Experience

Conestoga Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President Commercial & Industrial Lending ► Business Development ♦ Lehigh Valley Focus

  • Nov 2011 - Present

  Allentown, PA For more than 125 years, Conestoga Bank has been a part of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Conestoga Bank is a full-service financial institution with 16 locations in Center City and South Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Delaware counties. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Conestoga Bancorp, Conestoga Bank is headquartered in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. As senior vice president commercial and industrial lending, I am responsible for exploring and pursuing new markets… Show more For more than 125 years, Conestoga Bank has been a part of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Conestoga Bank is a full-service financial institution with 16 locations in Center City and South Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Delaware counties. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Conestoga Bancorp, Conestoga Bank is headquartered in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. As senior vice president commercial and industrial lending, I am responsible for exploring and pursuing new markets for loan products, analyzing loan requests and preparing written evaluations and recommendations for approvals, as well as coordinating the loan closings, ensuring that documents are properly prepared and executed. Additionally, I sustain productive relationships with borrowers and assist with problem loans and arrange for and coordinate technical assistance to existing and prospective borrowers to help them improve their current operations and/or future business plans. Show less



Nova Bank

• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President Commercial Loans

  • 2006 - 2011

  Nova had 13 branches, including four in Philadelphia, two in Berwyn and one each in Exton, Havertown, Media, Plymouth Meeting and Wynnewood, Pa., and Deptford and Woodbury Heights, N.J. The bank first opened its doors in Berwyn in 1887. It was my responsibility to open the Lehigh Valley commercial lending office with a staff of two other commercial lenders.



Susquehanna Bank

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Commercial Loans

  • 2004 - 2006

  Susquehanna Bank provides banking and financial services to consumers and businesses through more than 240 branch offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc., a financial services holding company with assets of approximately $18 billion. Susquehanna Bank acquired Patriot Bank, where I continued to assume the responsibility of vice president, commercial loans.



Patriot Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President Commercial Loans

  • 1999 - 2004

  Patriot Bank acquired my previous employer, First Lehigh Bank, where I continued in my role as vice president commercial loans.



First Lehigh Bank

• Vice President Commercial Loans

  • 1985 - 1999

  I performed all functions of the commercial loan process.



Commercial Credit Consumer Discount Company

• Branch Manager ► Originating & Underwriting Residential Mortgages

  • 1980 - 1984

  In this role, I originated, underwrote and collected residential type mortgages.



Greater Bethlehem Savings and Loan

• Residential Mortgage Officer

  • 1978 - 1979

  Bethlehem, PA I was responsible for originating and processing residential mortgage loan applications.