David George

Danbury, CT Area ad0v6c@r.postjobfree.com

linkedin.com/in/dgeorge02 203-***-****

Proven Leader: Motivated Management Specialist, Strong Operational Background in Financial and Food Service Industries Energetic and driven professional with comprehensive accomplishments leading small and medium sized organizations to deliver outstanding customer service and operational excellence. Demonstrated success in developing and executing plans in complex, fast-paced, regulated environments. Organized, creative problem-solver who excels at guiding teams through challenging workflows. Convert chaos to performance and complicated topics into simple concepts. Exhibits integrity, analytical problem-solving and leadership. Committed food service volunteer and local community activist/advocate. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HALO Home Access Lease Opportunity, Danbury, CT 05/2022-08/2023 Provides lease-to-own home buying services to credit-challenged buyers; $50M single-family home assets under management. Director, Operations

● Advise CEO and executive team on strategy, development, products, services, and markets as senior leader.

● Hired to create processes for a single-family rent-to-own platform, underwriting, credit approval, document workflow, compliance, client onboarding, technology, and other financial operations..

● Recruit, train, evaluate, define roles and responsibilities, and develop 30 sales and financial operations staff.

● Enabled better decision-making by business leaders by improving data availability, quality, visualization, analysis, and speed.

● After leadership decided to unwind the portfolio, the role changed to liquidating $50M of houses to preserve capital. ClearEdge Lending, Danbury, CT 10/2021-05/2022

Provides wholesale lending to mortgage brokers, including originating and securitizing non-qualified mortgages. Manager, CT Region Sales

● Oversaw mortgage broker outreach, go-to-market planning, business development, lead generation, prospecting, presentations, proposals, contracts, negotiations, forecasts, metrics, reports, and account management.

● Significant interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and new state regulations forced ClearEdge to close CT branch. Dandy Distributors, Danbury, CT 01/2020-09/2021

Provides vegetables, meat and poultry processing and wholesale distribution to restaurants; $18M revenue, 30 employees. Director, Procurement, Supply Chain

● Supervised procurement, B2B sales, lean logistics, warehouse, just-in-time inventory, and other operations.

● Oversaw 32,000 sq ft food manufacturing facility, $10M inventory, 500 unique SKUs, and five employees.

● Increased delivery time and product availability via improving production & transit time, inventory, KPI metrics, data dashboards, training, daily meetings, and other productivity tools.

● Developed process documentation, temperature controls, traceability, internal audits, and other policies and procedures.

● Vetted hundreds of potential vendors and maintained relationships with current to ensure diverse, high-quality food items.

● Ensured business continuity during COVID-19 by rapidly deploying digital collaboration, operations, and workflow tools. Washington Trust Company, Darien, CT 06/2015-07/2019 Provides mortgage, commercial, investment, brokerage, and other banking/financial services; $6B AUM, 1,000 staff. Vice President, CT Region

● Oversaw $57M in annual sales of mortgages, home equity loans, reverse mortgages, and other residential lending products.

● Led all office functions, including application, appraisal, processing, underwriting, closing, and customer service.

● Hired, onboarded, reviewed, and mentored a high-impact team of six mortgage sales and operations staff.

● Within 18 months, grew sales profitability by 300%, and implemented automated digital business process workflow. David George

EverBank, Brookfield, CT 10/2013-05/2015

Vice President, CT Region

● Recruited to launch and lead branch office, mortgage sales and underwriting, marketing, 11 staff, and all other functions.

● Increased profitable revenue 40% by creating innovative sales, marketing, and real estate agent outreach strategies.

● Submitted loan applications to the underwriter for verification and recommendations. Wells Fargo, Danbury, CT 07/2010-10/2013

Branch Manager, Home Mortgage

● Supervised 18 mortgage sales, six operations staff, and all office functions for $500M annual mortgage sales.

● Grew revenue 100% in three years by overseeing team sales of residential home mortgages, equity loans, and credit lines.

● Manage 150 concurrent loans by originating from referrals and website leads.

● Improved performance and results when facing big challenges and limited resources via superior operational competence. Flagstar Bank Brookfield, CT 01/2002-06/2010

Vice President, Home Mortgage Sales

● Recruited to launch and lead branch office, loan origination, underwriting, closing, 45 staff, and all other functions.

● Within the first year of leadership, the branch became the top-producing branch in the U.S.

● Reliably ranked as a top 1% U.S. producer by closing $50M+ annual mortgage loan transactions from self-sourced leads. Dandy Distributors Danbury, CT 1982-2002

Director of Operations

● Helped manage family wholesale food distribution business that supplies local restaurants in Connecticut and New York.

● Managed warehouse operations for 32,000 square foot facility with 40 employees.

● Proven track record of success in managing operations, increasing revenue, and improving customer satisfaction.

● Developing and implemented strategies to optimize business performance, leveraging expertise in managing budgets, forecasting sales, and analyzing financial data.

● Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams to achieve goals. COMMUNITY SERVICE

● Created and managed a community garden program, involving local residents, schools, and businesses in gardening activities, raising funds and awareness, and donating healthy food to charitable organizations; started in 2010, the garden annually donates 3,000+ pounds of fresh produce.

● Volunteer trips to Appalachia working with senior citizens housing issues and cooking for school literacy program.

● Involvement with living donor organization to increase awareness of Non-directed Kidney Donation.

● Created foodservice fundraising for local town sports leagues in Danbury and Brookfield by cooking and serving over 500 meals a day during multi-day sports tourneys.

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