Responsible for overseeing commercial real estate operations, overseeing new and existing business, screening, advisement, and recommendation of real estate accounts; advising on deal size and structure, conducting cash flow and valuation analysis (for potential transactions), underwriting, pricing and closing commercial real estate loans, conducting due diligence on real estate assets, facilitating transactions, identifying and managing problematic credit situations and all aspects of client relations. Manages and administers all commercial real estate activity for the Southern California region. Recruits, trains, supervises, and mentors unit personnel, and ensures optimal personnel performance. Accomplishments: - Launched West Coast office from its inception and quickly took it to profitability.- Recruited and staffed team, and saw all team members to their maximum productivity.- Has originated and booked more than $1.5 billion of high-quality real estate loan loans since inception.- Specializes in deals from $10 to $40 million in direct lending, and has participated in other banks' syndications in the $200 to $400 million range.- Has established a myriad of key, profitable client relationships.

Directly responsible for managing daily commercial real estate operations, business development coordination, negotiating loan terms and conditions, managing special assets strategies, resolving problematic or non-performing loans, working with other officers to assist in underwriting client financials (to determine cash flow and ability to pay), client relations, and handling a wide variety of special projects. Selected Accomplishments: - Oversaw a commercial real estate operation which has consistently met all companywide expectations. - Joined to grow the bank's commercial real estate lending portfolio, and attained a strong customer base by producing more than $50 to $60 million of construction loans and income property loans annually.- Successfully resolved more than $75 million of problematic and non-performing assets via loan restructuring, negotiating with borrowers and bank legal counsel, and collection and sale of OREO and note assets.- Bridge, renovation, and mini-term loan transactions, and presented proposed loans to senior management.- Originated more than $200 million in commercial real estate and construction loans as well as more than $35 million in deposits.

Responsible for managing commercial real estate activities, business development, negotiating and underwriting construction and term loan transactions, presenting proposals to senior management, and client relations. - Solicited, developed, and managed commercial real estate business relationships.- Generated more than $200 million of high-quality commercial real estate loans.- Developed over $50 million of CORE deposits.

Responsible for managing day to day division operations, establishing new commercial and real estate credit relationships, asset-based lending, construction and term financing (for income properties), analyzing loan structure and underwriting, presenting and negotiating proposals for prospective clients, loan portfolio management, identifying and cross-selling bank services, and all aspects of customer relations. - Developed commercial and real estate credit relationships, asset-based lending, construction and term-financing of income-producing properties, with loan sizes ranging from $5 million to $35 million.- Administered and managed existing loan portfolio as it related to credit quality, risk rating, covenant compliance, annual reviews, and loan renewals.