Stephen S. is a Director Cloud and Cyber Resiliency at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (Dtcc). Colleagues describe him as "Stephen is a rare combination of business leader and technical expert. Stephen was instrumental in assisting me in rebuilding Nationstar Mortgage's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program. He was a trusted member of my team and an invaluable asset in moving our BCDR program to the next level. He is able to effectively talk to technical resources and translate to ideas that support the business. He can just as easily create great relationships with the business to bring technology and business leaders together for the good of the organization and cerate cost effective solutions to business problems. He attacked any challenge and found creative solutions to every roadblock. Anyone who gets Stephen on their team will benefit greatly from his professional approach to problem solving, technical acumen and his team spirit. He has a place on my team whenever I can create one. " and "Stephen was hired as a shift manager for the IT Service Center and quickly displayed his abilities to comprehend technical systems, manage incident calls and manage teams of diverse technical expertise. Stephen's ability to cipher through details quickly and recap situations made him an invaluable asset to the Incident Management team. While in the ITSC Stephen lead numerous large scale incidents that spanned multiple business units, technical teams, and areas responsible for recovery, with professionalism and control. The skill sets that he had and obtained on those incidents allowed him to review, consolidate and where needed create concise step by step instruction for the rest of the teams to allow them to comfortably handle situations and incidents. Stephen's non aggressive nature allowed him to easily assume responsibility for all of the ITSC teams and have other shift mangers report to him. Stephen’s capable leadership of the Service Center allowed the management team to concentrate on other areas and issues."