CTO at PhoneFactor
Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Current
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- Board Member at PhoneFactor
- CTO at PhoneFactor
- Past
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- Board Member at Lutheran High School of Kansas City
- Director, Network Architecture at Sprint
- President at Midwest Internet Services
- Education
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- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Lutheran High School of Kansas City
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Steve Dispensa’s Summary
Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of PhoneFactor (formerly Positive Networks), the industry's leading tokenless two-factor authentication system. I have lead system architecture and product design since the company's inception in 2001. Also responsible for technical operations, customer service and support, and sales engineering.
Steve Dispensa’s Specialties:
Network engineering, network protocol development, driver development, system architecture, data security
Steve Dispensa’s Experience
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Board Member
PhoneFactor
(Computer & Network Security industry)
April 2001 — Present (8 years 4 months)
I have served on the Board of Directors of PhoneFactor (formerly Positive Networks) since the company's inception.
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CTO
PhoneFactor
(Computer & Network Security industry)
April 2001 — Present (8 years 4 months)
Chief Technology Officer, responsible for product development and service operations
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Board Member
Lutheran High School of Kansas City
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Director, Network Architecture
Sprint
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)
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President
Midwest Internet Services
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 1995 — January 2000 (4 years 8 months)
Steve Dispensa’s Education
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University of Missouri-Kansas City
BLA , Medicine, Computer Science , 1995 — 2000
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Lutheran High School of Kansas City
Additional Information
Steve Dispensa’s Websites:
Steve Dispensa’s Interests:
Computers and data communications, data security, software development, music, classics, philosophy
Steve Dispensa’s Groups:
PhoneFactor, Positive Networks
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The Original Cisco CCIE Group -
Information Security Community (30,000+ Members) -
SaaS Security Experts -
The Brand Show
Steve Dispensa’s Honors:
CCIE #5444 (Routing & Switching, with Security re-certifications)
Microsoft MVP (Driver Development), 2003-2007
A growing list of US Patents (7 issued, 7 pending, at last count)
