Daniel Bauer Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

• Lead the retail, direct, correspondent and indirect channels for the Residential Lending division originating $3.5+ billion in annual first and second lien production with direct responsibilities for: strategy, sales.
• Responsible for the buy / sell strategy, performance and direct contribution of a 1-4 family residential lending portfolio with $7.5+ billion in assets -Designed, lead, and executed a key enterprise transformation.
• Growing the Residential Lending business with a relationship and digital strategy yielding a best-in-class national lending experience

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for the overall direct contribution of the mortgage line of business Including a team of 100+ employees that delivered 100% year-over-year growth in originations scaling from $400 million to $1.7 billion.
• Lead a senior mortgage management team that provided direct oversight of sales, operations, credit, compliance, special projects and secondary marketing responsibilities
• Oversaw the hiring of several top producing mortgage lenders with an established track record of yielding nationally recognized production volume through a diversified product mix
• Developed an enhanced credit and secondary delivery model that capitalized on the flexibility of the mortgage asset through revised 1-4 family portfolio guidelines, an enhanced saleable investor mix and a transition to.
• Built a new sales vertical that provided mortgage direct origination volume through a sophisticated e-commerce delivery channel
• Enhanced operations, credit and secondary platforms with third party integrations to measurably improve efficiency and the client experience within targeted profitability metrics

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Oversaw the transition from the First Merit acquisition of eight in-market loan officers to a sophisticated market build out that included over 90 new hires withinthe sales and operations departments of the IL/WI/IN.
• Led the sales and operations teams to an annualized origination production budget of $1 billion in closed volume
• Facilitated the leasing and coordination of a new 10,000 sq foot office space to serve as an organizational hub in Chicagoland
• Assisted with the national integration of a new loan origination system through the Net Oxygen platform- Coordinated the implementation of a national operations delivery model, notable for the separation and.

• Built a de novo mortgage sales, operations and credit team in the western suburbs of Chicago that yielded over $350 in annual production during its first full year of business
• Responsible for the integration of the Encompass loan origination system (from Mortgage Bot) while adding other third-party vendors: Optimal Blue, Ellie Mae CRM and Velocify to the organization’s technology stack
• Developed notable builder and large real estate relationships in the Chicago market providing a path for cross functional lending by the commercial and wealth division

San Francisco, California, US

• Led Wells Fargo's flagship lending production office in Chicago that originated over $600 million in annual production
• Oversaw the mortgage partnership with the Wells Fargo Advisor's downtown Chicago location that maintained over $10 billion in AUM
• Managed the national transition from a centralized processing model to a decentralized (in branch) processing partnership

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

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