Patrick Easley

Manager

Berlin, Germany

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 6 months
Berlin, Germany

Founder 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 months

Travelers Sabbatical

  • I 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 Off ice of Rahm Emanuel

Off ice 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. 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

Master of North American Economics · North American Economics · Berlin, Germany

Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

Fudan University

Shanghai, China

Aug 2011 - May 2015

Washington University in St. Louis

Bachelor of Development Economics and International Development · Development Economics and International Development · St. Louis, United States