PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Solutions - oriented, highly technical and hands-on Technical Lead and Development Management Professional with 20+ years of experience leading/directing teams, delegating tasks, instructing/training staffs, and monitoring performance to ensure optimal productivity.
• Results-focused, productive and creative Senior .Net Developer with expertise collaborating with cross-functional departments including FX, commodities, securities and corporate to communicate insights for advancing shared organizational goals.
• Ambitious team player capable of managing an internal IT group and an offshore team in India successfully.
• Resourceful staff and talent builder seeking to leverage background and a passion for monitoring emerging technologies into a development manager, project manager or solution architect role for a progressive organization, focusing on developing solutions or technical products in the financial banking or eCommerce/retail space.
• Project & Program Management | Strategic Planning | Team Leadership & Development | CRM | Cross-Functional Operations Management & Communications | Stakeholder Engagement | Software Lifecycle Development | Agile Methodology | Public Web Site Development | Cloud (Microsoft Azure) Migration | FX Payment Trading System | Securities Front Office | Swift Messaging | FIX Trading | Commodity Trading | Sales Management | Insurance Claim, Billing, Payment, Accounting & Finance Systems | General Ledger | Inventory Control | Data Analytics | Compliance Solutions | Cloud Computing | Vendor Relations | Big Data | Machine Learning | Power BI & Power Apps | Blockchain / SQL /Auto Pricing Engine
• Recognized as the key developer in creating the FX payment front end trading system and implemented the back-end operation system.
• Within recent years, successfully designed and delivered big data solution with Microsoft Azure, and continue migrating on-premise applications with Azure platform services (Paas).
• Hosted daily developer calls with onshore/offshore team almost every single day for 7 to 8 years to enhance project transparency.
• Interfaced directly with business unit users and clients to drive communications and timely project closures. Gained a full understanding of the development life cycle with growing creative and productivity skills as a developer.
• Improved staff morale by injecting positive energy into the team, while encouraging and empowering team members into a creative and productive staff.
• Conducted patient new and existing team member and business user training initiatives to create a successful atmosphere.
• Built FX pricing engine and automated pricing strategies. Built and managed onshore/offshore development team, growing staff from 1 to 20+ developers/testers. Gained proficiency and familiarity with FX Payments, gold and silver commodities trading and securities trading.
• Supervised employees, delegated tasks, scheduled manpower, and monitored performance, ensuring productivity.
• Trained new staff members on best practices, operational protocol, and tactics to maximize performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Experience: Cloud migration with Azure Active Directory, B2C Active Directory, App Service, Web Job, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Application insights, Hybrid connection, Big data solution with Azure DataLake, Blob Storage, HDInsight (Hadoop, Hive) and multi-feature development with Application insights, Streaming Analytics, Power BI, Power Apps, Azure Power Shell, Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS)

Databases: Microsoft Azure Data Lake, Data factory, Azure Storage, SQL Server, Document DB, HDInsights, Oracle.

Languages: .Net, C#, ASP.Net, C, C++, Visual Basic, PL SQL, HTML, VB scripts.

Other Technical Knowledge: SSRS reporting, Signal R.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, FL

IT Development Manager and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Cultivated strong relationships with developers, business units, users, customers, vendors and third-party contacts.
• Gained a solid understanding of application development and architecture design.
• Ensured headcount levels met operational demands by recruiting and interviewing top software engineering talent and coordinating manpower to drive workflow.
• Spearheaded multiple concurrent projects throughout the entire life cycle, including scoping, requirements gathering, client relations, leadership, conflict resolution, budgeting and updates to ensure on-time, within-budget completion.
• Cultivated a collaborative, cohesive and productive team to delivers results on time and within budget and resources. Gained a deep understanding into optimal deliverable to gain internal/external client trust and process buy-in for successful delivery.
• Managed teams of blended resources including on- and off-shore vendors, subcontractors, and employees.
• Collaborated with project stakeholders to communicate project cost/schedule management, status reporting, program governance and cross-functional solutions coordination to advance shared organizational goals.
• Utilized management initiatives for technical implementation including productivity software, systems, technical application and hardware release.
• Partnered with business units closely to analyze business requirements and deliver technical solutions. Interfaced with many financial institutions and banks including Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank and Reuters. Managed development with Agile methodology, as well as project scope, detail requirements, QA testing and source code with Microsoft Visual Studio online.
• Developed big data solutions with Microsoft Azure cloud platform services (Data factory, data lake, Blob storage, Power BI, Power Shell, HDInsight, Hadoop with Hive and Apache Pig).
• Continue development and migration web project on Azure cloud. (App Service, Application Insights, Stream Analytics, Graph API, SQL service, Active Directory AAD and B2C, Service bus, Web job, Hybrid connection). Led teams throughout the full FX payment solution development life cycle.
• Completed a public web site development project with streaming rates and an auto-pricing engine (real time RFQ with Signal R).
• Experienced with managing and handling very large data repositories, delivering distributed and highly scalable applications. Ability to quickly prototype, architect using cloud technologies.
• Interfaced with Swift network and multiple financial institutions to update stakeholders on project timelines. Coordinated the full life cycle development of a banking solution with Swift messages to implement parsing, receiving, scanning, validation and interfacing with back office.
• Mitigated regulatory risks by developing compliance service, OFAC check, credit risk module, and CRM, while completing consolidation on huge volume of transaction data from Finra, Nasdaq and Fidessa. Maintained and supported the FX payment clearing system through Swift network, ACH payment and accounting consolidation with GT Match.
• Managed interface projects with internal multi business units’ systems and with external banks and financial institutions via Web service, Web API and FIX engine.
• Completed FIX trading development of streaming rates, RFQ service.
• Managed full life cycle development of securities business front office, public facing website with a FIX and auto-pricing engine. Developed Power BI/SSRS reporting and data analytics.
• Gained familiarity with multiple Wall Street systems including Swift network, Fidessa, Broadcort, Reuters, Bloomberg, Pershing, FINRA, Two Four, 360T, and GT Match.
• Completed numerous disaster recovery projects.

Confidential

Senior .Net developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the website providing medical company solutions to predict patients risk and forecast future health plan costs.

Environment: Oracle, C#, Asp.net, Store procedure, Oracle package, Visual Studio 2005.

Confidential

.Net developer

Responsibilities:

• Development for CRM web application.

Environment: SQL Server, C#, Asp.net, DTS, Store procedure, Microsoft CRM.

Confidential

Senior .Net developer

Responsibilities:

• Development and production support for the Confidential Banking System.

Environment: SQL server, Visual C++, Visual Basic.Net, C#, Asp.net, Probe, DTS package, XML, Windows XP.

Confidential

Senior .Net developer

Responsibilities:

• Development and client support for Confidential Banking Customer Relationship Management System.

Environment: SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net, C#, DTS package, VB Scripts, Java Scripts, XML, PL SQL, Windows 2000, Asp.Net, ADO.Net, SQL server, Oracle 9i, Unix.

Confidential

Tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Development and production support for Confidential and Geneva Billing System (telecommunication billing solution).

Environment: C, C++, Visual C++, Java Scripts, Unix shell scripts, PL/SQL, ESQL C, Oracle 8i, AS400, Main Frame, Visio Windows NT

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development for point-of-sale system provides functionalities in tourism industry including Confidential member trip requests, instant maps, routings and narrative directions.

Environment: Windows95, C, C++, Esql C, Oracle, Informix 4gl, Informix, Unix shell scripts, Unix

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development for billing & payment system for Confidential & Confidential long distance services.

Environment: Windows NT, INFORMIX, INFORMIX 4GL, INFORMIX ESQL C, UNIX, C, UNIX Shell scripts.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Development and production support for corporate data warehouse and business information data mart project.

Environment: Crystal reports, Erwin, Windows 95, Windows NT, Visio, Oracle, INFORMIX, INFORMIX 4GL, INFORMIX ESQL C, UNIX, Focus, C, UNIX Shell scripts.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development for Health Care Insurance Claim System and Account/Finance/HR system.

Environment: Oracle, Informix, Informix 4GL, ESQL C, Unix Shell scripts, UNIX

Confidential

System analyst and tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and production support for Confidential Global Paging Sales and Accounting System

Environment: Informix database, Informix 4GL, C, Unix Shell scripts, UNIX, Oracle.