Interning at

Emergent Payments

Previously Live Gamer, Inc

Changed product focus from developing software for gaming e-commerce to focusing on e-commerce for emerging markets.

Gaming accounts to only an estimated 5% of the total payments industry whereas payment methods for emerging markets is targeted at an estimated value of $1.7 trillion.

Company Dynamics

About 40 people in the world

Software Dev team in North Carolina, Palo Alto, Shanghai and another coming up in India

Biz Dev team mostly in New York

Campaigns

Jumpstart Brazil

Jumpstart India

My contributions to the team

I am a front-end web developer.

Code reviewer.

Quality assurance tester.

First 3 months:

Debug, Maintain, Fine Tuning

Impact:

improve user experience

Currently:

Developing for a new product for internal company use

Impact:

make life easier for the finance team

Entrepreneurial Activities outside of Work

Hackathons

Integrate

Calhacks 2.0

Money 20/20

Meet Ups

Up close and personal series

Reflections & review

on how you can have made your 2nd half better

Technical/ Entrepreneurship skills:

Join more hackathons

Learn more frameworks/ libraries

GEM

NVC

Interpersonal skills

Join more meet ups/ talks

Improv?