Zurich, Switzerland
Specialties: Innovation Management and Strategy, taking research innovation and developing go-to-market strategies for consulting, services and products. Orchestrating teams across a large global organization to deliver those strategies. Developing mind-share through point-of-views, analyst interviews, key-note speeches and conference talks. Strong understanding of compliance and standardization related activities - including data protection, cryptography, IT security and manufacturing. Ability to take research topics such as Quantum Safe Cryptography, Blockchains, agile development methodologies, cloud technology and drive impact in products, services and large multi million dollar projects. Example client projects where I was technically responsible: Security for a number of data lakes, GDPR compliance, National Identity Projects including Europe's first chipped biometric residence permit, World first digital land registry with E-Signatures, large scale factory monitoring and automation projects. Products that I contributed to include network equipment, factory monitoring equipment, medical equipment, smart cards, secure authentication devices. Number of Patents: 72 Direct Revenue Impact with client projects: > 150 million
With the success that we have had developing the next generation of cryptographic algorithms selected for standardization at NIST, and enabling our most important platform (z16) to become Quantum Safe ahead of all competition, its time to take things to the next level with IBM Quantum Safe
Developed the cross IBM business unit strategy for quantum safe migration Leading the foundational cryptography theme across IBM Research Delivered the concept and award winning GDPR technology for the first European Data Trust Led a Global Technology Outlook activity in the area of extracting insight from data
Current Roles - IBM Lead for Q Security and Encryption - Manager of the Security and Privacy Group at IBM Research GmbH Current Research Agenda : Quantum Security: - Cryptographic Agility - Quantum Safe Cryptography - Cryptographic Pseudonymisation Security - Continuous Lifecycle for Security - where security and DevOps meet - Data Desensitisation for Analytics - enabling cross border "Analytics as a Service" - Cloud and Big Data PLatform Key Management - Automating Identity Lifecycles - Future Identity - Modelling Social Engineering Risk Privacy - Privacy in the cloud - Privacy and Identity
Pushing the cloud Openstack agenda within IBM Building out an innovation cloud in research Migrating our security efforts into the cloud space Automating compliance
Managing a large team of security researchers in the area of cryptography, compliance, cloud security and distributed systems. Innovating our consulting division with research technology European FP7 projects Pushing the privacy agenda European tachograph personalization project Developing new key management techniques
Lead architect for Europe's first chipped biometric residence permit Lead architect for large European public sector driving license project (70 million licenses and counting) Subject matter expert for government document issuance (Passports, Driving Licenses, Identity cards) ISO SC17 WG10 standardization, Skills - Cryptography, PKI, Standards, Credential Issuance, key management.
Innovation - helping research impact our consulting business Large French Land registry digitization project. Development and integration of security components (Fingerprint technology, PKI, Smart Cards, single sign-on, secure browsing, long term digital signatures, database security, hardware security modules) Common Criteria Certification for Smart-Cards FIPS certification for cryptographic libraries