OUR TEAM
A&S Elite Consulting is the best in class leadership, organizational and technology consulting advisor in the mortgage industry. Our team partners with clients to help them solve complex strategic problems, achieve operational objectives, and complete critical projects. Our Elite team has successfully helped over 2000 lenders implement, improve, and customize Encompass. Collectively, we have beyond 250 years of experience in the mortgage industry.
Shawna Adams
Managing Partner
Shawna has been in the mortgage industry since 2000 and has direct operations experience with both wholesale and retail organizations leading secondary, closing, processing and post-closing teams. Shawna segued into the fintech sector in 2008 while at Capital One Home Loans helping to build a proprietary POS application and then implementing the Empower LOS application.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.
John Adams
Managing Partner
Before joining A&S Elite, John was formerly CEO of JP Adams Corporation, a recruiting firm specializing in providing IT resources to enterprise organizations, such as Oracle Corporation.
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Since the release of the 1st version of Encompass, Brian held multiple client-facing critical positions and responsibilities. He was a crucial resource to cross-functional internal teams at Ellie Mae, providing subject matter expertise to facilitate product and delivery improvements. In addition, Brian owned a pipeline of 60+ clients providing first-class management and delivery of virtual admin services. Before Brian's work at Ellie Mae, he held system administration roles for both Calyx and Genesis LOS applications, at prestigious and well-known banks in California and Pennsylvania.
Brian enjoys leveraging his academic education in computer science and vast experience in the mortgage industry to help clients resolve complex technical issues. He determines not only the resolution also the root cause to then develop, manage, and execute action plans for long-term resolution, thus helping clients improve their loan life cycle, efficiency, and performance. Brian is a Certified Encompass Administrator.
Dennece Bickley
Vice PresidentConsulting Services
Dennece has over 25 years of experience within the financial services industry. Over that time, she has held all positions through the entire mortgage life cycle starting right out of college.
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Zachary worked directly with clientele ranging from Strategic to large Enterprise organizations. This front-line, hands-on involvement in analysis, resolution, and improvement of different Encompass systems has provided Zachary with valuable insight into what organizations expect of their software and how to best deliver on those expectations.
While at Ellie Mae, Zachary also led the Encompass Core/Admin team for two major Encompass version releases as the primary Release Command Center member, where he not only honed an aptitude for in-depth application defect-testing but also earned respect from his superiors on the Product, Development, and Engineering teams in being able to efficiently research, document, and communicate various types of system issues.
Zachary has a proven track record of exceeding expectations in supporting Encompass systems at Ellie Mae, where he received high praises from clients for his knowledge and professionalism. He also earned recognition and admiration when he managed a Bikram Yoga studio. While managing the studio he consistently communicated with and assisted people of all backgrounds with their personal health and wellness, ensuring they received the best possible service in choosing their class packages and staying connected with the studio and its owners. Zachary's background and innate desire to help others perfectly translates to what he offers A&S Elite clientele; a wise, respectful person that you can always rely on for help.
Ivon Vazquez
Senior Consultant
24+ years of Fintech software and mortgage industry experience. Her expertise includes project management, Encompass System Administration, workflow assessment, business analysis, vendor management, training and mortgage operations.
Tasha Vandal
Senior Consultant
Tasha has over 17 years of experience in the mortgage industry, including Operations, Sales, Risk and Compliance, Training, Business Support, and Technology. She has been engaged on the technology side for over 6 years and has really enjoyed helping companies in our industry successfully bring together business and IT groups to work as one entity.
Kim Summar
Senior Consultant
Kim is a respected professional with 28 years of software and financial/mortgage industry experience. Kim’s area of expertise includes project management, business analysis, training and mortgage operations. I have a proven record of process flow design and software implementation to improve mortgage operations for a variety of clients from small community banks to large mortgage lenders.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.
Nicole Vaughn
Senior Consultant
Nicole has been in the mortgage industry since 1999 starting out as a processor and moved quickly to underwriter in the non-conforming mortgage sector. Nicole transitioned out of this sector to become a delegated underwriter for several conforming lenders and Manager of Operations for a mortgage broker with offices in several states in the Midwest.
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In 2007, Nicole moved on to the Director of Mortgage Operations role with Farm Credit Services of America where she was an integral part of the creation and implementation of a proprietary LOS and several years later with Encompass. In addition to her leadership role, Nicole also served as the Encompass administrator for the mortgage team.
Nicole’s entrance into the fintech sector was with Ellie Mae in 2014 where she managed the Technical Support team that specialized in mortgage and the Encompass Product and Pricing Service. Approximately 2 years later, she moved to the Implementation team at Ellie Mae.
In 2019, Nicole moved to Roostify where she served as Team Lead and Implementation Manager for their point of sale product.
Prior to A&S Elite, LLC, Nicole has led over 100+ implementations that led to successful deployments that carried very high customer satisfaction ratings. Along with extensive mortgage operations knowledge, expertise and leadership, Nicole also brings her passion for customer satisfaction and ability to create efficiencies for clients with all of her projects.
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Since the release of the 1st version of Encompass, Brian held multiple client-facing critical positions and responsibilities. He was a crucial resource to cross-functional internal teams at Ellie Mae, providing subject matter expertise to facilitate product and delivery improvements. In addition, Brian owned a pipeline of 60+ clients providing first-class management and delivery of virtual admin services. Before Brian's work at Ellie Mae, he held system administration roles for both Calyx and Genesis LOS applications, at prestigious and well-known banks in California and Pennsylvania.
Brian enjoys leveraging his academic education in computer science and vast experience in the mortgage industry to help clients resolve complex technical issues. He determines not only the resolution also the root cause to then develop, manage, and execute action plans for long-term resolution, thus helping clients improve their loan life cycle, efficiency, and performance. Brian is a Certified Encompass Administrator.
Brian Izadbakhsh
Senior Consultant
Brian has worked in both the Mortgage and Tech Industry for over 25 years. Before joining A&S Elite Consulting as a Sr. Encompass Admin Consultant, he worked at Ellie Mae for 15 years.
Zachary Fons
Consultant
Zachary has worked in the Tech Industry for over six years. Prior to joining A&S Elite Consulting, he held a position at Ellie Mae as a Technical Support Analyst for the Encompass Core/Admin team for two years.
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Zachary worked directly with clientele ranging from Strategic to large Enterprise organizations. This front-line, hands-on involvement in analysis, resolution, and improvement of different Encompass systems has provided Zachary with valuable insight into what organizations expect of their software and how to best deliver on those expectations.
While at Ellie Mae, Zachary also led the Encompass Core/Admin team for two major Encompass version releases as the primary Release Command Center member, where he not only honed an aptitude for in-depth application defect-testing but also earned respect from his superiors on the Product, Development, and Engineering teams in being able to efficiently research, document, and communicate various types of system issues.
Zachary has a proven track record of exceeding expectations in supporting Encompass systems at Ellie Mae, where he received high praises from clients for his knowledge and professionalism. He also earned recognition and admiration when he managed a Bikram Yoga studio. While managing the studio he consistently communicated with and assisted people of all backgrounds with their personal health and wellness, ensuring they received the best possible service in choosing their class packages and staying connected with the studio and its owners. Zachary's background and innate desire to help others perfectly translates to what he offers A&S Elite clientele; a wise, respectful person that you can always rely on for help.
Dawn Anderson
Senior Consultant
Dawn has been in the mortgage industry since 1997 and has been active in all the major positions of the mortgage team, from processing, lending, underwriting, post-closing, servicing and department head. She has experience in processing both retail and correspondent lending.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.
Traci DeMarco
Senior Consultant
Traci is a Senior, Certified Encompass Admin with over 23 years of experience in, mortgage operations, & technology. Traci has led hundreds of Encompass implementations, Encompass trainings, process workflow improvements and technology transformations.
Syrma Quiñones
Senior Consultant
Syrma is a Senior Consultant with over 20 years of combined experience in the mortgage industry, technology, and mortgage technology solutions. She has leveraged her knowledge in Operations, Sales, Business Support and Technology to assist organizations translate business challenges into technical solutions. Since 2011, Syrma has focused on Project Management, Process Reengineering and Standardization, and Client Management.
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Since the release of the 1st version of Encompass, Brian held multiple client-facing critical positions and responsibilities. He was a crucial resource to cross-functional internal teams at Ellie Mae, providing subject matter expertise to facilitate product and delivery improvements. In addition, Brian owned a pipeline of 60+ clients providing first-class management and delivery of virtual admin services. Before Brian's work at Ellie Mae, he held system administration roles for both Calyx and Genesis LOS applications, at prestigious and well-known banks in California and Pennsylvania.
Brian enjoys leveraging his academic education in computer science and vast experience in the mortgage industry to help clients resolve complex technical issues. He determines not only the resolution also the root cause to then develop, manage, and execute action plans for long-term resolution, thus helping clients improve their loan life cycle, efficiency, and performance. Brian is a Certified Encompass Administrator.
Kim Creek
Senior Consultant
Kim has been in the mortgage lending space for 13 years, with over 10 years of experience as a client-side admin for various loan origination and management systems. Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.
Tami Von Tour
Customer Advisor/Solution Sales
Tami Von Tour is a skillful Sales Professional as well as an attentive Account Manager who obsesses over client satisfaction. She's been in the Mortgage Technology space since 1997 when she joined InterLINQ Software.
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Kim’s direct mortgage journey started at First Volunteer Bank where she led post-closing and operations. This is also where Kim added technology to her mortgage expertise. Throughout her career she has been responsible for defining, leading and executing on concurrent, complex technology implementations and customizations. After working in community banking for 16 years, she joined Ellie Mae as an Implementation Consultant where she broadened her Encompass skills and learned best practices.
In addition to Ellie Mae’s Encompass LOS and CRM, Kim has implemented, maintained, or customized Blend, Mortgage Cadence, LaserPro, DecisionPro, JHA 20/20, and OnBase. Kim has a proven record of successful implementations, project management, end-user training content creation and delivery. Through her contributions Kim has helped multiple organizations increase efficiency and loan quality.