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United States

Akron, Ohio, Us

Akron, Ohio, Us

Akron, Ohio, Us

Akron, Ohio, Us

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Leads a team of engineers in bringing future looking retail and financial self-service ideas and concepts to life. Delivers functional prototype terminal concepts to multiple trade shows and customer events around the globe. Concept terminals have won design awards and have been showcased in the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNBC Squawk Box, as well as numerous trade industry publications. Included as inventor in several ongoing patent applications around recent concept terminals. Provides booth demonstrations in addition to technical support for several industry trade shows including Money 2020, Money 2020 Europe, CES, NRF, RBTE and others. Engages in concept demonstrations and thought leadership discussions with top banking and retail customers. Performs early stage applied technology research in the areas of biometrics, person detection, haptics, robotics, and cognitive services. Provides subject matter expertise to legal team for patent renewals and patent litigation efforts. Frequent subject matter expert and technology support for the Diebold-Nixdorf marketing team during customer visits, Board of Director meetings, and other events. Provides interviews to newspapers and trade publications on technologies and trends in the industry. Experience with UX and design led engineering.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Performed technology research and thought leadership in the area of financial self- service and electronic security. Lead architect on a cloud-based platform for building financial transaction services at scale for customers. Provided engineering and technical leadership for the pilot program of the Concierge Video product, which was a video chat service that ran at the ATM. This was the first service to be deployed on the cloud-based financial self service platform. Built multiple “Branch of the Future” concepts as future looking concepts in the industry. Built an online system for associates of the company to submit patent ideas for consideration by the legal team. Acted as System Administrator for the innovation website. Performed research in crowdsourcing innovation, and ran a pilot program within the company on the Spigit platform. Worked with patent attorneys to determine applicability of company IP Portfolio. Built research projects in User Experience using the Microsoft Surface table. Built POCs for streamlining business processes for some large retail and pharmacy customers utilizing data mashups and dashboards.

Program manager responsible for the successful, on time delivery of Self-Service ATM terminal software projects. Responsible for project teams in North America, India, and Brazil.

Project manager, technical lead, and system architect for a hardware based security solution utilizing the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to provide a trust point on the ATM. Piloted the provisioning of the TPM with digital certificates in the manufacturing process of self service terminals in Shanghai, China. Project manager, technical lead, and system architect for a two-factor authentication architecture allowing authorized service technicians access to ATMs owned and managed by disparate financial institutions. Project Design Architect responsible for software and system security on self service terminals. Technical lead for analyzing, designing, and implementing a security architecture to prevent unauthorized access to the Windows XP environment on the ATM as well as the bank network into which the ATM is installed. Took part in presale technical support for potential global customer engagements. Project manager for the migration of source code and source code change requests from the Serena PVCS, Dimensions, and Tracker products into the Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest products for the self service systems software organization.

Designed and built a very early mobile device interface to an ATM utilizing a Palm Pilot and Handspring Visor. Built the first pre-staged withdrawal transaction on an ATM on the mobile device, with communication to the ATM over Bluetooth. Demonstrated the transaction at the CeBit show in 2001. Managed OEM releases of the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 OS on behalf of the company.Took part on an international architecture team to design and implement a new object-oriented component based architecture for self-service terminal applications from the ground up using documented design patterns and the Unified Modeling Process (UML). Trained and mentored international associates in object oriented programming, Microsoft technologies such as COM, DCOM, ActiveX and .NET, and software systems design. Provided technical support for self service terminals and demonstrated an application using the new architecture at international trade shows.

Designed and implemented an open architecture for software component event notification using the publisher/subscriber software pattern. This incuded support for subscriber objects packaged in SOM, COM, and native C++. Designed and implemented a SOM/COM/DCOM/C++ “object factory” that was used to create complex COM, SOM, and C++ objects configured at runtime via an embedded database.

Designed and implemented components for a Microsoft Windows based aircraft test environment. Responsibilities included networking Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 machines, real time data acquisition, and object oriented methodologies.