Liam Derman

Veteran Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in technical leadership and management

Boulder, Colorado, United States

About

At Technicolor, my leadership role in systems/infrastructure engineering extends beyond the technical architecture: it's about ensuring the reliability and performance of enterprise services. My experience with spearheading projects in virtualization, external infrastructure integration, mobile device management, endpoint management, network operations, security response/remediation, and automation, is part of my mission to provide seamless infrastructure solutions that propel our creative endeavors. My approach to team leadership is rooted in the belief that technical acumen, collaboration, and a stalwart commitment to mentorship enables us to maintain cutting-edge infrastructures while growing the skills of our engineering team. I am dedicated to fostering an environment where innovation is the standard and excellence in service delivery is the expectation.

Experience

  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Project Manager at Gunpowder Tech
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Technicolor Creative Studios (New York, New York, United States)
    • Lead Systems Engineer
      Jan 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Senior Systems Engineer
      Dec 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • MPC (New York City Metropolitan Area)
    • Senior Systems Analyst
      Jul 2016 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      • Responsible for building/maintaining servers, workstation images, render farms, and network switches throughout their lifecycle. • Coordinate support for global services hosted locally in New York. • Systems performance monitoring and optimization. • Collaborate with Global IT and Core Engineering teams to resolve complex issues and design company-wide solutions. • Mentoring and training of new team members. • Configuration and maintenance of Directory Services (AD, LDAP, and NIS) and client-side authentication. • Remediation of vulnerabilities on a monthly basis in collaboration with the Global Security Team. • Configuration and management of network switches/routers.. • Management of Microsoft Active Directory and Domain Controllers. • Integration/debugging of system-wide wrappers and environmental variables. • Responsible for collaborating with Engineering teams at other sites for global projects.

    • Technical Support Analyst
      Feb 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • Provided technical support for Unix systems (Linux and MacOS). • Supported and maintained infrastructure for Linux and MacOS machines. • Worked with the local and global teams to design, develop and implement/install software tools. • Developed methods to streamline workflow and increase job efficiency within budget and technical limitations. • Researched and built solutions to automate routine tasks.

  • Technology Consultant at The Templeton Group
    2010 - Feb 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Senior Technician at MacSupport.com
    Nov 2009 - Feb 2015 · 5 yrs 4 mos