Cherry Creek CTO: ‘It should be easy to use your technology’

Many companies are moving away from their own proprietary technology systems, choosing instead to pick “off the shelf” options. Cherry Creek Mortgage, on the other hand, continues to nurture its own proprietary loan origination system. Lorie Helms, its chief technology officer, embraces the strategy.

“We are able to be very agile… to take requests from our users and turn them around very quickly because it’s our own system, and we can prioritize that work ourselves,” said Helms (pictured), CTO since July.

Helms is a veteran executive who brings to the table more than 20 years of technology management experience. Before Cherry Creek, she was most recently chief information officer at Covius, a Colorado-based company that provides mortgage services for big financial institutions. She has experience leading multiple divisions and driving innovation in application development, IT operations, security and data management.