Garry Hamilton-Smith
Head of e-Commerce, Gazal Pty Ltd

March 2010 Head of E-Commerce for Gazal Apparel Pty Limited

March 2008 to February 2010 IT Manager / Web Development Manager for DealsDirect.com.au

DealsDirect was Australia’s Number #1 online department store for the past 5 years (2004 to 2009).

Being the number #1 online department store within Australia comes with many challenges. Some of which include the high volume of financial transactions, and serving web traffic counting into the 100’s of millions of pages per annum.

With over 25 years in IT, and almost 10 years experience in the E-Commerce Industry from coding, developing solutions, project management, hosting, caching, database management and more…

Completed formal training or have been qualified in numerous platforms, languages and systems. Examples include: MySQL, PHP, HTML, Javascript, Oracle, DB2, Time Management, Team Leadership, Printsoft, TIBCO, SAP, MVS, Pl/1, CICS, IMS DB/DC, JCL and many more…

Attended Recent Conferences: O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2009 on Web Performance and Scalability. CeBIT Conference in 2009.

Attending Up Coming Conferences: O’Reilly MySQL Conference in Santa Clara in April 2010.

Specialising in E-Commerce Web Development, Design and SEO for High Performance and High Traffic Web Sites.