Gilles Garon has over 18 years of experience in smart cards. During the past 12 years Gilles Garon Consultant Limited has helped plan contact and contactless smart card systems, and developed smart card system specifications for many customers. Gilles Garon has expertise in operating environments such as Java Card, OpenCard and PCSC, and application specifications including EMV and stored value cards.

Gilles Garon Consultants Ltd. offers the following smart card consulting services:

• Analysis of business and security requirements

• Development of smart card business cases

• Development of cost/benefit analysis models

• Development of smart card infrastructure and security architecture

• Development of smart card system specifications

• Development of application specifications

• Smart card products selection and integration

• Smart card system security evaluations and end-to-end risk analysis

• Smart card and smart card security training