Sebastien
Taveau, Chairman of the Board at Fluctuat LLC and Advisory Board Member at
QSecure Inc.
Sebastien’s
technical and professional experience spans more than 20 years
of variety industries involving embedded solutions, software and
security. His deep knowledge of the wireless and payment
industries helped him identify the upcoming need for new systems
to meet the growing electronic transaction demands. The current
state of transition both in technology and security standard has
positioned Fluctuat LLC services in a high demand niche market.
Prior to Fluctuat
LLC, Sebastien has held senior management positions for
starts-up and Fortune companies such as Cardsoft, Ridgerun (a
Texas Instruments venture), Motorola SPS (now Freescale) and
others. His skills in marketing, sales and technology were
acquired through experience and bolstered by a postgraduate
degree from the University of Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne and a
MSG in Business Strategy from the University of Tours in France.
Sebastien speaks
fluently
English, French, Spanish and has knowledge of
Italian and German.
Guy Lasseron,
Technical Consultant to the Board at Fluctuat LLC and Member of JCK Inc.
Guy has been involved with some large F100 companies such as
Oracle and Peoplesoft for the past 25 years. His experience
covers Testing and Quality Assurance but also more complex
Product Engineering Management and Hardware/Software
Integration. From his beginning in the Telecom industry to the
large software application management, Guy has a unique
perspective on how to transform a product from a concept into a
commercial and viable solution.
Guy graduated in
Computer Sciences (specialty in
digital
electronic micro-code) from
EPITA in France and attends many training and executive courses
from prestigious universities in the Bay Area to constantly
update his expertise.
Guy speaks
fluently
English, French, Spanish and has knowledge in Cantonese
& Japanese.
Harald Lotz,
President of Lotz Consulting and Partner of Fluctuat LLC in
Brazil.
Harald has more than 30 years of experience in North America,
Europe, Asia and Latin America in sales- and general management
in hardware, software, telecommunications and embedded
technologies. Mr. Lotz served in senior executive positions
including Vice-President of International Sales at
Motorola/Metrowerks, IBM, Wang Laboratories, ACT Networks as
well as President and CEO of MicroTempus Software Inc.
He was recently
honored by the University of Paris 1- Pantheon La Sorbonne, with
an Honoris Causa Postgraduate Degree (DESS) in International and
European Business Management
Mr. Lotz speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.
Members
Expertise:
Furthermore,
Fluctuat Team has leading knowledge in project management
ranging from development, test and certification of EMV
financial POS terminal to design, personalization, test and
certification of smart card areas.
We are familiar
with international and domestic financial smart card
specifications such as EMV, VIS, M/Chip, J/Smart, PBOC,
Global Platform and STIP.
Our members
provided consultancy for application development and test
regarding EMV POS terminals in Taiwan, Korea, Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. Specialized in UAT(ADVT) test
of Visa, ETEC test of Mastercard and J/Smart test of JCB, we can
also assist with matter related to China Union Pay and
its migration and upgrading of acquirer and switch centre for
EMV transaction processing. One of our members took part in
drafting the new version of China financial IC card
specifications (domestic EMV spec) and as a core member was in
charge of terminal specifications.
Miscelaneous Information
About the Origin of Fluctuat:
Fluctuat stands for
the city of Paris motto "Fluctuat Nec Mergitur".
This alludes to the shared love of the Ocean and sailing
by some members, the attachment to the University of
Paris and also to the oscilloscopic fluctuations of our
electronic material.
It also illustrates
the need for "floating" workforce dedicated to punctual
projects in today's world.
About Us:
Our
team of consultants has a working knowledge in French,
English, Spanish, Brazilian, Japanese and Chinese in their
respective field of expertise.
Our team can assist with security projects related to
certification issues for standards such as EMV, PCI PED,
FIPS, Global Platform /STIP, FINREAD, CC and others.
Resumés and Detailed Profile Available on Demand:
Sébastien Taveau
- Guy Lasseron -
Harald Lotz
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