RFID for Dummies Ebook
About the Author
As you may have guessed by the dangling participles and misused gerunds, this is the first book by Patrick J. Sweeney II (despite Amazon’s link to books on gynecology by an author of the same name). When not negotiating with his editor to push back book deadlines, he leads ODIN technologies as President and CEO.
ODIN technologies is a global RFID software and services company focusing on RFID infrastructure. Mr. Sweeney is well recognized as a visionary in the RFID industry with several RFID patents in various stages of approval. He has appeared in such publications as CIO Magazine, The Washington Post, Fortune magazine, Internet Week, and many others. He has been interviewed by ABC news and CNN, among others, and is a frequent speaker worldwide on all topics relating to RFID. He is also an active member of several standards bodies and regulatory groups helping to shape the evolution of the RFID
industry.
Mr. Sweeney is a second-generation IT professional; his father was one of the first employees at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where “Pops” entertained him and his brother on weekends by teaching them to read punch cards and other useful skills. Mr. Sweeney took that genetic proclivity toward data centers and started a successful, secure managed hosting company in the late 1990s, which he later sold. His brother took that same early training and started XS Speed Choppers, making custom motorcycles — go figure.
Mr. Sweeney finished second in the 1996 Olympic trials in the single scull, is an avid outdoorsman, enjoys helping other entrepreneurs, and is passionate about various Irish causes. He is a board member of Trinity College business school in Dublin, Ireland, and an Alumni Board member at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He graduated from Darden and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire.
He is blessed with a great family—wife Christen, daughter Shannon, son P.J., and three dogs. They live in Middleburg, Virginia, in a house full of useless RFID gadgets.
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