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Enjoying time with my two kiddos - playing outdoors, swimming, learning soccer and reading books).
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MIRKO PETROVIC

Clearing Development Manager, Acquiring Processing | Payments
McKinney,US

Summary

11+ years of experience in the transaction processing and financial services industry, with focus on understanding different processing platforms, analysis, implementation, testing tasks, building and improving internal processes within the Team.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Clearing Development Manager

Planet Payment, Remote
Dallas, Texas
08.2023 - Current
  • Leading small Acquiring Clearing Team
  • Planning and executing Project implementation, testing and deployment activities together with the Team
  • Task triage and delegation
  • Supporting Team in troubleshooting and resolution of Production issues;
  • Building/establishing internal Team processes, Project intake, Jira flows and Team roadmap together with the Senior/VP colleagues
  • Setting goals and objectives with the Team members
  • Annual scheme mandates (MasterCard and Visa) - planning, resource allocation, development and testing
  • Coordinating maintenance and upgrade tasks related to the FIS Clearing platform (third party vendor product), MasterCard and Visa Simulators.

Senior Clearing Engineer

Remote
Dallas, Texas
06.2022 - 07.2023
  • Planet Payment
  • Maintenance and enhancement of System Transaction Processing System (FIS' IST/Clearing platform)
  • Complex troubleshooting, L2 Production support, building simple scripts, configuration and testing the Third party Clearing platform
  • Leading daily stand-up Team calls and discussions with the vendor - FIS
  • Analyzing, implementing and testing bi-annual cards schemes business release requirement/enhancements - Release Management (internally and externally)
  • Interchange qualification - analysis, 'in-house' development with focus on automation testing
  • Familiar with the following tools in day to day work - Jira/Confluence, Eclipse, SQL, Perl, ksh, Jenkins, Coralogix (monitoring, visualization and alerting)
  • Supporting and mentoring colleagues.

Implementation Specialist

PagoNxt Merchant Solutions, Santander Group
Munich, Germany
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Implementation of various project, maintenance and enhancement of Tranzware suite of products (Tranzware Online, Interchange and CMS) - online, clearing and reconciliation/reporting modules;
  • Participating in 'in-house' analysis development and maintenance of Interchange qualification module based on the scheme requirements (Visa, MasterCard, CUP/UPI, JCB and NPSK)
  • Business and technical analysis for the client projects - Building Technical documentation
  • Familiar with the following tools in day to day work - Jira/Confluence, SQL, Jenkins, Python, SOAP UI.

Implementation Specialist

Wirecard Acceptance Technologies
Munich
07.2016 - 02.2021
  • AG
  • Implementation of various project, maintenance and enhacement of Tranzware suite of products (Tranzaware Online, Interchange and CMS) - online, clearing and reconciliation/reporting modules;
  • Deployment, configuration and testing of the new and existing features on Payment processing platform for a variety of projects for clients in Europe and Asia Pacific - Single and Dual message Systems)
  • Interchange qualification - analysis, 'in-house' development and testing
  • Supporting migration - onboarding number of CITI Bank clients to the existing acquiring platform;
  • Business Analysis - documenting Enhancements via Jira and Confluence, participation in kick-off meetings and working on Business Requirement (BRD) / High Level Design Documents
  • Familiar with SOAP UI, Python, Jenkins tools.

Application Support Analyst

Galway
06.2015 - 05.2016
  • Planet Payment (formerly Fintrax)
  • Analytical and operational support for the multi-currency platform (Way4 Clearing System as an integration point towards the card schemes)
  • April/October Scheme mandates - including requirement analysis, planning, deployment, testing and Production monitoring (Way4 platform, Visa Edit Package, MCPS and Clearing Optimizer/Pre-edit)
  • First level escalation support for the Production team.

Technical Analyst

Euronet Worldwide Inc
Belgrade
02.2012 - 06.2015
  • Implementing customer projects on Euronet Worldwide’s central transaction processing host and its connected systems [QA, TEST and PRODUCTION environment] - IBM AS/400 DB2
  • Designing installation packages, managing the implementation of the project, supporting the QA phase, Production monitoring and Production validation
  • Production support, monitoring, and troubleshooting
  • Carrying out Visa and MasterCard Device and Host certifications

Software Tester

Belgrade
10.2010 - 01.2012
  • Manual and automation testing of various Cisco Products - Cisco Jabber, Cisco Unified Meeting Place, WebEx (Instant messaging, voice and video platforms)
  • Part of the outsourced Cisco team and close collaboration with the remote teams in Ireland, India, China and US
  • Installation, configuration and supervision of web and application servers, VoIP telephony and other Cisco equipment
  • Manual and automation testing - building and documenting Test cases throughout SDLC; validating relevant official CISCO Documentation
  • Familiar with tools such as Rally, CISCO CDETS, C#, Fitnesse testing framework.

Service Engineer

Intoco, GD Systems
Belgrade, Serbia
09.2008 - 10.2010

• System maintenance and logistic support for Banknote processing (Giesecke& Devrient GmbH) and Biometric ID systems (Ruhlamat GmbH); collaboration with vendors

• Coaching the client, holding presentations and close colaboration

with the Teams of Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia) and National Bank of Serbia

• Systems - BPS 1000, BPS 200, ISS300 and Numeron, MS350 and C6000&Fleximailer

[Clients - Ministry of Interior, Republic of Serbia and Serbian National Bank]

Education

Master of Science - Telecommunications and Information Technology

University of Belgrade

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications and Information Technology

University of Belgrade

Skills

CI/CD

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Interests

Currently exploring topics such as Machine learning, CI/CD Devops pipeline

Enjoying time with my two kiddos - playing outdoors, swimming, learning soccer and reading books).

We love to go to the local library and explore new books. We go to the pools and learning how to swim and dive. In free time we enjoy playing soccer and chasing bunnies in our yard. Looking to explore new destinations and travel as much as circumstances are allowing.

Timeline

Clearing Development Manager - Planet Payment, Remote
08.2023 - Current
Senior Clearing Engineer - Remote
06.2022 - 07.2023
Implementation Specialist - PagoNxt Merchant Solutions, Santander Group
02.2021 - 05.2022
Implementation Specialist - Wirecard Acceptance Technologies
07.2016 - 02.2021
Application Support Analyst -
06.2015 - 05.2016
Technical Analyst - Euronet Worldwide Inc
02.2012 - 06.2015
Software Tester - Belgrade
10.2010 - 01.2012
Service Engineer - Intoco, GD Systems
09.2008 - 10.2010
University of Belgrade - Master of Science, Telecommunications and Information Technology
University of Belgrade - Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications and Information Technology
MIRKO PETROVICClearing Development Manager, Acquiring Processing | Payments