Samuel Pickard
Adventurer in Time and Mobile since 2001
Adventurer in Time and Mobile since 2001
Take card payments with your mobile phone
WorldPay Zinc is a mobile chip & PIN solution for merchants and traders who would not normally be able to take card payments.
I am the Technical Lead for the project, producing solution architecture on mobile and in the enterprise. I help manage an offshore development team of 10 mobile developers, as well as UK based hardware and software suppliers. I have responsibility for the technical governance of the project.
The application is available for both iOS and Android, and I have daily hands-on sessions with developers in both areas, providing guidance, support and getting my hands dirty with code where necessary. I work on source code every day, producing PCI-DSS compliant applications.
We've met extremely aggressive timelines to get the solution to market on time and on budget, and the project is now live and rolled out across the UK.
I've also shaped a new SDLC, bringing some agile processes and tools to the project, including Git, JIRA and Jenkins.
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