TC Member at Oasis
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- TC Member at Oasis
- Interoperability Architect at NuovoDoc
- Past
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- Member, Research & Technical Staff at Xerox Corporation
- Principal Software Scientist at Xerox XSoft
- Sr. Technical Specialist CS/Software at Xerox Corporation
- owner at System Design Consultant
- Senior Programming Consultant at Xerox Corporation
- Independent Consultant at (self)
- Manager of Programming Research at Sperry Univac
- Programmer (Clerk Typist "A") at University of Washington
- Engineering Aide at Boeing Corporation
- Education
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- University of Liverpool
- Excelsior College
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Dennis Hamilton’s Experience
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TC Member
Oasis
(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC and the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC
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Interoperability Architect
NuovoDoc
(Computer Software industry)
December 1998 — Present (11 years )
Originally InfoNuovo in Mountain View, California, NuovoDoc is the business name of my independent consultancy following retirement from Xerox Corporation in December, 1998. Situated in Seattle, Washington since 1999, NuovoDoc projects and independent-contractor services are focused on design for document system interoperability.
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Member, Research & Technical Staff
Xerox Corporation
(Public Company; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — December 1998 (3 years )
Moving to the Systems Architecture organization within Corporate Research and Technology, I continued working on the Document Management Alliance API and specifications, with particular attention to internal adoption and promotion of technical interoperability in document-system architecture efforts.
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Principal Software Scientist
Xerox XSoft
(Computer Software industry)
August 1992 — December 1995 (3 years 5 months)
I transferred to the Palo Alto based software-products division of Xerox Corporation to work as the software architect for document management products. Serving as lead architect for the Document Enabled Networking joint initiative with Novell, I also continued with the architecture of the Document Management Alliance DMA 1.0 specification as well as encouraging support for the Open Document Management API (ODMA).
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Sr. Technical Specialist CS/Software
Xerox Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
August 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 1 month)
I returned to Xerox Corporation for work on creation of interoperability in the development of under-development digital, networked products accompanying the introduction of the Xerox Docutech. This work grew into architectural assignment for the development of document filing and retrieval systems and the pilot CLASS project for digital library and course-material systems.
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System Design Consultant
(Computer Software industry)
September 1978 — August 1988 (10 years )
On individual contracts and through local consulting firms in Rochester, New York, provided risk analysis and contingency planning for information systems; performed business planning and acquisition analysis for computer services firm; with a variety of system-study, technical-proposal, software quality-assurance, and microcomputer software-development projects. All assignments involved a high degree of autonomy, development of high-level presentations requiring understanding of customer requirements and clear articulation of supplier specifications.
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Senior Programming Consultant
Xerox Corporation
(Public Company; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1972 — September 1978 (6 years 1 month)
This position was in the internal information systems development organization where we worked to create the first on-line corporate data processing system using a combination of Xerox Data Systems and IBM mainframe technology. As a systems architect I also worked on systems planning, requirements definition, and proposal evaluation assignments. Working and a chief designer and programmer I was involved in application interfaces for mainframe and network middleware, minicomputer software, network mail and terminal-driver subsystems, and a manufacturing-quality monitoring system. I was also the employee chairman of the Organizational Effectiveness Team, the first white-collar quality-circle effort in the corporation.
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Independent Consultant
(self)
(Computer Software industry)
August 1971 — September 1972 (1 year 2 months)
This year as an independent consultant was primarily involved in the software support of the Univac 1108 system as a subcontractor to other organizations.
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Manager of Programming Research
Sperry Univac
(Public Company; UIS; Computer Hardware industry)
October 1959 — August 1971 (11 years 11 months)
I started out as a Sales Support Specialist (programmer) in the Seattle Branch office of Remington Rand Univac, transferring to the New York City Application Software Development team of what was by then the Univac Division of Sperry Rand in 1961. I worked in software quality assurance, software methodology, industry standards, and programming-language architecture, ending my career there at the Blue Bell, Pennsylvania headquarters of Sperry Univac (now Unisys)
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Programmer (Clerk Typist "A")
University of Washington
(Higher Education industry)
December 1958 — October 1959 (11 months)
There were no part-time or student programmer positions, so the Division of Counseling and Testing Services hired me as a clerk typist. We used the IBM 650 in the tower of Bagley Hall to process grade reports on punched cards as part of the validation of the statewide collegiate grade-prediction program in Washington. There was also programming to support research projects and we collected and supported a catalog of social-science software programs and utilities.
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Engineering Aide
Boeing Corporation
(Aviation & Aerospace industry)
April 1958 — December 1958 (9 months)
My first experience with computers, preparing and analyzing data, learning to write small Fortran programs
Dennis Hamilton’s Education
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University of Liverpool
Postgraduate Diploma , Information Technology , 2002 — 2005
I participated in an on-line program of the University of Liverpool delivered by KIT eLearning (now Laureate Online Education), completing all course requirements of the M.Sc in Information Technology. I did not submit an M.Sc Project Dissertation. More about this experience is at http://orcmid.com/erudizione/M.ScIT/E040200.htm
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Excelsior College
BA , Liberal Studies , 1981 — 1996
Obtained credit for coursework for a Computer Science major by receiving a high score on the Computer Science Graduate Record Exam (but major not available by time of graduation). Other coursework fulfilled in continuing education programs of local Rochester universities and Stanford Summer Session, plus transfer credits from earlier collegiate experience.
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