Peter Winer

Peter Winer is the lead partner at Big Chief Partners, and founded the company in 1990. He specializes in offering strategic advice, research and software development for organizations that want to capitalize on RFID technology. He manages all technical, strategic and business evaluation projects, and is the lead developer for the company's software intellectual property.

Peter is also a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars, focusing on identification technologies, mobile payments, infrastructure and security.  has recently Chaired a number of RFID-specific Conferences, designing content to reflect the latest issues of interest, bought together speakers, and presented on a variety of topics. He is on the Advisory Board for a number of RFID startup ventures, and provides advice to companies in the US and Europe.

Peter was the principal architect of the WebLink platform developed for Philips Semiconductors. This platform employs various types of RFID tags and readers to support open multi-vendor consumer applications including secure authentication, online gaming, online music vending and other e-commerce applications. The WebLink platform is built on Big Chief s intellectual property for leveraging Internet software development. With a mixture of client-side and server-side components, this reusable Internet technology reduces development time and provides increased flexibility by separating appearance and brand from technology using XML and XSL-T. These components are platform independent and support all client and server platforms.

In the early 1990s, Peter developed cross platform technology allowing common source code to implement applications on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. This technology was licensed to US West Communications in 1990, Teton Data Systems in 1992 and Apple Computer in 1993. It became the basis for several successful software products. Peter is the author of Big Chief s system for managing dynamic graphic layouts independent of screen resolution. He developed this system over a period of 8 years and was awarded a US Patent in August 1998. This technology has formed the basis of a number of software applications built by the Big Chief Partners team.

A Silicon Valley resident since 1983, Peter's background includes previous experience as Vice President of Product Development at Symantec Corporation. He was also a founder of Living Videotext, Inc., where he was one of the earliest developers for the Macintosh computer. In the early 1980s, he was a lead programmer developing the CompuServe Information Service, the original online consumer network.

Peter works with clients in the United States and Europe.

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