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Restructured and recreated all corporate operating activities and departments following company acquisition. Transitioned from bankruptcy and recreated an acquiring processing operating company following strategic acquisition by new owners. Organized, staffed, trained and managed Risk, Underwriting, Finance, Sales, Collections, Help Desk, IT and HR departments.Measureable Success:- Reformed and restarted operating division for parent company within planned ninety day startup window- Planned and directed separation and conversion project for break-up of combined technology platforms - Facilitated conversion and integration of transaction processing gateway to third party cloud environment- Negotiated and contracted direct interface agreements between company and sponsor financial institutions- Led merchant portfolio conversion strategy team- Implemented crowd funding product specification, creation and launch

Manage merchant-side processing division for large national ISO including software development, authorization processing and computer operations.

Chief technology Offiicer for this small, publicly-traded payments processing corporation. Directed merchant payments product design and implementation processes. Managed organization’s various internet ecommerce payments gateway services divisions, and company administrative and merchant-servicing networks and support systems. Defined, developed and implemented corporate IT strategy, initiatives and budgets. Systems architect.

Division start-up for an issuer-side processing division of ITC Financial services. Managed all operations for a prepaid debit card program. Created technical operations & prepaid stored value card programs for acquired division of prepaid issuer-side processing company.Designed and built issuer-side prepaid card program and supporting processing technology for new processing division of parent corporate operations. Managed all technical development, account management, product and service support and 7/24 technical operations.

Founder & President of private venture payments processing co. Created open loop stored value card technologies for US & foreign markets. Built and managed all facets of the company including funding, administrative, financial and technology departments. Created stored value MasterCard, Visa and private label card issuance and authorization programs employing internally-designed processing platforms and technologies. Founded offshore (Caribbean) card processing subsidiary.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

Created strategy, implemented stand-alone mission critical transaction processing division | Full life-cycle project with $12MM budget. Full accountability for the creation and start-up operations for an acquiring processing organization for this large national Independent Sales Organization. Payments product design and deployment responsibility. Portfolio conversion management and control.

Founded credit card merchants payments processing company & led company to profitability in less than 2 years. Led company through funding, formation, integration and operational phases. Created international acquiring platform environment. Successfully and profitably sold venture at end of second year of operations.

Formed start-up POS transaction processing division for parent organization (HONOR debit switch)

Founder of credit card payments processing company. Created technology and platforms performing authorization processing, POS terminal development and deployment and all operating divisions (Help Desk, computer opns, etc.)

Developed and managed technology platforms for regional debit switch (HONOR)