George "Bo" Kohut Detail
Business
TrxServices sold to private company 12/2017
Co-founder and Partner at Solving Digital 01/2017
PaybyTouch Payment Solutions sold to public company Planet Payment and renamed back to IPay 04/2008
Founder and CxO of TrxServices 06/2006
Renamed IPay to PaybyTouch Payment Solutions 06/2005
Intercept Payment Solutions sold to private company PaybyTouch and renamed to IPay 03/2004
Electronic Payment Exchange sold to public company Intercept and renamed to Intercept Payment Solutions 05/2002
Co-founder of Electronic Payment Exchange 03/1999
Electronic Check Services 09/1997, later restructured to EPX
Achievements
Architected and developed 24/7/365 mission critical core OLTP server processes
Architected and developed stateful batch file processing system as an extension utilizing the existing core OLTP server processes
Architected and developed report data delivery system as an enhancement to the batch file processing system
Architected a real-time transaction monitoring system that provided near real-time alerting along with html pages containing near real-time transaction summary analysis
Developed, coded, tested, and implemented the first publicly exposed tokenization (GUID) algorithm for a payments system in 1998
Developed, coded, and installed FBI Brady Bill National Instant Crime Check System (NICS) application in cooperation with SAIC and FBI
Expertise
Electronic payments industry policy and procedures
Network communications
Financial processing institutions protocols
Network, computer, and data security
Client/Server architecture, design, communication, and development
Zero downtime scalable technology architecture, design and development
System and software design for 24/7/365 availability
Security implementations involving physical and logical in all designs
Security concepts, audits, PCI-DSS compliance
Virtualization
Skills
Superior analytical and organization
Superior critical thinking
Superior awareness of the big picture
Strong research ability
Software analysis / Network protocol analysis / Reverse engineering
Ability to handle and organize multiple projects
History of both independent and team development
Ability to interact with all skill levels
Maintains high level of knowledge relative to new technologies and methodologies
History of educating personnel about complex processes
Self-starter with proven initiative on multiple long range projects
Responsibilities
All hardware within the entire non-production and production environments
All software within the entire non-production and production environments
Primary software systems engineer for all financial networks integration
Core OLTP system diagrams
Core OLTP system API technical comprehension
Production, UAT, QA, and DEV OLTP system environments
Production, UAT, QA, and DEV OLTP system implementations
OLTP system real-time monitoring
Scrum, Agile, DevOps, SecOps, ALM software administrator
Primary Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) member
New technology prototyping
Continuous availability
Technical writing
Methodologies
Micro Services
Multi process/thread
Zero Trust
Enterprise Service Bus (Share messages, not memory)
Continuous Integration / Agile / Scrum
Enterprise logging
Enterprise LAN/WAN design, implementation, logical/physical
Virtualization architecture
Bare Metal
Enterprise SaaS
Hardware
DELL x86/x64
HP-Compaq x86/x64
IBM x86
Alteon
Cisco
Equalogic
Foundry
Netgear
Linksys
SonicWall
NetApp
IP Angel
HAI Omni Pro IIe
Ingrian
IPhone
BlackBerry
Android
Sprint / Nextel
APC
TED
Software
Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/2003/2008 R2/Vista/7/8.1/10/2016
Redhat/Suse/Mandrake/Fedora/Ubuntu/Freespire/CentOS/Mint
FreeBSD
Firefox/IE/Netscape/Opera/Chrome
G Suite for Business Administration
Microsoft Office Word/Powerpoint/Excel/Access/Visio/Project
OpenOffice Writer/Draw/Calc
MsSql 6.5/7/2000/2005
Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g
MySql 4.x/5.x/8.x
MySql Monitor
SQLite
PacketGeneral
Firebird
Checkpoint
IPCop
Blackice / ZoneAlarm / Sygate
VMware Workstation/GSX/Server/ESX/ESXi
RDP / VNC / TightVNC / Hummingbird / PCAnywhere / Remote Administrator / Putty
MsVC / VB / C#
MS VS 2003/2005/2008/2010/2012/2015
Mono
Golang
Borland Visual C++
Scripting MSDOS / Visual Basic / WScript
PERL
Intel Vtune/Compiler
GCC / MingGw
Cygwin
Assembly FASM / MASM / NASM / TASM
Borland PASCAL / Microfocus COBOL
Kylix Enterprise
Eclipse
KBasic
RealBasic
Filezilla client/server
Sysinternals / Winternals
WireShark / Netstumbler / Airsnort / NetWitness
Microsoft Windows Debugger / Windasm / SoftIce / Ollydbg / IDA Pro / Syser
Perforce / Subversion / Visual Source Safe
nUnit / Watin
ThoughtWorks.Net Continuous Integration CruiseControl
Nant / MsBuild
NCover / NCover Explorer / Sourcemonitor / NDoc
FxCop / StyleCop
CLRProfiler
Litestep
Analog
NTop
NST Toolkit
Nessus
Notepad++
Winmerge
MSMQ / AMQP / 0MQ
Syslog client/server
Syslog-Ng
OSSEC
Cacti
Confluence / Jira
Embarcadero / PLSQL Developer / TOAD
IPSwitch
hMailServer
Thunderbird
Wink
HAI Dealer PC Access
HAI Web-Link II
Zoneminder
Freenas
WireShark
NetWitness
Sophos
Symantec
Avast
Protocols
Application
HTTP
FTP
SSH
SFTP
SCP
SNMP
SMTP
SSL
SNTP
Data
SOAP
REST
JSON
XML
Encryption
AES
DES
Blowfish
PGP
RC 4 / 5
Twofish
Financial
ISO8583 Visa / Mastercard / Discover / American Express
TrxServices
Tsys
PaymenTech
Equifax
FirstData
Ofac
Vital
NOVA
E4X
JetPay
PlanetPayment
China CUPS
Global
ACH
EPX
Network
TCP
UDP
Travel
Global International
U.S. Domestic
Education
BS, Computer Information Systems
Goldey-Beacom College
3.58 GPA
Interests
Home automation
Open source alternatives
Cybersecurity
Physical Security
Logical Security
Metal detecting / Relic hunting
Kayaking
Nature Photography
Cooking
Gardening