Patrick Farrell

pfarrell@pfarrell.com

(703) 587-9898


Objective:


Hands on opportunity to architect, design, and implement new technologies to address real world business needs.


Background:


Mr. Farrell’s most recent activities focused on applying technology to solve business problems. His most recent years have been in the Internet Product development area, using rapid cycle development of identity verification, eCommerce and web-based multi-media applications in major technology-based Internet companies. Areas of expertise include:


Mr. Farrell has more than 30 years experience applying technology to solve business problems. For the past fifteen years, Mr. Farrell has specialized in the development and delivery of business solutions using distributed and multi-platform computing. These systems meet all of the buzzwords of modern, scalable, mission critical “open” systems. They employ Object-Oriented programming tools (i.e. Java, C++, Smalltalk), web-based user presentation (i.e. HTML, JavaScript) relational DBMS systems (i.e. SqlServer, Oracle, MySql), high performance servers (Unix, Linux and Windows NT), and meet high availability (24x7) operational expectations.


Mr. Farrell was the first employee at Trufina.com a startup that provides identity validation and verification services to the online dating service providers. As Alchemist, Mr. Farrell designed and was instrumental in the implementation of the Trufina systems. [August 2004 – January 2005]


Mr. Farrell worked as a Senior Consultant for The Coronado Group on a number of assignments. He designed and implemented a system to take Human Resources forms (SF50s) from the IBM mainframe at the National Finance Center in New Orleans and convert them to digital form. The forms were processed by a workflow management system developmed by The Coronado Group, and presented as web-enabled images for Census Bureau employees. [October 2002 – June 2004].


Mr. Farrell provided high level architectural, security system design, and management consulting for the “CORE” system at Fannie Mae. The CORE system will replace more than twenty years of legacy financial applications with a distributed, scalable, N tiered system that provides both reporting and management analysis. [October 2001 – May 2002]


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 cryptography, digital signatures, one-time URLs, and XML. [December 1999 – July 2001]


Mr. Farrell was the “Instabuy Alchemist” at CyberCash. He was the technical architect of the InstaBuy electronic wallet released by CyberCash in 1998. He built the initial versions of the system, and directed the development of the production InstaBuy service. He developed the architecture and design of high speed, high volume transaction processing system that handled more than 40 percent of CyberCash's total transaction volume.


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. [September 1996 – September 1999]



Mr. Farrell worked for eighteen years at 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. Mr. Farrell's duties covered a wide variety of technical and management areas, from hands-on development, management of technical support staff, staff development, business needs analysis, proposal preparation and project (and client) management. [January 1978 – September 1996]


An example of his breadth of experience at AMS is Mr. Farrell's work with the US Veterans Administration (now the Department of Veterans Affairs). In 1987, Mr. Farrell worked on an agency-wide modernisation study. The study recommended that the VA install a pilot study using the new “digital imaging” technology. This recommendation lead to the implementation of a image-based “Case Tracking” system in 1988. Mr. Farrell was the project lead for the integration of the Unix-based imaging system with the VA's legacy Honeywell mainframe system.


When leading the implementation support team at the VA field office Mr. Farrell identified business process differences between the VA's offical proceedures used for the design of the imaging system and the actual practices of the field office, Mr. Farrell re-enginered an alternative processes that could improve both the productivity of the VA staff, and reduce the time needed to turn arround the benefits to the veterans. Mr. Farrell developed the concept, convinced the VA staff in both the field office and at VA headquarters of the feasibility of the changes. He then wrote the proposal for a series of revisions to the system, obtained approval from VA procurement offices and implemented the new system. During the implementation, Mr. Farrell recruited, hired and trained engineering staff, developed the system with a staff of ten professionals, and installed the completed system in the field office. The resulting system was not only three times faster, which directly improved the number of cases processed by the VA staff, but also also provided signficantly enhanced management reporting and status information. This enabled the VA management to more effectively allocate staff, predict workloads.


The re-engineered system also yielded a significant result visible to the veterans: when they called asking about the status of their claims, the results could be given in seconds instead of the days required in the past. This enabled a huge difference job satisfaction for the Veterans Benefits Services staff, who had previously spent a significant part of their time trying to calm frustratied veterans who wanted to know why they had not received their expected check, Using the new system, the VBS staff could tell the veteran exactly where the case was in the system, and when they could expect the case to be finished. Mr. Farrell was directly responsible for the concept, business development, implementation and client satisfaction, end-to-end.


U.S. Government Clearance:

Position of Trust (active since 2003)

Secret (inactive since 1997)


Patent Granted

US Patent and Trademark Office: 6,092,053
System and method for merchant invoked electronic commerce July 18, 2000

College Courses Taught

Graduate Level:


Undergraduate level taught at Stratford University (2002 through 2004):



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

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:


Towards a Model of Computer Security

October 1992 National Computer Security Conference, Fort Meade, MD, with William H Murray.


Computer Virus in Internet, reaction and control for commercial computer users; CNN (Cable News Network) November 1988.




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