About the Authors

Joseph J. Bambara, CIPP/US, is an attorney/technologist. As an attorney with a private practice, he has counseled affiliate marketing, media, and technology firms in software and data licensing agreements, intellectual property, privacy, data security, and cybersecurity as well as analyzing the legal implications of new technologies like blockchain and smart contracts. As technologist/founder of UCNY, Inc., his experience includes 30 years of implementing computing and communications architecture for Wall Street, media and law enforcement including mobile, enterprise, database, cybersecurity, and most recently IoT and blockchain. He has taught courses in computing at CCNY School of Engineering in New York. He is the author of more than 10 internationally published books on software development covering Java, SQL, and related technologies for McGraw-Hill. As lecturer and co-chairman of the New York County Lawyers Association Law and Technology Group, he presents frequently on law and technology. He has a juris doctorate in law and a master’s degree in computer science.

Paul R. Allen is a director and product owner at Enterprise Engineering, Inc. Paul has been advising on, architecting, and developing applications systems for over 25 years. During this time, he has performed many strategic assessments of IT organizations, infrastructures, software development processes, and application architectures and helped companies and teams evaluate alternative technologies and products. He has developed systems for the financial, brokerage, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries, specializing in web-based, object-oriented technology and is now doing the same in the exciting world of blockchain, IoT, and smart contracts. He has taught numerous courses in computing at Columbia University in New York. He has authored more than a dozen books, including OCM Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect Exam Guide (Oracle Press, 2014), Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Study Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2007), J2EE Unleashed (SAMS, 2001), SQL Server Developer’s Guide (IDG, 2000), Informix: Universal Data Option (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and PowerBuilder: A Guide to Developing Client/Server Applications (McGraw-Hill, 1995). Paul has also given presentations on computing topics in cities around the globe, including London, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Washington, D.C., Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm.