Clayton Ealey Jr
FORT MILL,SC
Summary
Seasoned Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant with 15 years of comprehensive experience maintaining and developing healthy relationships with clients. Committed to leading all business projects to success. Expertise in project management, business analysis and business development. Proactive professional with commercial approach to solving problems.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Enforced SCRUM principles, facilitated continuous improvement, and removed impediments to the activities of the 20+ developers
- Supported Product Owner with User Stories and Acceptance criteria documentation
- Monitored the backlog of over 40+ stories to confirm they reflected the current state of the sprints
- Tracked the performance of projects against project plans and gave daily updates statuses of the user stories in each sprint
- Supported LOB with off queries about letters or reports when needed
- Responsible for coordinating and facilitating meetings with high level management, team members, and different lines of business to discuss project testing, timelines, high level documents, strategies, and requirements.
Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co
10.2018 - 06.2022
- Work as an advisor to more experienced leadership to influence technology matters to develop programs that are effective and efficient for highly complex business and technical needs across one or more lines of business
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in depth evaluation across multiple lines of business or the enterprise
- Deliver solutions that are long term, large scale, and which require understanding of organizational goals or priorities and technology to develop executable strategies and plans
- Provide vision, direction, and expertise to more experienced leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions related to technology matters that are large scale, cross functional, or company wide
- Engage with the technology team and more experienced leaders to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business and for execution of operational processes
- Responsible for completing process analysis, evaluations, and implementation of process improvements by using IS Standard Testing Methodology
- Design and write formal test plans and test specifications to address system, integration, and data conversion testing
- Acts as liaison to business lines to ensure new products, services and technological developments are compatible with current processes and designs
- Responsible for coordinating and facilitating meetings with high level management, team members, and different lines of business to discuss project testing, timelines, high level documents, strategies, and requirements
- Utilize strong relationship management skills to develop with key business partners and vendors
- Identify and document defects in a defect tracking system and manage issues/defects through resolution
- Complete multiple projects with minimal supervision while effectively handling high priority assignments
- Manage multiple projects as the test lead that range from small to large scale initiatives
- Accountable for managing supporting team members on each project to ensure all requirements and testing is completed.
Systems QA Analysts 4
Wells Fargo & Co
10.2011 - 10.2018
- Responsible for completing process analysis, evaluations, and implementation of process improvements by using IS Standard Testing Methodology
- Design and write formal test plans and test specifications to address system, integration, and data conversion testing
- Accountable for creating test cases for system testing for multiple projects tied to internal and external application functionality and integration
- Create business plan and strategy documents used for identifying work flow, concepts, and areas identified as inefficient or costly
- Acts as liaison to business lines to ensure new products, services and technological developments are compatible with current processes and designs
- Responsible for coordinating and facilitating meetings with high level management, team members, and different lines of business to discuss project testing, timelines, high level documents, strategies, and requirements
- Utilize strong relationship management skills to develop with key business partners and vendors
- Identify and document defects in a defect tracking system and manage issues/defects through resolution
- Complete multiple projects with minimal supervision while effectively handling high priority assignments
- Manage multiple projects as the test lead that range from small to large scale initiatives
- Accountable for managing supporting team members on each project to ensure all requirements and testing is completed.
Operations Analyst
Wells Fargo & Co
12.2009 - 10.2011
- Acted as a liaison between job managers and appraisers when ordering commercial and residential appraisals
- Responsible for doing due diligence prior to drafting contracts and related addendums for the vendor to execute
- Analyzed contract financials by using strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Accountable for receiving and analyzing incoming work, contacting appropriate resources, entering transactions into CRT/PC, and resolving complex issues by using problem solving techniques and multiple resources and records
- Managed over 100 commercial real estate projects by using my multi-tasking and time management skills for the Wells Fargo portfolio
- Proactively worked within a team environment with our account officers, job managers, and team members to assist in completing intricate issues in a fast paced environment.
Loan Specialist 2
Wells Fargo & Co
07.2008 - 12.2009
- Identified illogical exceptions and ensured correct status reporting is completed for Freddie Mac
- Manually referred/activated Private loans for foreclosure and reported status codes to Freddie Mac via Midanet
- Created policies & procedures; assisted in drafting new workflows and training documents for various work functions
- Coordinated and created testing scripts for Business Continuity Planning
- Managed a pipeline of 900+ loans per month while handling multiple assignments and ensuring that they were all with in compliance
- Proactively worked with our analysts for special projects to help build queries through Excel and Macros for pulling loans that needed updating
- Trained new hires/contract employees on various job functions with in the department
- Knowledge of various workstations through Fidelity including bankruptcy, foreclosure, and loss mitigations.
Education
Master's Degree - Business Administration
Strayer University
Charlotte, NCBachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SCNo Minimum Education Requirement - Project Management
York Technical College
Rock Hill, SCSkills
- Application Support
- SCRUM Methodologies
- Process improvement
- Quality assurance
- Business Process Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing
- Project management
- Requirements Gathering
- Resource Planning
Certification
Certified Associate in Project Management ( Class completed)
References
Detailed References
Affiliations
- Member of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society 2011- 2023
Timeline
Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co
06.2022 - 12.2023
Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co
10.2018 - 06.2022
Systems QA Analysts 4
Wells Fargo & Co
10.2011 - 10.2018
Operations Analyst
Wells Fargo & Co
12.2009 - 10.2011
Loan Specialist 2
Wells Fargo & Co
07.2008 - 12.2009
Master's Degree - Business Administration
Strayer University
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Winthrop University
No Minimum Education Requirement - Project Management
York Technical College
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