Terry Hamilton

Current

Technical Consultant at Pareto
President at IASSIST Computing Services Inc.

Past

Infrastructure Architect at IBM Global Services
Managing Director, eBusiness at Devlin eBusiness Architects
Implementation Architect at IBM Global Sevices

Technical Leader/Architect at Devlin
Lead Developer at IBM Global Services, Retail Internet Brokerage Services
Developer/Analyst at DMR (Fujitsu) Consulting Inc.
Product Manager at TrueSpectra Inc.
Program Manager at IBM Personal Software Marketing
Instructor at IBM Canada Education Services
Systems Consultant at Royal Bank of Canada

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Education

University of Waterloo

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Information Technology and Services

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Terry Hamilton’s Summary

Strong skills and practical experience gained from successful consulting engagements in a wide variety of business environments and technical/non-technical roles.

Previous projects show a proven ability to initiate, lead and complete full lifecycle as well as “need it now” projects.

Determined, flexible and creative with a wide base of skills suited to a variety of roles and responsibilities, from hands-on technical to coaching to management.

Terry Hamilton’s Specialties:

technology and business value, practical & pragmatic IT project implementations, leading teams, creation of web based applications, software development best practices,

Terry Hamilton’s Experience

Technical Consultant

Pareto

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

- Modernize Variable Print On-Demand application for key client
- Provide leadership on architecture, design and methods
- Engineer solution to address internal and client key business drivers
- Facilitate ability for rapid change to enable new revenue streams
- Mentor across teams to inspire use of best practices for software and systems
- Introduce the value driven practices of Agile development
- Provide experience and expertise across existing applications
President

IASSIST Computing Services Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1991 — Present (18 years 3 months)

- Independent Consultant providing technical services
- 17 year of contracting and consulting to a wide variety of clients and industries
- Engagements in all levels of and types of business; from system installation and software development to technical management and marketing
- SMB client efforts including creation of sub-$50,000 internet applications and marketing web sites.
- F100 clients providing architectural and technical thought leadership on $10M-$100M programs
Infrastructure Architect

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 6 months)

- Recommend and implement design and rollout of SOA-ready Infrastructure
- Initiated Agile project management to allow rapid response to varying priorities in tight time lines
- Define Best Practice design guiding hardware and software upgrades and purchases
- Wide ranging responsibilities including Team Lead, project management, implementation and ops
- Drive interactions between stakeholders to prioritize business value of the work required
- Contribute practices and processes to "modernize" development, testing and infrastructure delivery
- Guide team of subject matter experts responsible for implementation and support
- Act as focal point for multiple platform and middleware teams contributing to the infrastructure
- Integrate software solutions and components across multiple 4-tier, multi-customer environments
- Virtualized Linux on zSeries with large parts of the Tivoli, WebSphere, DB2 and Rational suites
Managing Director, eBusiness

Devlin eBusiness Architects

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 3 months)

- Responsible for all internal and client projects
- Manage 25 person technical and Management team
- Set the strategic direction of technology and applications for the company and clients
- Evaluate and deploy new technologies
- Manage all technical aspects of client projects as well as in-house development, QA & operations
- Responsible for the establishing and maintaining standard of corporate security
- Assess and determine outsourcing needs, establish and manage relationships with vendors
- Communicate to ensure the effective operation of the organization
- Ensure the profitability of all projects via establishing business management tools and processes
- Define and implement technology policies and procedures to support profitability
- Initiate, coach and direct establishment of Agile Development practices
Implementation Architect

IBM Global Sevices

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IBM; Capital Markets industry)

September 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 6 months)

- Responsible for design and rollout of Enterprise brokerage services
- Leader of a team creating overall operational architectures, infrastructures and processes
- Manage multi-tier, multi-platform, production, QA & test environments in dynamic workplace
- Wide ranging responsibilities including Team Lead, project management and hands-on implementation
- Subject Matter Expert and contact point for management, development, QA and operations
- Provide expert guidance, analysis and recommendations for deployment, installation and support
- Mentor departments to meet Best Practices, set Standards & procedures, define requirements
- Initiate efforts for integration, performance and security testing, capacity planning, systems mgmt
- Manage scheduling and workloads for multiple teams across multiple intermixed projects
- Evaluate & recommend and implement toolsets to support SLA's
- WebSphere / TAM environment across AIX, Linux, Linux on Z, W2K and z/OS
Technical Leader/Architect

Devlin

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2001 — May 2002 (11 months)

- Responsible for technical implementation of e-business for Lexus Canada
- Gather and analyze business and technical requirements, establish infrastructures, define and implement application and database architecture and design, manage staff and ongoing development
- Manage a team of WebSphere developers implementing Java / XML / XSL / MQ / DB2 web site
- Inspire cross-discipline team to innovative strategic solutions within limits of budgets and deadlines
- Technical liaison to client and in-house technical, creative and management teams
- Contribute to creative direction, usability principles, development methods
- Define and manage procedures for development, QA, implementation, production environments
- Transfer skills to and mentor in-house technical, creative and project management staff
- Create award winning web site with strong corporate branding and personalized user focus
- Team won Toyota Canada Project Management Office award for highest scoring project ever.
Lead Developer

IBM Global Services, Retail Internet Brokerage Services

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 3 months)

- Providing expertise on Internet and development systems
- Real-time e-brokerage for Belgian customer with components in AIX, Apache, DB2, MQ, AS400
- Multifaceted, challenging role leveraging requiring varied technical and business experience
- Guided development efforts and assisted with management of client & team relationships
- Extensive time on-site with client implementing, teaching and defining procedures and policies
- Worked to maintain project scope against pressure from multiple sources
- The Go-To Person for technical; database, core development, web technology
- Involved from system design stage to client site installation and integration; full lifecycle.
- Contributed to infrastructure, architecture and design of other, existing in-house products
- Initiated & led new projects including LDAP, web enabling host access and wireless web access
- Produced a product that has never received any client support calls
Developer/Analyst

DMR (Fujitsu) Consulting Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)

- Subject Matter Expert in a mainframe VM/CMS, Rexx, Cobol, SQL, SAS environment
- Year 2000 design, conversion and testing of multiple systems for Nortel Networks
- Contracted to bring systems and development expertise to an existing in-house team
Product Manager

TrueSpectra Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 6 months)

- Product lifecycle management from specifications to post-sales support
- Thrived and advanced in the chaos of a startup phase Internet company
- Manage external relationships with customers, suppliers, and distribution channels
- Lead teams in Marketing, R&D, QA, and Support to complete successful projects
- Work hands-on in QA, content writing, advertising layout and copy, and packaging design
Program Manager

IBM Personal Software Marketing

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 1996 — October 1996 (7 months)

- Coordinate IBM's North American PC User Group and TeamOS/2 support programs
- Facilitate demonstrations and seminars at tradeshows and conferences (Comdex / PC Expo)
- Project planning, budgeting and administration to maximize exposure and minimize budget
- Managed relationships with customers, independent software vendors and end-users
Instructor

IBM Canada Education Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Higher Education industry)

May 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 6 months)

- Instructor for OS/2 Certification courses, office applications, Hardware, Mobile Computing and Internet
- Classroom & on-site instruction for large corporate customers
- Creation of custom courseware for individual clients
- Sub-contracted to IBM Systems Integration as instructor for rollout of a national Ford Canada OS/2 systems project
Systems Consultant

Royal Bank of Canada

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

November 1995 — March 1996 (5 months)

- Providing expertise in software installation, support and customization
- Development of automated, remote software installation facility using NetView DM
- Created methods and tools to remotely install 1,500 servers without technical support involvement
- Subject Matter Expert as OS/2 Certified Professional