Services

IT Management

During IT management transitions, we provide temporary leadership to stabilize operations and manage your team. During spikes in business, we assist IT managers, collectively focusing on meeting delivery timelines and providing the best IT service possible.

Project Management

There's no shortage of initiatives for bank IT teams as we approach IT transformations. We provide project management services for IT projects of varying complexity. We kick off projects and follow through the project life cycle or step in as needed for projects already in flight.

Operational Excellence

IT teams do a lot of things well. Sometimes, due to conflicting priorities, controls aren’t always implemented optimally. We evaluate and enhance IT controls in a way that makes sense for your business.

We can help...

Echo Lake Consulting assists clients by offering strategic and tactical services targeted at relieving pressure faced by IT leaders. Drawing on extensive experience, we understand the challenges faced by banks and credit unions. Providing operational excellence and high touch IT service while managing heavy workloads is challenging. We empathize and can assist in a variety ways, allowing clients to focus their energies in the best direction.

BCP and Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans are critical elements to the sustainability of your institution. Let us build or enhance your plans leveraging the investment you've made in BCP and DR.

Vendor Management

A strong vendor management program is essential to banks and credit unions. It's imperative that vendors are vetted properly and that on-going controls are effective. We help sort through the complexities of vendor management and enhance or develop effective processes.

Regulatory

The regulatory landscape is continuously evolving. It can be daunting to implement new regulatory controls or change existing ones. We provide assistance by evaluating requirements and recommending effective solutions that meet your business needs.

Your Challenges

Banks and Credit Unions have unique challenges...

Growing the business, understanding that a smart technology plan is essential to maintaining a competitive advantage
Adopting technology solutions that will enable the best possible level of customer service
Determining a strategy around cloud computing to leverage operational and agility benefits
Forming alliances with high quality, strategic vendors
Maintaining effective controls in an ever-changing regulatory environment