Mortgage Bankers Association’s MISMO Shows Appreciation to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ Abdias Lira
Minneapolis (Oct. 30, 2008) – MISMO®, the not-for-profit data standards subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has presented one of only two Staff Appreciation Awards it hands out each year to Abdias Lira, principal software architect with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ line of VMP Mortgage Solutions.
Lira was selected by MISMO at last week’s MBA Annual Convention in San Francisco to receive the award based upon his deep involvement with SMART Doc® specification and guidance. He has led the development of the new SMART Doc Version 3 specification that will be released in 2009 and has been a key leader of the MISMO Version 3.0 architecture development process and the increasingly relevant eRecording and eNotarization specifications and guidance.
"MISMO is very fortunate to have so many hard working and dedicated volunteers like Abdias who contribute their time and expertise year after year," said Harry Gardner, president of MISMO and vice president of industry technology with the MBA.
“I am extremely proud of Abdias’ contributions to MISMO and his work to help further advance the e-mortgage initiative within the financial service industry,” said Jay Levine, vice president of Development and chief technology officer for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services. “Abdias’ forward thinking and hard-driving efforts in this space typifies the subject matter expertise behind all of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ solutions.”
Lira is a member of the MISMO Governance Committee; vice chair of MISMO’s eMortgage Workgroup and an active participant in several other MISMO workgroups. He has been with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and VMP Mortgage Solutions since 2001. During that time, he has played a key role in the design and development of the company’s compliance technology solutions for the mortgage industry.
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Wolters Kluwer Financial Services provides best-in-class compliance, content, and technology solutions and services that help financial organizations manage risk and improve efficiency and effectiveness across their enterprise. The organization’s prominent brands include Bankers Systems, VMP® Mortgage Solutions, PCi, GulfPak, Desert Document Services®, AppOne®, GainsKeeper®, Capital Changes, NILS and AuthenticWeb™.
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