Frank Salinas Email Address

Vice President, Engineering Global Payments Platform

Yapstone , Inc. is primarily engaged in furnishing telephone voice and data communications, except radiotelephone and telephone answering services. This industry also includes primarily engaged in leasing telephone lines or other methods of telephone transmission, such as optical fiber lines and microwave or satellite facilities, and reselling the use of such methods to others.

Experienced Director/Engineering Manager with strong analytical skills and over 15 years of enterprise application development experience. Effective communicator and cross-functional leader who assembles effective teams, and creates and maintains strong working relationships with Product Managers, Project Managers, Developers, IT and Quality Assurance teams. Results-driven and passionate about building innovative, high-quality software. • Experienced in developing SaaS/cloud-based, multi-tenant applications. • Extensive knowledge of software development life cycle: requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance. • Advocate of agile methodologies, with practical experience transitioning teams from waterfall to Agile/Scrum. • Strong management background with experience operating in agile software development environment. • Technical background and experience with enterprise technologies including: Java, J2EE, JBoss, .NET, C#, IIS, Web Services, SOA, Oracle and MS SQL database systems. • Experienced object-oriented designer and programmer (OOD/OOP). • Demonstrated ability to manage projects from inception to release. • Effective communicator; excellent verbal and written communication skills. • Experienced in working with offshore/remote development teams. • Cultivator of effective software development teams with a focus on innovation and quality.