Mr. Hammond has been Stonebranch�s chief technology officer since its founding in 1999. Previously, he was the chief architect of the Workload Division of BETA systems for three years. Mr. Hammond has a strong understanding of the distributed computing environment and the development of products for this market. Through his experience with the software development process, he understands how to ensure that only high quality market-oriented products are produced. Mr. Hammond graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer Science degree. He worked in the information technology field in the financial services sector for eight years and as a software engineer for independent software vendors for six years. Mr. Hammond�s technical areas of interest are systems automation and distributed processing. He has been responsible for operations automation and configuration management during his years in the financial services sector. As a software engineer, he has been responsible for the development of job scheduling, report distribution and console automation products in distributed heterogeneous environments. |