Derek Gentry - Biography

Derek Gentry Birth

Born in Phoenix, AZ, Derek Gentry

was born to Maryann Conner
(Maryann Gentry) on July 6th
1971. Raised as an only child but
his single mother since birth, Derek
strived to be social and stay
studious, the struggle of all young
kids.

At age 8 he submitted an
application to the I Can Draw
College Scholarship and won the
scholarship.

Education

At age 11 his mother had the foresight that computers were

going to be something big in the world, and enrolled him into
a programming class at The Learning Store. The course was a
6-month class on BASIC programming and structure. After
two weeks Derek finished the book and when asked what the
next lesson was, they were instructed that there was no
more.
Maryann knew that he had a knack for technical skills. He
used his skills to program his bowling teams scores and
calculate averages in Lotus 1-2-3. After that he started
consulting at age 13 for the Phoenix Boys Choir, where he was
a member for 4 years, and showed them how to use Dbase IV
to manage all of their member and parent records.

Career

In 1994 he was hired to Frys Food Stores as a Network Administrator and that
started his career in Information Technology.
Moving up to Director of IT, Derek wrote and copyrighted the software called
KidTrax that was used to manage all of the kids in the in-store day care centers.
That was then expanded to other Krogers stores across the country and the
software was used at over 30 stores nationwide.

CTO OF Many Companies

Over the next several years, Derek
moved his was up to Director of IT,
VP of Technology and then CTO of
many companies. He help write
and patent a software application
called VaultWare for the apartment
industry that was the first real-time
availability engine for the industry.
After that he decided that his skills
were best used as a consultant and
started
working
for
himself,
assisting
others
that
needed
technology help. He was the chief
designer and architect for Yahoo,
Incs global security architecture
for 2 years.

Businesses

Currently Derek resides in Irvine, CA as a father of eight children,

with his wife Erin Gentry. He is currently running Black Tie IT, an IT
Consulting firm, that is quickly growing as Derek is bringing his 30+
years of experience to small to medium sized businesses and helping
them gain efficiencies that are mostly only available to large
corporations.

Thanks

Derek Gentry
1835 Newport Blvd, #A109-274
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Website : http://www.blacktieit.com/