Elkhorn High School

Infrastructure Manager at CBW Bank

I advise local campaigns, ensuring their visions are effectively communicated and resonate with voters. My role involves overseeing campaign staff and volunteers and ensuring that each campaign we touch is built on a foundation of integrity and aimed at meaningful impact.

Indigo Group

Founder, Senior Advisor

CBW Bank is a Kansas based bank specializing in financial services, digital banking and bridging the gap between small banks and big ideas by providing unique services for fintechs and business to business relationships.

CBW Bank

Infrastructure Manager

Coordinated a successful campaign for candidate Kirk Haskins, who ran for Kansas House Representative in District 53 in the 2022 election cycle.  I effectively managed all aspects of the campaign to maximize the results of our marketing strategy to reach a high number of voters in our district.  Day to day operations of the campaign included phone banking, text banking, newsletter management, creating and updating voter contact lists and managing a small team of volunteers for canvassing door to door.

Haskins for Kansas

Campaign Manager

Develop computer information resources in two private clouds as well as Amazon Web Services, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery

Confer with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations, and programming changes

Evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades

Direct the development and implementation of compliance-related policies and procedures which results in a collection of documents and evidence for the company's annual PCI DSS audit

Assess product, compliance, or operational risks and develop risk management strategies
Administer the company's HSM including the creation and renewing of live and test encryption keys for card printing and processing vendors

Creation and collection of documentation from all network environments for monitoring, organization and providing required evidence for annual PCI DSS audits

Administration tasks associated with human resources for resident and non-resident employees, accounts payable and receivables, vendor management, company asset tracking and compliance training

Yantra Financial Technologies

Director of Operations, IT & Inftrastructure

Started as a store manager with 1 store in 1998 and grew to 28 company and franchise owned retail locations by 2008 and held position of President at my exit

Organized and executed all the details needed for each store expansion including acquiring local permits and licensing, lease negotiations, store fixture design and layout, construction management inventory selection and all necessary store opening supplies 

Tandemly fulfilled full CTO responsibilities including the creation, deployment and maintenance of proprietary Point of Sales software, VPN network, security, and on premise private cloud servers which connected all stores POS to a centralized Microsoft SQL database and live integrated website

Directed and coordinated the organization's financial responsibilities, strategic planning and brand development in new and existing markets

Standardized store operations procedures to be effective, efficient and consistent to minimize work load at the store level while maximizing bottom line results and keeping the customer experience a priority

Directed employees engaged in management, sales, inventory control, and customer relationships

Jason Peters