{"id":10846,"date":"2025-12-19T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=10846"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:53:21","slug":"bob-derby-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/speaker\/bob-derby-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">B<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">ob completed his apprenticeship at West Michigan Local 174 in 1998. He officially began teaching part-time as a welding instructor in 1999 and had the honor of being instrumental with setting up the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">initial<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">\u00a0Authorized Testing Facility for the UA Welder Certification Program at Local 174, becoming the first ATR for Local 174<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">During his career, Bob was given the opportunity to serve in leadership as\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">a foreman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">, general\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">foreman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">, superintendent, and project manager\/estimator<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">When given the opportunity to serve as a full-time instructor at Local 174, he gladly accepted<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">The instructor role led to the position of training director for the local training program<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">He earned the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW63225091 BCX0\">credential<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">\u00a0of AWS-CWI in 2006 and served many QA\/QC roles thereafter<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">Bob began teaching ATR and CWI courses for the UA, regionally and at Instructor Training Program after being approached in 2011<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">He continued teaching part-time until fall 2021, when he became a training specialist for the International Training Fund<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">Bob\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">participates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW63225091 BCX0\">\u00a0and is a member of various welding and code related committees including NBIC, AWS, and UMC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10847,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10846","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaaevents.org\/ncpwb-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}