ROBERT A. SHEVLIN, MBA
**** ****** **** *****, ************, Florida 32258
Telephone 904-***-**** 904-***-**** Mobile 904-***-****
Email: ******@*********.*** or ******@*****.***
Career Objective: To obtain a financial advisor position in a
world class retail investment and wealth management
organization that will allow me to make a difference in a
client's financial life, offering financial planning and
best of breed solutions, products and services; and to up-
sell and cross sell to the organization's existing client
base and new clients I may develop, leveraging my
significant knowledge of investments, insurance, mortgage
and credit products, and planning strategies.
Summary: Results driven product and sales manager/entrepreneur with
unique background combining significant experience in
directing marketing, product development, sales and
managing client relationships with leading financial
institutions, mortgage servicers, insurance companies, non
insurance third party marketing vendors, and fee income
brokers. Areas of expertise include:
. Business development New company,
new division start-ups
. Product development/mgt. Program
management
. Strategic planning/budgeting Consultative
selling, including phone
sales
. Third party vendor management Regulatory compliance
Wide subject knowledge in insurance (life, disability, LTC,
Critical Illness, Supplemental Health
& P&C products) investments, college planning, business, estate
and charitable planning,
mortgage loan products, mortgage servicing, and credit card
products.
Self Employed/Independent Contractor May 2009-Present
Director of Insurance for Camarda Consultants, LLC-Financial
Representative. Primarily focused on personal and small business market
selling life insurance, disability income insurance, long term care
insurance and hybrid products, business and college cash flow planning,
estate planning coordination. Joint work with investment adviser
representatives with respect to insurance opportunities, cross sell RIA
client base.
Principal Financial Group July 2008 - May 2009
Career agent position - Financial Advisor, Registered and Financial
Representative. Primarily focused on
personal and small business market selling life insurance,
disability income insurance, employee benefit
solutions, employer focused retirement solutions, placement of
variable annuities, mutual funds, managed
accounts, fee based financial planning.
EverInsurance Inc. and EverBank December 2002-Present Vice President
Rejoined the company as Vice President-Part Time in December 2002.
Managing the firm's fee income marketing programs, and working on
various insurance related projects and cross sell programs.
2006-2007 Went to full time. Conceived and implemented a start-up
Direct to Customer Insurance Call Center Operation to sell Life,
Disability Income, Long Term Care Insurance and Annuities.
Oct 2007-March 2008 Responsible for investigating and pursuing
recoveries from third parties on mortgage loan repurchases that
involve complex misrepresentation and fraud elements.
April 2008-Present Returned to part time managing the firm's fee
income marketing programs.
IFS/LSI Management LLC: Feb. 1995- December 2006 President/Managing
Member
Innovative Financial Strategies, Inc. ("IFS") provided fee income
consulting and outsourcing services to
Mortgage servicers, and other select financial institutions.
Distributor and product developer of select fee income products to
financial institutions and fee income brokers.
. Special projects have included assisting with a start-up
outsourced Property and Casualty Insurance Program for a mortgage
company and other loan production affiliates;
Evaluation/implementation of a domestic captive reinsurance
company for forced place insurance; Developing an internal
mortgage prepayment program, and Fee income evaluation and
implementation projects involving credit cards and Mortgage Loan
and Heloc Debt Cancellation.
. IFS enhanced the financial institutions competitiveness by
combining the features of several highly rated companies into a
single organization that provided superb solutions and service.
Build strategic alliances with a number of individuals and
providers of professional services and expertise.
. Owned interests in two other start-up ventures. As acting COO
gained operational experience managing vendors who perform data
management, inbound and outbound telemarketing, product
distribution and fulfillment functions, customer service and IT.
I was also responsible for the firm's financial accounting,
business strategy development, and Utility Patent filing.
. 1998-2003 IFS managed the operational activities, including
managing a fee income brokerage force, to sell a variety of
different insurance and non-insurance voluntary fee income
programs to financial institutions, primarily mortgage servicers.
Also during this period ran an affiliated office for an insurance
wholesaling firm (The Wealth Source) that specialized in
providing advanced marketing solutions and case design work for
life insurance, annuities, disability insurance, long term care,
retirement planning and estate planning, for insurance agents and
registered reps.
Alliance Mortgage Company July 1984- December 1994 Senior Vice
President
. Responsible for the marketing of all non credit related products
to the customer base,
. Establishing the insurance agency,
. Managed the Special Assets Dept. (minimize losses on a 1,600
loan mortgage fraud portfolio, reduced exposure over
$20,000,000), managing the firm's complex corporate litigation
(non foreclosure and bankruptcy litigation, included contested
foreclosures involving fraud cross claims against Alliance,
managed a 10 person litigation support unit), Compliance, and
Quality Control Unit (for both Loan Origination and Loan
Servicing).
EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville, Florida
MBA, REAL ESTATE 1984
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, Texas
BBA, FINANCE AND REAL ESTATE 1982
LICENSES: Life, Health (Non Resident Licensed in 20 states)
Variable Annuity, FINRA
Series 6, 63 and 65 (currently inactive since Nov
2009).