Jeffrey M Blocker
**** * ***** *** #*** ( Chicago, Illinois 60618 ( 773-***-**** (
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Profile
Business Development / Consulting / Solution Development
Versatile sales professional with experience working with high performing
cross-functional teams to meet a wide range of business objectives. Strong
business acumen and project management experience coupled with a talent for
leveraging systems and technology to exceed quotas. Proven track record in
consultative sales, empirically derived solutions, business development,
and solution development and integration. Subject matter expert in
technology related solutions, delivery channels, and decisioning engines.
New Business Development Consultative Sales
Cold Canvassing/Market Development Risk Management/Strategic Planning
Empirically Derived Proposals Systems & Platform Migration
Solution Consulting Financial Services Data & System
Mastery
Lean Methodology Enterprise Fulfillment Systems
Professional Experience
Providential Bancorp, Chicago, Illinois Nov 2009 -
Present
Independent Consultant - Business & Product Development
Served as a consultant with primary focus on new business development and
key product development initiatives in launching a credit card line of
business within a mortgage broker model.
Selected Contributions:
. Created the credit card broker market through cold calling and
elevator pitch to the financial community.
. Evaluated critical business issues in the existing model and developed
IT and business solutions to align infrastructure to support the new
line of business.
. Created and grew business development pipeline to $250K creating
trusted partnerships and targeting long term revenue goals.
. Led onsite discovery session including IT infrastructure review,
business model analysis, interviews with executive management and
front line associates.
. Built a strategic roadmap for product development expanding a broker
business model to launching a private label credit card.
TransUnion, Marketing Services Operations, Chicago, Illinois
Production Leader - Client Support Consulting Mar 2008 -
April 2009
Responsible for new business development and market expansion of new
products and services focusing on target accounts. Provide leadership in
building and selling TransUnion enterprise solutions for the financial
services community.
Selected Contributions:
. Drove $7 million in new revenue through aggressive RFP process and
creating winning business case to implement enterprise fulfillment
systems at top financial services clients.
. Identified and analyzed critical business objectives in client account
management programs to create a delivery channel which allows business
intelligence and delivery of data within 24 hours resulting in
contracted programs generating $5 million revenue over two years.
. Led a multiphase initiative to expand batch capabilities to provide
clients a 360 view of their portfolio using both static and dynamic
decision engines winning new account management business predicted to
generate $1 million batch revenue annually.
. Grew sales pipeline and found $200K incremental revenue on existing
business by migrating legacy solutions to leverage capabilities on new
fulfillment platform.
. Led best in class global attribute definition and leveling through
onsite consulting with two top card issuers creating stickiness in
their custom acquisition and account management platform.
. Defined and designed products using TransUnion event-based platform to
reach growth verticals and grow pipeline through cold calling new
business and point of view presentations with existing clients.
TransUnion, Marketing Services Solutions Development, Chicago, Illinois
Senior Business Development Consultant Nov
2006 - Mar 2008
Responsible for sale, requirements gathering, design, management, and
integration of new products and delivery channels in the Financial Services
sector with a focus on Event-Based Marketing Solutions.
Selected Contributions:
. Generated $4.8 million in new business revenue on a $4 million quota
focused on selling a combination TransUnion data and a variety of
enterprise IT solutions.
. Onsite partnership with financial services clients to lead data
integration and identify cross-sell opportunity generating $500K
incremental revenue.
. "Award of Excellence" recipient; recognition from executive management
for exceeding expectations.
. Led the definition and sale of a standard event based marketing
platform targeting account management and acquisition strategies which
reduced time to market by 50% and generated $1.2 million revenue.
. Led empirically derived champion/challenger tests, provided
interpretation and proof of ROI to win Trigger business with top two
financial services clients resulting in $4 million revenue.
. Defined and created roll-out material for TransUnion predictive
analytic platform resulting in over 10 champion challenger tests and
led to a 20% increase in market share.
. Project Manager for long-term, complex event-based solutions within
the Financial Services vertical.
TransUnion Marketing Services Operations, Chicago, Illinois
Team Leader Operations - Strategic Initiatives, Mar
2003 - Nov 2006
Responsible for growing existing business through day to day management of
top card issuers and mid-market accounts by leveraging new IT platforms and
solutions. Led an operations team of eight associates who defined,
developed and delivered core Marketing Services solutions for Financial
Services clients. Team focus on department strategic initiatives targeted
towards operational excellence.
Selected Contribution:
. Account management of top card issuers responsible for $10 million in
batch revenue
. Generated $1.2 incremental revenue in launching TransUnion's first
custom trigger solution
. Defined and integrated standard project management and client
engagement methodologies.
. Partnered with clients to identify universe expansion opportunities
and designed attribute and flagging routines to track success in
various market segments resulting in $200K revenue.
. Defined and implemented an Early and Efficient QA process to boost on-
time and accuracy rates above 99%.
. Developed the framework and documentation for standard and reusable
solutions.
TransUnion Marketing Services Operations, Chicago, Illinois
Senior Project Analyst - Operations, Mar 2001 -
Mar 2003
Project Analyst - Operations, June 2000 -
Mar 2001
Working as part of a project analyst team who collaboratively is
responsible for the design, development, and delivery of batch solutions.
Selected Contribution:
. Defined and coded underwriting criteria for batch acquisition and
account management programs.
. Partnered with clients to define and create custom attribute and
scoring models.
. Led Tri-bureau attribute leveling exercises for top card issuers
. Worked collaboratively with third-party venders on prospect DB
delivery and support.
Education & Skills
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
May 2000
Bachelor of Science, Management, Emphasis: Information Systems
Data Warehouse, Metadata MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word,
Visio
SAS Access Database
Salesforce Modeling Techniques
Clarity Mainframe
Process Engineering/Reengineering Acquisition/Portfolio Platforms