Mr. Blackwell has worked across a broad spectrum of industries including eCommerce, digital and analog gaming, telecommunication, aerospace/defense, financial services, and pharmaceuticals, a few of which include Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast, DNA Response, Bell Core, NASA, Dept of Defense, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Mutual, Washington Mutual, Johnson & Johnson. He has served as Consultant, a Senior Vice President in a 65,000 employee bank as well as a Company Founder, a CTO, and a Chief Architect.
He has technical expertise in expert systems, cloud computing, data privacy/security and eCommerce for which has developed products, filed patents, spoken at conferences, served on advisory boards and participated in industry standards bodies. His data privacy/security background includes the development of anti-virus software, key based authentication mechanisms, eXensible Access Control Markup Language, and globally distributed customer data management systems as well as dealing with the regulatory processes in the industries he has served.
Simon Blackwell is currently a consultant focused on leading edge technologies for eCommerce and digital gaming.