William Edwards

Experience

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  Wells Fargo

  Jun 2001 - May 2004

  Assistant Manager

  • Responsible for assisting manager in leading, planning, organizing, and directing activities of an 8 employee office. • Conducted detailed credit analysis for pre-underwriting of 320 loans from pre-approval to final approval. This included the review of documents for accuracy, communication with loan processors and senior underwriters per service standards, assistance to customers in identifying or recommending alternative financing solutions, and the closing of loans. • Responsible for developing and maintaining dealer relationships, performing collection activities, and assisting in training of store personnel. Supervision of store in manager’s absence. • Recognized by the district manager as the top credit insurance and home equity loan producer out of 7 stores.• Appointed as the district home equity loan subject matter expert (SME) tasked with conducting 8 training seminars for all district credit managers. Show less

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  EMD (Electro-Motive Diesel)

  May 2004 - Feb 2006

  Associate Credit Analyst

  • Made credit decisions based on commercial and international exposure with the result of minimizing taking on bad corporate credit risks.• Performed detailed reconciliation analysis of past due accounts and coordinated with external delinquent companies with the result of reduction in past due accounts receivable balances by over $450K.• Responsible for presenting documentation for letters of credit to international banks.

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  311th Signal Command, US Army

  Feb 2006 - now

  Program Analyst, Captain, Finance

  Finance/Budget Officer• Managed finance office of 25 employees and provided support to 5 Department of Defense entities operating in Saudi Arabia; maintained Afghan Special Security Forces Congressional Appropriation budget of $1.1B for all Special Operations Advisory Groups in Afghanistan• Established relationships with Saudi SAMBA Bank, Bahrain Naval Support Activity, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston using interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts to overcome obstacles in an austere environment and brought accolades from Defense Finance and Accounting Service leadership• Implemented principles of accounting, budgeting, and forecasting through use of personal computer systems for financial information, to prepare reports, create reporting systems, and implement new software in execution of an operating budget of $4.2M annually in support of 1800+ member organization Program Manager- Citibank Government Travel Credit Card (GTCC) Program• Oversaw $650K program for budgeting, tracking, approving, and reporting of restricted federal funds to pay for approved travel in support of missions/training for 1800 employees• Led 2 direct employees for which training and development in complex and specialized processes as well as work direction provided that improved policy compliance to a 90%+ rate upon external inspection• Analyzed and manipulated masses of data to recommend changes to improve processes; created new GTCC delinquency procedures and provided training to 12 lower-level managers for implementation which resulted in a decrease of organization-wide account delinquency rates from 4% annually to .6% • Provided 48 hours of instruction to 12 lower-level managers that included system testing, documentation, end user training, and how to access/interpret information from the system that optimized data reported to senior management and increased readiness of card holders and billing officials by 75% Show less

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  US Army

  Feb 2006 - Feb 2010

  Bandsman (Bass Guitar)

  Musician and vocalist performing in multiple genres of music with main mission focus of supporting the warfighter through music. Performed both wartime and recruiting missions in Iraq and United States in genres of Rock, Country, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Salsa, and R&B.

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  Niche Models and Talent

  Aug 2017 - now

  Actor, Musician

  Experience includes co-star role on Hawai‘i Five-0 season 8, episode 9, starring role in “Pauahi’s Legacy” which was featured at the Kamehameha Film festival in May 2017, and several roles in smaller Indy films. Also, 20+ years experience as a professional bassist and singer having performed with the US Army Band, “The Daytrippers” Beatles Tribute Band, and several classic rock, salsa, jazz, and oldies groups.