Countrywide Internal Audit — Premier Performer
This award was presented annually to the top performer among more than 150 internal auditors nationwide.

Receiving this award required:

• delivering flawless execution across high-risk audit engagements

• strengthening critical controls during rapid organizational expansion

• earning trust and visibility with senior leadership

• demonstrating judgment, independence, and analytical depth

• influencing improvements across multiple business lines

The Premier Performer designation recognized not just technical proficiency, but the broader leadership qualities, clarity, rigor, resilience, and enterprise perspective, that would continue to define my work in later roles at Citi, Fannie Mae, Capital One, Bank OZK, Rushmore, Mastercard, and Discover.

This award remains one of the earliest independent indicators of the standard I hold myself to in every institution I serve.