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