Principal Walt Smith has served as Chief Architect of the Federal Reserve System, CTO at a technology startup, and SVP of Engineering at a world-wide consulting firm serving Fortune 100 companies. He is recognized as an Expert in his field and has also acted as CTO for several organizations. Walt holds a US Patent for distributed data services and brings deep expertise in enterprise architecture, legacy system modernization, and technology due diligence, along with vendor product selection across financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics, network, infrastructure, and hosting.