Current role

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Shift4Aug 2025 – Present

Enterprise Solutions Architect Dec 2024 – Aug 2025

Technical ownership of enterprise POS and payments opportunities across hospitality, restaurants, and sports & entertainment.

I’m the dedicated Solutions Architect on enterprise sales opportunities, working with Enterprise Sales Directors on the technical evaluation for merchants processing $10M–$100M+ in annual payment volume. Most of that work starts before the requirements are clear. I work with customers and commercial teams to understand how the operation runs today, find the gaps in the proposed setup, and turn that into a solution we can pilot, launch, and expand.

100+
Venue deployments
5–10
Concurrent enterprise engagements
10+
Technology partners

What I do

From unclear requirements to a live solution

The work changes at each stage. The technical ownership stays with me.

01 05

Own the technical evaluation and earn customer buy-in.
  • Serve as the dedicated Solutions Architect on enterprise sales opportunities, working with Enterprise Sales Directors.
  • Lead technical discovery, tailored product demos, solution design, and RFP presentations.
  • Identify integration requirements, operational constraints, and technical risks early.

Built a standardized technical discovery process now used across the ESA team.

Selected work

From requirement to launch

01

Expanding Shift4 Venue into Canada

Led the technical expansion of Shift4’s Venue platform into Canada, owning solution architecture for its initial deployment and coordinating with Payments and Product on local tax and Interac requirements through successful launch.

02

Turning customer requirements into production capabilities

Translated an enterprise customer’s payment-readiness challenge into technical requirements for a card-on-file status API. Worked with Product and Engineering through implementation and validation, enabling payment-readiness checks in the customer’s application.

What I built

Tools the team runs on

Most of these started as gaps in how the team worked. I built them to turn those gaps into tools the team could actually use.

01Demo platform

A demo platform for the enterprise team

Built and deployed an interactive enterprise demo platform adopted across Sales, Solutions, and Product, supporting tailored product walkthroughs, realistic payment scenarios, and client-configurable digital wallet experiences.

It includes a customizable replica of our venue payments product that mirrors the live UI.

02Team operations

The enterprise solutions team hub

Built the team’s central hub for tools, demos, resources, and the request workflows other teams use to bring us into deals and account work.

Those requests feed a dashboard that shows workload, product demand, and where the team is spending its time.

03Discovery tool

A loyalty discovery tool

Built a discovery tool that turns client context, questions, and requirements into a scoped loyalty solution, replacing a manual process with something the team can repeat consistently from client to client.

When discovery surfaces something new, like an integration we haven’t supported before, it routes that to product and engineering so the decision lands with the right team.

Earlier experience

  1. Enterprise Technical Account Manager

    Shift4May 2023 – Dec 2024Technical ownership for 20+ enterprise accounts, including a complex multi-venue restaurant portfolio.View details
    Account ownership
    • Served as the primary technical and strategic contact for 20+ enterprise accounts across POS, mobile ordering, and venue technology.
    • Took ownership after pre-sales handoff and stayed accountable through implementation, rollout, and continued account growth.
    • Owned the technical relationship for a complex multi-venue restaurant portfolio and led standardized integration delivery across it.
    • Partnered with Sales on enterprise renewal discussions and account expansion opportunities, providing technical expertise throughout commercial conversations.
    • Led cross-functional technical readiness for Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium, running daily status reviews and tracking hardware, payment, and deployment dependencies.
    Team enablement
    • Served as the main technical resource for the Enterprise Account Management team.
    • Built onboarding playbooks, technical resources, and workflows that remain in use today.
    Customer to product
    • Coordinated third-party integration work across a complex multi-venue portfolio.
    • Led customer-facing technical presentations, business reviews, and assessments, turning customer feedback into recommendations for product teams.
    • Built a feature enhancement request system connecting internal and customer-driven product needs with Product.
  2. Lead Technical Consultant

    Shift4Jan 2022 – May 2023Technical Consultant Aug 2021 – Jan 2022Hands-on implementation, onboarding, and escalation work following Shift4’s acquisition of VenueNext.View details
    Delivery & escalation
    • Supported enterprise go-lives onsite, handling implementation, onboarding, and real-time issue resolution during launch.
    • Served as the escalation specialist for high-priority customer issues and technical conversations.
    Product & engineering
    • Acted as the bridge between customers, onsite teams, product, and engineering during high-priority issues.
    • Led weekly planning with engineering to prioritize escalations and product regressions, while tracking recurring support patterns that needed product attention.
    Documentation & training
    • Standardized and expanded documentation in the VenueNext technical knowledge base.
    • Trained and mentored new technical hires, helping turn startup-style technical operations into more repeatable enterprise delivery.
  3. Sales Engineer

    Cloud Beach: Digital WorkspaceSep 2020 – Aug 2021The first version of the role I still play today: the technical person between the customer and the product.View details
    Customer work
    • Served as the primary technical resource for 25+ clients across pre- and post-sale engagements.
    • Handled software configuration, platform setup, and technical onboarding for new deployments.
    Delivery foundation
    • Created delivery documentation for customer deployments.
    • Learned to translate between what customers needed and what the product could support, a skill that became the throughline of every role that followed.

Side project

Meetzi

Meetzi is an iOS app I designed, built, and shipped on my own to help friends turn weekend availability and group-chat ideas into actual plans.

It started as a problem my friends and I kept having. I took it from idea to the App Store, and now people actually use it.

Drop me a note and I’ll get back to you.

perkins0070@gmail.com