Experience l Build Your Business l Partner With Others l Buy (or Sell) Assets

Build Your Business: Jamieson Consulting has worked with product development and marketing professionals to launch a variety of products and services and to negotiate effective, practical agreements. Specific projects have included:

• Network Services/IT Outsourcing Services. Negotiation of customer contracts for outsourced IT services including on-site and remote network design and help desk services. Clients included Morgan Stanley (Help Desk and Break-fix); Dayton Power & Light (Network Design and Help Desk), Bayer Pharmaceuticals (Help Desk and Break-fix) and Consolidated Natural Gas (Help Desk and Network Management).

• Stored-Value Payment Device for University Students. Launch of a student ID card program enabling purchases off-campus through the use of an integrated stored-value platform, proprietary transaction processing equipment and ACH settlement. Offered as a substitute for credit cards, the program included the negotiation of university license agreements, the rollout of merchant networks and compliance with banking and privacy regulations. Participating universities included, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton.
  
  
• Healthcare Software Application. Work with a software development team to launch a three tier client-server healthcare application for real-time patient medical records capture. Successfully resisted attempts by a competitor to appropriate proprietary information.
  
  
• Discount Membership Program. Support for a national membership program that enabled students to purchase goods and services at a discount. Included management of data and privacy issues, support for 12,000 local sponsors and negotiation of agreements for over 30 national sponsors including, AT&T, Amtrak, Greyhound, US Airways, Footlocker.
  
  
• Online Media Development and Support. Negotiation of contracts and management of content for on-line properties, including support for:
  
  
  • University Athletic Department Hosting Services. A network of 120 sports web sites offering hosting services, online brand management, content delivery, consumer marketing and business/commerce solutions to university athletic departments.
    
    
  • Newsfeed/Syndication. The largest newswire service for student-produced content with distribution to more than 500 universities and professional media outlets including, negotiation of syndication agreements with Lycos and The New York Times.
    
    
  • Student Loan Comparison Service. An on-line student loan comparison service with more than 250 participating schools and over 20 lender partnerships including, negotiation of agreements with Citibank and American Express.

• Off-line Events and Promotions. Documentation for multi-media campus marketing events including, the completion of third party supplier and client agreements. Clients included Volkswagen of America, Barnes & Noble, New Balance, Verizon and AT&T.
  
  
• Retail Sales. General corporate legal support for manufacturers and retailers including, the maintenance of corporate records and negotiation of supplier and sales agreements. Products included sporting goods (surf and snow boards), food products and apparel.