Gene V. Bova
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Tinley Park I L 60487
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Career Summary
Central Technology & Ops Supervisor, Operations Officer, with 30 years of experience in
Operations. Eighteen of those years as a Supervisor. Expertise in adapting well to change,
organizing, Excel, Word and communicating. Proven ability to coach employees to work as a
team of one while working towards goals to increase productivity.
Experience
T he P rivateBank (Chicago) (2012 to 2013)
D eposit Management Services (June 2012 to January 2013)
A nalyst I - Verify daily end of day processing totals. Create spreadsheets for numerous
p rojects. Create new records retention system for area. Complete areas monthly scorecard
for upper management.
Chase, Chicago, I L (1981 – 2010)
Chicago ATM Deposit P rocessing (2007 – 2010)
M anager of 23 second shift production employees. Daily ATM deposits prepped, verified
and brought to the I tem Processing ATM area for processing of the checks within strict
Service Level Agreements. Verify the daily cash from the deposits and sent to the Cash
Services Vault for verification.
C hicago ATM Balancing (2006 – 2007)
M anager of the Chicago ATM General Ledger Area. Managed a staff of 10 full t ime
employees to balance & make all adjustments to customers’ accounts while keeping the
general ledger account balance and done within the set guide lines of the department.
T reasury Services / External KYC Verification / U. S. Pat riot Act Supervisor
(December 2003 – 2005)
Supervised a team of 4 fulltime employees to verify customers via the Security Event
M anagement (SEMS) system used to t rack events received from Dunn & Bradstreet (D &
B). Used various systems, Treasury Services Know Your Customer (KYC), various websites
and verifying customer’s documentation to prove the customers identity. Worked very
closely with Commercial Banking & Treasury Services Compliance Departments creating &
refining our procedures.
Created various reports used to show upper Management our standing daily, weekly &
monthly.
R emittance Processing Supervisor I I in Elgin Lockbox (July 2003 –
December 2003)
Supervised the Incoming Mail area and the Dispatch area comprised of 2 Team Leaders
and 8 employees. Sorted the Incoming Mail via an Olympus Mul ti –tier sorter. Mailed out
customer advices along with the backup of daily deposits.
O perations Supervisor in Research & Adjustments (1998 – July
2003)
Supervised two teams, a total of 18 employees, in Chicago Research Area. One team was
t he Records warehouse team and the other was the General Ledger Reconciliation team.
M y teams have met, or exceeded all their goals put forth to them. Appointed the Business
Lead for our H igh Performance Culture management process. Coordinated and produced all
of our charts to show our progress.
O rganized and structured a records warehouse retrieval team to be able to meet a 24-
hour service level agreement for the return of requests by changing the process f lows of
w hich the work was done.
Developed productivity reports to show employees weekly and monthly progress and to
work to a common goal. This was used to create an incentive program, which resulted in a
90% increase in achieving service level agreements.
Monitored twenty-seven general ledger accounts to bring our open i tems from 3500
i tems to 110 in a two-year period. Oversaw our i tems, over clearing standard, and wri te-offs
have been zero over the past 2 years.
Developed and executed the general ledger test scripts used for the I l linois conversion.
T his enabled us to have no major issues after the conversion. These scripts enabled all of
t he general ledger accounts to be current and not to be over standard.
Supervised the Set-up Team of over 30 employees who worked the entire i tem types of
d ifferences sent to us from our I tem Processing unit. Gained experience with all the i tem
t ypes of differences. Gave feedback to I tem processing for process improvements.
Monitored over 600 t racers that where not balanced until a later date. These t racers
w here balanced and the differences that came out of the balancing where opened and added
to our open i tems to be processed.
Supervised a second shift team of 25 employees to pull the backup needed for non-
financial cases to be sent to customers the next day. This team was made up of employees
t hat had very li t tle experience in research. Coached them so that they were able to complete
a ll the functions.
O perations Supervisor in Tellers Reconcilement (1988 – 1997)
Supervised 30 employees to balance fifteen general ledger accounts and to make various
customer adjustments. Held wri te-offs to a minimum over the nine-year period, while
making all the customer adjustments within the twenty-four hour service level
agreement.
T eam Leader (1985 – 1988)
Lead the Reconciliation side of Teller Reconcilement. Monitored all the general ledgers
t hat we balanced to keep wr i te off as low as possible.
Teller Reconcilement C lerk (1980 – 1984)
Recorded and processed various types of customer adjustments that came out of the
Teller 4700 system.
E ducation
University of I llinois at Chicago, Business, 1978 – 1980
Bank One Certificate of Management program, 2002.
Technology Knowledge
SAP, Claims, Excel, Word, Due from (Federal Reserve & Domestic Banks), Internet,
Sales, Outlook.