Project Highlights

Multicultural Awareness

Objective:

Achieve multicultural growth by increasing awareness and lending representation in African American, Hispanic and Asian communities. 

Audience:

4600 Retail Banking Stakeholders

My Role:

  • Developed communicate plan for stakeholders
  • Partnered with IT to Build a web-based training (WBT) program for customer-facing associates
  • Alleviated apprehension on new system within stakeholders
  • Built skill sets for stakeholders

Impact:

  • Increase multicultural lending representation from these communities by 6.4% (from 23.6% to 30%) within 1 year
  • Generated $3.1M in revenue

Mortgage Servicing Platform (MSP) Recapture

Objective:

Outsource critical data center operations that support the MSP application with nightly cycle, on-line functionality, etc. from one data center to another. 

Audience:

Consumer Real Estate (CRE) Division (2500 Stakeholders)

My Role:

  • Analyzed the impact of this transition on servicing
  • Designed and developed a universal communication document for stakeholders
  • Delivered training to 1400 stakeholders
  • Assessed organizational impacts and developing appropriate interventions to minimize business disruption

Impact:

  • 7% reduction in operating costs
  • Optimized expenses, improved cost efficiency and mitigated risks

Six Sigma Adaption

Objective:

Adopt a Six Sigma management strategy, a comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining and maximizing business success using a systems approach to problem solving that emphasizes common metrics, constant communication, and culture change.

Audience:

Consumer Real Estate (CRE) Division (2500 Stakeholders)

My Role:

  • Collaborated with project team to develop a communication plan providing consistent and ongoing messages to keep all areas of Consumer Real Estate (CRE) stakeholders informed using a variety of avenues such as:
    • Divisional meetings that explain the Six Sigma process and some of the terminology; how Six Sigma will benefit CRE and the company, and to answer “what’s in it for me?”
    • Brown bag lunches to interact with the employees and answer questions
    • Webinars
    • Emails addressing employees about their concerns related to the adaptation of Six Sigma and providing clarity on each one’s role in Six Sigma journey
    • Videotaped enterprise meetings to review the process, provide periodic updates and announce project milestones
  • Partnered with Six Sigma champions to identify projects

Impact:

  • 9% increase customer delight in 2 years
  • Increase of 2.5 million customers in 2 years
  • 28% reduction in account losses in 2 years
  • 40% reduction in operating costs yielding a savings of $75.2 million within two years
  • Improved productivity
  • Increased market share growth
  • Increased employee morale
  • Reduced cycle-time reduction
  • Error reduction
  • Culture change
  • Product/service development

Private Label Servicing (PLS)

Objective:

Leverage existing servicing capability and low-cost structure to support a profitable PLS product that could be offered to other lenders. Sub-serviced 1600 first and second mortgage products and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) for a California financial institution,  500 loans, 100 loans every month thereafter. 

Audience:

Consumer Real Estate (CRE) Division (2500 Stakeholders)

My Role:

  • Worked with the project team to identify stakeholder training needs
  • Partnered with curriculum designers to develop training materials

Impact:

  • Servicer: Scaled down saving 14.50% in compliance costs within 1 year
  • Sub-Servicer: Increased servicing volumes; generated $320,000 in revenue for sub-servicer within 1 year

Mortgage Rewards

Objective:

Create a family of loan programs that feature low lender closing costs, discount points or origination fees, creating a foundational anchor of customer relationships; and drive down internal and customer expense by utilizing pre-negotiated bundled services from a variety of national vendors.

Audience:

350 Consumer Sales and Marketing Stakeholders

My Role:

Training resource

  • Worked closely with the project team to assess:
    • How each enhancement will impact stakeholders
    • Develop a communication plan for each enhancement to be communicated to stakeholders
    • Identify technology changes and how these changes impact stakeholders
  • Identified training needs, design and develop training materials needed to successfully implement product enhancements
  • Tracked cross sell win rates

Impact:

  • 33% increase in new customers every quarter
  • 7% increase in salespersons every quarter
  • 42% increase in overall conversion rate
  • 30% increase in cross selling revenue

No Fee Mortgage Plus

Objective:

Expand and enhance the Mortgage Rewards program process, parameters, pricing, and fees based on extensive voice of customer (VOC) research to determine a value proposition that would be appealing to the bank’s relationship prospects.  

Audience:

350 Consumer Sales and Marketing Stakeholders

My Role:

Partner with project team, information system development (ISD) and subject matter experts (SMEs) to:

  • Determined how process changes will impact special loans and mortgage call center stakeholders
  • Developed a communication plan for all stakeholders
  • Identified technology changes and assess stakeholder impact
  • Identified training or knowledge stakeholders will need to successfully implement the products enhancements
  • Designed and developed No Fee Mortgage Plus – Service Guarantee Claims training materials for special loans and mortgage call center stakeholders
  • Facilitated train-the-trainer sessions (T3) for subject matter experts (SMEs)

Impact:

  • 27% increase in customer delight scores

Loss Mitigations Lean Event / Homeownership Retention Fulfillment Center

Objective:

Identify default processes that present opportunities for an increase in valid referrals resulting in completed cases per Loss Mitigations Lean Charter; and determine a means to quickly and accurately complete cases.

Audience:

270 Loss Mitigation Stakeholders

My Role:

Partnered with Project Champions to:

  • Developed training materials for loss mitigation documents receipt status (LMT3)
  • Developed training material for department restructure from an investor operation to fulfillment operation: set up, analysis, follow-up, and closing agent

Impact:

  • Estimated $375M in loan modifications and workouts for troubled mortgages in 2 years
  • 265,000-plus homeowners remained in their homes

Director and Mortgage Servicing Platform (MSP) Fundamental WBT Conversion

Objective:

Convert Director and MSP Fundamentals instructor led training (ILT) to web-based training (WBT).

Audience:

Consumer Real Estate (CRE) Division (2500 Stakeholders)

My Role:

Assisted with the Development phase of the project, working with project team and information system development (ISD) to:

  • Developed and validated storyboards against the internal quality assurance (QA) Checklist
  • Developed job aids
  • Revised and developed Level 2 questions
  • Acquired necessary screen shots for simulation development

Impact:

  • Ongoing

      *Conversion impacts the on-boarding process for all CRE Servicing associates

        regardless of the area of support


Countrywide Merger Integration

Objective:

Design and implement $4.1 billion merger integration to align culture, structure, processes and strategy to the operating environment through training and development, organizational development and career development.

Audience:

Consumer Real Estate (CRE) Division (2500 Stakeholders)

My Role:

Training and development resource

  • Participated in planning kick-off meeting and follow-up meetings
  • Coached and assist in problem solving
  • Assisted in identifying and reducing cultural barriers
  • Engaged stakeholders in organizational change
  • Conducted career planning assessment to achieve an optimal match of stakeholder and organizational needs
  • Assisted in developing key competencies that enable individuals to perform current or future jobs
  • Partnered with curriculum designers to develop training materials for implementation of new technology
  • Shared tools and information between the teams

Impact:

  • Increased the effectiveness and performance of individuals, groups and the organization on a whole
  • Gained credibility and visibility
  • Increased and maintained overall organizational effectiveness
  • Increased overall financial and operational synergy
  • Increased competitive advantage