Principal Consultant
CurrentManagement and technical consultant to the telecommunications and financial services industries. Projects include:• Technology consultant for a company offering retail health and wellness loyalty and incentive applications for retail grocers and healthcare providers to offer consumers USDA SNAP benefits electronically.• Emergency support services for mass deployment of replacement X.509 client security certificates ahead of a soon pending hard/unmovable deadline for a Pennsylvania-based company offering payment services.• Managed technical team that drove encryption updates to 7000 legacy Oracle Opera PMS and Simphony, 9700, 3700/RES, and e7 merchant POS systems.• Supported original software development of a tokenizing payment driver for Oracle Simphony 2, later integrating a TLS 1.2 protocol stack to comply with PCI encryption standards.• Assimilated, tested, and documented a new POS hardware-based EMV transaction switch.• Technical/investment due-diligence of a mobile payments start-up firm.• Designed engineering/P&L forecast models for business analysis of a public company's new payments subsidiary.• Updated IT/network security policies for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for a telecom firm.• Analyzed patent impact for a start-up funds transfer company; negotiated license/vendor agreements; and managed technical project.• Advised equity research firms on the market aspects of telecom and POS products/services.• Analyzed work-flow for a customer service department, documenting procedures/requirements for development of new automation tools.• Reviewed technical documentation to identify development issues for a telecom interface.• Managed as interim Executive Director an agency providing emergency housing, job assistance, clothing, food, and other social services.