Patrick Watson
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Patrick is a senior software engineer, specializing in electronic payment systems and data security, including PCI and PA-DSS compliance. In his spare time, he might be found playing games, browsing the web, or playing with his cats.
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- Best sentence of the day: "One could vaguely construe that Tesla's cat was responsible for the second industrial revolution, which arguably makes it the most awesome cat who ever lived." Bonus points if you know where it came from.
- I watched the first 2 episodes of Mad Men today. I do believe that might be one of the most sexist things I've ever seen, but I think that might kinda be the point. Or at least I hope so.
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- SummaryI design, implement, and maintain security and electronic payment system software for the Petroleum & Convenience Retail department of NCR Retail (formerly Radiant Systems). This involves creating low level network interfaces to electronic payment processors such as First Data, Heartland Payment Systems, and Chase Paymentech. Beyond network programming, I create the security infrastructure keeping cardholder data safe. This includes strong cryptographic systems, authentication mechanisms, forensic analyses, conducting training, and writing documentation. This allows our software to pass frequent PA-DSS validations, enabling merchants to easily maintain PCI-DSS compliance.Specialties: Electronic Payment Systems Data SecurityExperience
- Aug 2011 - PresentApplications Developer III / NCR CorporationElectronic payment systems & security developer in Retail (formerly Radiant Systems)
- Jan 2004 - Aug 2011Applications Developer II / Radiant Systems Inc.Radiant was acquired by NCR Corporation on August 24, 2011
Education-
2000 - 2003Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS in Computer Science
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