Waukee-based payments company VizyPay announced today two promotions to build out its new Learning and Development Department. Alex Schaffer, bottom picture, will move into the role of director of learning and development and Marj Chaffin, top picture, is being promoted to principal trainer. With hiring planned for 2023, the pair will be responsible for training new hires, creating educational materials and building out VizyPay’s employee development processes for new and existing team members. “All new employees go through an onboarding process that introduces them to the payments industry and VizyPay called ‘Vizonian University.’ My goal with this department is not only to build out Vizonian University, but also create resources to continue developing our employees and sales partners past their initial training period,” Schaeffer said in a prepared statement. A focus of Schaffer’s new role will be moving the training coursework from the customer relationship management platform and building out a learning management system to house the virtual training. Schaffer started as a talent acquisition specialist with VizyPay two years ago, the release said. Chaffin will lead new hires through orientation and work one-on-one with them to ensure they are comfortable with the basics of the payments industry. Chaffin joined VizyPay shortly after it was founded in 2017.