Randy Hamilton

Past

• Director of Products, Customer Engagement Programs at Satmetrix Systems
• Business Management and Marketing Consultant at ObjectiveMinds
• Vice President Product Marketing and Management at Blindfish Technologies, Inc.

• Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures
• Managing Partner at ObjectiveMinds
• Vice President Engineering / Chief Technology Officer at OneChannel.net
• Instructor at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Vice President Engineering & Operations at ReleaseNow
• Vice President Engineering at Electric Classifieds / Match.com
• Sr. Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems / SunSoft
• Sr. Engineering Manager at First Pacific Networks
• Founder, Vice President Engineering at Medcom Systems, Inc.
• Founder & CEO at Interdac Computer Corp.

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Education

• Illinois State University

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Randy Hamilton’s Summary

I'm a results-oriented professional specializing in web product, marketing and technology initiatives. I have a proven track record of producing bottom-line results with experience that comprehends product marketing, product management, program management, product development, business development, leadership and management.

Randy Hamilton’s Specialties:

Entrepreneur, social networking, social media, product management, product marketing, program management, product development, marketing, sales, engineering, software development, startups, turnarounds, due diligence, mergers & acquisitions.

Randy Hamilton’s Experience

• Director of Products, Customer Engagement Programs

  Satmetrix Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)

  Responsible for product marketing, product management, and product development for Online Customer Engagement Solutions, Customer Brand Communities, WOM, and Social Media Marketing. Drive thought leadership, product positioning, competitive analysis, and sales enablement. Internal and external product evangelist supporting analyst relations, PR, customer service, technology partnerships, and partner recruitment.

• Business Management and Marketing Consultant

  ObjectiveMinds

  (Management Consulting industry)

  September 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  Provide business, marketing, and product-related services for firms engaged in web development. Services include product marketing, product development, product & business strategy, product & technology architecture/marketecture, team & company formation, prototype development, product management, program management, project management, requirements elicitation, feasibility studies, risk mitigation, research, technology-centered due diligence, interim management and competitive intelligence. Application domains and designs include Social Networking, Social Media, Word-of-Mouth Marketing, and Online Customer Engagement.
  
  Engagements include Lontra (Centrata), inVertigo, Xapido, ZipbiZ, beRelevant, Equals, OM-Direct, VT&T, Zuberance, Hollywood Register, and Satmetrix.

• Vice President Product Marketing and Management

  Blindfish Technologies, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  January 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 9 months)

  Enterprise Social Media-- customer communities that build and strengthen customer trust and loyalty. Blindfish is a Web 2.0 PHP/AJAX configuration and administration platform to build brand advocate affinity groups, provide up-to-date information for customers and partners, provide an early-warning system for customer service, mobilize advocates to solve problems for other customers, and to provide a way for customers to experience a sense of community. Blindfish was designed to help companies discover and learn about their own products and services from their customers (collective networked intelligence-- "mass production from the edge of the network").

• Venture Partner

  Outlook Ventures

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

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Outlook Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital company, focusing especially on early-stage investments in consumer and business-to-business Internet services, intranet-based business applications, interactive tools, multimedia and telecommunications
  
  Screened potential investments. Performed pre-investment due diligence and management consulting for portfolio companies.

• Managing Partner

  ObjectiveMinds

  (Management Consulting industry)

  August 1999 — January 2003 (3 years 6 months)

  ObjectiveMinds provides strategic business, product and technology assistance for Venture Capital Firms as well as clients involved in software development. Services include business and product strategy, product management, project management, systems analysis, RFI/RFP development, requirements elicitation, process improvement, feasibility studies, risk mitigation, technology review, due diligence, interim management and competitive intelligence.
  
  ObjectiveMind’s clientele include Warburg Pincus, JP Morgan Partners, Venrock, Chase Capital Partners, H&Q, Benchmark, IDG Ventures, Fremont Ventures, eVerger, GTG Ventures, Outlook Ventures, Lombard Investments, Buchanan Investments, Visa, Southern California Edison, Sun Microsystems, Indus, PowerSchool, XTime, Encirq, BioSpace, ChipShot, DoDots, e-Appliance, Epitonic, eTeamz, FusionOne, Hotline Communications, HTTPrint, InsightMarket, PetPlanet, SandStream, WarrantyNow, PrivateExpress, eFinance, and EdVision.

• Vice President Engineering / Chief Technology Officer

  OneChannel.net

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

  July 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 1 month)

  Employee Number 1. OneChannel.net provided real-time sales metrics and information, giving customers a competitive advantage in developing best-of-class business tactics and strategies. Through proprietary technology hosted at its real-time data center, the company provides services based on a growing database of e-commerce transaction information. E-commerce businesses rely on OneChannel.net's e-commerce measurement data to make critical decisions, accurately assess up-to-date market share and measure competitive performance.
  
  Based in Mountain View, California since 1998, OneChannel.net was privately held, with venture capital funding from CNET Networks, Inc., America Online, Inc., Advanced Technology Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Selby Venture Partners.

• Instructor

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  (Education Management industry)

  January 1995 — December 1998 (4 years )

  Instructor, Open Distributed Systems

• Vice President Engineering & Operations

  ReleaseNow

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

  June 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  ReleaseNow was a Web infrastructure provider-- building, managing and hosting customized e-business solutions for the marketing, sale and delivery of digital goods. These solutions enabled 1:1 commerce-related interactions between vendors and their customers over the Internet. ReleaseNow offered the essential building blocks of e-commerce, including online store creation, transaction processing and customer support, as well as functions specific to the e-commerce of digital goods, such as electronic packaging, digital delivery and real-time fraud detection.
  
  ReleaseNow’s customers included Hewlett Packard, @Home, Barnes & Noble, USA Today, Symantec, The Learning Company, Cendant, Computer Associates, Egghead, Compaq, InfoWorld, WON (World Opponent Network), Surplus Direct, Cheyenne, and Golf Web.

• Vice President Engineering

  Electric Classifieds / Match.com

  (Internet industry)

  January 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 3 months)

  We killed the market with Match.com...
  
  An Internet startup funded by Intel, Softbank, Weiss Peck & Greer and Canaan Partners. Match.Com is the leading web site for online personals. Customers included America Online, AOL Digital City, Compuserve, AT&T, Cox Interactive, Warner Interactive, Associate English Press (AEP), Thrive, Net Noir, etc.

• Sr. Engineering Manager

  Sun Microsystems / SunSoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1995 — December 1995 (1 year )

  Sun Solstice SunNet Manager and Enterprise Manager were standards-based multi-user distributed fault, event and performance management products. Sun Solstice SunNet Manager was the #1 selling network management platform in 1995 representing 32% of the installed base for SNMP management. Sun Solstice Enterprise Manager has been viewed by the media and the market as "the" future network management technology to leverage on and invest in. January 1995 Telecommunications magazine gave Sun Solstice Enterprise Manager the product of the month award. Enterprise Manager received the 1997 product of the year award. First general market availability of Enterprise Manager was Q3-96. The business unit ran at 75% over fiscal 1995 revenue.

• Sr. Engineering Manager

  First Pacific Networks

  (Telecommunications industry)

  September 1987 — January 1995 (7 years 5 months)

  Developer of a single-wire, broadband PBX switch and Demand Side Management (DSM) products, supplying integrated voice, data, and video solutions for businesses. Today this technology is known as Hybrid-Fiber Coax or HFC – originally invented at Tsunami Technologies.

• Founder, Vice President Engineering

  Medcom Systems, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 1985 — September 1987 (2 years 1 month)

  Medical software and consulting company. Major clients included GTED, Eli Lilly, Baxter Travenol, Glaxo, Humana Hospitals, St. Francis Medical Center, AT&T, Sperry, Burroughs, Hewlett Packard, Digital Computer, and Kabi Vitrum.

• Founder & CEO

  Interdac Computer Corp.

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

  June 1981 — September 1985 (4 years 4 months)

  Custom software house. Major clients included State Farm Insurance, Country Companies Insurance, Illinois State University, University of Illinois, Illinois Wesleyan University, State of Illinois. Interdac provided solutions and developed vertical and custom enterprise applications. Commercial products included the Worx series of office automation software as well the MDT testing/grading system for the IBM system 370. Interdac was also responsible for starting the first MCI OEM long distance service company in central Illinois.

Additional Information

Randy Hamilton’s Websites:

• My Company
• My RSS feed
• My Blog

Randy Hamilton’s Interests:

Mixed Martial Artist & Musician (guitar, drums, keys).

Randy Hamilton’s Groups:

•    Link Silicon Valley, LLC
•    280 Group: Product Management & Product Marketing
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Plaxo.com
•    NetworkingPros
•    Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    Martial Artists
•    Search Marketing Salon
•    Illinois State University Alumni Association
•    Online Marketing Network
•    Social Media Today
•    Wine2.0
•    WITS Wine Industry Technology Symposium
•    Future Social Media
•    TRUSTe

Randy Hamilton’s Honors:

INVENTIONS & PATENTS--

Miniature Thumbprint Scanner using advanced blunt-fiber technology in a package designed for handguns. The size of an Alka-Seltzer tablet

Harmony – an agile development paradigm

Netman – world’s first systems and network management system for integrated voice, data and video over broadband

DUR – Drug Utilization Review. Used for meeting JCAH reporting requirements to verify the sequence of diagnosis, verification, prescription and dispensal.

IV Manufacturing – Software system for calculating and mixing IV solutions for hospitals. Solved a major problem experienced by hospitals for manufacturing nutritional IVs

Barracuda – vertical community platform with steady-state n-dimensional relevance engine

Social Crawler – predictive social mob mapping system for Facebook

Directional Syndication– a concept that uses a relevance-syndication engine that pushes relevant, high-value information to its intended recipients

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