Vantiv (Formerly Springbok Services, Inc)VP Information Technology
Dec. 2004 - Dec. 2011Englewood, COFinancial Services firm specializing in prepaid debit card program management, card production, card fulfillment, transaction processing and business analytics. Significantly reduced annual IT budget from $10 to $5 million thru renegotiated vendor contracts, reducing expenses by 30%; consolidation of services yielded a 40% annual savings. Led the organization thru the annual PCI, SAS70 and MasterCard and Visa physical and logical security audits achieving our certification, within minimal remediation Oversaw the build out of two facilities (corporate office and fulfillment facility) including the construction of a 3000 square foot data center, implementation of the security (access control) system per Visa/MasterCard standards, installation of A/V systems for all conference rooms and network infrastructure between the facilities
Maximized sales revenue by providing technical engineering expertise for the design and integration of an open API to service client programs yielding $7.5 million in annual revenue
Architected the MasterCard and Visa transaction processors delivering both platforms 30+ days ahead of schedule at a combined 80% of the budgeted cost
Designed state-of-the-art fulfillment center which included on-demand 4-color card printing and 4-color dynamic card carrier printing solutions (industry firsts), resulting in a 50% increase in revenue MasterCard Small Business’s branded e-commerce application for selling prepaid cards to their existing clients. This eliminated the need for multiple 3rd party vendors through our direct sales channel and resulted in over $500,000 of incremental revenue annually Provided strategic vision and leadership to the entire IT organization, 75 employees, across 4 departments, including our mentorship program, teambuilding program and our quarterly goals and objectives to ensure we were exceeding the organizations expectations as an overall IT department.