Solutions Architect/Co-Founder
Plano, Texas, Us
Research, Development, and Operations of payments play designed to run in existing payments infrastructure while adding significant new touchpoints between consumers, brands, and merchants. Member of founding team since before LLC founded. Joined team full time in March, 2014. Prior contributed remotely primarily in IP and software and deployment processes.Responsibilities:2009-2018 Intellectual Property Lead preparing materials for submission to IP counsel for patents, marks, and supported application and prosecution leading to two successful patents and multiple registered marks.2009-2014 R&D on potential deployment strategies and development processes that would support especially third-party due diligence and certification. First such cert was PCI DSS Level 1 Report on Compliance in 2014 based on AWS deployment.2015-2017 DevOps/CIO focused on DevOps and compliance (PCI DSS) focus on designing in-cloud deployment approach and process including orchestration of multiple instances via Puppet and compliance discussions with PCI DSS QSAs across 2015-2019 (including Reports on Compliance issued each year) and information security reviews with half dozen well-recognized large financial institution clients. Led group as CIO from 2016-2017 then helped hire replacement so I could focus on sales/solution engineering and architecture. Continued consultative support for Tech Ops after 2017.2017-2018 Solution Architect focus on designing specific solutions for integration with clients including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mastercard, Deutsche Bank, and others. Designed APIs that were RESTful for requesting transmission of payments via our COIN platform to specifically PayPal and Alipay. Included sales engineering support activities for active sales and support of repeated, extensive vendor relationship management interactions including providing the full technical leadership for the successful Deutsche Bank VRM process.