took on the responsibility as a Project Technical Manager where he managed 20 technicians performing PC operating system upgrades along with new system replacements. All of the upgrades were done remotely to minimize client work disruption.

Derek attended both Louisiana State University and Louisiana Tech University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems with an emphasis on Computer Science.

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