Mr. Farrell was the Vice President of Engineering at AFrame Digital, Inc. a next generation medical technology company specialising is wireless medical sensors. He designed the system, and implemented all of the fundamental technologies.

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.

Recent engagements include:

• The Coronado Group, ltd. Software implementation and architecture consulting.
• Fannie Mae, review of security and architecural plans for major reimplementation of core financial systems
• Superdistribution, Inc. Architecture and product definition.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

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

Education

BS Mathematics, 1974

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

MS Computer Science, 1993

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

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