SUMMARY:

• 3+ years working diverse roles within Hedge Fund & Investment Banking sectors
• 1.5+ years of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), 3+ years of professional experience in developing business solutions (Web based, client/server applications in multi - platform environments with Java/J2EE, Excel/Tableau reports)
• Experience with system design and development in core java using Collections, multithreading, exception handling, and JDBC
• Extensive knowledge of Spring core framework and clear understanding of IoC container
• Developed RESTful web services to transfer data from client to vendor and to fetch data from vendors
• Experience with Tibco EMS and IBM MQ middleware services
• Extensive experience with AutoSys Job Scheduler, extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux commands
• Knowledge of VERITAS cluster and extended VERITAS cluster architecture
• Experience with Sybase and Oracle databases, writing queries and troubleshooting data issues and data flow issues
• Worked with repositories such as GIT, SVN and build tools like Apache ANT, Maven, and Gradle
• Extensive experience with ServiceNow, JIRA
• Extensive knowledge using AngularJS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, XML, XSD
• Fast, efficient, multi-talented, interpersonal and humble

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, J2EE, Servlets, Python, SQL, MATLAB, R, Excel (VBA macros), JavaScript, Perl, Shell scripting, UML, CSS, HTML

Technologies and Standards: JDBC, ODBC, XML, XSD, Tibco EMS, IBM MQ, Tableau, Autosys, SRLWeb, GitHub, Apache frameworks (TOMCAT / POI / Maven / SVN), Gradle, JIRA, Bootstrap

Databases: Sybase ASE, Oracle, MS Access

IDE Tools: Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA IDE, Microsoft Visio, TOAD, Aqua Data Studio, PuTTY, Notepad++

OS: Windows, Mac, Linux RHEL 5 - 6, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Java Developer Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As part of Data Center migration, tested 20+ security settlement applications being migrated to F5 Next Generation Network Infrastructure, new server builds, new REHL stacks, and new drivers for Compute DB (Sybase/Oracle), and updated middleware versions
• Created environment setup for QA/UAT/DEV testing, and staging for Pre-Production team
• Tested and debugged server enterprise applications-Domestic & International settlement systems- in differing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (REHL) software stacks, in-house application configurations, jdbc properties, oracle and sybase database configs
• Handle legacy network to NGNI migration by resolving enterprise level configurations: TCP/UDP protocols, Firewall rules, 3DNS (layered DNS aliasing), load balancer, and network security (WebSSO / PowerBroker)
• Created workflow impact analysis for Data Center applications that propagate through compute/gateway servers, middleware subscriber/queue messaging framework + topics/durables messaging framework (includes acknowledgements between external servers and internal servers for cross check), Database to middleware bi-directional feeds
• Handled capacity, load testing, performance testing for major infrastructure applications, implementing solutions for performance bottlenecks
• Developed FTP python & java scripts scheduled daily to fetch and load to databases, external tables, and servers
• Developed java program to purge EMS & WMQ topics and queues overriding GUI functionality, improving QA testing flow by 90%
• Coordinated and provided sign offs for releases among onshore and offshore teams for major infrastructure changes impacting hundreds of systems, and thousands of production jobs
• Indexed & showcased internal team's work documentation on Atlassian Confluence (akin to Wikipedia)
• Compiled department inventory budget, reconciled total cost of ownership (TCO), highlighted vulnerable end of life (EOL) hardware & software risks, and forecasted total run rate bottom up & top down
• Developed multi-threaded java conversion program to parse, adjust and convert over 500 GB *.csv files to compressed *.xlsx (Excel workbook 2013+) XML format, using Apache POI framework's SXSSF object to stream configurable portion of rows in memory at any one time, reducing hardware memory constraints on shared server load

IT Consultant

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced alternative portfolio tools used by Hedge Fund of Funds team, develop charting tools for strategy analysis
• Maintained 25 FTP python scripts via task scheduler, PGP encryption
• Debugged and resolved production python applications, as well as develop additionally augments to functionality
• Developed a webpage applet to allow traders to mark comments on specific instruments or to highlight mergers and acquisitions on calls
• Provided Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 IT support for entire firm, handle system admin responsibilities updating system software

Senior Financial Risk Consultant

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Head of Quantitative Research by providing extensive reconciliations of CIO reports, quantitative strategy reports (QSRs), internal benchmark/index constituents, and collaborating with IT to improve vendor data capture into databases
• Managed strategy tag universe which catalogues over 1,500 hedge funds of interest to Alternative & Quantitative (A&Q) Investment Team
• Implemented all strategy tag related projects, which impacts Risk Team's quantitative risk opinions (QROs), used by Investment Committee to determine investment allocations and decisions; QROs comprises: Peer Group Analysis, Performance Decomposition, Portfolio Exposure, Equity Hedged Exposure Report
• Delivered front office team projects such as historic "Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities" Assets under Management (UCITS AUM) forecasted growth chart and Sharpe Ratio scatter plots
• Point of contact (internal and external) for current fund data on A&Q platform, which included negotiating transparency breakdowns, attribution / position level data, and establishing exposure limit breaches, and reconciling transparency data
• Upgraded manual vendor net asset value (NAV) upload process by automating IT team / server side with upload template functionality
• Created monthly pricing reconciliation process for Product Control and Data Teams
• Delegated and handled data integrity maintenance side projects to improve data redundancy, as well as identified error prone stored procedures