2CheckoutProduct Development (IT)
Jan. 2003 - Oct. 2007As Business Analyst to CTO,
Analyzed ROI of software integration options and prioritized IT efforts for executive staff
Improved ongoing financial reporting
Created rapid prototypes of innovative new functionality, resulting in faster to market and more fully featured deployments As Manager of Product Development,
IT manager and cross-functional coordinator for all enterprise projects including:
- PayPal, Acculynk, Bill Me Later, FraudNet, Ethoca, 2CO Shopping Center, a Geo-IP based consumer currency solution, VbV/MCSC, and a reporting overhaul in support of the company's first independent financial audit. Increased competitiveness of 2CO within the local technology job market by establishing departmental compensation standards and hierarchy
- Formalized consumer technical support team at 2CO
- Created a leadership hierarchy within teams
- Established standardized job descriptions and pay bands for all development and support staff
- Improved accuracy of delivery estimation by all developers through education, process improvement and follow up on results vs. estimates Established first formal software development processes at 2CO
- Created requirements gathering, resource planning, project tracking, user acceptance testing and change control processes and documentation As Lead Developer,
Served as lead solution architect, including application UI, software architecture and OLTP database back end design for full payment processing system re-write including merchant, buyer and staff interfaces. Served as project director and IT lead throughout development from inception to launch.
- Enhancements included: updated UI, ability to set static prices in currency, ability to sell single purchase items and recurring items (or multiple recurring items) at once, improved back-end financial reporting As a Developer,
Solo developer responsible for adding currency processing capability to the 2CO platform. Full SDLC (Perl, Linux, MySQL)