The course provides an understanding of electronic commerce and related architectures, protocols, and technologies. It describes the e-commerce concept, objectives, and market drivers, as well as its requirements and underpinning techniques and technologies, including the Internet, WWW, multimedia, intelligent agents, client-server, and data mining. Security in e-commerce is addressed, including types of security attacks, security mechanisms, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), firewalls, Intranets, and extranets. Implementation issues in e-commerce, including the design and management of its infrastructure and applications (ERP, CRM, and SCM), are discussed. M-commerce is addressed, electronic payment systems with their associated protocols are described, and various B2C and B2B applications are presented. Also, policy and regulatory issues in ecommerce are discussed.
Department:
Computer Science
Gene is currently a Vice President of Engineering at Totsy.com - Private Sale site focused on kids products. At Totsy.com, moms on-the-go and moms-to-be gain access to highly discounted brand-specific sales for them and the kids, ages 0-7. Prior to his current role, Gene held various technical and leadership positions at TheLadders, VitaminShoppe, Intuit, Gaiam, CMP Media, Hunter Douglas, and Deloitte Consulting. Gene has over twelve years of technology leadership, management, architecture, and software development experience in eCommerce across Retail, Direct Marketing, Job Services, Publishing, and Financial Services industries. He enjoys attending and presenting at technology events and Meetups throughout the country. On weekends and during downtime he is an avid photographer and aspiring chef. He holds both Bachelors and Masters of Science in Computer Science degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, where he has been serving as an adjunct professor since 2009.
