RICHARD ALLEN STARLING
Contact: ***** ***** ****** *****, **************, VA. 23116
(Cell) 804-***-**** (e-mail) ****.********.**@*****.***
Profile: Sales executive skills in both banking/commercial real estate and in VoIP PBX call centers. My
initial specialties were selling global networks (Frame relay, VoIP PBX call centers, broadband,
T-1, WATS lines, cloud encryption via CISCO routers) for AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Sprint and Equant/SITA Global with assignments as Account Executive, Major Account Manager, Area Channel Manager and Mid-Atlantic Branch Sales Manager. In banking, I was an Asst. Vice-President of Commercial Banking at SunTrust Bank and with almost 8 years at Wells Fargo as an Inside Customer Success Representative for high value business accounts.
Skills: EXPERIENCE:
Sales Achiever Wells Fargo Bank as Senior Customer Success Representative
Data Mining 11/2016 thru 3/2023
Analytics Developed and executed successful sales techniques initially for handling inward
Consultative Sales consumer callers asking for credit cards & personal loans. Eventually, I was
Creativity assigned to high value business accounts handling C-level’s complaint calls about
Strategic thinking fraudulent uses of their credit or debit cards or about account balances.
Live Well Financial as a Reverse Mortgage Inside Sales Rep
Education: 3/2015 thru 8/2016
Va. Commonwealth As an inside reverse mortgage loan originator, I was licensed in 9 states. Live Well
MBA-CRE Urban reduced their footprint from three branches to a single branch and from over 200 sales
Development/1995 reps to zero. I moved on to Wells Fargo and Live Well filed for bankruptcy.
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Va. Commonwealth Mortgage Investors Corp (MIC) as a Statewide Mortgage Loan Originator
B.S. Bus.Admin,1980 10/2009 thru 2/2015
I sold refinanced veteran mortgages thru the “Streamline Refinance Program”, where we could close a mortgage in 5 business days. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, I earned an average of $150,000/annually selling more than $4.5 million/monthly. MIC closed their sales division and will only “service” their multi-billion $ base of mortgages.
Verizon Communications as a Complex Account Manager
5/2008 thru 9/2009
I handled the territory from Richmond to southwest Virginia (Grundy and Norton). I handled PBX and network sales. Due to the 2008 recession, unemployment exceeded 24% in my territory and Verizon downsized my entire team. I was ranked #1 for Team $.
SunTrust Banks-Commercial Banking as an Asst. Vice-President-Business Banking
10/2006 thru 12/2007
I handled the western Henrico branches and sold loans/mortgages to new business commercial accounts. My size limit of business loans was $4 million. I “cross sold”
bank products such as loans, deposits, Treasury consulting fees, & equipment leases.
SunTrust closed down their entire “Business Banking” division & downsized 100%.