Mike Kelley Email & Phone Number

Mckinney, Tx, Us

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Us

Principal product leader delivering a next generation cloud based data platform for the Sagent servicing ecosystem. The platform collects data from the primary performing loan servicing, default loan servicing, and borrower portal source systems into a modern cloud based data lakehouse (Snowflake database hosted in any of the 3 major cloud providers: Azure, AWS, GCP) and makes the data available in a self service delivery format. The data catalog consists of over 500 data containers and 50,000 individual data elements.Responsibilities include market facing activities, roadmap creation/management, backlog management, product architecture, and leading multiple cross-functional Agile delivery teams. In first full year of leading the product, increased net promoter score by 15% year over year, which represented the largest improvement in the company's application portfolio.Also led a Gen AI POC to build a Python based AI support agent using internal company documents and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) concepts along with a locally hosted open source LLM.

Addison, Texas, Us

Led a major version upgrade of company's browser based AI/ML powered self employed document processing and income calculation product. Additionally led the delivery and launch of a new income product for salaried borrowers. LoanBeam's core competency involves leveraging industry leading AI/ML based document processing technology to classify and extract data from standard borrower income documents (tax returns, IRS schedules, P&L statements, paystubs, W2s, etc.) and applying investor specific income rules to determine borrower income for underwriting purposes.Product delivery responsibilities included leading a team of analysts to build and maintain a product backlog using Agile methodologies and tools like Scrum and Jira, leading an external design firm to overhaul existing UX/UI with tools like Sketch and Zeplin, working with onshore/offshore development teams to produce working software that meet product requirements, and creating launch plans for both products.Product management responsibilities include working with senior leadership team to develop go to market strategy and revenue goals along with collaborating on new product collateral. Also responsible for business development through customer meetings and industry events.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Led several digital transformation initiatives at a top 25 US mortgage lender. Directly responsible for working with executive leadership to architect, shape, prioritize, and lead their digital mortgage strategy of a new, cloud based, digital Point of Sale system integrated with the Encompass origination platform.Additionally helped lead the creation of the product mindset within the company that had previously followed a traditional project management/waterfall based approach. As part of establishing the new product mindset I also helped introduce Agile and Scrum delivery practices into the organization while leveraging tools such as Azure DevOps and MS Teams.

Monett, Missouri, Us

Led the product team for the lending domain within the Symitar credit union division for a recognized leader in the FinTech market. Responsible for defining market and customer requirements, working closely with development teams to deliver working software, and partnering with Sales & Marketing to drive product adoption. Frequent presenter at national and regional company user conferences to discuss topics in the lending domain.In addition to lending, led several integrations with multiple payment systems (ACH, wire, RTP, SWIFT) and maintained integrations with multiple payment processors such as First Data.

Dallas, Tx, Us

While building and leading multiple cross-functional teams to deliver a technology portfolio, worked directly with executive business leadership to architect solutions and build technology roadmaps covering multiple product platforms including mortgage servicing, investor reporting/investor accounting, enterprise content management, and business intelligence technology platforms.Led the successful deliver of an AI/ML based document automation project to process/classify/ingest roughly 100 million previously unclassified loan documents. The goal of the project was to reduce the time to locate documents and speed up client response times.Participated in an initiative to help the company incorporate the product mindset into the organization. My team was one of the first to convert from the traditional project/waterfall mentality to a product based approach utilizing a product backlog and an Agile delivery team following the Scrum framework.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Led a CIO sponsored project to establish a comprehensive data governance processes within the bank's mortgage division to ensure compliance with internal bank standards. Project included the identification and remediation of existing out of compliance data usage and the establishment of ongoing governance processes to ensure continued compliance. Several thousand users and internal processes were included in the scope of the project.

Toronto, On, Ca

Led a cross functional team in the modernization and transformation of a large tax preparation application from a legacy client server platform to a browser based, SOA focused platform using a modern Microsoft technology stack. Responsible for product backlog creation, user story definition, product architecture, user experience design, and product acceptance.

Independent residential wholesale mortgage broker. Worked with multiple wholesale investor including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Chase. Also originated commercial loans for a private investor that specialized in residential rehab construction loans.

Equity participant in an e-commerce startup software company aimed at creating trading communities between companies participating in a group purchasing organization (GPO) and their suppliers. Competitors included companies such as Commerce One and Ariba, IBM, and I2. Key targets included the automotive aftermarket and health care industries. Working directly with the founder, I ran the product function and built the initial strategic product roadmap and development backlog. I helped introduce an iterative development approach to deliver product. We developed wireframe mockups of UI along with use cases to capture and communicate requirements to the development team. I worked with executive leadership to develop pricing, marketing materials, and go to market strategy. Participated in industry trade shows and served as solution architect during business development meetings.

Provided business analysis, project management, technical leadership, and development contributions on several custom software development client engagements. Representative Line Of Business engagements included Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management/Logistics, and Manufacturing.Provided onsite and classroom instruction on SDLC methodologies/best practices, including Information Engineering, which was the SDLC methodology at the foundation of the TI built CASE tool.Received accolades from multiple clients and received annual top performer awards in recognition for technical and client leadership.