TEKsystems Blockchain & Emerging Tech Enthusiast Holiday Event

Join TEKsystems tonight at Fashion Place Red Rock Brewing for their yearly holiday party! They will provide appetizers and drinks. You don't want to miss this!

One of our own, Nicholas Zeman, will be giving a presentation called High Velocity Banking: Where Banks and Blockchain Intersect.

Nicholas Bernhardt Zeman has a combined 25 years of experience in technology solutions and research in innovation and emerging technology.

After 16 years in game development working for Sony PlayStation and then Take Two Entertainment (1998-2010). During this time, he pioneered character rigging and facial animation systems for top-selling sports titles such as NBA 2K. After he left Take Two, he became a tenure-track Professor at Northern Kentucky University, writing 5 text books for his curriculum in the emergent degree program in Game Development and Design for the Media Informatics Department.

From there he began his research, interest, and eventually new career in blockchain and crypto technology, finding his way to Evernym, Inc. in 2019 as a Blockchain Engineer in the field of Decentralized Identity, using the Sovrin system of cryptographically verifiable credentials. Evernym, at the time, was the lead voice in Self-Sovereign Identity, and the architect of an award-winning system of Digital Identity with Verifiable Credentials and considered the pioneer of the Identity field.

While at Evernym he worked on key products such as Vaccine Passports and contactless travel credentials during the pandemic. When the company sold to GenDigital in 2022, he moved into digital banking at Zions Bank in Utah and is currently engaged in enterprise architecture for multiple emerging financial technologies.

He is currently working on Revenue Generation Domains such as Capital Markets, FX Trading, projects, API-based Open Banking, Financial Blockchains/ Tokenization and AI-based initiatives in all aspects of digital banking applications at Zions Bancorporation.