SUMMARY:

• Successful evange list with extensive background in the hands - on leadership and delivery of strategic technology-enabled initiatives. Strong experience leading and implementing diverse, multi-million dollar projects in financial services and investment banking. Experienced Project Manager and Sr. Business Analyst with hands-on technology background.
• Strong experience working with traders, quants on the front office and with middle office. Assisted traders in pricing, valuation and risk as I have a Financial Engineering background.
• Being an amalgamation of Business(SME) and Technologies, I provide value-add to FO, MO and BO across asset classes.
• Certified PMP working with top tier Investment Banks-defining requirements; modeling solutions using key technologies(J2EE,EAI,Finance Models,columnar DBs,SOA,latency,Hadoop,UML,RUP,messaging,ERP,CEP etc).
• Led teams and worked across continents-US, Europe, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, UK, India.
• Key business areas: Trade systems, Risk management /models, derivatives, fixed income, ABS, MBS, credit derivatives, Front Office/ Middle Office/ Back Office, OMS, EMS, valuation and pricing, offshore management.
• Strong background in definition, execution and management of all aspects of software development(SDLC)
• Prominent s include:
• PMP from PMI, Six Sigma, SPC 5.0 and 4.5 SAFe, CSM, CSPO, SAFe DevOps Certified Practitioner plus technical s including AWS certified Solution Architect-Professional, CompTIA Security Plus, TIBCO, MQ series, Weblogic, Calypso, SAP, Java certified Senior Architect, TOGAF, Rational, RUP, UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the generation and maintenance of integrated project plans (options development, risks management, opportunities identification, timing) that reflect the approved balance of scope, time, and resources.
• Deliver strategies for operations, project deliverables, milestones, recruitment, scope, best practices, maturity roadmap managing business expectations and responsibilities.
• Track and report project progress to stakeholders and senior management. Prepare status reports and facilitate project meetings. Lead and enrich the digital customer experience -customer personalization and generating digital demand, shortenand customize the card acquisition and approval process.
• Coordinate the integrations, dependencies and deliverables, communications identifying and helping resolve impediments, for 30+ teams from Loyalty, Servicing, Communication, reporting, MR, benefits, card art etc.
• Define project and program methodology for delivery of company initiatives, including Project Governance processes, standard tools & templates, financials, risk management, communications.
• Lead role in planning, coordinating and facilitating projects from project initiation through completion. Ensure risk processes,programs and internal reports are developed, implemented and effectively administered.
• Manage global architecture teams, formulate business strategy and technology architecture, patterns, standards, and product services with savings extending millions through innovative solutions

Confidential

Sr. Project manager /Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Define the business requirements for big data and data science initiatives for life, group and individual insurance programs to transform the organization big data landscape and revitalize analytics solutions.
• Build the integrated big data platform for risk management-LRM, Reinsurance management, loss control management. Policy account and plan management, Customer management, Product management. Build the FRDs and BRDs for various use cases.
• Developed the UML diagrams for the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics platform consistent with business objectives, identifying opportunities and building innovative solutions with data science vendors.
• Lead projects for the digital ecosystem building web application - guardianonline.com. Lead the development of AI chatbots for mobile apps for individual and life insurance business.
• Establish web project scope by validating business and technical requirements and parameters, discuss with subject-matter experts.
• Responsible for implementing data mining and statistical machine learning solutions to various business problems.

Confidential

Sr. PM /Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead business analysis, development, SIT and UAT testing teams from three offshore vendors. Work with the product team, operations, OBT, CAS and integration teams leading the engagement.
• Led the creation of a multi-year IT strategy to support derivatives business, led an assessment of multiple vendor solutions for pricing complex derivative transactions.
• Document business requirements and functional aspects. Built use cases and workflow models for calculation of maturity, rating analyses, default measure, recovery rates, early redemption scenarios. Carried out batch risk analysis - histsim, hypothetical PnL, CAPL, VaR, scenario analysis, GUI customization.
• Validate pricing models used, counterparty risk, asset risk and liquidity risk analysis. Develop risk measurement methodologies, risk limit frameworks and policies. Build market data setup and led migration planning.
• Refine the use cases, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams with logical flows.
• Deliver strategies for operations, project deliverables, milestones, recruitment, scope, best practices, maturity roadmap managing business expectations and responsibilities
• Coach and counseled teams to translate customer and organizational objectives and critical success factors into actionable business, organization and technology strategies.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead global and offshore teams for Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office across asset(FI and Equities) classes. Carry out integration with middle office risk and back office reporting systems, message confirmations and reconciliations across asset classes. Create, maintain and review limits.
• Spearhead team for bespoke software development, integration of systems, messaging requirements, interfaces and vendor solutions. Responsible for functional design and data migration of IRS and CDS.
• Gather requirements for flow, delta and exotics desks and partner with application team to deliver the solution.
• Manage system for MTM risk-net and absolute, notional, collateral, counterparty risk and credit risk. Carry out reconciliation across different middle office and reporting systems for derivatives. Run and reconcile various risks systems on a daily basis, weekly basis, monthly basis as per needs.
• Develop test plans, test strategies, test environments and test cases to ensure optimal compliance with system and user requirements. Interact with BUC, PnL team, IT and London and Singapore team for redesigning the system.
• Led the core business team leading the migration of derivatives portfolio. Transformed business requirements into use case models and related software architecture documents, analysis, design and implementation models.
• Define the project deadlines, WBS, project plans for multiple and interactive projects.
• Manage a complex near real-time reporting application, which keeps track of committed trades across all trading desks, including debt and derivatives, and reports on net position.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed current business processes for trade capture and risk management. Led the FO team working with traders for detailed as-is and to-be analysis. Evaluate functional architecture, pricing models and risk, cashflow analysis.
• Led team designing and re-engineering business processes for derivatives to ensure optimal process between US, UK, Singapore, Swiss, Pune systems and their cross-dependent streams. Expected to result in savings of $20 mm.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of CDS System. Worked with traders for defining workflows. Configuration of CDS, CDO including hazard rate, survival probability, recovery rates, OC and IC tests.
• Responsible for initial analysis, as-is and to-be workflow and documenting the functional and technical requirements, building the use cases and logical models via UML using Rational Suite.
• Identify risk measurement limitations and adjust trading limits accordingly. Carried out MTM and collateral analysis, credit spreads, position management, sensitivity analysis and report generation.
• Evaluation of middle office system for derivatives-caps, floor, collars and cross currency swaps. Integrate FX and IR trading books. Sound understanding of one-factor and two-factor models: eg. BGM, HJM, CIR, Vasicek, Ho-Lee, HW.
• Built the integration framework for market data feeds, order management systems, middleware technologies, and databases.
• Carried out due diligence and vendor selections for derivatives, risk analysis and pricing.

Confidential

Vice President and Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated trading systems leading a 22 member team of project managers, architects and developers. Led the creation of a multi-year IT strategy to support FI derivatives business.
• Led team of six BAs for implementation of Derivatives. Responsible for initial analysis, as-is and to-be workflow, documenting the functional and technical requirements, built the use cases and logical models via UML.
• Improved the middle office confirmation, matching and notification for trades.
• Hands-on part of a front office development team for Credit Derivatives.
• Involved in the business and technical analysis and delivery of applications for the pricing, hedging and valuation techniques for derivatives. Intensive quantitative modeling involved.