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Senior Vice President

 Exhibit 10.4 
  
 Tier Technologies, Inc. 
 Senior Vice President—Human Resources’ Compensation 
 For the Fiscal Year Ending September
30, 2005 
 (Approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors May 3, 2005) 
  
 On May 3, 2005, the Compensation Committee of Tier’s Board of Directors approved a base
salary increase for an executive officer who was named in the Summary Compensation Table of the Company’s 2004 Proxy Statement. Specifically, the base salary of Donald Fairbairn, Senior Vice President Human Resources was increased to $212,000,
which represents a 6% increase in base salary.Offer Letter between Company and David Fountain

 Exhibit 10.5 
  
 May 2, 2005 
  

			
	David Fountain	 	Hand Delivered
	212 South Galt Ave.	 	 
	Louisville, KY, 40206	 	 

  
 Dear David, 
  
 It gives me great pleasure to offer you the position of Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Tier Technologies, Inc., (“Tier”), reporting to me in my capacity as President and Chief Executive Officer. You will be based in Reston, VA, and we would like you to start with us on May 9, 2005. This offer is
contingent upon approval by Tier’s Board of Directors, the satisfactory completion of our standard background check1 and providing acceptable United States work authorization documents. A list of acceptable documentation is enclosed. 
  
 Your base salary will be $ 12,500.00 bi-weekly, which equates to $325,000.00 annualized. Consistent with the level and responsibility of your position, I will recommend
to Tier’s Compensation Committee that the Committee invite you to participate in the Fiscal Year 2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan. Subject to their approval, the Plan provides variable incentive compensation based on your achievement
of pre-determined qualitative goals and on the financial performance of the company. The annual bonus target incentive I will recommend will be 50% of your annual base compensation. This is a fiscal year plan and for the 2005 fiscal year your
incentive target is pro-rated based on the date of hire. You will be supplied with a plan document which states the specific qualitative and financial performance goals within 30 days of your date of hire. 
  
 In addition, also subject to approval by Tier’s Compensation Committee, you will be
granted stock options for 75,000 shares, which are subject to the provisions of the Tier Incentive Stock Option Plan. Options are typically issued during the first week of the calendar quarter following your date of hire and are priced by the Board
of Directors according to the market price at the time of grant. Options vest over five years with 20% of the total grant vesting after completion of each 12-month period from the original date of issuance. Option grant and related documents are
sent to each new employee within 30 days following the date of the grant. As discussed, you are eligible for an additional grant of 25,000 shares upon full relocation to the Northern Virginia area.2 

 To help facilitate your move from Louisville to the Northern Virginia area, Tier will be pleased to provide you with an
executive relocation allowance. In that regard I have approved an amount of up to $100,000.00 to help you with moving, real estate sales, and other transitional costs. In accordance with our policy, it will be required that you sign a promissory
note covering your total relocation reimbursement which will stipulate you must pay back this amount should you resign or be terminated for cause within 12 months of the effective date of relocation. Enclosed you will find a summary of Tier’s
Executive Relocation package to be provided by Long & Foster Relocation Services. Please do not incur any expenses prior to signing the required promissory note. In addition, you will need to speak with a relocation counselor prior to initiating
any relocation activity. 
  
 As discussed, we will provide an employment agreement
which includes a provision whereby you will receive twelve (12) months severance for a termination other than for cause; and eighteen (18) months severance in the event there is a change-in-control at Tier and you are not offered a similar position.
Finally, Tier will agree to allow you access to our Corporate Apartment in Herndon, Virginia for a period not to exceed 18-months from your date of hire. During this 18-month period, we will also agree to reimburse you for a total of three airfares
per month to and from Louisville, KY for you or your spouse. 
  
 All Tier
employees may be asked to travel for business. Business-related expenses for travel required by Tier will be paid according to the corporate travel policy. 
  
 You will be eligible to participate in Tier’s comprehensive employee benefits program. A summary sheet on our benefits is enclosed. Please note that paid leave (PTO)
benefits are accrued on a bi-weekly basis for use during the benefit year, and are pro-rated for the year of hire and termination. As CFO your PTO accrual schedule will be 24 days per year. While you are employed with Tier, you will be subject to
the Company’s rules, regulations, policies and practices, which may be modified from time to time at the Company’s discretion. 
  
 In accordance with our policy, your employment is at-will, which means that either Tier at its discretion or you may terminate your employment at any time, with or
without cause or notice, and no agreements to the contrary, in any form whatsoever, are effective unless contained in writing signed by the Chief Executive Officer of Tier. By signing below, you represent that you are free to accept the terms of
this offer and that your acceptance and performance shall not constitute a breach of any other obligations of yours to your previous employer or to any other party. You will be required to sign our standard non-disclosure and non-compete agreement,
which is enclosed. 
  
 We would appreciate your decision no later than May 2,
2005.  
  
 David, I speak for the entire management team when I say that we
are all excited about having you join our fast growing company. 

 To accept this offer, please sign one copy of this letter along with the enclosed non-disclosure and non-compete
agreement, and return it to our HR department in the enclosed envelope. 
  

			
	 Sincerely,
	 	 
		
	 James R. Weaver
	 	 
	 President and Chief Executive Officer
	 	 
		
	 Enclosures
	 	 
	  

	 	  

	 (Signature)
	 	(Today’s Date)

	1	Disclosure: Under the applicable provisions of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), notice is hereby given that Tier Inc. or its affiliates ("Tier") may
request a consumer report. The report may include the following types of information: educational accomplishments, employment history, driving record, workers’ compensation claims, credit, bankruptcy proceedings, criminal records and civil
records. These reports will be used for purposes of employment with Tier or assignment to a Tier contract. See Background Check Release Authorization for more information. 

	2	Full relocation is defined as the final move of all your household goods and the purchase of a new residence in the Northern Virginia area within eighteen (18)
months of countersigning this offer letter.Employment Agreement - Raymond J. Land

 Exhibit 10.1 
  
 Orchid BioSciences, Inc. 
  
 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 
  
 This Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into between Orchid BioSciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Raymond J.
Land (the “Employee”), on April 25, 2005, in consideration of, and as a condition of, Employee’s employment by Company and of the compensation to be paid to Employee by Company, and in recognition of the fact that Employee will have
access to the Company’s confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information, and therefore Company and Employee agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement as follows: 
  
 1. Position. The Company and the Employee agree that Employee will serve
as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, based at the Company’s Head office. Employee agrees that Employee’s employment with the Company is on an at will basis, is for no specified term and may be terminated by
the Company at any time, with or without Cause (as defined in Section 3 herein). Similarly, Employee may terminate employment with the Company at any time, for any reason upon written notice as provided in Section 3 of this Agreement. Employee
understands and agrees that the at will nature of Employee’s employment relationship with Company cannot be changed or modified. The Employee’s performance will be reviewed formally on an annual basis in conjunction with an annual salary
period. The Company’s obligations under this Agreement shall be subject to the Company’s receipt of references regarding the Employee satisfactory to the Company in its sole discretion. 
  
 2. Employment Date: Nature of Relationship. Employee’s employment with the
Company will begin on June 6, 2005 (the “Employment Date”). The Employee will perform for the Company such duties that are customarily assigned to his position and as may be designated by the Company from time to time. The Employee will be
expected to devote all of his working time to the performance of his duties with the Company. 
  
 3. Termination. Without in any way limiting the at will basis of Employee’s employment by the Company, Employee’s employment hereunder shall terminate upon the occurrence of any of the
following events: 
  
 (a) The death of Employee; 
  
 (b) Written notice of termination from the Company to Employee that Employee’s
employment is being terminated as a result of Employee’s incapacity or inability to further perform services as contemplated herein for ninety (90) consecutive days or more within any six-month period, because Employee’s physical or mental
health has become so impaired as to make it impossible or impractical for Employee to perform the duties and responsibilities contemplated hereunder (determination of the Employee’s physical or mental health will be determined by a medical
expert appointed by mutual agreement between the Company and the Employee); 
  
 (c) Written notice of termination from the Company to Employee that Employee’s employment is being terminated for Cause (as hereafter defined). “Cause” shall mean that either the Employee has (1) intentionally committed an
act or omission that materially harms the Company; (2) been grossly negligent in performance of his duty to the Company, which is 
  
  

 
incapable of cure or not cured within ten (10) business days after the date of receipt by Employee of notice of its existence; (3) committed an act of moral
turpitude; (4) committed an act of fraud or material dishonesty in discharging his duties to the Company; (5) materially breached this Agreement or any other employment agreement or any consulting, advisory, nondisclosure, non-competition or similar
agreement between the Employee and the Company, or breached any code of conduct or ethics or similar policy in effect at the Company, as all of the foregoing may be amended from time to time or (6) engaged in any other act or commission that may be
deemed grounds for a “cause” termination under Delaware state law. 
  
 (d) Written notice of termination from the Company to Employee that Employee’s employment is being terminated without Cause; 
  
 (e) Employee’s written notice of resignation to the Company due to a Constructive Dismissal (as hereafter defined). A “Constructive Dismissal” shall mean
the occurrence, without Employee’s express written consent, of any of the following: (i) a substantial diminution in the nature or status of Employee’s position, authority, or primary duties or responsibilities; or (ii) a material breach
by the Company of this Agreement; provided, there shall be no Constructive Dismissal unless the Employee provides the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer with written notice reasonably detailing the purported basis for the
Constructive Dismissal and the Company fails to remedy within sixty (60) business days after its receipt of such notice; 
  
 (f) Employee’s written notice of resignation to the Company for any reasons other than due to a Constructive Dismissal or Change of Control (as hereinafter defined);
or 
  
 (g) Written notice of termination from the Company to Employee that
Employee’s employment is being terminated as a result of a Change of Control within six (6) months following the Change of Control. For the purposes of this Agreement, Change of Control is: 
  
 (i) Ownership. Any “Person” (as such terms is used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) becomes the “Beneficial Owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under said Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 50% (fifty percent)
or more of the total voting power represented by the Company’s then outstanding voting securities (excluding for this purpose the Company or its Affiliates or any employee benefit plan of the Company). 
  
 (ii) Merger/Sale of Assets. A merger or consolidation of the
Company whether or not approved by the Board of Directors, other than a merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding
or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or the parent of such corporation) at least 50% (fifty percent) of the total voting power represented by the voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity or parent of
such corporation outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation, or the consummation of an agreement for the sale or disposition of the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets. “Substantially all of the
Company’s assets” shall be deemed to include the assets of all business units and/or divisions of the Company and all of its affiliates. 
  

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 (h) Company notifies the Employee that the Company’s Corporate offices in Princeton, NJ will be moved more than 50
miles from its present location. 
  
 4. Payment After Termination.
Following termination of Employee’s employment, all payments and benefits provided to Employee under this Agreement shall cease as of the date of such termination, except that in the event Employee’s employment is terminated (i) by
Employee pursuant to Section 3(e), or (ii) by the Company pursuant to Sections 3(d), (g) or (h), then (X) for a period of twelve (12) months after the date of such termination, the Company shall: (a) pay Employee severance pay in the form of
continuation of Employee’s base salary, less standard deduction and withholdings, such payments to be made at the same time as Employee’s salary otherwise would have been payable, and (b) if Employee elects continued coverage under COBRA,
the Company will reimburse Employee for the same portion of Employee’s health insurance premiums for Employee and Employee’s family, to the same extent the Company paid those premiums during Employee’s employment; and (Y) at the end
of such twelve (12) month period, the Company shall pay to Employee an amount equal to a prorated portion of Employee’s bonus determined from January 1 of the year his employment terminated through the date of termination, less standard
deductions and withholdings. 
  
 5. Compensation, Equity and
Benefits 
  
 (a) The Employee’s initial base pay shall be at an
annualized rate of Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($275,000) per year, minus customary deductions for federal and state taxes and the like. The Chief Executive Officer will review the Employee’s base pay rate on an annual basis,
during the first calendar quarter of each year, with any increase becoming effective as of April 1. The Employee will also be eligible to receive an Annual Performance Bonus in accordance with the Company’s Bonus Plan for each calendar year the
Employee is employed by the Company, in accordance with the Company’s Bonus Plan in effect for such year. The Employee must be employed by the Company on the date of payment of the Annual Performance Bonus to be entitled to receive such Bonus.
The award and amount of any Annual Performance Bonus shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer and the Board based on the Employee’s performance and the overall performance of the Company, measured against goals that are established by
the Company from time to time. The bonus target for each year will be forty percent (40%) of the Employee’s annualized base pay rate, and the amount of any Annual Bonus for 2005 shall be prorated based on the number of full months in 2005 in
which the Employee is employed by the Company. 
  
 (b) The Company will grant to
the Employee incentive stock options to purchase forty thousand (40,000) shares of the common stock of the Company at an exercise price equal to the closing price of such stock on the Employment Date, all of which will be immediately vested. In
addition, subject to approval of the Orchid BioScience, Inc. 2005 Stock Plan by the shareholders of the Company, the Company will grant to the Employee on the date after such shareholder approval incentive stock options to purchase one hundred
thousand (100,000) shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing price of such stock on the date of grant, all of which options will vest monthly in forty-eight (48) equal tranches over the four (4) years
following the date of grant. The foregoing stock options shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plan and the Company’s standard stock option agreement. In addition, upon a Change of Control, all unvested options shall
become immediately vested. 
  

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 (c) Employee shall be entitled to participate in all employee benefit, welfare and other plans, practices policies and
programs and fringe benefits of the Company on a basis no less favorable than those provided to other similarly situated executives of the Company. Employee understands that, except when prohibited by applicable law, the Company’s employee
benefit plans and fringe benefits may be amended, enlarged, diminished or terminated by the Company from time to time, in its sole discretion. 
  
 (d) The Company, at its expense, will purchase life insurance on the Employee’s life in the face amount of not less than three (3) times Employee’s base pay
rate with a beneficiary designated by the Employee and the Employee shall receive deferred compensation through contributions of five percent (5%) of Employee’s annual base pay per year in accordance with the terms of the Orchid BioSciences,
Inc. Executive Deferred Compensation Plan. 
  
 (e) Employee will be entitled to
five (5) sick days, and to accrue up to twenty-five (25) vacation days per year that Employee remains employed by the Company, subject to the terms of normal Company sick leave and vacation policies. 
  
 (f) The Company agrees to reimburse the Employee up to Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) of
Relocation Expenses (as defined) relating to his relocation of his primary residence to within fifty (50) miles of the Company’s Head Office. Such reimbursement shall be upon presentation of reasonably detailed invoices for bona fide Relocation
Expenses. For purposes hereof, “Relocation Expenses” shall mean (a) the actual transportation costs for moving Employee’s household goods; (b) closing costs on a home within fifty (50) miles of the Company’s Head Office; (c)
temporary living expenses within fifty (50) miles of the Company’s Head Office for up of two (2) months; and (d) two (2) house hunting trips for Employee, his spouse and daughter. The foregoing notwithstanding, if within twelve (12) months
after the Employee relocates his primary residence Employee voluntarily terminates his employment with the Company (other than for a Constructive Dismissal) or his employment with the Company is terminated for Cause, then Employee shall immediately
pay to the Company the amount of the Relocation Expenses reimbursed to Employee (or the Company may withhold such amount from any payments otherwise due to Employee). The Company shall only be obligated to reimburse Employee for Relocation Expenses
incurred within twelve (12) months from the date of this Agreement. 
  
 (g) The
Employee shall be expected to purchase in the open-market either prior to or within six (6) months after his date of employment with the Company, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) worth of the common stock of the Company, and provide evidence thereof
of the Vice President, Human Resources. 
  
 (h) In connection with any travel on
business on behalf of the Company, depending upon the meeting schedule at the destination, and subject to mutual agreement with respect thereto by the Employee and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, for any flight over four (4) hours, the
Employee may fly business class. 
  
 6. Confidentiality, Inventions and
Non-Competition. The Company considers the protection of its confidential information, proprietary materials and goodwill to be extremely important. Given the confidential nature of various aspects of the Company’s business, the
Employee may not discuss the fact or terms of this Agreement or any employment discussions with anyone other than the Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President, Human Resources or the Vice President, 
  

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Legal Affairs, members of Employee’s immediate family and, if relevant, the Employee’s financial advisor or lawyer, provided, the Employee
acknowledges and agrees that this Agreement may be publicly disclosed by the Company. In addition, the Employee agrees to sign and return the attached Employee Agreement concurrently with the execution of this Agreement. 
  
 7. Miscellaneous. This Agreement represents the Company’s and
Employee’s entire understanding with respect to the subject matter contained in this Agreement and supersedes all previous understandings, written or oral, between the Company and Employee concerning the subject matter of this Agreement. This
Agreement may be amended or modified only in a writing signed by both a duly authorized officer of the Company and Employee. No oral waiver, amendment or modification shall be effective under any circumstances whatsoever. 
  
 8. D&O Insurance. The Company agrees to maintain a director’s and
officers’ liability insurance policy covering Employee to the extent the Company provides such coverage for its other directors and executive officers. 
  
 9. Governing Law; Severability. This Agreement shall be governed by the law of the State of Delaware. Should any provisions of this Agreement by held be a
court of law to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall not be affected or impaired thereby. 
  
 10. Notices. Any notice required or permitted by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered as follows with
notice deemed given as indicated: (1) by personal delivery when delivered personally; (2) by overnight courier upon written verification of receipt; (3) by telecopy or facsimile transmission upon acknowledgment of receipt of electronic transmission;
or (4) by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, upon verification of receipt. Notices to Employee shall be sent to the last known address in the Company’s records or such other address as Employee may specify in writing.
Notices to the Company shall be sent to the Chief Executive Officer (with a copy to the General Counsel) or to such other Company representative as the Company may specify in writing. 
  
 BY PLACING MY SIGNATURE HEREUNDER, I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE READ ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT I AGREE TO ALL OF ITS
TERMS. 
  

									
	 EMPLOYEE:
	 	 	 	 
					
	Date:	 	 April 23, 2005
	 	 	 	 	 	/s/    RAYMOND J. LAND        
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	Raymond J. Land

									
					
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Address: 
	 	 817 Santa Rita Ave

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Los Altos, CA 94022

									
			
	 The Company
	 	 	 	 
					
	Date:	 	 April 25, 2005
	 	 	 	By:	 	/s/    PAUL J. KELLY        
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Name:
	 	Paul J. Kelly
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	C.E.O.

  

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