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Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Served as a strategy consultant for the implementation and execution of the COVID-19 Payroll Protection Program, Health Care Enhancement Act and PPP Extension Act of 2021. Helped enable the origination and disbursement of over $13.9 billion in PPP funding to small business customers.

Phoenix, Arizona

Led a cross-functional, global team tasked with transforming commercial banking systems into a suite of highly integrated technology solutions, eliminating duplicative and manual processes, creating more efficient operational workflows, and achieving higher levels of technology compliance and reliability. - Managed full product lifecycle commercial lending platforms supporting thousands of global users across multiple lines of business (LOBs), including: Wholesale Lending, Small Business Lending, Commercial Originations, Instant Credit, Instant Business Deposit Decisioning, Wealth Management Commercial Credit and Practice Finance- Leveraged Agile design principles to iterate product features to produce minimum viable products for rapid delivery, increasing production delivery schedules from quarterly to four week sprint cycles- Accountable for dozens of concurrent product/project lifecycles, creating and managing project budgets and timelines ranging from $250K-$8MM- Managing a global team of 120 reports spanning Costa Rica, India and across the United States- Constant collaboration with business partners to anticipate rapidly changing market conditions and customer needs; strong ability to bridge the gap between business and technology to develop clear and concise product requirements and actionable deliverables- Routinely presented platform strategies with executive business partners and the technology CIO, which included: program updates, software acquisition proposals, and department financials

San Francisco, California

Managed full product lifecycle commercial lending platforms supporting thousands of global users supporting the Small Business Lending LOB- Managed systems supporting commercial originations for Small Business Lending, which included credit card instant decisioning, business line of credit, term lending, equipment-secured lending, cash-secured financing and real-estate lending.- Manage mainframe and Java development development resources, prioritize and manage release schedules for multiple in-house products across multiple platforms. Integrate software and services across the enterprise, maintain enterprise standards, solve complex problems independently as well as build strong teams to help customers succeed.- Responsible for working with internal and external auditors on regulatory Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) technology, maintaining SOX documentation of critical data controls and data lineage

Tempe, Arizona

- Responsible for designing and integrating a cross-company banker interface to support the small business credit originations for the combined company, enabling over $200MM in additional out-of-footprint commitments throughout the Wells Fargo/Wachovia merger Transitional Service Agreement (TSA) period.- Implemented a commercial real estate origination & workflow platform for Small Business Lending. Responsible for the overall product features to support operations and servicing teams, migrating the workflow from a manual/paper workflow process to a completely digitized solution- Transformed middleware systems required to process internally and externally facing web application for credit application processing in order to improve response times and resiliency, reducing downtime and system interruptions- Partnered with business leaders, operations managers and technology teams to define business requirements and translate refined requirements into technology deliverables and timelines- Managed multiple technology assets ranging from middleware applications, real estate workflow and originations and various operations and audit utility systems

Tempe, Arizona

-Responsible for troubleshooting and correcting web related issues for a user base of 500+ users in collections and operations departments- Developed custom financial services .NET applications using C#. Integrate systems using web services. Oracle and SQL Server database development.-Refined existing .NET process applications to process more efficiently, with enhanced error handling and logging

Tem, Az

- Develop ASP, ASP.NET applications for marketing programs. - Created digital products for Western Digital, eBay and Microsoft. - Managed client relations, project timelines and development team deliverables.

B.S., Computer Information Systems

B.S., Business Management