role history

Feb 2026 – Jun 2026

VP, Mortgage Market Leader

Local Bank · Middle Tennessee · NMLS #2112717

Managed the residential lending pipeline through funding, coordinating across stakeholders. Led market development for the Middle Tennessee region, cultivating relationships and engaging the community.

Apr 2025 – Feb 2026

VP of Mortgage Lending

Guaranteed Rate / Rate.com · Remote · NMLS #2112717

Managed the full lending operation: client acquisition, pipeline management, and stakeholder coordination through close. Cultivated client relationships across the full loan journey, from first conversation to closing. Remote, production-focused role guiding clients through home financing. Best month of personal origination: $1.2M (December 2025).

Feb 2024 – Apr 2025

Director of Operations

Nuestro Financial · Promoted from Associate Director

Managed operations for a commercial and consumer loan portfolio serving 3,000+ clients, for a fintech startup spanning Banking-as-a-Service, lending, and education products, later focused on lending after a strategic pivot. Reduced loan processing time by approximately 40% through process optimization and KPI tracking.

Built and rolled out a weekly, delinquency-tiered collection letter process, writing the SOPs and templates myself, and cut serious delinquency from about 62% to 24% of cohorts within four months. Identified TILA and Patriot Act disclosure gaps through an internal audit and owned the loan agreement's ongoing compliance review. Kept the operating budget and helped wind the company down when funding was pulled.

Nov 2022 – Feb 2024

Associate Director of Operations

Nuestro Financial

Built customer service operations from zero: applicant support, loan servicing, collections, and an automated call-routing system. Coordinated a 12-member cross-functional team through a BaaS market entry and lending-operations launch in about four months, and separately directed an outsourced vendor team, handling requirements translation, workflow and SOP design, and testing.

Flagged and resolved a cluster of fraudulent loan applications through cross-platform verification, then proposed a compliant identity-verification alternative that expanded loan access for legitimate applicants. Launched the tiered collection-letter program later built out under the Director role.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022

Production Manager

Paramount Residential Mortgage Group (PRMG) · NMLS #2112717

Managed a mortgage production team with a peak monthly pipeline of about $5M and roughly a 25-day average cycle time, overseeing origination end to end from application through funding, working alongside underwriters and processors to stay compliant.

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021

Mortgage Loan Processor

Paramount Residential Mortgage Group (PRMG)

Processed residential mortgage loans from application to close, coordinating underwriting, title, and closing requirements.

community

2026 – Present

Treasurer & Secretary

NAHREP Nashville

Manage an $80K reserve fund for the chapter.

education

Aug 2016 – Dec 2020

B.S. Finance

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga · Rollins College of Business

Southeast Bank Scholarship recipient.

skills

Finance & lending
Portfolio ManagementConsumer LendingCommercial LendingMortgage LendingRisk AssessmentRegulatory ComplianceFinancial AnalysisPayments / ACH OperationsNACHA Compliance
Operations
KPI / OKR ReportingProcess ImprovementVendor ManagementAudit CoordinationWorkflow OptimizationPortfolio Operations
Leadership
Cross-Functional LeadershipStakeholder ManagementExecutive ReportingTeam DevelopmentCommunity Outreach
Technical · working knowledge
SQLTableauPythonMS OfficeAtlassian SuiteCRMGenerative AI

impact / verified

5+ yrs
in lending and regulated financial-services operations
3,000+
customers served at Nuestro Financial (approximate)
$1.5M
consumer & commercial loan portfolio managed, roughly $250K in monthly disbursements
~40%
reduction in loan processing time through process optimization and KPI tracking
62% → 24%
serious delinquency reduction across cohorts, within four months, via a tiered collection-letter process
60%+
reduction in ACH returns, restoring NACHA compliance
4 mo.
BaaS market entry and lending-operations launch, 12-member cross-functional team
28
SOPs authored
~$5M/mo.
peak mortgage pipeline, ~25-day average cycle (PRMG, Production Manager only)
$80K
reserve fund managed as NAHREP Nashville Treasurer & Secretary