Dan Hamlin Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

Lead innovation processes and inter-departmental mentorship for Client Software Group Own and deliver comprehensive software and firmware architectures spanning multi-domain operating environments to deliver world class user behaviorsProvide leadership and oversight for software impacts on new platforms and software solutions spanning conceptual to sustaining Mentor junior engineers in professional and personal development

Austin, Texas Area

Create and review architectural frameworks, designs and requirements satisfying customer and business requirements for platform and software solutions. Mentored team members in architectural processes and creation tools. Created and refined team processes monitoring and delivering over 500 new feature designs and requirement solutions in the 2017 calendar year.

Team lead of 5 engineers to facilitate complete, end-to-end management of all user authentication and authorization in local and remote environments. Responsible for development of concepts, management and corporate approval and funding, architecture and implementation designs, vendor selection, planning, execution and sustaining activities. • Provide corporate representation for Pan-Dell authentication and encryption technologies. • Subject matter expert for all user authentication activities and functions. • Authored five authentication and security related customer ready whitepapers for technology and deployment focus.• Enable off the box solutions to provide trusted and verified user authentication credentials to network resources.• Provide technical and business justification for advanced authentication strategies for component adoption for platform inclusion.• Lead task force to review and identify secure coding practices within Client applications.• Architect, design and lead complex authentication solutions bridging Pre-OS authentication to off-host environments. Currently deployed on approximately 25 million Dell and non-Dell endpoint clients.• Lead architect in defining authentication value add software package targeting $1B managed authentication software market.

Austin, Texas Area

• Serving as technical lead for all solution development activities with internal and external teams and partners. Provided technical evaluation of current and future software implementations. Mentored junior engineers on technical capabilities and implementation. Act as technical consultant to director and vice-president staff within all organizations (Engineering, Marketing, Customer Support, Quality, Finance).• Lead engagement with Marketing, end customers and suppliers to identify and create unique features to address customer requirements. Utilize extensive technical and process expertise to define and implement solutions to address current and future customer needs. • Evaluate third party software and hardware for inclusion into future products. Execute Request for Proposal evaluations and provided make vs. buy recommendations• Created new solutions leveraging current and emerging security technologies such as Trusted Platform Modules, Mobile Trusted Modules, hardware accelerated encryption modules.• Submitted numerous patent disclosures for Dell Legal review. • Lead technical team from up to 15 vendors to create comprehensive and complete integration architecture for new and emerging software solutions• Author, maintain and review software and hardware architectural documentation detailing full implementation of solution from conception to delivery (Software Architectural Specifications, High Level Requirements, API documentation, Use Cases). • Engages with and leads Technologist teams to provide direction onto technology roadmap and determine implementation needs and requirements from technical and execution perspectives when defining new technologies.

Led five-person engineering team that engaged with vendors to define security solutions. Led definition of new product features, implementation concerns and issue resolution. Persuaded external, cross-functional teams to report progress and follow up on action items. Drove consistently reliable deliverables from problematic software and firmware vendors. Provided regular program status reports specifically tailored for executive and engineering audiences.• Served as key technical and engagement contact for feature decomposition and portfolio collaboration of new features and solutions. Oversaw engagement among Dell and 20 third party vendors for solution integration to ensure quality and delivery compliance.• Implemented new vendor engagement processes which resulted in substantial and consistent improvement in product delivery timetables and quality.• Defined and implemented process to change overall solution development organization processes to align with Agile development model methodologies with partner integration.• Streamlined communications and execution by acting as the single point-of-contact for internal and external engineering teams during multiple vendor interactions.• Submitted 7 patent disclosures for Dell Legal review. • Led execution team for security-platform software, which resulted in on-time delivery and shipment for new Latitude E-series platforms (10 million shipped in first year).• Expansive knowledge and expertise in client security access implementations, data security hardware and software implementations, encryption, data vulnerability assessments, Trusted Computing Group, Trusted Platform Module, and Mobile Trusted Module. • Knowledge of Java, C++ and .NET programming implementations in the Windows, Linux and mobile OS environments. • Defined new features for future security solutions.

Initiated and led four-person team that managed Intel graphics relationship, including future requirements and new features for system BIOS, external display, and third-party products. Contributed expertise as Lead Engineer on over 100 desktop, notebook and server platforms.• Advised executives on project status, history and next steps. • Mentored peers on technical and vendor-engagement issues. Led design reviews for solution implementations among internal and external teams. Directed peripheral-display teams to ensure that displays were properly defined, well implemented, and compatible with all Dell graphics solutions.• Devised new metrics that tracked progress for development teams.• Submitted 18 patent disclosures for Dell Legal review. Filed patent with USPTO (US 2004/0212610 A1 – Method and apparatus for associating display configuration information with respective displays of an information handling system)• Created the Dell Graphics Behavior Document, which specifies behavior for the entire graphics solution, including graphics driver, video BIOS, hardware and peripherals.

Led development for graphics hardware and software deliverables for Dell’s first Ultra-mobile notebook platform.• Provided technical assistance to Sales and Marketing teams to ensure and procure sales opportunities. Contributed valuable input during collaboration with customers. • Led engagement of Taiwan engineering teams to allow shifting of development responsibilities.

Bse, Computer Science

Minored in Business Management.

Mba, Business Of Administration

Graduated in advanced time with 3.8 GPA.

Education record