Teresa Blake Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Whittier, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Teresa is a Partner in KPMG’s Financial Services practice in Charlotte. She leads the firm’s Mortgage Lending Transformation capability, which brings together system selection, implementation and transformation capabilities along with the firm’s capabilities in data & analytics, design thinking, cyber, risk, deal advisory, & program management. She currently leads the Women In Consulting BRG group across Advisory.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Lead a charter to gain greater mind & wallet share of our clients in the lending space. While WGS has established itself in the market as a reputed Mortgage LOS provider, drive transformation to an “Enterprise Lending Solution Provider of Choice” for our customers & prospects. Identify & Engineer holistic solutions that cut across Compliance, Business Policy, Technology, Operations and Analytics. *Pro-actively drove opportunities for expanding our product & consulting footprint in the existing customer and prospect base. *Provide the functional direction to WGS product suite by observing market direction, regulations, driving competitive analysis and more importantly setting the strategic direction and execution of Wipro’s product & innovation road-map. *Led the successful launch of NetOxygen Zip & a strategic partnership with Xerox Mortgage Services BlitzDocs intelligent collaborative network. *Partner with other CoEs in Wipro to drive cross-pollination of solutions applicable to the Lending industry.*Led the successful deployment of TRID across NetOxygen, multiple compliance and document vendors.*Awarded Wipro's Best People Manager 2013

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*Led Fulfillment business strategy development through to vendor due diligence and ultimately selected a Fulfillment platform vendor in 2011. Created the program structure and secured 3 year program funding of $213M & savings of $188M.*Built a team of 10 Quality & Change Delivery consultants from ground floor & grew the team to a peak of 43 associates to drive a portfolio of $67M of strategic initiatives for 2011 all while assisting with the Countrywide acquisition*Drove improved Manufacturing Quality & Appraisal SLA performance through MBF usage (SUS: 16.8% to 5.8%; Appraisal SLA: improvement by 20% & US Trust by 40%)*In 2009, Led Project Mercury to remove 68 small, poor performing branches & created business process to sustain gains*Built a team of off-shore engineering support in Mumbai & Gurgaon, India*Maintained an associate satisfaction score of 84%*Led a team to integrate Merrill Lynch Institutional Retirement into Bank of America*IRA Acceleration Program Manager: Led Enterprise initiative to increase IRA Assets & Bank of America’s presence in the marketplace. 2008 Results 20% increase in IRAs, with revenue of $161M & Increased Brand Awareness from 9 to 14%

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*Collateral Risk Optimization Program Manager: Led CRO DFM initiative to reduce appraisal expense, in addition scoping projects, assigning resources to lead major expense reduction initiatives, & resolving alignment/resource issues. Exceeded expense reduction targets - 2007 Results $24.7M*Led the largest project within CRE – Seller Skill Set, transitioned project to LOB during the improve phase*Coached projects in 2006 totaling $10M in increased productivity and expense reductions*Served as a SME on the GCSBB Role Clarity Project and Enterprise Lean Curriculum Redesign*Served on both CRE Q&P Associate Satisfaction team member and CRE tollgating design team member *2006 Award of Excellence Winner

Providence, Ri, Us

*Led Key Process Improvement Projects – with annualized savings of $1.5M (Projects: Receipt to Placement Cycle Time Improvement, Dual Use Service Parts Fill Rate Improvement, CGC/PLC Distribution Channel Improvement, Dalton Service Parts Fill Rate Improvement, Ariba Implementation North America and Europe)*Led Green Belt Candidate Selection Process and managed all training logistics while training & mentoring Green Belts*Led numerous Kaizen events resulting in annualized savings of over $1M

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*P&L responsibility for Weld, Fabrication, Paint, Assembly, & Production Control (Peak 200 hourly Associates)*Led the team to achieve year-over-year improvement in Charlotte TRIR/LTIR, including 1,700,000 hours without a LTI*Started Crew Lead formal training program (developed associates to own disciplinary actions, root cause analysis, etc).*Created & led the 5s Quality Auditing Program, OEE and Capacity Planning Model with key metrics to drive behavior*Led numerous cost reduction projects, including Goodwill outsourcing project to achieve annual cost savings of over $1M

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*Responsible for all aspects of HR, Safety, & Associate Benefits for 420 Salaried & Hourly Associates (5 direct reports)*Negotiated contract with an on-site temporary staffing firm, with savings of $330,000 annually *Championed major insurance change to consumer driven plan for Jacobsen Division (all North American locations)*Ensured and maintained the plant’s union free status*Orchestrated the facility transition from 3 shift, 5 day work week to a 2 shift, 4 day work week

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*Integrated Ransomes’ Johnson Creek facility into Jacobsen organization (Health/Welfare plans, job analysis, HR policies/procedures)*Responsible for all aspects of HR, Safety, & Associate Benefits for 200 Associates (3 direct reports)*Created a new incentive compensation plan for the entire workforce*Ensured and maintained the plant’s union free status*Led many kaizen events in the plant & office, participated in a number of additional kaizens

Charlotte, Nc, Us

*Responsible for Associate benefits for 1200 associates (managed a team of 6 benefits/hr professionals)*Co-led Implementation Team for ISO 9000 Certification - received registration in Racine facility in 6 months*Led Ransomes Integration Team (HR position evaluation/policy roll out across multiple sites in many states)*Assisted in the closure of company stores in both Myrtle Beach, SC & Dallas, TX & in the closure of Edgewater FL plant, Assisted in the transition of the Louisville, KY plant from Jacobsen to Greenlee Textron