Cto
Toronto, Ontario, Ca
• Introduced many first to market solutions in North America and attained numerous patents. These included introducing ecommerce and internet gateways, a cloud POS integration solution (patent), leading the North American market in CHIP and Contactless based payments, a Pin on Glass solution (Patent), and security-based solutions including point to point encryption and tokenization.• Led technology and product development capabilities including software engineering, product development, data platform, infrastructure services, cyber security, project management and governance. Prioritized top revenue or efficiency initiatives, assembled teams and resources to attack and achieve objectives. Delivered capabilities to achieve annual revenue targets.• Built and assembled a world class team of 500 technology professionals including 250+ software engineers, 100+ infrastructure engineers/support and 35 cyber security professionals and 20+ product managers. Drove innovation that defined the technology and product organization culture. Retained, developed and promoted talent and attained attrition rate below 12%.• Modernized payments platform including the core authorization engine, back-end billing and funding platform, ecommerce payments gateway (ongoing evolution and expansion), internet payments gateway (ongoing evolution), and many other platforms. Phased in by agile successive delivery intervals and executed on time and within budget.• Established a 3-year rolling roadmap for technology and managed a budget of $125,000,000/year. Collaborated with technology senior leaders on investment needed to maintain leadership, reduce risk, modernize platforms and leverage data. Influenced board members to approve investments needed to continue dominance in Canada.