Richard Bender is a Chief Financial Officer at United Way of Miami County Oh. He possess expertise in non profits, fundraising, public speaking, strategic planning, small business and 21 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with Richard for nearly seven (7) years as a consultant assisting in the implementation of information technology solutions for his employer, Peoples Savings Bank. During that time, Richard oversaw the implementation of several major implementations and product launches, including local-area-network deployments in branch offices, a wide-area-network between the branch offices (and eventual migration to a VPN infrastructure), document and check imaging, telephone and Internet banking, remittance processing services, information technology disaster preparedness / recovery, and data processing security audits. In his role as Vice President of Operations, Richard oversaw and coordinated the services that my firm provided, as well as the services and products provided by many other third-party vendors. He functioned as a liason to the Peoples Savings Bank organization for these vendors, and dictated the organization's requirements, polcies, and user-acceptance criteria. There were many facets of Richard's job in which I was not directly involved, but I'm confident that he was as effective and detailed in those areas as he was in those where we worked together. Richard was a pleasure to work with, and an important asset to Peoples Savings Bank throughout their growing years and in the transition time after their being acquired by a larger financial services organization."