Carlton Ortega, Lead Solutions Engineer at PayTrace, is a payments professional with over nine years of experience in the industry. His expertise spans terminal provisioning, software implementation, and pre-sales consulting. Carlton is known for his results-driven approach, consistently identifying innovative solutions and opportunities for improvement to guide merchants successfully through their payment journeys.

Prior to PayTrace, Carlton was a solutions consultant for a global processor, specializing in enterprise merchants in the travel, digital, gaming, and retail sectors, and implementing solutions across various ERPs including SAP's ECC and S4/HANA and Microsoft's Business Central.

Currently residing in Orange County, California, Carlton holds a B.S. in Systems and Operations Management.