Gary - Chef de projet BITCOIN

incipal-INTESECC •FRANCE •2014-PRESENT

My own company specializing in high-tech security consultancy services. Recent projects
System specification for an anti-counterfeiting solution for very high value items (wine, luxury goods)
Technical due diligence for an M&A project..Area of expertise : payment and mobile payment with
focus on EMV, Tokenisation, HCEm NFC and embedded security.
Connected car RFQ –wrote technical response as a team member to a security laboratory.
System specification for a dematerialized logistic access control system

CTO –Modia Media •GERMANY•2015-MAY 2016

World class mobile media company providing B2B and B2C digital entertainment products and services. Major clients include Vodafone (Germany, Spain, Italy, Egypt), O2 , Swisscom, MTN Ghana, Vodacom South Africa and other telcos in Europe, MiddleEast and Africa. Music Partners include Universal, Warner, Sony.
Operations and management of the R&D(50 engineers internal and external), IT & Operations(12
engineers), Business Intelligence (4) and Product Management (5). Responsibilities included :
Putting in management by objectives, weeklies and monthly reviews. Ensure objectives iterated
down to all personnels.
Puttingin place 360 communication channels for reporting and follow-up.
Ensuring budgets are planned, allocated with weekly review of spent vs budget.
Conduct weekly PMO to review project and product progress.
Review technical progress of projects including ad-hoc participation of project stand-ups
Put in place lean process encompassing product management, development life cycle management
(Agile SCRUM), devops for 24x7 operations and BI reporting and analysis.
Launched 2 new products : one in mobile games and one in mobile music playlist.
Opened new R&D center in Cairo doubling size of internal R&D.
Oversee migration effort from internal hosted server infrastrtutre to a hybrid structure using Azure
as the primary cdn.
Technology base : Java (Spring) for multitenant back end and Javascript (node and HAPI) for middleware and API, solr for indexing and search, sql and mongo for storage . Front end on a case by case basis ranging from Grails (groovy), bespoke php and javascript development. Mobile apps are mobile web, android and ios. Evalutated front end technology for fast prototyping
and testing including meteor, react, phantom and casper.

CTO -VALORISE •FRANCE •2014-2014

Start-up in Secure Mobile Know Your Customer and Fraud Management services platform.
Team size : 8 engineers
Manage R&D team from product definition to implementation and delivery
Reviewed overall legacy architecture to address scalability issues. Implementation not carried out as company didn’t have sufficient funds.
Technology base : Grails (groovy and Spring) for main server and Pentahoe for ETL services. Mobi
le application is only on Android.

EVP Advanced Security Solutions -INSIDE SECURE •FRANCE •2012-2014

Strategic innovation and defining new services and solutions business for INSIDE.
Anti-counterfeiting solutioning: drafted the business requirements and System requirements specifications.
Personalisation as a Service : drafted the overall security architecture and flow to ensure security scalability.
Trusted executing environments (hardware assisted and embedded software security): defined roadmap for migration for the company to move away from SoC to a pure embedded security ompany.
Secure Element payment OS : drafted a technical specification for a US payment company interested in having it’s own proprietary OS. Core team member in acquisition of embedded security solution team (ESS) from Apple: (i)AUTHENTEC Embedded Security Solutions business unit from APPLE in 2012. Defined product synergy roadmap from the new acquisition (VPN, SSL, Secure Element)

CTO and EVP R&D -INSIDE CONTACTLESS •FRANCE•2006-2012

Build-up and manage the R&D organization (annual budget : 30M USD). Grew the R&D organization
from 25 people in 2007 to over 140 people located in 6 international sites.
Managed fabless semi-conductor design, secure embedded software developm
ent, mobile device software development, security provisioning services and security certification. Developed and deliver industry award winning products ( MicroPass payment card, MicroRead NFC chip, Secure Element for mobile NFC, OpenNFC software, Persona
lization as a Service). Implement process and procedures for security certifications (CC, EMVCo).
Core team member in major acquisition of fabless development : (i)ATMEL Secure Microcontroller Systems business unit from ATMEL in 2010.
Bootstraped a structured product development methodology and process. Put in place a lean and hybrid agile methodology with continuous integration between the embedded software and the SoC.
Put in place and deployed R&D management tools which included: a centralized PMO, an enterprise
wide project managementtool, a centralized requirements management tool (Jama),a centralized issue management (Jira), an internal wiki (Confluence) and centralized document management
tool Migrate the configuration management tool from svn to git. Worked with IT to put in place a security policy and ensure ensure process security extensively to achieve continuous integration and
delivery.
Achieved yearly ISO 9001 and ISO 27000 certifications.
Put in place a development costs reduction program through the French national and European R&D
funding programs saving the company 6M USD annually.
Wide Technology base : SoC development base (Verilog) and Cadence development suite. Embeded security in cand java, NFC open source stack developed in c and ported to Android and Blackberry platforms. Mobile applications development on Android. Personalisation software in c with integration to HSMs.

Technical Management -Gemplus (Gemalto)•1997-2006

▪VP Engineering, Start-up Business Line•FRANCE •2003-2006

Worked in start-up mode with a lean team from within the main organization to accelerate new product introduction within an 18 months cycle. Sucessfully launched the authentication token product business at Gemplus.The work involved included
Managing core technical team (6 engineers) and interface to buisness lines.
Managing the overall product definition and development activities, provide product vision and
strategy, technical marketing, project management and business development
Wrote majority of functional and technical specifications and also contribute to writing the test
software.
Putin place processes (Agile)and methodology (continuous integration) adapted to the mission
to transfer the successful finished products to existing business units.
Awards:(CARTES) Sesame Award 2004 (APDU-TLS)/“Top Gemplus Inventors”, 2004
Technology base :Embeded security in c, java and c#. Tight integration to CISCO , NFC open source stack developed in c and ported to Android and Blackberry platforms. Mobile applications development on Android. Personalisation software in c with integration to HSMs.

▪VP Software Engineering •US•2000-2002

▪The objective was to establish a global professional services offering for North and South America
catering to the ebusiness, mobile commerce, banking and loyalty smart card markets.
▪Set-up and ran the software development organization in Montreal within a 3 months period of 24
engineers and integrators.
▪Activities included defining the structure and organization, define job descriptions, hiring , training
and building a project pipe-line. Established best-practices processes and methodology.
▪Delivered on-time and within budget the major smart card solutions. VISA Smart Access, First
USA Bank, Providian Bank, French La-Poste,Canadian Post Corporation Secure Channel Project,
Target Loyalty Project and Total System Card Management Systems (with IBM).
▪Within 2 years, the group became a center of expertise for the company in smart card application
integration (card OS, smart card applets, client software integration, card management systems)
▪Technology base :Embeded security in c, c++ and java. Server security solution in java.

▪Director Software Engineering, R&D •FRANCE •1997-2000

▪In charge of organizing and managing the overall product life cycle development for the Mobile
Telecommunications market. Manage the research development organization in Europe, Americas and
Asia of which the core team of about 60 engineers were based in France.
▪Set-up expert development groups in :(i)Over the Air SIM card management–was also overall rchitect for 2nd generation OTA platform. (ii)Smart card Operating Systems –native and Javacard (Developed the first GSM Java Card OS)
▪Establish Processes and methodology to improve requirements definition,development and
testing, deployment and support of the products.
▪Technical due diligence leading to acquisition of Softcard UK for accelerate the development of
Genplus Card Management System product
▪Technology base :Embeded security in c, c++ and java. Server security solution in java.

▪Regional Technical Director•GEMPLUS SINGAPORE •1993-1997

▪Sucessfully established Gemplus Singapore as the ASPAC headquarters for smart application
development and services. Achieved a total market share of 80% of all smart card applications,
personalization systems, key management systems in the region.
▪The work involved included
▪Nurturing and growing
the professional services force from 4 people to 60 in 4 years.
▪Secured government funding for Singapore R&D center (7M SGD).
▪Set-up regional R&D centers in Singapore and India (Bangalore).
▪Sucessfully Program/Project managed major regional smart card programs including
▪E-Purse -Singapore NETS CashCard, Singapore Electronic Road pricing system,..
▪Loyalty -Standard Chartered Banks Regional Loyalty System, OCBC , DBS,..
▪ID-MINDEF ID card, biometrics based Singapore-Malaysia Work Permit card, ...
▪Co-founder, set-up and launched Axiomatique International (a Gemplus company, later sold
to Welcome Realtime) -on board of directors till 2000.
▪Technology base :Embeded security in c, c++ and java. Personalisation services in assembly and
c. Server applications based on sysbase sql development suite.
Senoir Engineering Officer and Commanding Officer-MINISTRY OF DEFENCE •SINGAPORE 1984-1992
▪Commanding officer –managed a military logistic squadron of 150 military engineers and techniciens
specializing in real-time command, control and communication systems. Organization also ensured 100% availability of operations as well as provided 24/7 logistics support of the systems.
▪Senior engineering officer -participated in major real time systems acquisition, operationalization and
knowledge transfer projects. Was program manager for the phase -out of major obsolete systems