Manage the Technology Project Management Office, IT Change Management, IT first line Risk Management, IT Vendor Management, and IT Reporting and Investment Framework teams.

Responsible for developing and leading a centralized team in charge of the execution of a strong third party risk management program to identify, mitigate, monitor and report third party risks at Regions. Ownership and enforcement responsibilities of the Third Party Management Framework, third party management policy, and governance over third party risk management. Responsible for aggregation of reporting into the Vendor Risk Oversight Committee. Create an escalation protocol for VROs to report third party related concerns, risks and challenges. Creation and execution of a robust third party risk assessment process for onboarding and ongoing monitoring. Ensure connectivity between third party risk assessment process and operational risk as well as new initiative assessment processes. Develop and implement a third party outreach and accountability program to drive consistent documentation, manage timely execution and ensure escalation mechanisms are in place and operating. Enhance third party risk reporting. Bring clear definition and criteria to what will be considered Critical vendors and high risk vendors. Align third party risk management and reporting with critical and high risk vendors.

Leading a team of Regulatory Officers and Analyst under Enterprise and Operational Risk Management.

Responsible for leading regulatory initiatives that impact Regions Bank and Regions Financial Corp. A focus on ensuring quality, accuracy, and timeliness of regulatory responses across all examinations and reviews from Regions Supervisory Authorities. Effectively performs and manages cross divisional coordination, communication and negotiations to influence more positive outcomes. Manage the strategic goal of achieving streamlined regulatory risk management to enhance regulatory relationships and ensure conformity with regulatory requirements. Understand the current state and needed future state of internal processes and regulatory affairs to better facilitate the streamlined program to include advancements in tools and processes. Drive the implementation of these approaches with the included responsibility of examination management and accountability for regular relationships. Partners with senior management, business and technology to understand the Divisions objectives and priorities and translate those into value added presentations to drive improved understandings of Bank processes and policies to regulators. Serve as primary point of contact to senior executives including Operating Committee Members and Executive Counsel for critical regulatory initiatives.Central point of contact for the Bank and Holding Company regulators and maintaining Confidential Supervisory Information. Advisor and project manager for all external examinations and reviews. Lead initiatives in training of regulatory etiquette and requirements supporting handling of Confidential Supervisory Information to internal associates. Demonstrates executive maturity to drive the work of others to completion, including people, processes and technology.Responsible for assisting in the identification of emerging regulatory risk and help formulate possible solutions.

Effectively partnered with evolving senior management during a period of intense restructuring and organizational change. Challenged to deliver departmental cohesion and operational efficiency across the Problem Asset organization. Developed a criticized and classified risk rating decision tree tool to help provide consistency in the accuracy of the rating in the designated space. Provided training to workout specialist and leadership credit training in terms of ratings and financial analysis. Mapped processes to identify gaps and needs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the department. Translated those processes into procedure manuals to serve as guidance and training tools. Built and managed the execution of the 2011 Problem Assets Incentive Plan. Assisted in a complete organizational redesign of the department to provide cohesion between positions and responsibilites.

Conduct Quality control reviews of various processes within the Special Assets Department. Processes reviewed include documents such as Problem Loan Reports and FAS 114 Worksheets. I am also the project manager for the Special Assets Operations team maintaining progress reports on all of the teams ongoing projects. I have enhanced existing transfer into Special Assets forms and processes. Built a new transfer back to the line of business form and process. Drafted related policy guidance in conjunction with process changes. Conduct guidance training. Coordinate the Federal Regulation Examinations of criticized and classified credits.

Cash flow credit underwriter for business loans up to $1.5 million. Reviewed financial statements and tax returns for global cash flow analysis to be able to offer credit decisions on subject loan requests from the field. Calculated global leverage ratios and performed business valuations. Merger integration with the Nashville loan center and field partners. Passed all ten areas of the Moody's Diagnostic. Trained several new underwriters in the center and became a strong source of feedback and direction to our field partners which has remained intact even in my new position.

Made sales calls on a daily basis in order to generate new business for the bank in both my existing book of business as well as prospecting new clients. Prospect for non-interest bearing deposits as well as money markets and time deposits. Solicit, enter and close varying loan types and lines of credit. Mentor for new hire training. In the top percentage of sales each month in my market. Had passed the series 63 exam and was working towards my series 6 license when I made the move to underwriting in July 2006. Complied with all federal and state regulations governing bank activity.Percentage to monthly sales goals in last month as FS258% Loans - goal of $475,000106% Deposits - goal of $700,000100% Small Business Loans - goal of $50,000203% Time deposits - goal of $475,000

Made sales calls to bring in new loans and lines of credit. Prospected new non-interest bearing deposits as well as annuity products. Delegated prospect list to the other assistants in the branch and tracked their activities. Acted as inside sales manager after receiving a position in the Leadership Institute in North Alabama with only 18 total individuals chosen for the group. Qualified and received Alabama state life insurance license in February 2005. Provided customer service to the general bank clients who came into the branch with account issues both large and small. Complied with federal and state regulations governing bank activity.