Unlocking The Power Of Information Technology: Operational Excellence Is The Competitive Advantage Paperback - 2009

James C. Hamilton is an experienced IT manager and consultant with a very broad background in managing all aspects of Information Technology for large corporations. He has held a variety of executive and senior IT management positions within ExxonMobil, Exxon Chemical Company and Imperial Oil Limited, and is currently the principal consultant at JCHamilton Consulting LLC. In these roles, he has worked with many talented individuals and learned from the best how to manage the entire spectrum of Information Technology services, including strategic planning, architecture and technology management, SAP and other application frameworks, infrastructure operations, and project and program management. With more than 20 years of IT management experience, he has seen an enormous amount of change in the technology and how it can be effectively applied. He has experienced, first hand, many different management approaches over the years, and has distilled from that what really works for the business and what has enduring value. In addition to his expertise in IT management, he is experienced in the general management skills required to run a business, including budgeting, stewardship, organizational design, and people management and development. Mr. Hamilton earned a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Edinburgh University and an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta, where he specialized in computer control of chemical plant processes. He is a life member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta and became a designated Information Systems Professional in the Canadian Information Processing Society in 1992.