User:Jim Bird

Jim Bird is a senior software development manager and project manager, with more than 25 years of experience in software development, IT integration and application operations. Jim is a co-founder and the CTO of of a New York-based Alternative Trading System (ATS) for secure and confidential institutional stock trading. As CTO, Jim is responsible for the company's technology strategy and information security programs, as well as managing the company's software development organization.

Prior to this, Jim worked as a senior consultant to IBM's global financial markets practice, and to stock exchanges and banks globally, including the Deutsche Borse, the Australian Stock Exchange, the Italian Banking Association, the Saudi Arabian Central Bank, and the Korea Exchange. For more than 10 years, he was the CTO of a software company (now part of NASDAQ OMX) that developed and implemented technology for stock exchanges, clearing houses and banks in more than 30 countries around the world.

Jim has been involved over the past 2-3 years with SANS and OWASP on application security and secure software development. He blogs regularly about secure software development on his personal blog "Building Real Software", and at the SANS Application Security Street Fighter Blog, which he helps to manage.