Francis Christian Contactless Smartcard Consultant Mr. Christian has over 35 year of experience designing, developing, and testing electronic systems ranging from complex telemetry systems for space crafts to single chip computer that are used in smart cards. Mr. Christian has become an expert in the field of contactless smart card technology, and as such he is serving on the National Committee for Information Technology Standards(NCITS). The B10.5 is the subcommittee for contactless smart card standards and Mr. Christian is the Vice-Chairman of that committee.

He has also been the USA delegate to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 WG8 International Contactless Smart Card Standards Group for the past four years. The uniqueness of the contactless technology has made it necessary to understand technology such as RF spectrum, digital communication, and microprocessors.

In the last five years he has had over ten technical articles published in various trade journals such as Asian Electronics Engineer, Card Manufacturing, and Mass Transit. Articles were also published in the following Card Conference Proceedings: CardTech/SecurTech, Smart Card, Carte, Australia Cards, and Brazil Cards.

Mr. Christian has presented technical papers on contactless smartcards circuits for the transportation and financial industry at all of the major smartcard conferences in USA, Europe, Brazil, and Australia.

As a member of the Smart Card Forum's Technology and Transportation work groups, he has been able to share his knowledge and help promote the contactless smart card in the card industry. Mr. Christian has taught a contactless smart card course at several Smart Card Forum meetings. Also he is often asked to give updates on the status of the ISO14443 contactless card standard at the Smart Card Forum.

Mr. Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University. While working full time at Motorola Government Electronics he earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University.