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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Drives the vision for the evolution of the digital banking platform, guiding its transformation into a singular, scalable solution that supports customized implementations and enables clients to deliver bespoke banking.
• Implemented the ‘4 Effs’ roadmap methodology (Fixed, Firm, Flexible, Fuzzy), enabling strategic prioritization and stakeholder alignment on future deliverables while maintaining adaptive planning capabilities
• Deliver seamless new account funding experience, personalized financial insights, and integrated credit card management to solve client challenges, enhance user engagement and retention, and drive increased platform.
• Lead API integrations with industry leaders like Plaid to enable instant account verification, user-initiated ACH transfers, and account aggregation, reducing onboarding friction and improving transaction efficiency
• Mentor product owners and instill a culture of innovation and agile excellence to influence cross-functional teams, enhance product development velocity, and strengthen team cohesion
• Redesigned scrum team structures, improving collaboration, communication flow, and operational efficiency, leading to more predictable and scalable product delivery

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Directed operational strategy for technological infrastructure, software development, data reporting, and product management to align technology initiatives with organizational goals
• Optimized cloud infrastructure by leading the migration of a proprietary lending platform from Heroku to Amazon Web Services, reducing annual costs by 50% while enhancing scalability and system performance
• Launched an automated loan application system, reducing the origination-to-funding cycle time and significantly enhancing user experience, resulting in improved borrower satisfaction and operational efficiency
• Engineered workflows to process over $290 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness applications, automating the handling of 30,000+ loans and ensuring compliance with SBA guidelines, while.

San Antonio, Texas

• Streamlined development workflows by implementing Kanban for an offshore software development team, improving delivery predictability and team efficiency
• Drove exponential growth in lending operations, designing processes that facilitated the closure of $70M in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in 2020 (a 3.5x increase over 2019) and over $220M in 2021, ensuring.
• Established a value-driven development framework, ensuring all software initiatives aligned with organizational goals and adhered to a small, iterative scope (<2 weeks), accelerating delivery and reducing resource waste
• Defined and secured buy-in for a new product offering (small business line of credit), aligning cross-functional teams on the vision and setting the foundation for future growth in the small business lending market

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Defined and aligned the product roadmap for the digital lending and deposit account opening solutions, achieving stakeholder buy-in to drive strategic initiatives
• Accelerated delivery of the rebuilt online loan application for small businesses by collaborating with key team members during the scoping, design, slicing, and sequencing of work, completing the project 50% faster.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Managed a high-performing Scrum team responsible for delivering functionality for the bank’s marketing website, optimizing the customer journey and increasing site engagement
• Revitalized deployment cadence, achieving three feature deployments in six months—a significant improvement over zero deployments in the previous nine months—by fostering stakeholder collaboration and prioritization.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Designed and launched a new digital account opening product, creating a solution that reduced completion time from 30 minutes to under two minutes, solving client challenges and significantly improving onboarding.
• Participated in the development and launch of a new automated digital lending solution, enabling bank customers to secure auto loans in under five minutes with full automation, reducing friction and enhancing user.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Enabled market expansion by coordinating with the Senior Mortgage Manager to establish policies, processes, and vendor relationships, allowing the client to enter the secondary mortgage market in under 90 days

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Delivered multifaceted consulting services to a diverse client portfolio, leveraging expertise in financial management, operational process optimization, business development, and strategic planning to drive measurable.
• Served as a versatile problem-solver, adapting to client needs across industries and delivering tailored solutions to enhance operational efficiency, financial performance, and market positioning

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Expanded responsibilities from business development to overseeing product development, guiding the product roadmap, infrastructure planning, and process optimization, ensuring alignment with strategic goals
• Secured a key endorsement from a state banking association, earning their recommendation of our solution to member institutions, significantly enhancing market credibility
• Established a strategic partnership with a major educational services nonprofit, enabling the re-sale of our services and broadening market reach
• Won a competitive bid to serve as the back-end messaging (SMS and email) vendor for a large state-owned collegiate service organization, solidifying the company’s position as a trusted provider in the education sector

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

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