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Patelco Credit Union + Wells Fargo

Building visibility and control discipline around sensitive work

This case study focuses on risk and compliance work that supported legal holds, escalations, reporting, renewals, examiner readiness, and law-enforcement-sensitive documentation.

Challenge

Control work was easy to lose without better structure

Escalations, sensitive issues, and documentation-heavy work were moving through email and multiple handoffs. Teams needed stronger tracking, clearer protocols, and better visibility into unresolved items.

What I Built

Dashboards, legal-hold protocols, and cleaner documentation routines

  • Designed and administered a formal legal-hold process with preservation notices, custodian tracking, and hold-release protocols.
  • Built dashboards and executive reports for SLA performance, fraud trends, exceptions, and escalations.
  • Developed policies, procedures, and SLA frameworks with Risk Management and IT.
  • Handled NMLS renewal filings and supported examiner-ready documentation work in a banking environment.
  • Supported law-enforcement-sensitive financial-record production in coordination with Alameda County Narcotics Division.

Results

Better visibility, stronger response discipline, less preventable drift

  • $128K recovered through reporting and follow-through.
  • Escalation tickets reduced by 25% through stronger workflow controls.
  • Documentation quality and compliance-driven follow-through improved.
  • Audit performance held at 97 to 98% in high-accountability environments.

Transferable Value

What this shows about how I work

I do well in roles where the work is sensitive, deadlines matter, and leaders need someone who can make the invisible visible: what is open, what is blocked, what needs escalation, and what has to be preserved or documented cleanly.