Professional Summary
Senior lending professional with 20+ years across bank and non-bank loan origination, having worked the full origination lifecycle — sales, credit, settlements, post-settlement operations and recovery — together with the disciplines that improve it: process improvement, project delivery and product management.
That breadth has progressed into senior leadership: managing teams, setting strategic direction, and owning audit and compliance as an Executive Leadership Team member and Responsible Manager on an Australian Credit Licence. A rapid self-learner who reaches subject-matter depth in an unfamiliar domain quickly and turns it into practical, solution-led improvement — currently in product leadership at a SaaS lending-origination platform, following a major product launch and the design of an AI-driven document-intelligence capability now in production.
Professional Experience
Promoted to lead origination product strategy across the Loanworks platform suite (LOS, Apply/Track, Commissions, Originator Portal) on the back of the Quantum LOS production launch — blending Business Solutions Manager client/SME work with Product Owner-style strategic ownership.
- Quantum LOS launched to production (February 2026) — led launch stabilisation across early client cohorts, including the migration and UI/UX uplift of the Document Intelligence module (Data Sense) from the prior LOS into Quantum.
- Own the origination product roadmap; balance baseline integrity with client-driven enhancements across multiple funder programs.
- Lead the post-launch roadmap for Data Sense v2 — additional document types, custom rule authoring, broader funder document automation.
- Define product vision and delivery priorities aligned to client expectations, market trends and the Loanworks commercial strategy.
- Approve new features entering the baseline; maintain structured release and version management.
- Engage across Engineering, Solutions, Sales and Client teams so product direction reflects real lender needs; act as primary SME for the origination domain.
- Set the team's AI-driven delivery practice — an agentic, gated SDLC that carries work from refinement through to post-deploy QA.
Bridge between lender clients and Loanworks Software — translating client business processes, policies and goals into pragmatic software-and-process recommendations.
- Client Solutions — partnered directly with lender clients to review origination processes, credit policies and goals; designed solutions combining software configuration with process redesign.
- Product Solutions — supported the Product Owner as a senior SME across backlog refinement, roadmap deliverables and Quantum program delivery; recommended features grounded in client demand.
- Drove Data Sense from design into production — partnered with engineering on the rule execution model, the Global Supporting Documents Drawer surfaces, the per-rule auto-action gating that governs fully unattended verification, and the rules-administration UI. First shipped to production in November 2025 on the prior LOS for an existing client, then migrated into Quantum LOS at the February 2026 launch.
- Vendor & Integration Partner Management — supported the Product Owner and General Manager across current and prospective integration partners.
- Business Solutions — drove the business's AI-adoption strategy across the software solution and internal process — leading to the agentic SDLC capability now embedded in the Product Lead role.
- Led cross-functional project teams through planning, execution and delivery; embedded change-management discipline into rollouts.
Senior BA across the Quantum program, applying deep lending operational expertise to backlog refinement, story writing and solution design.
- Designed Data Sense — the rule engine behind the Document Intelligence module — specified how the platform automatically reads a supporting document, compares it against the captured application data, and verifies, flags or rejects it, across four automation modes and four launch document types (Drivers Licence, Passport, Medicare, Payslip) with ~45 reusable comparison templates. First shipped to production November 2025.
- Refined backlog items end-to-end — impact analysis, edge-case enumeration, risk identification, alternatives and acceptance criteria — to a standard adopted across the team.
- Authored BRDs, FSDs and JIRA stories for the Quantum program; established outcome-led acceptance criteria as the refinement norm.
- Trusted SME for the Loanworks origination domain — credit policy, broker journeys, securitisation, commissions, document automation.
Owned the broker origination journey end-to-end across Lending, Operations and Settlements.
- Supported the company's three securitisation programs — audits, rating agencies, funders, reporting and compliance.
- Led a team of 15+ across credit and processing; set service standards and SLAs and coached team leaders against company KPIs.
- Achieved a ~6-day reduction in turnaround time to Formal Approval through targeted process and policy improvement.
- Member of the Executive Leadership Team; held Responsible Manager status under Australian Credit Licences.
- Drove the digital roadmap for origination — broker journeys, NextGen / Simpology integrations, document automation and the Loanworks v18 platform uplift.
- Partnered with Sales, Marketing and Operations to lift broker satisfaction and conversion across the funnel — lifting conversion +8% through process-improvement initiatives.
- Maintained regulatory, policy, scheme and IT-framework adherence across origination processes and technology.
- Supported the non-bank → bank-standards operational uplift following the BNK Banking Corporation acquisition — aligning origination processes, controls and reporting to bank requirements.
- Resident SME for loan origination process and systems — owned origination systems management, configuration and change, and drove continual process improvement and recommendations across the business.
- Drove the Continuous Business Process Review program — monitored performance, identified improvement initiatives, and deployed them end-to-end (scope, design, build, test, deploy) within agreed specification, timeframe and budget.
- Established an offshore BPO operation in Manila — travelled onsite to stand up the inaugural processing team, delivering the training, KPI frameworks and reporting that made it operational.
- Led the Loanworks v18 upgrade — workflow, reporting (SSRS), white-label, commissions, document configuration; migrated from v9 / v10 and external databases.
- Supported and implemented the uplift requirements for two securitisation programs.
- Owned post-settlement operations across customer service, retention, accounts, admin, recovery and discharges, leading a team of ~15.
- Drove the consolidation and rebrand of multiple lending portfolios following a brand merger.
- Led the commission systems redesign and reporting overhaul; established training, recruitment and dispute-resolution practices.
- Assessed Prime, Specialist, Commercial, SMSF and Construction transactions against funder and mortgage-insurer policies under regulated responsible-lending practices.
- Authored the LoanApp guidebook for aggregator launch; trained credit and sales teams on rollout.
Earlier Career
- Bank-side residential and small-business mortgage portfolio — marketing & business plan, sales / service quality, credit assessment, portfolio analytics and ROI.
- Owned a white-label home-loan program — grew participation from 5% to 18% within twelve months while running credit assessment for the broader broker network.
- Underwrote and assessed loan applications; non-conforming portfolio policy and process design; colleague training on rollout.
- $750,000 Delegated Lending Authority; full debt-recovery cycle including Mortgagee-in-Possession sales. Employee of the Month.
- Consistently exceeded collections KPIs; award-winning process improvement adopted across sales and post-settlement.
- Multi-channel servicing, post-settlement analytics, training and project support across collections, IT and AML programs. Rookie of the Year; Customer Experience Champion.
- Public housing and rental-assistance assessment against state policy; community engagement and inspections.