Bio

Recognized cross-functional payments innovation leader and subject matter expert, visionary, frequent conference speaker and thought leader. Deep technology understanding, strong business acumen, rapid learning and exceptional communication ability. Driven by the big picture, thrives on applying strategic thinking in analyzing the core of any business challenge toward delivering the most effective technology solution. Talent magnet - built several high-performance startup / corporate technology teams from ground up, maintaining team's motivation and sense of ownership to the highest level, minimizing staff turnover. More than 25 years long track record of successful innovation and delivery of high performance & high availability secure electronic payment, electronic trading and mobile financial services solutions. Over 25 years of software / systems development experience and successful delivery of high performance / high availability electronic payment, electronic trading and mobile solutions Career Highlights: • Recognized payment technology inventor, with dozen patents granted and many more pending • Team building and management, mentoring and motivating, interim management, customer relationship building • Payment cards (EMV, contactless), mobile (NFC / HCE / ApplePay) and EMVCo Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) Framework • Blockchain technology expertise • Integration of loyalty into payment rails via Card Linked Loyalty Services • ISO 8583, SWIFT (MT and MX), ISO 20022, FIX, CSIO message standards • EMVCo Tokenization framework • Electronic payments security (symmetric and public key cryptography frameworks), consumer authentication, multi-factor authentication • Capital markets trends, trading rules, electronic trading operations, clearing & settlement operations, dark liquidity pools • Solution architecture development / evaluation Opinions are my own, not of my employers: