Russell Cattat

VP and Chief Technical Officer at Morgan Properties

Pittsford, New York, United States

About Russell Cattat

Russell Cattat is VP and Chief Technical Officer at Morgan Properties. Location: Pittsford, New York, United States.

Career IT professional with a unique combination of skills in organization building, new business development, technical leadership and client engagement. The consummate thinker-planner-doer who can be trusted to demonstrate principled leadership around complex deliverables, discern and translate customer requirements into workable specifications, and evolve an organization from a task-and-duty approach to a scalable enterprise. Knowledge Base • Recruiting, selection, screening, training and talent management • Value-driven account and relationship management • Systems/solutions design, specification and engineering • Team building, leadership, mentoring and motivation • Forecasting and budgets with P&L responsibility • Program and project management • Performance management • Revenue maximization • Service delivery models • Organizational development • Process and procedure • Analysis/development of KPI’s Select Career Highpoints Project/program management. Planned, managed and executed high-value IT programs and projects for a not-for-profit client that enabled them to control annual IT costs while implementing special projects and upgrades. Relationship management. Partnered with a rapidly growing client to understand their long-term strategies and implement a system that allowed them to grow from a network with seven users to 800+ over a ten-year period—all while managing support costs. Talent management. Successfully recruited, screened and selected eleven new hires from a pool of hundreds—effectively saving the company $170K in recruitment and on-boarding costs. Developed job descriptions, growth plans and key processes to facilitate department growth from a team of four to a team of 30. Project highlight. Reduced help desk call volume from 1,400 per month to 400 per month over a 2½ year period by leveraging training, lessons learned and continuous education.

Skills

  • Organizational Development
  • Recruiting
  • Networking

Additional experience

  • Chief Technical Officer

    Morgan Properties

    Started July 2019

Education

  • , Clarkson University