Ms. Meara has more than 20 years of experience in software development, systems integration, networking and security. She began her career as a software engineer with Telecom Australia (now Telstra) and then moved to the U.K. with Plessey Defense Systems, where she was a programmer and technical lead for a Message Switching System, part of a secure communications network developed by Plessey for the Australian Defense Department. Ms Meara then joined the Australian Centre for Unisys Software in Sydney, Australia, where she was the Engineering Manager responsible for PC client and database networking products. During her career at Unisys, Ms Meara chaired the International Standards Organization Remote Database Access committee, consulted on the design & implementation of an ISO standard RDA prototype at Nihon Unisys Ltd (NUL) in Tokyo, Japan, and was a member of the NIST OSI Implementers’ Workshop 1989 thru 1990, taking a leadership role in establishing the protocol enhancements for secure X.400 messaging, which were published in final form in December 1990.

In 1994, Ms. Meara joined Digital Equipment Corporation as a Director of Product Engineering in Digital’s Littleton, Massachusetts facility. Here she managed the groups responsible for software development, release & sustaining of Digital’s internetworking software products on Windows.

For the past nine years, Ms. Meara has worked as a senior security consultant for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), GTE CyberTrust, Baltimore Technologies and Betrusted, performing all aspects of customer solution deployment, from requirements gathering, system architecture and project management, to programming and systems integration. Ms. Meara has worked with major financial institutions, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank One and First Data USA. She has traveled extensively, working with customers in Brazil, Hong Kong and Europe. Her expertise covers many products and technologies, with focus always on how best to address the needs of her customers.

Ms. Meara received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.