trevor stott - resume
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Trevor Stott41 Mary Street Georgetown, Ontario L7G 4V7 • Phone: 289-839-0915 • Email: [email protected]
Skilled Technology Leader With Strong Business Acumen http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/trevor-stott/7/987/606
SUMMARY:Accomplished technology executive with outstanding leadership skills. Accountable for the success of the Canadian technology teams in their support of Broadridge's diverse, mission critical Canadian Financial Services products and services. Proven track record in leadership, customer service, delivery on business objectives, with strong U.S. and domestic business acumen. Skilled communicator and negotiator, effective in geographically diverse matrix environments.
EXAMPLES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Leadership: Developed long term strategies to increase effectiveness of my team through looking at macro level issues and forming plans to address key areas that are impactful to the business. Understanding differences in people and how to leverage those differences to bring additional value to the business.
Negotiation: Took ownership of a troubled CICA Section 5970 (Canadian SAS70) audit and over the course of 2 years managed to evolve a qualified opinion to one minor exception through helping people understand mitigating controls and building better strategic relationships with our partners. Numerous purchases, statements of work, security and audit negotiations which overall have resulted in lower business risk and financial savings
Technology: Responsible for mission critical financial trading systems in an application service provider business model. Able to interact with clients and help them understand how we deliver our services and the tremendous value we bring to their organizations.
Business: Understanding acceptable business risk as it relates to the type of business you’re supporting. Simultaneously supporting 4 P&L’s with differing business models ranging from batch processing systems to mission critical financial trading systems. Leveraging standard ITIL methodologies to ensure clarity on process for Technology as well as bridge the gap between Technology, the business and our clients.
Financials: Managing multiple capital and expense budgets across multiple lines of business. Typical overall capital budget can range from 4 to 6 million dollars. Making budgets make sense to business; grouping initiatives to align to business objectives and strategy so the business can understand what they’re choosing to do or not.
Management: Manage geographically diverse teams with direct and indirect reporting relationships. 39 associates compose my direct reporting chain (including 15 In India) with an additional 38 as part of my indirect responsibility in supporting all Canadian lines of business.
OBJECTIVE:
Looking for a challenging executive level position where I can utilize my skills to make a positive contribution and impact to an exciting and growing business.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Broadridge Financial Solutions 2000 – PresentBroadridge is a global, leading edge Financial Services provider with 2 core lines of business in
Canada. Global Technology and Outsource Solutions (formerly SPS) provides mission critical securities processing services for a majority of Canadian Brokerage firms and banks while Investor Communications facilitates the electronic and physical required regulatory communications out to shareholders on behalf of our bank, broker and mutual fund clients.
07 / 2010 - Present Senior Director, Technical Services, Canada09 / 2006 - 07 / 2010 Director, Network Services, Canada09 / 2001 - 09 / 2006 Manager, Systems Support08 / 2000 - 09 / 2001 Systems Administrator
Major accomplishments:
Continual successful expansion of scope including recently absorbing technology teams supporting U.S. trading and reporting products that operate on open systems under the Aspire product umbrella.
Managed the infrastructure build outs and implementations of new products like Smart Prospectus and Smart Advisor with an appropriate and disaster recovery capability commensurate with the business requirements and client’s expectations.
Promoted in July 2010 with additional responsibilities for all of the Technology Services organization supporting Canadian lines of business. Inherited a team that was struggling culturally and losing people at an alarming rate and turned it into an engaged and effective organization.
Successfully integrated my teams with the larger corporate shared technology organization and helped corporate executive understand the value that the Canadian associates can bring to the organization overall.
Founded and spearheaded a local effort to improve our client’s experience which required engagement from senior leadership in Client Support and Account Management. Through this effort we identified 14 initiatives that were resulting in client satisfaction issues which we then prioritized against effort and client impact. The completion of this strategy resulted in much better overall teamwork, made a marked improvement for our clients and indirectly resulted in higher client satisfaction survey scores for the business.
Restructured department to ensure we had the right people in the right roles, the organization made sense and we could achieve a higher level of effectiveness.
Protect Air (now a business unit of Parsons) 1999 — 2000Protect Air is best known for creating, installing and maintaining the Ontario Drive Clean program. With contracts and tight SLA’s with Environment Canada our closely monitored systems and services were critical to the overall success.
1999 - 2000 UNIX Support Specialist
Sheridan College (now Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning) 1994 - 1999Sheridan is a not for profit post-secondary education institution where our team of up to 4 Supported over 40 UNIX systems ranging from Student interactive to Financial Information Systems.
Trevor Stott [email protected] 289-839-0915http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/trevor-stott/7/987/606
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1994 - 1999 Technical Support Specialist
Enlightenment:
Execution: The discipline of getting things done, Larry Bossidy & Rem Charan
7 Habits of highly effective people, Stephen Covy
What the CEO wants you to know, Ram Charan
Trump Style Negotiations, George H Ross
5 dysfunctions of a team, Patrick Lencioni
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, Patrick Lencioni
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, Patrick Lencioni
A Dream with a Deadline, Jacques Horovitz
Computer Science Diploma, Sheridan College
Trevor Stott [email protected] 289-839-0915http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/trevor-stott/7/987/606