Big 5 Consultancy

December '05 - Present
World wide
One of the big 5 consultancies this organisation is well respected in the strategy arena.

Consultant

• Due to client confidentiality publishable details remain minimal.
• Smartcards: Transaction process specification, chip specification, Visible, Physical Logical Requirements specification;
• ICAO: Detailed knowledge of the EAC and BAC specification;
• EMV: EMV Profile development, EMV Scheme Development;
• Biometrics: Detailed knowledge of, and set-up experience of biometric systems;
• PKI: Symmetric and Asymmetric Cryptography, Key Management;
• Identity Management: Strong/Two factor authentication, Single Sign On, Federated Identity, Access Control Systems
• Technical knowledge and experience in all aspects of these fields and Business development and value extraction experience in each of these fields;

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Consult Hyperion

April '04 - December '05
Guildford
Strategic IT & Management Consultancy

Consultant

• Lee has consulted on the commercial deployment of contactless, ISO1443 compliant payment products, having deployed both technical and functional requirement specifications for the terminals and devices used with American Express' new ExpressPay product. More recently he has been instrumental in setting up a laboratory to test the compliance of products developed by third parties, against those specifications.
• Such work has provided Lee with an in-depth practical understanding of the conceptual and architectural information that flows through the logical system of a contactless payment scheme, as well as the information assets and TLV formations that flow within the transaction architecture.
• He has also advised on the value of Multi-Modal Biometric Fusion to the UK Government and the pertinent attributes of this technology that various government departments are likely to use over the next 10 years. He has a wide interest in biometrics and views emerging technologies, such as, body odour identification, gait, 3D facial imaging and contactless fingerprint capture, as an important technology in the growing biometrics arena.

Recent Projects have included:

VISA

• Developed Visa's smart card migration strategy strategy for the Middle East. (2 man project team)
• Lee was solely responsible for researching and analysing VISA’s existing CEMEA region projects, using both internal VISA and third parties for information gathering.
• Lee was solely responsible was aligning existing VISA projects into an overall strategy roadmap that used to identify VISA’s current migration position.
• Lee was solely responsible producing the presentation used by Visa's Head of CEMEA region to present the team’s strategy plan.
• The project was so successful that Visa awarded the team further follow-up work to produce more in-depth regional strategies.
• Created the strategy defining Visa's view on combining Government smart card applications with traditional payment applications. (2 man project team)
• Lee was responsible for interviewing Visa personnel, including Visa’s Vice President, from around the world and extracting from their experience the core factors that would affect VISA’s decisions.
• Lee solely responsible for researching existing Government ID and commercial smart card application cards from around the world and was solely responsible for tuning this research into case studies for the final report.
• Lee was responsible for performing a SWOT analysis using the information gleaned from both employees and his own research to determine the advice to be given to the client.
• Lee was responsible for co-authoring the final report delivered to visa, which categorically stated the direction, Visa should take.

Department for Transport (DfT)

• Created the Structured Risk Analysis for the DfT that analysed the use of contactless smart cards in an e-money scheme. (3 man project team)
• Researched and analysised findings enabling the identification of cost-effective measures to mitigate identified risks.
• Lee was solely responsible for modelling the flow of information through the technology infrastructure that was already in place.
• Lee was responsible for combining the information model with the physical infrastructure model and performing the risk assessment that identified the effort that malicious attackers would need to expend to access sensitive information and the benefit they would gain by accessing that information.
• Lee was responsible for authoring the analysis work he had performed and due to the document having several authors Lee was solely responsible overall document consistency and integrity.
• Lee was responsible for client contact on the project and co-ordinated all interview administration.

United Kingdom Passport Service (UKPS)

• Performed the strategy derivation, determining the policy on adoption of biometrics in the British Passport. (3 man project team)
• Lee was solely responsible for researching, through interview and third party reading, the possible biometric technologies that could be used by the UKPS.
• Lee was solely responsible for researching and determining the possibilities that multi-modal biometric fusion held for use by UKPS.
• Lee was responsible for determining the possible strategies that could be used by UKPS to collect, store and make use of, the reports chosen biometrics.
• Lee was responsible for performing SWOT analyses on the multiple strategy possibilities that the work produced and that UKPS would choose from.
• Lee was solely responsible for authoring the biometric appendix sections of the final report.
• Lee was responsible for authoring the analysis work he had performed and due to the document having several authors Lee was solely responsible overall document consistency and integrity.

American Express (AMEX)

• Authored the Hardware Security Module (HSM) specification, a document that describes the functionality enabling the processing of millions of dollars worth of credit-card transactions securely each day. (1 man project team)
• >>> The report covered: pre-issuance, issuance and operation of smart cards and cryptographic key management and PKI.
• Led the Development of a suite of mathematical tests to ensure that debit/credit-card data transfer methods are secure.
• Developed tests to certify next generation 'contactless' debit/credit-card payment terminals.
• Led analysis meetings with clients, explaining test results and developing methods to overcome any problems.

Police Information Technology Office (PITO)

• Developed PITO's strategic vision structuring how identification and biometric technology will be used to provide the Police Service with real operational benefit over the next 15 years to 2020. (3 man project team)
• Lee was solely responsible for researching, through interview and third party reading, the possible biometric technologies that could be used by PITO for identification purposes and subdividing them into (non)-covert, and (non)-intrusive.
• Lee was responsible for authoring the analysis work he had performed.
• Lee was responsible for client contact on the project and co-ordinated all interview administration.

Mastercard

• Research and analysis enabling MasterCard to understand the business opportunities, financial agreements and operation of mobile top-up mechanisms in selected EU and CE countries. (2 man project team)
• Co-author of a report detailing the financial aspects of pre-pay top-up, describing the infrastructure of key importance to MasterCard.

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The Prince's Trust

Jan '04 - April '04
London Office
Registered UK charity helping young people overcome barriers

Consultant

• Bid for and won, in a competetive selection competition, the contract for independent IT consultant.
• Designed a secure database application for holding sensitive details relating to a new Prince's Trust young persons' community based project.
• Acted as both independent consultant advising on the database design and was also awarded the project of developing the application.
• Ongoing meetings with the client to discuss the problem and suggest possible resolutions.

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Office for National Statistics

March '03 - April '04
London
Civil Service Department responsible for Official Statistics in UK

Methodologist (Level-C2)

• Development of methods to remove anomalies, such as, trading day and Easter effects from time series data.
• Research into, and the use of, Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models, temporal dis-aggregation and bench marking to improve the analysis of time series data.
• Seconded to a multi-departmental team charged with replacing existing legacy systems. Involving system redesign using UML, liaising between business areas and programmers to create automated solutions and specifying a detailed error-free set of requirements documentation.
• Attendance of board meetings with Senior Civil Servants to report on progress and negotiate funds.

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Box UK Ltd.

October '02 - march '03
Cardiff
Internet Development and Consultancy

Software Developer

• Redeveloping algorithms to be computationally efficient, enabling features, such as: pagination, images, advertising, etc., to appear as necessary.
• Solely responsible for setting up secure company and client Internet email system, using PHP and Apache web server.
• Coding 'Content Management Systems' in XML technologies and PHP, to enable clients to build dynamic, database driven web sites.
• Solely responsible for the coding and construction of 'Text only' and 'print' versions of web sites using XML technologies whilst corresponding to W3C guidelines.

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Astrophysics Research Institute

Febuary '02 - May '03
Liverpool
Academic Research Department

Software Engineer

• Implemented Doctoral research work on multiple platforms including; Solaris, Digital Unix, Compaq, Linux and Windows.

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Astrophysics Research Institute

1998-2002
Liverpool
Academic Research Department

Senior Tutor

• Responsible for training junior tutors.
• Instructing undergraduate students in astrophysics and mathematics, particularly calculus and error analysis.
• Instructing undergraduates in computing and basic programming skills.

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British gas (Centrica)

June '98 - October '98
Cardiff

Technology officer

• Updating and correcting software, written in Visual Basic, to allow for business expansion into new utilities markets.

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Astrophysics Research Institute

'98 - '02
Liverpool

PhD Numerical Astrophysics

The Design and Implementation of an Automated Data Analysis System for Robotic Telescopes and its Application to Be Stars.

• Creating a software engine, written in C for control software and FORTRAN 95 for numerically intensive procedures, to extract autonomously numerical data from time series digital photographs.
• Error analysis of correlated and non-correlated data, using computed variance and co-variances.
• Pattern-matching image-maps to numerical data using 'simplex' constructions and multi-dimensional minimization methods requiring object function evaluations.
• Development of computationally efficient algorithms allowing the extraction of maximum information from data, whilst operating in real time.
• The software allows 9 months manual work to be completed, autonomously, in 4 hours.

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Cardiff University

'94 - '98
Cardiff

Master of Physics in Astrophysics

Modelling Radiation Transport in Circumstellar Discs.

• Modelling random processes using Monte-Carlo simulations, to produce 360° output matrices.
• Construction of a co-moving co-ordinate system, enabling all physical processes and interactions to occur locally.

The Statistical Analysis of Radio Frequency Detected Meteors.

• Creating software to distinguish between radio noise and meteor signals, using statistical and pattern matching methods.
• Designing and building a radio telescope.