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Nashville, Tennessee, Us

FirstBank, headquartered in Nashville, has 81 full-service bank branches across Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia, and a national mortgage business with offices across the Southeast. The bank currently has $13 billion in total assets.Responsible for the credit risk function for the Bank. This governance includes overseeing the FirstBank credit policy ensuring coverage of all business lines with credit risk, aggregating the reporting of credit risk from all business lines and monitoring credit risk to ensure compliance with established policy, risk limits, laws and regulations. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:• Manage enterprise-wide credit policy, credit analytics and reporting, special assets, and appraisal risk management functions.• Act a chairperson of the Corporate Credit Risk Committee. • Monitor the risk in enterprise credit portfolio through periodic reviews of underlying data as well as assessing the impact of emerging risks on the portfolio.• Exercise oversight over the adequacy of risk ratings, regulatory compliance, and credit policy conformance.• Establish and analyze financial metrics of the Bank’s loan portfolio for adherence to regulatory guidelines and analyze credit portfolios to pinpoint potential areas of weakness or concentrations that produce more than acceptable risk.• Provide input and assistance in decision-making on issues affecting the Bank’s credit portfolio.• Provide adequate oversight to direct reports to assure that they perform their duties in accordance with Bank requirements and that they meet all audit, compliance, risk management and regulatory requirements, mandates and directives to operate in a safe and sound manner.

Edina, Minnesota, Us

Member of the senior management team providing strategic leadership for overall bank credit quality and risk management and supporting the Bank's profitable growth while preserving the long-term integrity and sustainability of the Bank.Accountable for: - Asset quality and overall risk management of Bank's loan, lease, factoring and mortgage warehouse portfolio - Acceptable loan loss and problem loan resolution - Acceptable regulatory asset quality exams - Effective and efficient loan processing and support - Growing assets/revenues of the Bank

Us

TCF is a Minnesota-based national bank holding company. with $24 billion in total assets and 314 bank branches in Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Arizona and South Dakota providing retail and commercial banking services. TCF also conducts commercial leasing and inventory/equipment finance business in all 50 states and Canada. Responsible for managing the Commercial Loan Review function. Oversaw all credit review activities and provided TCF executive management and the Board of Directors with an independent evaluation of credit quality, credit risk and emerging trends in the wholesale lending portfolios. Responsible for planning, budgeting and staffing development. Major Areas of Accountability:• Led the commercial loan review process. Directed the activities of all Loan Review personnel and provided leadership to establish a culture of sound credit/risk practices, self-identification, transparency and rapid remediation.• Developed and maintained internal and external relationships to ensure the proper functioning of the Wholesale Credit Review Team. Worked closely with bank executives and senior management.• Participated in new product development teams to provide recommendations as needed.• Monitored trends in loan/lease portfolio performance and made credit policy recommendations, when warranted, to compensate for changes in risk. Through Loan Review activities, monitored bank-wide compliance with credit regulations as well as bank policies and procedures.• Performed special assurance, consulting for new products/services, acquisition due diligence and continuous assurance / monitoring.

Eau Claire, Wi, Us

Developed, implemented and executed Loan Policy. Oversaw effective risk rating system/process. Chaired Officers Loan Committee. Managed all credit analysis, loan operations support and appraisal review functions. Actively participated in development and implementation of ongoing credit training. Assisted in detection of any deterioration of loan quality. Monitored and managed loan portfolio concentration. Managed the Allowance for Loan and Lease Loss. Main point of contact for Regulatory Examinations.Achieved highest Safety and Soundness examination ratings during tenure. TEAM/COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS: Executive Team, Officers Loan Committee, Directors Loan Committee, Asset Liability Management Committee, Audit Legal Compliance Committee, Strategic Action Plan Team

Chicago, Illinois, Us

BMO is a top-ten financial institution in North America and has nearly $1 trillion in total assets worldwide.SENIOR MANAGER, CREDIT RISK AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT WI, MN and AZIndependently managed large and complex relationships. Drove corporate initiatives through re-structuring loans, enhancing the Bank’s collateral position, identifying alternative repayment plans, and collected loans in a manner that resulted in the highest possible recovery of principal and interest within established time frames. Primary Industries of C&I, CRE and Agriculture. • Oversaw four teams comprised of 35 relationship managers, portfolio managers and analysts to repatriate distressed loans in an accurate and timely manner.• Collaborated with Bank’s Credit, Audit, Accounting, Loan Review, Real Estate, Compliance and Legal Departments to monitor and report status of problem credits and insure that the Bank complies with Regulatory requirements.• Entrusted with $20 million in lending authority.• Resolved nearly $1 billion in distressed credits through repatriation, asset sale and refinance.• Drove Net Increase in Portfolio Metrics to comply with Corporate Directive by increasing portfolio coverage of impaired loans from 65% to over 80%. Contracted Watchlist by 48% year over year. REGIONAL SENIOR CREDIT OFFICER, INSTITUTIONAL REAL ESTATE GROUP Responsible for adjudicating and monitoring credit-related efforts for $4+Billion National CRE portfolio as well as all credit-related activities for M&I Capital Markets Fixed Income Group. • Approved credit requests within assigned lending authority, based upon the risk taking philosophy of the corporation and conveyed decisions and actions to appropriate personnel. • Provided coaching and mentoring on risk assessment, credit underwriting, loan structuring and relationship management to Commercial Lenders. Worked with less experienced lenders in developing credit skills and career growth.

Ba, Economics

Mba, Finance