Vesta CorporationVice President of Engineering
May. 2004 - Jul. 2013Portland, Oregon Area• Led engineering and product delivery for the world leader in client-branded electronic payment solutions, overseeing the delivery of integrated, hosted, white-labeled, web, voice response, call center, mobile, API and backend payments SAAS solution
• Managed a team of 10 direct and 100 indirect reports, including technical implementation managers, engineers, testing resources, system analysts, and technical writers
• Implemented offshore and near-shore teams for development, testing, bug fixing, test script writing and report generation, reducing labor costs by 15% and streamlining workflow
• Successfully resolved financial and compliance crises, involving high stakes data inconsistencies, to ensure customer satisfaction through extensive data analysis and reporting
• Spearheaded payments processing task force for multiple countries, directing evaluation, negotiation, and integration discussions at third-party payment vendor sites in-country
• Increased U.S. and European customer transaction volumes by 10% through design and deployment of mobile web and handset app as new growth channel
• Created web-based, automated build, deployment, verification, project and revision tracking system that simplified PCI and SOC audit and improved visibility and financial troubleshooting for financial systems while lowering costs
• Consolidated multiple platforms into simplified, scalable architecture, reducing technology costs and system outages by streamlining server and data center footprints by 50% through consolidation onto a single technology platform, scalable, testable architecture, and new storage technologies
• Enhanced P&L visibility and development performance as part of team that improved build and release management
• Improved employee retention by streamlining workloads, introducing standardized best practices, and training key engineering resources into team leaders and managers