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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Curtis Watson Consulting offers industry solutions and expertise to the advanced payment market including: * Problem analysis and requirements definitions* Solution architecture and product design* Custom code implementations/solutions* Security Certification Solutions* Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in: - Contact Smart Card (ISO/IEC 7816) - Contactless.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Consultant to Isis, an AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless joint venture to add contactless payments technology to the US mobile phone infrastructure.

Dallas, TX

Designed the Isis mobile wallet companion applet (a Global Platform CREL) and Isis mobile PPSE. Led development efforts and direct developers. Program in Java Card as necessary to meet project obligations. Team Leader in the Isis Global Platform Profile definition, negotiated a common definition compatible with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless systems.

Lead a distributed S/W team dedicated to improving value add to class II gaming machines.

• Rcruited by TI to create a first of a kind secure contactless payments concept for American Express, and to win future American Express business. The proof of concept was very successful and TI won American Express’.
• Created American Express Contactless Payments PoC architecture, built the S/W development team that produced the PoC, project manager and team leader of the team that proved the contactless payment idea.
• Security and technical sales lead on the team that sold the PoC to American Express.
• Led security team that established security requirements for TI’s ePassport project to successfully pass Common Criteria EAL5+.
• Led American Express requirements discussions and created three additional SOW contracts that made American Express TI RFID largest customer.
• Led three successful American Express and Master Card security evaluations and audits.

Resource manager with over twelve direct reports, full budget responsibility for over $1M annual budget and signature authority for $20,000. Rolled up my selves and wrote C/C++ code for QNX O/S.

• VeriFone’s Dallas based SE Department hired me to address their need for a smart card and cryptographic key management SME. I was brought on board to invent a Visa DUKPT key management solution for their new SC55x PIN.
• Designed, implemented, and drove from conception to completion Standard U.S. Personalization 1. A security module designed to support on-line PIN encryption (Master session & Derived Unique Key Per Transaction) and.
• Contributed to smart card T=1 communication architecture development.
• Secure device security auditor and taught defensive coding techniques.
• Actively involved in IS0 9000 process (level II), a trained internal 9001 auditor.
• Mentored and consulted team through the first Verifone POS to seek and receive EMVCo Letter of Approval for contact smart card.

• In 1986 MCTI was one of the Top 50 Texas Business Shooting Stars, and smart cards were a revolutionary invention. I joined MCTI as a Sr. Robotic Engineer, and advanced through MCTI technology ladder until I became.
• Sr. Robotic Engineer, I advanced manufacturing knowledge transfer from France to US, the first USA smart card manufacturing line, and enhancing manufacturing throughput by > 300%.
• Sr. Software Engineer, I created the a first smart card based access control management system, and the fist smart card Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system in the US.
• As Subject Matter Expert, I instructed hundreds in smart card application development, O/S internals principles of cryptography, and defensive coding.