Eric Somers Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I am responsible for growing the bank’s deposit business by managing partnerships with technology companies to transform and add additional product offerings. My role includes:
• Project planning and management using agile methodology
• Working with multiple lines of business/stakeholder
• Developing and implementing sales strategy
• Managing relationships with external vendors
• Collaborating with internal and external marketing to develop collateral

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I am responsible for managing the bank’s digital lending efforts and ongoing transformation. This included a total revamp of how applications are taken, processed, fulfilled and looking at every process in between..
• Managing a project team with Leveraging Agile project management skills
• Working with multiple lines of business/stakeholders
• Develop integration and learning plans
• Serve as a resource for handling technological and policy procedure
• Address critical issues/barriers; recommending and implementing solutions as needed

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• In my role with the US Mortgage Sales Strategy and Support group I was a part of a team that was responsible for on boarding and ongoing support of Mortgage Sales employees while also serving as a SME of the bank’s.
• Lead/Campaign management within CRM (Salesforce)
• Developing and championing core service and sales strategies
• Coaching/training newly hired mortgage bankers
• Develop learning plans
• Provide loan structuring, product, and basic underwriting support

• In my role as a Mortgage Banker at BMO Harris Bank N.A. I am responsible to,
• Originate new purchase and refinance loan applications
• Knowledge of WHEDA, FHA, VA, USDA and conventional loan programs
• Develop relationships within the community, specifically the real estate community
• Develop an understanding of the customer needs through analyzing customer financials, credit data and other relevant information.
• Collaborate with other internal lines of business to generate mortgage business and new customer growth

• In my role as a Mortgage Assistant at BMO Harris Bank N.A. I am responsible to,
• Directly support the Assistant Vice President-Mortgage Banker above me
• Review tri-merge credit reports and calculate debt ratios
• Develop relationships within the community, specifically the real estate community
• Collect documents required for the mortgage application from the customer, and analyze and image those documents
• Use of automated underwriting programs, Freddie Mac Loan Prospector and Fannie Mae Desktop Underwriter and interpretation of those results

• In my role as CSR II at M&I Bank I was responsible to:
• Preform a variety of basic banking service
• Sort and package currency and coin quickly and accurately
• Balance and manage assigned cash drawer
• Provide professional, friendly customer service and answer customers questions
• Identity other products that would effectively suit the customer to refer to other bank partners

Bachelor Of Business, Business Management

Finance And Financial Management Services

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), International Business

Associate'S Degree, Financial Institutions Management