Chris Hamlett has 15 years experience developing enterprise-class software for both the commercial market and the U.S. Government. He is focused on applying his expertise in software development practices to providing innovative solutions for issues facing the retail and financial services industries. He is currently involved with:
The architecture, design, and implementation of next-generation hardware security modules
Secure key management and its applications, using both symmetric and asymmetric techniques
Development of distributed software with a focus on strong security, reliability, and scalability
Representing Futurex on the ANSI X9F work group dealing with financial security
Since joining Futurex, Mr. Hamlett has recruited and trained a talented and well-educated team of engineers at the Futurex campus in Texas. His methodical and structured approach to engineering has allowed Futurex to catapult into one of the industry leaders in transaction security and become the "gold standard" for encryption, key injection, and key management technology.
Prior to joining Futurex, Mr. Hamlett worked for SecureLogix and Decision Science Applications where he contributed to products as diverse as voice over IP monitoring, trunking models for MCI, bandwidth allocation for the FCC, and satellite communication scheduling algorithms. He also led the development of the world's first distributed wardialer to help assess an enterprise's security profile in a scalable fashion, and was responsible for an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) product in a telephony management application suite.
Mr. Hamlett has received B.S. and M.S. degrees with distinction in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. |