Jacques Fu
Founder of PETE Learning
Jacques Fu
Founder of PETE Learning
Orlando, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2023 - Current
Co-founder
2017
Orlando Devs Meetup, and Officer / Board Member of 501(c)3 - The largest Orlando-based developer meetup and slack community with 8000+ members. - Helped to incorporate informal meetup organization and create self-sustaining financial model.
Co-Founder, CTO
2015 - 2023
- Built and launched technology division leveraging a product and platform strategy to scale business to over $100M in recurring revenue and earning INC 500 fastest growing companies. - Support investments into scaling core platforms to support 22,000 business processing $24B in payments volume - Raised Seed to Series D rounds and achieved $1B+ Unicorn valuation - Managed product, engineering, and IT departments supporting development and technical operations of web and native mobile products, developer SDKs, and internal systems. - Provided strategic direction and ownership of product roadmap and technology strategy in highly competitive Financial Technology and Payments industry. - Evangelize technology to developer market and maintain deep relationships with integrated vertical and channel partners. - Designed architecture leveraging microservices with continuous integration/devOps using Node/Express/Laravel/React on Amazon Web Services with Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and Lambda. - Developed and maintained InfoSec programs achieving SOC 2 Type I and PCI Level 1 compliance. - Executed due diligence and closing for M&A pipeline - Acquired four companies and facilitated integration and deployment of assets - Oversaw formation of Center of Excellence to democratize PMO, business intelligence, and training, and Payments Division to develop core risk capabilities
CTO, Tech Co-founder
2009 - 2015
- Designed and lead development of iAssist ePrescribing solution integrated with 65,000 pharmacies to streamline access to Specialty medications. - Developed vertical integration with Electronic Health Records and providers of Specialty Services leading to adoption of technology by top industry players such as the Surescripts ePrescribing Network. - Lead product and development teams for entire product portfolio including eCase and eInformatix. - Created new innovation group to incubate new healthcare technology opportunities. - Developed an internal innovation lifecycle from rapid prototyping to production handoff and execution. - Active speaker at national conferences and standards committees on panels, task forces, and networking events.
President, Board Member
2009 - 2012
Prepared budgets and tax returns, voted in board meetings on issues pertaining to unit maintenance and association law, and evaluated vendors and contracts.
IT Director, Co-founder
2009 - 2011
Leveraged proprietary accounting and electronic claims to achieve lower overhead for non-profit operations. Tech focused strategy supported TAF in raising over $400M since inception in donations for copay assistance of high cost medications and to go on to become the largest charity in Orlando and rank number 43 in Forbes 2020 Top 100 Charities. Implemented the first real-time mobile and online enrollment tool in the space.
Consultant, Online Banking
2008 - 2009
Delivering technology-based professional services to banking clients in a project oriented environment. Gathering interface requirements, system parameters, modifying existing interfaces, data audits, and certification testing. Contributed to eLearning initiatives for content generation.
CTO & Co-founder
2006 - 2008
Created and managed the development of Sarbanes Oxley compliance management software for public companies. Guided development team on latest methodology and requirements of 404.
Director of IT
2004 - 2006
Introduced new research methodologies based on IT initiatives to enhance company product development. Responsible for managing and analyzing all financial data and related IT systems.
IT Consultant
2000 - 2004
Information Technology corporation grown from a sole proprietorship. Offering software development, helpdesk services, web design/portal development services, and IT consulting services.