♣ Co-founded, envisioned, architected, built and operationalized next generation, secure, cloud based banking and payments processing platform.♣ Managed all aspects of software development and operations including architecture, product management, operations, quality assurance and documentation.♣ Assembled a team and grew it to over 100+ staff in both local and outsourced environments.♣ Acted as Chief Security Officer and maintained the highest level of security and adherence to PCI (Level 1), SSAE 16, HIPAA, BSA/AML regulations through the implementation and regular auditing of platform and processes.♣ Drove innovation and new opportunities through the regular development of new ideas and strategies for the payment platform including design, prototyping, implementation, and testing.♣ Consistently create positive customer experiences and retention by gathering customer feedback and suggestions to be utilized in new updates or products.♣ Acquired hands-on experience and expertise within the payment industry including credit cards, checks, and wires.♣ Processed over $5B in transactions while managing over $250M of average daily balances.Acquired by Priority Technology Holdings, Inc (PRTH)https://prth.com/ir-news-detail/?id_news=8396

As the Vice President of Engineering and Operations I possessed full accountability for the success of all core software development and infrastructure operations. I also consistently mitigated any obstacles in operations through the rollout and oversight of an automated monitoring systems and a 24/7 response team.My accomplishments include:● Onboarding off-shore and onshore engineering staff to be utilized during the development of architecture for next generation ACH and payment processing solutions.● Launching new payment solutions which processed $3B+ in payments, enhanced cost savings, and broke new ground through the acquisition of positions in new verticals.● Directly leading the migration of the entire infrastructure into the much more efficient Amazon EC2 which resulted in the reduction of maintenance costs by 50% and significant improvements in uptime and backup capabilities.

In this position, I led a team of engineers during the architecture and implementation of the Lead Management Platform while working with product management and business teams to find areas of monetization.Achievements completed in this position include:● Resolving latency related issues involving display advertising by increasing awareness of the issue and creating effective solutions for monitoring and reporting issues.● Directing the migration of the legacy Lead Management Platform into a more efficient Yahoo technical stack while resolving security issues and ensuring the continuation of $22M in orders.● Assembling an external team of contractors to develop a credit card portal site which assisted users in locating credit opportunities and completing pre-qualification. This portal site was created in conjunction with an external credit bureau to ensure maximum security.

As the lead architect, developer and manager in the platform-engineering group, responsible for developing new software solutions, enhance and support existing applications to manage on line marketing campaign (primarily email marketing campaigns). Platform engineering developers were responsible for developing core technology components to manage online marketing campaigns. Worked with product management to define product roadmap for the organization. Worked with operations team to determine the deployment infrastructure of applications. Recruited and managed team of highly motivated developers to produce world-class applications.

Joined the company when it was an early stage startup and worked in a very high paced environment to design and develop different applications to manage email marketing campaigns. As the company grew, adopted industry standard software development processes to streamline software development and deployment. These included code reviews, build management unit testing and coding guidelines.