Steven Taromina
Steven Taromina has over 35 years of combined financial services, financial services technology and management consulting experience that has focused on delivering results for banks and credit unions ranging in asset size from $100 million to over $2 trillion. Steven’s areas of expertise include technology and operational strategic planning, project management, organizational staff modeling/capacity planning, lending (consumer, residential, commercial, loan originations, digital strategies and loan operations), retail banking, IT, accounting, deposit operations, and marketing. Steven has also represented clients throughout many core, digital and EFT system evaluation initiatives, managing projects from initial analysis, documenting the organizations key strategic technology objectives, RFP/RFI development, complete vendor analysis and comparisons, pricing review and gap identification / mitigation.
Relevant Experience
- Served as VP and Division Operations Officer for a large commercial bank, responsible for providing guidance and oversight to seventy-seven retail banking locations within the New York City area.
- Demonstrated expertise in leading various vendor selection processes, contract review, and providing thorough representation throughout the entire software analysis and selection process.
- Delivered quantifiable and compliant, best practice recommendations that helped organizations achieve maximize operating performance, manage risk, increase profitability, reduce operating expenses, leverage existing technology to its maximum capacity and improve the customer / member experience. Assisted as necessary in the implementation of recommendations including testing, reporting and production roll-out.
- Analyzed account origination and servicing practices, including all associated digital initiatives that deliver on current consumer demands.
- Delivered detailed staffing models that ensured effective staffing alignment in conjunction with current and future production volumes and the organization’s unique strategic goals.