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.

Patent Granted

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

US Patent and Trademark Office: 7,616,110 Crump, Farrell, and Wilson Mobile wireless customizable health and condition monitor November 10, 2009

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Crump C, Saxena S, Wilson B, Farrell P, Rafiq A, Silvers CT. Using Bayesian networks and rule-based trending to predict patient status in the intensive care unit. Proc AMIA Symp. 2009 (in press).
American Medical Informatics Association (www.amia.org)

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

College Courses Taught

• EMB 680 Project Management, Statford University, 2004

• CS 571 Operating Systems, George Mason University, 1992, GTA with Dr Peter Denning

• IT108 Introduction to Programming using Java

• CIS232 Introduction to Oracle and Sql
• CIS292 Project Management
• CIS305 E-Business IT Infrastructure
• CIS310 E-Commerce Business Software Infrastructure
• CIS450 Integrating Internet into the Enterprise

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