Bob Hamilton Email & Phone Number

Delta, Bc, Ca

Burnaby Campus

Instructor (Part-Time) in the BCIT International Business program. Currently teaching Operations Management, International Management, Emerging Markets and Cross-Cultural Negotiation courses. Supervising student consulting projects for local industry clients.

Line Manager of Product Management team. Also responsible for Product Management of Insurance and Oil & Gas Industry sectors, and Locators product line.

WebTech Wireless develops and markets wireless telemetry systems for private transportation and service vehicle fleets as well as city/state/provincial government vehicle fleets.

Nokia Products Ltd. Burnaby, B. C. Canada & Oulu, Finland 2000 – PresentSr. Product Manager, Device Experiences: Richmond, B.C. Canada May 2006 - 2009Created a new role to provide planning coordination between globally separated device and software application development teams.Spearheaded development of ergonomic guidelines and training for mobile devices featuring gaming applications.Drove changes to the Games Service Line policies to better align with the reality of device program business environments, and changes to the device program procedures to better support the games business ecosystem..Senior Product Manager: Nokia N7710 Program: Oulu, Finland Oct 2003 – April 2006Drove product management of the Nokia 7710 program. This role involved juggling a complex set of requirements and technical issues, in the face of severe resource constraints. Worked directly with hardware and software development teams, product launch and point-of-sale planning, training and factory ramp-up teams, and regional marketing in Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific and China regions. Played a key role in the Error Management phase dealing with hundreds of detailed decisions while facing a very tight launch deadline. Credited with making significant progress in improving the Business Unit’s working relationship with the APAC and China regions.This role included extensive travel in Europe, Asia and China, as well as 2-1/2 years living in Finland.Senior Product Manager: Various Programs: Richmond, B.C. Jan 2000 - Oct 2003 Carried out initial planning of business cases, product proposals and requirements for a number of programs involving creation of CDMA (North American) variants of GSM (European) mobile handset devices.

Program Manager 1997 - 1999 Responsible for a variety of data communications infrastructure products, including a compact wireless data base station. We brought this project to customer acceptance (by a very demanding international customer) within 1% of original project budget. Played a key role in divisional Y2K Readiness program.Manager: Business and Technical Communications 1993 - 1997 Supervised a staff of 12, including contractors. Met all project deliverables within 5% of annual budget each year. Manager: Product Design Group 1992 - 1993 Responsible for line management of Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering and Printed Circuit Layout. (Number of staff supervised: 11, including Contractors). Managed department’s conversion to ProEngineer CAD system. My department led the division for patent submissions in ‘92.Senior Product Designer 1986 - 1992 Responsible for Industrial and Mechanical Design of portable data communications terminals and peripherals. Championed DFMA processes. Served as internal DFM trainer.

Industrial Design positions with Ford Motor Company, Bombardier, Cox Systems, and GTE International. Design teaching positions with McMaster University, Carleton University, and Emily Carr University.

Mba, International Business

Bsid (With Honours), Industrial Design

Ford Motor Co Scholarship

International Trade Certificate (Fitt)