Bart leads the technical aspect of Cisco's SecureX Framework for Compliance and more specifically; Payment Card Industry (PCI) initiatives including Cisco's Validated Designs for PCI compliance. He has over sixteen years of solution architecture and design experience. Bart leads Cisco's involvement with the National Retail Federation's Association for Retail Technology Standards Committee (ARTS) as vice chair of the technical committee and a member of the ARTS board. Prior to Cisco, Bart worked as the Network Architect at Safeway, Inc.