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Westlake Village, California, US

Chicago, IL, US

• The third-largest retail mortgage lender in the United States, Guaranteed Rate has 10,000 employees across 850 offices, funds $73B in annual loan volume.
• Lead systems architecture, software engineering, DevOps, and technology support for Guaranteed Rate’s Wholesale Lending and JV/Partner mortgage originations businesses. Manage an organization of 4 direct reports, 116.
• Managed a portfolio of 90 products, including the Empower Loan Origination System and Digital Mortgage platform.
• Migrated from hybrid to Agile SDLC and improved cycle time by 70%.
• Implemented CI/CD across the product stack, reducing deployment related costs by $5M annually.

Coppell, TX, US

• A full-service mortgage lender and agency direct seller/servicer, Caliber Home Loans is the second-largest U.S. mortgage lender by volume, servicing over $129B in loans with 590K customers.
• Responsible for the architecture, integration, development, and support of Caliber’s enterprise business application portfolio, encompassing approximately 160 applications. Managed 12 direct reports, 19 indirect.
• Developed and executed a comprehensive strategy for the management of enterprise applications, decreasing the reliance on vendors and capturing more than $10M in savings for licensing, development, and support.
• Carried out a complete overhaul of the Fiserv LoanServ script development function, powering a $90B pipeline of more than 600K loans. Replaced 1,400 undocumented and manually executed scripts with a set of 700.
• Selected by the CIO to lead the project and team build-out for the 2016 ServiceNow implementation. Key achievements included: automating 5K monthly email requests to save $165K in annual marketing costs; negotiating a.
• Developed a new pre-foreclosure review and referral application to keep pace with the rapid expansion of Caliber’s loan portfolio and eliminate the need to hire additional Analysts. Built a new application that fully.

Charlotte, NC, US

• An international leader in financial services and investment banking, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is the second largest bank in the United States, generating $87.3B in annual revenue.
• Responsible for application development, data architecture, and data warehousing within Bank of America’s Institutional Mortgage Services (IMS) division. Oversaw two data warehouses supporting 120K users, developed the.
• Following the 2008 acquisition of Countrywide Financial, created the Wholesale Lending (WHL) Data Warehouse to integrate and centralize the reporting systems. The resulting enterprise data warehouse contained over 60TB.
• Developed the Correspondent Analytics Reporting System (CARS) to handle large historical datasets of approximately 100TB. This system supported 4K brokers, over 800 reports, and a user base of 120K.
• Automated Wholesale Lending’s monthly business review reporting, encompassing more than 300 pages. This initiative reduced the preparation timeline by 67%, using only two analysts compared to the previous six.
• Selected as one of 10 Application Development Managers supporting Project Stargate, responsible for rebuilding 3,000 line of business applications into.NET and SQL Server.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Responsible for financial reporting, analytics, dashboards, and pricing across the company’s Central and Eastern Divisions. Supported reporting and analytics development for the IMS Channel, encompassing 1,200 SSRS.
• Built the specifications and framework for Countrywide’s first loan origination pipeline management system. This initiative enhanced pipeline management, provided status information to the broker network, increased the.
• Designed and automated all daily reports for pricing and metrics within Wholesale Lending’s Central and Eastern Division. This effort delivered a significant cost savings, with a 91.7% reduction in analysis and turn.

Bachelor Of Science Studies, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science Studies, Computer Science & Finance