Fintech payments product strategy and vision expert delivering cost savings & proficient payment solutions.- Owned payments strategy, prioritized payments initiatives and aligned with TrueAccord priorities.- Lead payments cost-savings initiatives, including pricing negotiations and transaction optimization. - Reduced payment costs by 25 basis points per transaction.- Launched a stand-alone payment processing platform in order to process all TrueAccord payments through a single payment solution.- Built business case for, implemented and managed Payments Operations team.- Collaborated across multiple teams including legal, finance, UX and engineering.

- Responsible for all global and platform payment initiatives, including association compliance, strategy, and stakeholder management.- Negotiated EU acquiring services and North American direct processing with acquirers.- Owned NA, EU & LATAM payment products and payment features including Level 2/3, location based routing, installments, alternative payments and $0 auth optimization.- Provided strategic direction to Expedia's white label brand, VRBO and Expedia.com. This included consulting on global payment strategies, providing justification for business cases to address payment needs and managing their payment success by increasing approval rates by 300 bps.

Member of the Amazon Global Payments team and was responsible for global In-Person payment methods which include Walk-in, COD and Convenience Store payments. I also manage the Japanese credit card processing relationships. Responsibilities for these include managing vendor relationships for each payment method, recognition and classification of key product features, outlining business ideas and agendas while striving to meet business and financial objectives and identifying the future direction for In-Person payments. Developed and implemented cross-category marketing plans for payment methods on Amazon.com which resulted in a 3X usage increase for lower cost payment methods.

Integral part of public start-up, processing online credit card payments for Canadian/US businesses. Negotiated and maintained successful partnerships with ClearCommerce, Moneris US, TheBancorp, Amex, and BCE\Emergis. Developed product offering and pricing, maintained and developed partnerships with 3rd party hosting products, e-commerce, Internet security, and WAP application vendors. Managed add-on product offerings; developed presentations of complex e-business solutions to middle management and executive level contacts. Other responsibilities included – media spokesman and technical support. Approved all technical designs for internal and external systems. Active member of a corporate e-business leadership group and led e-commerce/Internet security seminars. Developed and managed website and database using IIS, ASP and SQL Server, enabling electronic merchant sign-up, transaction reporting, and billing.