eCommerce Consulting, Pat Farrell

Mr. Farrell has more than 30 years experience in information technology. He specializes in providing computer systems to solve business problems.

His most recent activities focus on identity verification, eCommerce and web-based multi-media applications. These solutions use industrial strength encryption, digital signatures, one-time-use-URLs, and high performance, scaleable webservers to move money and deliver copyrighted media contents.

Mr. Farrell was the Alchemist at Trufina.com a startup that provides identity validation and verification services to the online dating service providers. Mr. Farrell designed and was instrumental in the implementation of the Trufina systems.

Mr. Farrell was the Alchemist at One Big CD, a leading firm in the electronic distribution of music. Mr. Farrell designed and implemented critical components of the One Big CD system, including webservers that deliver the streaming media content. The OneBigCD system used industrial strength crytography, digital signatures, one-time URLs, and XML.

Prior to OneBigCD, Mr. Farrell was the Alchemist at CyberCash. He was the technical architect of the InstaBuy electronic wallet released by CyberCash in 1998. He designed CyberCash's HighVolume transaction system, which processed more than 50% of CyberCash's transaction.

He was the project manager for CyberCash's SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) project, a joint effort among CyberCash, Netscape, Toshiba, and Visa International. Mr Farrell wrote the encryption software used by the SET project.

Prior to CyberCash, Mr. Farrell worked for American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) as a Senior Principal. During this time, AMS grew from a private company with two hundred employees to a public, international consulting firm with more than 6000 employees and nearly a billion dollars of revenue.

U.S. Government Clearance: Position of Trust (active)

U.S. Government Clearance: Secret (inactive since 1997)

Education

BS Mathematics, 1974: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
MS Computer Science, 1993: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Completed coursework, comprehensives and thesis proposal for a PhD in Information Systems, 1995 (ABD). Research areas included security, operating systems, project estimation and measurement, and database systems. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

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