Tim Hobbs

Tim is the Cloud Architect for the iC Consult Group company Service Layers, providing customized IAM as a cloud service.

As iC Consult evolves the delivery of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, we are embracing SecDevOps and container-ready approaches to modify the concept of the traditional IAM implementation into a repeatable pipeline that delivers requirements to production without forcing customers into a "one size fits all" approach.

Evangelized and coordinated initiatives across Security Solutions and created new innovation prototypes. Demonstrated cloud-ready, highly-available, containerized products and solutions to more than 1000 colleagues, partners, and customers. Worked closely with the Office of the CTO to share progress via internal blogs and introduced a new software delivery methodology for the entire company. Represented CA Technologies membership in the FIDO Alliance.

Represented CA on the TSCP Organization Architecture Board and co-authored the TSCP Identity Federation specification. Provided technical expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) including presentations, demonstrations, conferences, workshops, RFI/RFP response writing, proofs of concept, system architecture design, implementation, and post-sales support. Directly involved with hundreds of Fortune 1000 customers, governments, and organizations worldwide.

Trained hundreds of employees, partners, and customers on existing products and new product versions across all geographies. Aligned product priorities with customer desires as field representative on multiple product development teams. Provided architectural expertise to internal IT teams for deployment of company products. Implemented multiple productivity tools to increase efficiency of individual contributors and managers.

Personally recognized as an “outstanding” contributor by SVP, General Manager International Sales.

Recipient of multiple awards including “Outstanding Performer” and “All Star”. Worked closely with the largest companies in Europe and the Middle East to design robust single sign-on and identity management infrastructures. Effectively communicated technical details with partners and customers across more than 20 different countries and cultures.

Demonstrated SiteMinder web single sign-on product to prospective customers. Gained experience with encryption methods, public key infrastructure (PKI), and HTTP. Mentored new pre-sales engineers within the US East region. Created and reviewed system architectures for Fortune 1000 companies. Traveled repeatedly to Europe and Southeast Asia to train colleagues in new versions of single sign-on and identity management products.

Performed program testing and analysis on Baan IVc4 with Proloq extensions in support of customizations for a major Canadian steel convertor. Reviewed customized Baan program code of several North American manufacturers in preparation for calendar year 2000.

Implemented an outsourced Baan installation at a Connecticut spring manufacturer as part of a five person team. The Baan ERP software was mapped to fit the business and manufacturing processes of the client organization. Participated in all aspects of Baan installation and configuration, including overseeing the migration of client data from legacy systems (via COBOL) to the Baan system.