Family
Derry and his wife Lidy have five children and two grandchildren. They attend Good Shepherd Parish in Mira Mesa.

Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics (Cal-Tech, Pasadena, CA)
M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Mathematical Science (University College, Cork, Ireland)

Career
Derry is retired from the University of California, San Diego where he most recently represented them on the Executive Board of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT), and headed up CCAT mentoring services.

Prior to co-founding JP Catholic, Derry worked full-time as the Associate Dean of Continuing Education at UCSD Extension, leading a program with 40,000 part-time adult students, 125+ full time staff (academic and administrative), 1500+ part-time Instructors. Derry spent 15 years working in industrial Research and Development with IBM and Kodak. He holds 8 US patents and has numerous technical publications.

Since 2003, he has taught 'Applied Innovation' at the Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at UCSD.

Read Derry's resume.