Stephen McNair is founder and president of FTP Consulting Services, Inc. Since graduating from Texas A&M University in 1973, Mr. McNair has been involved in financial transaction processing as a vendor, user and consultant. He has been involved in OCR technology and document processing since 1978 and Image/Optical based technologies since 1981. Previous employers include Electronic Data Systems, Service Card Systems, Fort Worth National Bank, Citibank (South Dakota), N.A. and BancTec.

Mr. McNair has provided consulting services in Western Europe, Canada, Mexico and the United States. His experience includes a broad range of transaction processing applications and operations environments including the British Post Office, the Norwegian Post Giro, Banamex in Mexico City, the California Franchise Tax Board, the State of Florida Department of Revenue, Fidelity Investments, United Parcel Services, BancOne, Citibank, First Interstate Bank, JCPenney Life Insurance, the State of New York Department for Child Support and the Texas Department of Rehabilitation.

Mr. McNair has served as an expert witness on remittance processing for the IRS and TRW. He has been a guest speaker at BAI’s Image Technology in Banking Conference and an instructor on image technology at BAI’s Banking School in Madison, WI. Since 1978 he has been a member of TAWPI (The Association for Work Process Improvement). He has served as a TAWPI board member and is currently a technical advisor to the association and instructor of three TAWPI sponsored training classes - The Fundamentals of Remittance Processing, Advanced Remittance Processing and Production Dynamics. Mr. McNair is a member of AIIM (The Association for Image and Information Management) and a past president of the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter.