Patrick Easley
Strategic Project Manager
Experience
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 8 months Chicago, United States
Manager
United States Department of Commerce - US Census Bureau
- Managed a team of enumerators for the U.S. Census Bureau
- Collected and compiled data from households, unhoused individuals, and care facilities
- Reorganized office training and procedures throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic
Jan 2020 - Present
5 years 3 monthsFounder and Freelance Consultant
Operium Consulting
- Founded a financial tech centered consulting firm focusing on the intersection of Regulatory Compliance, Fintech, People Operations, Crypto, Economic Policy, and Global Trade
- Consults with private firms, governmental organizations, individuals, and non-profits as an independent auditor on building independent road maps with a heavy focus on Organizational Development, Growth, Product, Compliance and Risk through a strong regulatory framework
- Manages multiple freelance projects simultaneously, meeting tight deadlines and exceeding client expectations
- Helps companies with expansion in both the US and in international markets
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 7 monthsTravelers Sabbatical
- Solo traveled to over 30 countries and territories across five continents
- Enjoyed the beauty of our planet and species
- Mitigated intercultural communication, perpetually
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
9 months St. Louis, United States
Bitcoin Compliance Operations DRI
Block Inc. (Formally Square Inc)
- Assisted in kicking off the launch of the Cash App's crypto currency program in the Winter of 2017 along with other relevant parties
- Worked to ship MVP and create performance for multiple crypto related products
- Developed an industry standard team of crypto specialists which included hiring, training, KPI monitoring, risk appetite, and workflow guidelines for industry leading cryptocurrency and transaction monitoring analysts
- Developed, managed, and implemented consumer, regulatory, and P2P crypto policy for the Cash App
- Mentored Squares on the growing role of cryptocurrency in Fintech and helped sculpt a cypto-centric focus for both customer-facing, and internal profit driven teams
- Managed ever shifting deadlines with various Product, Sales, Engineering, and Customer-facing Teams to ship product, policy and procedural updates for policy implementation for the Cash App's various BTC and P2P money transfer services services
Oct 2015 - May 2018
2 years 8 months St. Louis, United States
Complaince and Business Operations Associate
Block Inc. (Formally Square Inc)
- Opened the Compliance department in Square's new St. Louis Office in the Fall of 2015 with two other colleagues
- Spearheaded the opening of the the Biz Ops division of Compliance in St. Louis in the winter of 2016
- Worked to build improvements for Square Register, Square Capital and Cash App merchants reviews, and app functionality
- Managed the growth of Compliance's sanctions team and GDPR integration
- Reviewed and investigated over 50 million dollars worth of accounts a month involving Compliance related activity monthly
- Verified merchants information through Square's ongoing know your customer platform
- Worked interdepartmentally with Payments, Product, Legal, Support, Risk, Disputes, Square Capital, Sales and other teams to maintain and improve both Square' internal and external functionality
- Interviewed potential new hires for Square
May 2014 - Aug 2014
4 months Chicago, United States
Intern for the Office of Rahm Emanuel
Office of the Mayor of Chicago
- Researched and provided key international strategic partners for the City of Chicago
- Wrote official correspondence to global officials and delegations on behalf of the City and Mayor of Chicago
- Provided data driven results on the changing ethnocultural face of the City
Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
5 months Shanghai, China
Global Payments, Operations and Technology Associate Intern
Panjiva (S&P Global)
- Monitored and analyzed large scale business and payment information for the platform
- Contacted and confirmed corporate buyer's purchase and sale information from different vendors from around Asia
- Aided in the translations of important port and trade documents
Summary
Patrick is an experienced financial technology leader from the United States with over 8 years of experience working in all horizontals and verticals of the fintech business apparatus on three continents. Patrick has overseen the growth of various operations spanning from Product to Compliance to Operations to People. He loves fast growing organizations and thrives in uncertainty.
Languages
English
Native
Chinese
Advanced
French
Advanced
Education
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Freie Universität Berlin
Masters of North American Economics · Berlin, Germany
Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
Fudan University
Study Abroad · Shanghai, China
Aug 2011 - May 2015
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelors of Development Economics and International Development · St. Louis, United States
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