David Snyder is a Technology Manager who figures out how to get things to work for information-intensive industries (like electronic payments, health care, and clean technology), resulting in new product launches, global expansion, and process improvement. He has worked as a staff member, and as a consultant for, both large and small organizations in the above industries. He has an MBA and is a California-registered engineer.
The 42TEK consultancy is a way for Mr. Snyder to make his services available in diverse industries, always with an eye toward bringing together business and technical perspectives to provide solutions. His strengths are in
- interpreting technical matters for business people
- communicating business requirements to technical people
- driving the programs and projects that implement an organization's vision.
At Kaiser, which is one of the largest health insurance plans and providers of health care services, Mr. Snyder helped enhance the credit card systems that handle millions of transactions each year. During an earlier assignment at Kaiser, he helped pioneer a unique combined medical identification card and private label credit card. Earlier in life, he worked as a Respiratory Therapist in Intensive Care Units, so working on business projects for a health care provider is in some ways like "coming home." He is currently pursuing interests in medical device connectivity, electronic medical records, and medical billing issues.
At Apple, Mr. Snyder established and maintained relationships with banks providing credit card merchant accounts, guided payments projects supporting the global expansion of iTunes and Apple's Online and Retail stores, and led company-wide efforts to achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Originally trained as a civil engineer, Mr. Snyder worked extensively in the areas of environmental impact assessment, energy facilities planning, hazardous materials management, and contaminated site investigation and cleanup. However, after deciding to pursue an interest in the Internet, he shifted to working on e-commerce in the credit card industry, where he worked at one of the largest transaction processors (First Data), as well as large merchants (Apple and Kaiser Permanente) and a manufacturer of point of sale terminal equipment for "contactless" or "NFC" payments that depend on radio frequency identification chips, instead of magnetic stripes on credit cards (ViVOTech).
The exploding interest in clean and green technologies that leverage advances in information technology has opened an opportunity for Mr. Snyder to use his environmental engineering and information technology skills to work on a new range of opportunities.