SUMMARY:

• 18 Years of Information Technology experience in financial domain specific to capital markets/ wealth management areas.
• Possesses excellent gap analysis, requirements gathering and documentation skills to create Business requirements, Functional specifications and Use case documents.
• Knowledge of quality assurance during systems integration, user acceptance testing with timely defect tracking/resolution techniques and supporting documentation skills.
• Trained in Data Science and Machine Learning concepts with hands on skills using Python, AWS, Apache Spark (Scala)
• Hands full of development experience in Java/J2EE and other open source technologies (SCJP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed cross - functional teams of programmers, analysts, business users and SME’s to implement Vendor Solutions
• Responsible for the end-to-end functionality after migration to new platform.
• Interview the technical, business units to create current state, future state (TOM - Target Object Model) process flows, Business Requirements Documents
• Facilitate the creation of Functional Specification Documents by all upstream and downstream systems
• Produce end -to-end Test Scenarios, Scripts, data for UAT Testing
• Co-ordinate with quality assurance team to support the SIT/UAT/Dress rehearsal/ Go-live
• In my role as a Subject Matter Expert for CitiKYC & CitiScreening projects, liaison between Accounts Control Group, KYC Operations, Client On Boarding business units (including Operations/Middle Office) and IT (Development, QA) divisions of the Accounts Data team during requirements definition, development and testing phases of various projects.
• Responsible for successful integration of MCLE from eSales/AMC with CitiKYC platform after AML Screening
• Participate in Gap Analysis sessions to identify the gaps and enhancements to be done in eSales/AMC
• Review and validate the Schemas from two systems and produce Data Mapping Documents for successfully migration of existing MCLE from eSales/AMC to CitiKYC platform
• In my role as a Technical Business Analyst for imposing Compliance and Regulatory mandates in AMC/eSALES application,
• Lead the creation of Functional Requirements, Use cases & Conduct JAD sessions for regulatory enhancements in eSales BAU work streams like FINRA, FATCA, Large Trader, Basel II, and Firm Code changes, MRNCCD, COSINEE, FTT and Audit CAPs - MS Word.
• Develop User interface mocks for the eSales enhancements - MS Visio 2010/MS Paint
• Review and/or Develop test scenarios, test scripts for all involved projects - Mercury Quality Center 9.2
• Create and execute SQLs during data analysis and SIT/UAT phases of the project - Sybase, Oracle
• In my role as a Project Manager/ PMO member for Data and Capital markets IT Silo for the firm’s major initiative projects like CitiKYC, Citi Screening (AML) and Broadridge Migration, - MS Share point.
• Manage stake holder communications with senior management, various business units, different operations, technology and testing teams
• Chair governance and progress calls to Track the Project milestones, Systems readiness tracker, traceability matrices for all involved projects
• Maintain the Issue/risk registry and work towards their resolution during the SDLC of each assigned project
• Track the inbound and outbound dependencies from/to upstream and downstream systems
• Organize business as usual Program track for compliance or regulatory mandates
• Prepare release notes, schedules and co-ordinate before and after checkout process

Confidential, NY

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• In my role as a PMO representative for Client Reporting, ISG IT Silo, organized Change Controls of New Account Opening Program track, prepared release schedules and worked towards resolution of Issues/risks involved in the SDLC of assigned projects.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the gaps in different New Account Opening applications - Excel, MS Power Point.
• Coordinate UAT with Business & End users. Document UAT bugs, assign priority & work with teams to resolve bugs.

Confidential, NY

Product Manager/ Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in product proposition and road-map meetings with stakeholders (product sponsors, owners, sales, marketing and end users) for Business Intelligence and Compliance modules
• Performed market analysis of competitive products and prepared the requirement proposals documents to Stake holders.
• Performed gap/build analysis on the approved proposals to crate Product Requirement Documents for Commentaries, Profiles, Contacts/Groups, Search, Active/Passive Compliance modules.
• Walked-thru the Product requirements and created User Stories (in JIRA) and created iteration plans (Agile) along with development, testing estimates to track team velocity, issues/Risks
• Lead on-site, off-shore weekly/bi-weekly product status/road-map/ commitment review meetings and efficiently communicate the reports to senior management/ stakeholders.

Confidential, MN

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements gathering sessions and created Functional Specification Documents for all above projects
• Performed data analysis from different data sources and produced data mapping artifacts for Treasury Information Reports.
• Conducted JAD sessions to communicate user requirements to development team and determine impacts on design/workflows and applications.
• Overseen the development, testing phases and provide the weekly status to offsite project managers.
• Solicit post-implementation feedback from end users to find if the business needs were met or modifications are needed.

Confidential, PA

Software Engineer/ Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed core classes of framework and deployed on web, application servers - Java/J2EE, Struts 1.0, Web logic 6.1
• Created JSP, Web Services, XML parse - JSP, XML, Java Scripts, XML Spy
• Created build scripts to compile, package and deploy on application server. - ANT, DOS Batch file.
• Designed and developed Partner Integration Engine (PIE) module to transfer data from one business partner to another. PIE acts as a server to run different applications developed using C, C++, VC++, COM, EJB, JNI, RMI and JAVA.
• Owned the responsibility of managing code versions - VSS
• Wrote SQL queries, Java Stored procedures for pulling data from database - Java, Oracle 9i