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Florida, United States

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

• equipifi is an early stage, first to market, well-funded series A SaaS FinTech startup with incredible sales traction. Servicing US Credit Unions and Banks with a white labeled solution tightly integrated into their.
• Key contributor as a foremost Subject Matter Expert in post-purchase debit BNPL.
• Owned strategic partnership discovery, onboarding, relationships for PSCU, SWBC, CO-OP, FIS, MAP, ENVISANT, MERIDIANLINK, FISERV, JACK HENRY, Q2, ALKAMI, DNA…
• Led a GTM sales strategy that consummated ≈40 multiyear agreements with innovative forward-thinking US based financial institutions, representing millions of consumer checking accounts.
• Acting corporate evangelist at in person speaking engagements & events, tasked with presenting our value proposition to the leadership stakeholders of hundreds of FI’s.
• Provided strategic corporate and product guidance to ensure product market fit, hypothesis validation, and revenue goals.

• Participating as a senior technologist and product specialist for a revenue generating private mid-stage consultancy. One of ≈20 handpicked senior level executives that currently provides technology solutions to a.
• Propose monetization opportunities using while label SaaS platforms in micro-lending, POS origination, payments, digital borrower experiences, customer portals, loan portfolio cross-selling opportunities, loan servicing.
• Participate in NPV analysis, viability, and feasibility of proposed opportunities.
• Architect a FinTech innovation lab consisting of product and engineering superstars to execute and build MVP’s for one or many of the opportunities.
• Contribute to R&D, vendor management, discovery, recruiting efforts, strategic partnerships and customer adoption efforts.
• Guidance on payments acceptance for ACH, debit, credit, installments & crypto.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Leading the cutting-edge Buy Now, Pay Later technology & business development strategy to enable 1000’s of financial institutions to compete for retail and e-commerce spend, retain interchange, maintain loyalty, and.
• Authored the innovative “post-purchase” SaaS bank-backed BNPL full product & technology scope for the Debit & Credit Lines of Business.
• Managed the budget, resources, and team of ≈100 members within a matrix.
• Responsible for defining product market fit.
• Owned the customer experience, UI & UX for initiatives for web and mobile.
• Developed the Origination, Decisioning & Servicing SaaS platforms.

• ShipHalo is challenging brick-and-mortar status quo and delivering a technology first hyper-growth enterprise that innovates and automates shipping services. A private equity, well-funded eCommerce fulfillment.
• Spearheaded all recruiting, technology, and product development initiatives.
• Worked intimately with ownership and the board to create the pitch deck, value proposition, mission statement and market differentiators.
• Crafted the competitive market viability and feasibility study.
• Defined and validated both short-term technology and long-term software development strategies, utilizing the imposed initial ≈$2M annual budget.
• Created and vetted the initial 15+ person engineering and product team architecture using an innovative lean-startup multidisciplinary hybrid on-premises / nearshore distributed agile delivery model.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Created a specialized superstar team of 24 direct reports for an 800+ person strong specialty finance hybrid FinTech lender with gross revenues of 2.5B+ annually. Personally, handpicking and recruiting the talent and.
• Microlending product visionary of the BNPL installments POS Patient Lending platform, connecting patients of ASC's and Hospitals to over 1100 participating banks.
• Managed a $3.5M annual budget for an independent innovation lab.
• Executed corporate digital transformation vision directly with the CEO / CTO.
• Demonstrated products via live 400+ in-person seminars to create adoption.
• Utilized a skunk works rapid product development team to build the platform in house, instead of buying a Commercial Off The Shelf product, saved ≈$69M.

• NetWeb was formed in 1999 with a mission to foster and incubate SMB's by offering custom managed SaaS products in lieu of equity. The IT backbone was provided allowing customers to focus on the marketing and sales.
• Managed all high-level department heads and business operations.
• Rubber stamped all IT infrastructure decisions concept to completion.
• Incubated several startups with recurring revenue, achieving profitable exits.
• Formulated and built IT applications, for select fortune 500 enterprises, who preferred outsourced SaaS solutions over in-house software development.

• I co-founded GPS Web Tracking in 2008 from a concept to supply a wide variety of GPS related products and services in an emerging GPS market. I made key executive level decisions in all aspects of the business, raised.
• Conceptualized and authored the web-based platform to give users access to a GPS fleet tracking system through a secure internet portal.
• Researched, designed, and governed the implementation of the entire GPS backend application from cellular protocol to hardware devices.
• Led product strategy and customer experience initiatives.
• Supported entire business progression & tailored customer onboarding efforts.
• Provided overall IT guidance for infrastructure requirements, hardware integration, satellite & cellular connectivity protocols and OTA firmware updates.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Formed a strategic partnership to build a ground up applicant tracking and management system for VMware's campus relations department. The platform involved a collaborative group of cross-functional professionals to.
• Determined both the viability and feasibility of the opportunity.
• Hired and managed the specialized team from discovery to deployment.
• Licensed the intellectual property, which was exclusively used for 2.5 years in production and subsequently absorbed by VMware internally.

• The challenge in 2000 was to provide a cost-effective, secure, long-term archiving solution for companies that needed to convert, store, access and manage digital documents. Scan Pros image archiving service.
• Scan Pros represents a cutting-edge FTM offering I co-conceptualized in 2001.
• Chief product architect of a proprietary cloud-based document mgmt. system.
• Wrote original compression algorithm, OCR engine & data warehouse model.
• Led the web “CX” through a formalized bias free design thinking process.
• Identified key opportunities & consummated strategic fortune 500 partnerships.

Watersound, Florida, US

• Acting head of technology for a South Florida residential and commercial real estate satellite office that supported ≈100 persons.
• Presented, built, sold & managed a SaaS templatized Multiple Listing Service web product for real estate agents from scratch, which allowed agents to market new listings and provide search functionality to prospective.
• Increased revenue with value added managed email, backup and websites.
• Planned & setup a training & support service help desk, boosting productivity.
• Transformed all physical documents to digital & architected a private cloud.
• Integrated a customized eCommerce invoicing system to accept monthly recurring credit card payments, stimulating a digital payments transformation.

Master Design Thinking, Executive Management

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration Information Systems (Bsba-Ist), Mis