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Change Moment

A sunrise over the mountains in east New Mexico viewed from Interstate 10.
That moment you start working on your personal computer after you quit your job and you keep trying to login with your old work password. That’s the moment I’m in right now: at the start of something new, still pulling myself away from the old. It is the little things you forget about, like your...

Fond Farewell

A bamboo sit-stand desk in a blue and grey painted office with two monitors, three office chairs and a Fight Club movie poster.
I’ve worked at Open Mortgage for 2,644 days. Today is my last. I started at Open Mortgage as a Senior Software Engineer in 2009. At the time there were 31 other Corporate employees. Open was primarily a broker shop, relying on others’ money to fund the loans we originated. I worked mostly from home, but...

Turning the Titanic

Artistic rendition of the Titanic headed towards an iceberg in icy water under a bright moonlit night.
Turning the Titanic: Implementing a New Operations System in Fewer Than 60 Days I originally posted this on LinkedIn back in 2016. The TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule implementation in 2015 had potential to be the iceberg to the Mortgage industry’s Titanic. TRID was the biggest regulation change in twenty years and those companies not ready for...