About Me

Experienced Business Manager and technology Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Financial Controls, User Experience, Process Improvement, Supplier Relationship, IT Infrastructure, and Program/Project Management. Detail oriented, problem solver, and possesses knowledge and skills to translate business intent into actionable solutions.

Contact Details

Trevor Nicholson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevornicholson/

Work

Red Volta, LLC

Co-founder• 2022 - Present

    A technology services company focused on designing innovative solutions that leverage technology in order to solve complex industry challenges.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Vice President - Business Manager• September 2017 - Present

  • Partnered with Senior Leadership in all areas of financial control management including planning, monthly forecasting and reporting, P&L, headcount planning and tracking, productivity tracking, run rate analysis, monitoring expenses, and cost recovery
  • Developed solutions to provide improved proactive capabilities across the Finance & Business Management sector supporting Corporate Technology
  • Conceptualized and implemented controls to improve efficiency & accuracy of existing processes and business intelligence
  • Influenced the build out and successful roll out of new comprehensive technology business management systems including technology sub-ledger, business case, and investment proposal efforts enabling organizational improvements

Deutsche Bank

September 2011 - September 2017

Strategic Supplier Partnership:

  • Strategic Vendor Partnership Program - Assisted with managing Procurement's bank wide Strategic Vendor Partnership program through driving partner engagement, developing relationships, and coordinating Account Plan and Senior Management meetings and agendas
  • Implemented process for the capture, tracking, and response to notifications involving Vendor-Clients ensuring compliant dialog. Post implementation, provided notification within coverage area
  • Produced and maintained vendor relationship briefs for Management Board, C-suite, and Managing Directors
  • Implemented a vendor performance feedback process for Service Relationship Owners
  • Developed the Strategic Vendor Partnership programs internal brand presence to broadened awareness
  • Vendor Endorsement Committee - Implementation of new streamlined user experience and Secretary duties

Application Program Manager - Vendor Risk Management:

  • Chaired continuous improvement working group that fed directly into the UAT phase; Assisted with managing user requirements through to major releases of Vendor Risk Management tool
  • Developed and lead end user training program for new internal vendor risk management tool with 1,000+ trainees
  • Generated and maintained material for new internal vendor risk management tool; included multi-layer support workflows, FAQ’s, known issues, end user role manuals
  • Conducted institution wide vendor spend analysis that directly influenced vendor segmentation initiative
  • On-campus recruiting for the Analyst Graduate program

Project Manager:

  • Executed build out and decommissioning of Americas region ultra low latency (ULL) trading platform infrastructure
  • Coordinated critical data center migrations end to end through budgeting, planning, and execution of ULL platform infrastructure
  • CSupported large divestiture overseeing the successful transfer of user data, project plans, documentation and progress reports

Projects

U.S. Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Science-informed Machine Learning to Accelerate Real Time Decisions in the Subsurface (SMART) Visualization Platform Prize Challenge

Phase 1 Winner• 2021

The team successfully designed and developed an innovative tailor made pre-production prototype solution from the ground up to solve many of the current and future challenges of visualizing the subsurface environment. The flexibility provided by the design and architecture of the Red Volta platform enables a scalable, multi-user, and cross-platform solution. The platform was designed with flexibility and ease of use in mind ensuring a pleasant user experience and enabled both expert and non-expert decision makers and engineers to analyze, interact with, and acquire a deeper understanding of subsurface data.

U.S. Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft Program Office (PMA-290) SSD Challenge

1st Place Winner• 2020

The team designed and developed a self-contained tool that assessed the health of Solid-State Drives to measure performance and predict potential failures in a way that does not disrupt the data on the drive or introduce new forms of drive wear. The award-winning dashboard tool included data management visualization capabilities to view and manage the historical health data of individual SSDs to support operational and maintenance decisions.

Education

Florida International University

Bachelor's International Business, Management Information Systems• 2011

Activities and societies:

Beta Theta Pi, MIS Club, Contributing Writer - The Beacon Student Newspaper