Garland Favorito: Georgia Elections

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Garland Favorito is a career Information Technology professional with over 40 years of experience. He devoted much of his career to computer programming, business systems analysis, data administration, internet systems design and architecture as well as systems development methodology. 

He is co-founder of Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA). Garland did volunteer research into electronic voting systems. He also serves as a volunteer Elections Director for the Constitution Party of Georgia. 

As a systems development methodologist, he developed and enhanced full life cycle methodologies needed by large scale corporations to implement mission critical application systems. These methodologies include systems analysis, database design, re-engineering, application development, structured testing, auditing measures, quality assurance and many other time-tested procedures. The methodology products he developed or enhanced were marketed to large corporations and top national accounting firms who provided the methodologies with their branding to their customers during consulting engagements.

Mr. Favorito also consulted nationally in all aspects of large-scale systems development. His industry experience includes banking, financial systems, health care, accounting, manufacturing, inventory, purchasing, retailing, utilities, telecommunications, insurance, government, software development and the residential service industry.

For the last 13 years of his professional career, he served as a systems analyst to develop and enhance online banking applications for corporate, retail and small business transaction systems at a leading financial institution. His work further entailed integration with the institution’s online identity management system, which he helped design, develop and integrate to protect the financial transactions of 1.5 million total customers using those systems.

The Online Identity Management system successfully prevented identity theft from cyber intrusion ensuring all online financial transactions are properly authorized. Mr Favorito’s 13-year professional career in this cybersecurity discipline includes multi-factor authentication, silent mode data collection, software token messaging, out of band authentication, challenge response subsystems, encryption key authorization and software firewall architecture.