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Detroit, Mi, Us

Autobooks is a small business payment and accounting platform integrated within a financial institution's digital banking experience.With Autobooks, a bank or credit union can provide essential back-office services to their business customers, becoming a digital destination for ecommerce. As a payment facilitator, we help bring treasury & cash-management services down market, to the customers who need it most - small businesses.Businesses can now upgrade their basic checking account to easily send invoices and get paid online, with real-time reporting, budgets, income statements and balance sheets. Banks in turn increase primacy, growing deposits and non-interest income - finally being able to provide services to small/micro businesses, profitably, and at scale.As of 2024, Autobooks is integrated into more than 1,000 financial institutions, serving 250,000 SMBs.

Stand Up Detroit is a group of investors born and raised in the metro-Detroit area, taking both an active and limited partner approach to investments ranging from Private Equity funds to start-up and early-stage high-growth companies.At our core we’re entrepreneurs and action oriented operators. We love getting our hands dirty with like cultured Founders and Executives. Our goal is to support high-performing teams with compelling ideas and disruptive companies that match our culture and inject growth capital with well proven strategies to increase value for all stakeholders. www.standupdetroit.co

Troy, Michigan, Us

BluePay, a portfolio company of TA Associates, has acquired Billhighway. Press Release: https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/bluepay-buys-billhighway/

Troy, Michigan, Us

As Chief Technology Officer I helped lead the organization through several stages of growth; from designing, building and managing the platform architecture and infrastructure during our start-up years through commercialization, partnerships and business development necessary to support significant year-over-year growth. We successfully expanded the business model internationally, serving millions of users and processing billions of dollars with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47.88% over 10 years. All without raising a single dollar in venture capital!At Billhighway, we built a unique [patent-pending] payments platform that was at the forefront of innovation for the markets we served, from electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) to payment aggregation, straight through processing, Payment Facilitator/PayFac, lockbox automation, prepaid card program management and mobile fundraising. Our holistic approach and tailored omni-channel solutions have helped nonprofit organizations modernize their back-office to compete in the 21st century.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

I joined Great Lakes Strategies (GLS), then a very entrepreneurial HR company - in a support capacity primarily serving the new-business development group. In 1999, I transferred into the Information Technology group as a network engineer helping to support it's infrastructure group and datacenters continue its 30% annual growth. Migrated the business from token ring -> ethernet, T1 to fiber and while managing network equipment, switches, firewalls, SANs and servers.In 2000 I transferred into the software development group building annual open enrollment systems for large clients (10-50k employees). My last two years were spent working within a small R&D group building the companies’ future flagship HRIS application - leveraging .net, c#, SQL, XML & dcom.GLS was acquired by Ceridian in 2002.

I started working with this company right out of school. I served as a quality control engineer managing product quality, scrap rate, productivity and internal effeciencies using Lotus 1-2-3 (ha) and SPC data.While I was there, we grew the business from 19 employees to over 220, introducing policies and procedures along the way. I decided to end my tenure seeking a corporate position in a non-automotive world, but not before working along side senior company officials implementing numerous process improvements and corporate expansions.It was probably here where I found my appetite for contributing to small, growth-oriented businesses while identifying patterns and practices to achieve realistic, yet aggressive goals.

Executive Education, Cio Leadership Institute

Executive Education, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law

Agile; Lean, Scrum, Extreme Programming (Xp)