After years of dreaming about starting my own venture, I finally found the perfect business partner to make it happen. Together, we focus on three core areas:Leadership – Everything begins with discovery. We ask a lot of questions, dig deep, and tailor our approach to help you lead well and grow your business. With a wide range of tools and strategies, we offer leadership support that meets your unique needs.People – Traditionally called a fractional CTO role, we like to take it a step further. We jump into your journey, providing clarity and momentum to help you achieve your goals, whether it's navigating transitions or scaling up.Tech – We didn’t start out as builders, but when our partners needed solutions, we stepped up. When the opportunity is right, we go beyond just talking strategy—we partner with you to build the dream.This journey has been about helping businesses grow, adapt, and thrive, and it's been an incredible ride so far. Just gettin' started 🚀

Built the best team I've ever had the pleasure of working with! Tilled's payfac-as-a-service offering enables software parters to scale up from taking their first $1 to supporting hundreds of merchants and millions of $s in days, not weeks. We did this by offering an incredible API-first solution with seamless onboarding, reporting and delightfully crafted solutions. Parters are able to realize meaningful revenue, take full control of their merchants' experience and retain flexibility to build custom solutions as needed. Scaled a platform from its very first production $1 to 👀 (still confidential)Certified with major processors in record timeEstablished security as first-class citizen achieving and maintaining PCI Level 1 compliance while handling the most sensitive payment data.

Employee #3. Responsible for all aspects of the technology platform, primarily building a team that could build, test, deploy and scale a category-defining solution - payfac-as-a-service. We managed to successfully break "rule #1" and rewrote the entire platform from scratch.

Responsible for building the platform team that oversaw scaling Shipt's technology and processes to support expansion across the United States. In a little over 3 years, Shipt went from a Birmingham centric startup to serving thousands of members and shoppers across the United States. * Acquired by Target in Dec 2017

Founding member of platform engineering at Shipt. We support all aspects of Shipt's technology. Scaling applications to support massive business growth has been a fun and rewarding challenge. In addition to the technology challenges, we've grown the people side of platform engineering from a solo operation to 4 teams and 16 engineers in less than 2 years. Platform teams:* Devops* Site Reliability* DBA * Security

Responsible for all production systems, technical support and data conversion The infrastructure team is responsible for building the path to production, leveraging the best in class tools for deployment, compliance (PCI), monitoring and provisioning.The production support team is responsible for all escalated support tickets and handles on-call responsibilities for all production applications.•The data conversion team provides new customers with a rich data experience, mapping their existing data from any number of sources into our market leading operational or accounting systems.Working with our awesome team, I helped re-imagine what monitoring means at Daxko. I championed tools that we use to drive daily insight and ultimately deliver better results. We began with extremely limited real-time insight and now leverage best in class tools (Graphite, Kibana, Logstash, New Relic) to measure over 19,000 data points every minute.

Implemented service level agreements that exceeded customer expectations and decreased case backlog by 300%.Hired, trained and lead team of 5 SQL database engineers and .Net maintenance developers.Implemented and improved on call support to ensure uptime needs were met for all products.

Hired, trained and lead teams of up to 12 customer support analysts, providing top notch support for both emerging and flagship products.Revitalized the Advantage Priority customer support program serving premium customer accounts.Earned 5 promotions in 4 years, moving from individual contributor to team leader.

Managed all major events including indoor and outdoor concerts, basketball and baseball games at Clemson University.Responsible for third party vendors, student staff and promotional activity.