Experience Summary Product delivery, partner management, design strategy, and successful definition/execution of small to large, cross-functional programs/projects/applications/solutions involving partner Fortune 100 Global corporations - +12 year acumen in product delivery, project management, product management, & technical design - +10 year consulting and partner engagement acumen including OEM/ODM/TPV engagements - +10 year development and commercialization of new products and services with P&L responsibilities - +10 year creation, growth, and development of new organizational groups and structures cross-discipline - +12 year communication and presentation skills across organizational structures including CxO levels Skill Set Functional & Technical Specifications; UI Design/Mockups (HIP, UCD, Contextual Design, & Wire-frame Modeling); PLM with New Product Development (NPD including SWOT, Ideation, IP, POCs, & Commercialization); Business Process Modeling (BPM including Use Case & Activity/UML Diagrams); Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOA, OOD including MVC & REST principles); Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM including ERD, Data Dictionary, XML Schema, & SQL); API Mapping & Integration to ERPs (SAP & BO SI); Source Mgmt & IDEs (TFS, VSS, Xcode, TextWrangler, Espresso, Visual Studio); Bug /Defect Tracking & Triage (JIRA, RAID, Product Studio); SDLC (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, & RUP); PMBOK; SLAs; OLAs; TPV Mgmt; FTE Mgmt; RFPs; RFIs; RFQs; CAPEX & OPEX Budget & Reporting; Position Papers; White Papers; Knowledge of Mobile & Cloud paradigms/design (RIA, SOA, CSS, HTML5, PHP, Twitter Bootstrap, Amazon E3 & AWS); MS Office Suite; MS Project & Project Server; SharePoint Work History Spring Wireless | Plano TX | Director of Solution Consultancy | March 2010 – Present - Product & strategy delivery owner of SaaS and Mobile Solutions to Fortune 500 clients. Responsibilities include: - Global Product Delivery Mgmt. of SaaS & SOA solutions across multiple vertical business clients (CPG, Finance) - Management and review of new features and customization of existing products (Functional & Technical) - Recruitment and definition for Consultancy Services practice for US operation (+15 FTE) - Multi-discipline HR Management for local and international resources (Development and Consultancy) - Definition of strategy and best practices across development, testing, and consultancy organizations - Budgetary responsibilities across systems delivery projects and regional P&L (CAPEX, OPEX) - Ideation and product roadmap participation cross-platform (iOS, Windows Mobile, Android) Microsoft Corporation | Redmond WA | Principal Group Program Manager | January 2000 – December 2009 -Product delivery owner of device and feature portfolio for multiple consumer focused devices in Windows Mobile Division. Responsibilities and achievements across Mobile and SaaS delivery models included: Staff Management and Recruiting: - Managed +14 FTE person team for OEM product delivery portfolio across 12 concurrent projects - Responsible for HR performance management review models mapped to multi-million dollar budget - Built +21 resource product delivery team, recruiting cross-discipline, for development partnerships - Delivery and Program Management: - Delivered the fastest selling Windows Mobile Smartphone, over a million units sold in less than year - Drove and defined partner management strategies including portfolio scope for OEM partner achieving 84% requirement acceptance into a mobile platform - Defined and delivered a text analysis platform delivered 11 cross-platform SKUs (Windows Vista, Hotmail, Encarta, MSN, and Microsoft Office) - Defined and deployed an online registration service, rehabilitating a failed project to a system that handled 30K logged-in users within the first minute of go-live - Managed, reviewed, and actively contributed to the creation of multiple technical and functional designs, models, and schedules, cross platform (embedded, client, server, & services) Partner and Strategy Management: - Defined best practice frameworks for OEMs achieving partner approval 60 days from inception - Prepared/Presented proposals to development partners (e.g. VZW, ATT, Vodafone, Motorola) for multiple specialized devices, user experiences, and feature sets, across 21 projects - Managed thousands of partner development support requests monthly - Managed partnerships with international teams including Seoul, Taiwan, Dublin, and Beijing for requirements, designs, strategy, resource management, and deliverables for multiple projects Innovation and Product Management: - Managed and facilitated 5 new team patents over 24 months. Created 3 patents directly. - 2007 | Received U.S. Patent for Alphanumeric Vanity Dialing - 2005 | Received U.S. Patent for Componentized Text Analysis Platform - 2004 | Received U.S. Patent for Lexical Services Platform API Honors and Awards: - 2009 | Microsoft VP Award and Bonus Recipient for Management Excellence - 2007 | Promoted to Principal Level Leadership Position - 2005 | Selected for Microsoft Leadership Training Program - 2003 | Microsoft VP Award and Bonus Recipient for Technical Leadership - 2002 | Microsoft VP Award "Living the Values | Cross-Group Collaboration" Alltel Information Services| Little Rock AR | Group Manager | February 1998 - January 2000 - Product delivery owner of enterprise web portfolio within the Financial Services Division. Responsibilities and achievements across enterprise and web delivery models included: - Managed and led a cross-functional virtual team of over 25 resources dispersed over 4 geographic regions - Managed $2.4 million HR budget, responsible for application development, interface development, enterprise process definition, technical design, and production implementation of SOA portfolio - Acted as principal in creating and implementing new PMO organization (Group Information Office) - Deployed application portal aggregating multiple web applications (CRM, Sales Force Automation, and BI) - Realized approximately $2.5 million incremental cost savings and reduced TCO by 50% YoY Coopers and Lybrand| Fort Worth TX | Project Analyst | May 1997 - February 1998 - Project Support responsibilities across internal and external clients with emphasis on Lotus Notes - Participated on the Training Committee for Tax Partners and Senior Managers for proprietary software - Managed and maintained implementations of Lotus Notes for regional offices and client locations Bell Helicopter Textron | Fort Worth TX | Project Lead Consultant | October 1996 - May 1997 - Provided Consultancy and Advisory Services responsibilities, defining market strategies. Responsibilities included: - Successfully bid and accepted consulting contract with Bell Helicopter Textron assuming responsibility as Project Manager leading a team of 4 resources - Researched existing branding and market position to define customer analysis for market segmentation - Designed a buyer profile for a 4.1 million-dollar product for Executive Management Education - George Washington University | School of Business | http://business.gwu.edu/grad/mspm/ Masters of Science, Project Management - (GPA 3.8) Graduated Fall 2005 - Texas Christian University | Neeley School of Business | http://www.neeley.tcu.edu/ (MBA) Masters of Business Administration - Dual Concentration: Management Information Systems (MIS) and Decision Analysis (GPA 3.5) - Graduated Spring 1997 | Texas Graduate Information Services Scholarship Award Recipient - University of Freiburg | Partner School Initiative | http://www.uni-freiburg.de/ Global Economics Program - TCU MBA Global Initiatives Network - Texas Christian University | http://www.tcu.edu/ Bachelor of Science, Concentration: Comparative Statistical Analysis - Graduated Summer 1993 Jason S. Hamilton | 256 Shoreline Dr. Azle TX 76020 | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonham 817.682.0668 | jason_s_hamilton@hotmail.com | http://jasonshamilton.com | @jasonshamilton