Work History

A long and diverse career on the leading edge of technology grounded in hard work
Oct 2017
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Present		 PA&A Now Focused on Identity Authentication and Payments

Seeking to advise, evangelize, support product development and strategic development

 Atlanta, GA
May 2013
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Sept 2017		 Oberthur Technology
IDEMIA		 Evangelist promoting the use of EMV as a means of Securing Credit and Debit Cards
Secretary of the FIDO Alliance driving global standard for Authentication		 Chantilly, VA
Feb 2012
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May 2013		 Accenture Subject Matter Expert Payment Systems
Developed Target Operating Model for leading Global Acquirer		 London, Atlanta, Houston
Jan 2011
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Jan 2012		 American Express Global Product Manager working within the EMVCo organization NYC
Jan 2004
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Dec 2010		 PA&A Advisory to various merchant and financial Institutions as they considered their EMV deployment strategies Toronto / East Coast USA
Sept 2002
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Nov 2003		 Visa Inc. Drove the decision to deploy EMV to protect payment cards
Drive adoption of 3D-Secure to secure Online Payments		 Toronto
July 1996
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Aug 2002		 PA&A Advisory, interim executive and strategic consultant to a variety of firms as they considered their role in Payments and the use of cryptography as a means of Authentication Brussels/St Paul/Ottawa
June 1991
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June 1996		  Europay International
Now MasterCard		 Member of the Management committee focus on IT Strategy, Security, Technology and formation of common industry standards Brussels
June 1990
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June 1991		 Smith New Court Program Manager responsible for eh integration of Voice, Video and Digital services to the capital Markets Trading professional London
June 1987
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May 1990		 Shearson Lehman Hutton Vice President European Telecommunications
Focus was the right sizing of the operation reducing CAPEX, FTE and OPEX by >25%		 London
June 1986
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June 1987		 Salomon Brothers Designed and implemented the technology necessary to support one of the largest London Security trading operations as the London Stock market was deregulated London
Jan. 1984
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June 1986		 PA&A Responsible for the design, project management and interface to the construction team as major capital marketing trading floors where built or modernized

Specialist in designing leading edge voice, video and digital systems supporting  making markets and receiving massive quantities of real time price and market data

 NYC
April 1983
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Dec. 1983		 Chemical Bank NYC
Feb.1982
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April 1983		 Bankers Trust Company NYC
July 1980
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Feb. 1982		 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Focused on the development of project management tools and techniques as a global network was deployed to interconnect all MHT facilities and data centers NYC
June 1976
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July 1980		 National Data Corporation An on the job degree in the depth and breadth of information technology

Programming, operations research computer operations, network operations, customer service, sales support

 Atlanta
Summer 1975 Labor – Rendering Plant Atlanta
Summer 1974 Taxi Driver New York City
Summer 1973 Distribution Center New Jersey
High School Caddy Tenafly, New Jersey