B. George Saloom, Bs, Mba, Cdp Email & Phone Number

Contracted (2005 – 2010) with Boozer Enterprises, LLC , McDonald’s Franchisee in Brunswick and St. Simons Island, GA as their Human Resources Director. Environment consisted of 5 locations and 300 employees.Significant Accomplishments:• Established, enhanced and personally executed all aspects of the Human Resources functions, including recruiting, hiring, orientation, training, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, coaching and disciplinary actions, including terminations. Turnover average 50 % compared to industry average of 120 %. Customer Satisfaction (Customer Complaint Calls) reduced from 3 to 1 per month per restaurant).• Implemented, administered and monitored all Employment Policies and Procedures and oversight of Regulatory and Legal Adherence. Restaurant Performance (measured by Mystery Shopping and Full/Short Operating Reviews conducted by Florida Region) increased 5 percentage points. • Managed workers compensation and unemployment compensation. No unemployment compensation claims awarded by State of Georgia against Boozer Enterprises, LLC. Additional responsiblity included focal point for technology issues, designated by McDonalds as the Organizational Technology Person (OTP).

Led the Application Delivery Function for Regions Financial Corporation. Scope of responsibility includes providing support, enhancement and development services as well as strategic/tactical architectural direction for the application delivery function for mainframe and distributed (including web based) systems/platforms for Regions Technology and for Regions Financial Corporation. 4 Functional/Organizational Units, Multi-State Reporting Responsibility with 8 Direct Reports and 250 Associates. Served on the Corporate Quality Leadership Council.Significant Accomplishments:• Implemented a Transition and Transformation Process to include both tactical and strategic direction for the Application Delivery Function for the Corporation. Deliverables Included: - Employee Career Development - Change Management - Communication Process• Improved both the quality and quantity of application delivery as well as establishing a reputation with internal clients of responsiveness. In 2003, completed nearly 50 projects and 750 requests for the internal clients, in addition to expending 145,000 hours on Production Support (130,000 Regular Maintenance and 15,000 hours Production Issues). • Established a stronger and more cohesive relationship and support function with the other Regions Technology functional areas, such as Technology Operations, Telecommunications, Information Management, Architecture, Project Management and Business Liaison.• Formulated and Executed a very proactive process, including documentation, testing, communications and education to address the Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Issues/Policies within Application Delivery

Championed the Information Technology direction and services for Zions Bancorporation. Management of functional areas included providing information technology services, acquisition and conversion services and strategic planning for information technology to the holding company, lead bank and affiliate banks. Regional/Multi-State Bank with operational reports in 6 States, 11 Direct Reports, 350 Associates. Recognized as “Star Employee” for Contributions. Significant Accomplishments:• Participated as part of the Corporate Merger/Acquisition Team comprised of Zions and First Security. Major responsibility was the Human Resources advocate and champion.• Reduced annual operating expenses by $ 1.5 million by negotiating enterprise telecommunications contract.• Reduced annual operating expenses (and improved services) by $ 400,000 by negotiating enterprise printer contract and CPU contract.• Executed corporate-wide desktop, LAN and Wan architectural upgrade encompassing 5000 desktops and almost 1000 servers in a 6-state geography.• Instrumental in the organizing and coordinating the pre-merger information technology activities between Zions Bancorporation and First Security. Actually moved the Zions Datacenter to First Security (and back) without any customer (internal and/or external) impact.

Evangelized the information technology architectural direction for First Security as a member of the senior leadership team. Significant Accomplishments:• Established a process to insure proactive review and approval of technical decisions and their architectural impact.• Coordinated the pre-due diligence and due diligence for First Security Corporation in establishing a unique, industry-setting strategic partnership with a major external services provider.

Stabilized and brought organization to a chaotic and dysfunctional multi-state information technology team for the largest independent healthcare claims processor in the United States. 5 State, 4 Datacenters, Staff of 450.Significant Accomplishments:• Reduced turnover by from 30 % to 20 % and established a more stable environment in the Information Technology Organization through a revamp of job descriptions, re-evaluation of the salary ranges and establishment of management/technical career paths.• Re-engineered a new Pharmacy Benefits Processing System that supported some 10,000 POS terminals and over 50 million claims per year.• Achieved bottom-line operating efficiencies of 20 % by positioning the corporation with a strong technology platform and architecture, restructuring the information technology organization and closing several data centers.

Re-established Information Technology Division and restored both internal and external information technology services after Gulf War. Subsequently, through leadership and example, evolved EDP Division into a top performing organization and positioned for outstanding support of future BKME organization. 4 Direct Reports and National/International Staff of 100. Significant Accomplishments:• Trained, Tutored and Mentored Kuwaiti Staff to become more proficient in performing their responsibilities, less dependent upon external (non-Kuwait) personnel and to eventually support and manage the EDP Division.• Reviewed, re-evaluated and restructured hardware/software configuration and saved BKME over US $600,000 annually in real operating expenses.

Established the design, development and support of a commercially marketed knowledge-based ("expert systems") software package. Assisted in start-up operations, company was subsequently sold to a larger competitor.Significant Accomplishments:• Introduced a quality/customer service perspective and methodology to the entire company. • Developed the foundation for the new generation product (Judgment Processor) in DOS and OS/2 environments.

Brought Organization and Order through the management of 300 information technology professionals with a budget of $40 million. Subsequent control of corporation was transferred to RTC.Significant Accomplishments:• Managed a statewide communications network, comprising two remote network centers and consistently delivering high availability (>99.8%) of IT services.• Rearchitected network and installed T-1 backbone ($490,000 annual savings).• Reorganized Information Technology Organization to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Primary emphasis was on restructuring Application Systems Development, hiring a new Application Systems Development Manager and establishing a Project Management function/organization and hiring Project Management Department Manager

Led and Revolutioniezed the systems development function consisting of 200 data processing professionals with a budget of $12 million.Significant Accomplishments:• Received letter from Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer (Chairman of the EDP Priorities Committee) stating that under my leadership the organization had accomplished more systems development, in a more effective and successful manner, than ever before in the history of First Atlanta.• Successfully managed a staff of over 200 with turnover less than 10% over a five-year period.• Instrumental as part of the Senior Leadership Team in organizing, facilitating and implementing the transition of the Information Systems of First Atlanta and Wachovia Corporations into a consolidated and unified Information Systems Organization for First Wachovia.

Non-Degree, Restaurant Operations Leadership

Non-Degree, Executive Education - Information Technology Management

Non-Degree, Banking

Mba, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering With Co-Op Option

Graduated with Honors and Distinguished Military Graduate (ROTC) B. George Saloom has served on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta.