SUMMARY:

• 14+ years of total software development and design experience in JAVA J2EE based technologies.
• Over 48 months of project engineering capabilities as a Technical Manager
• Over 120 months of experience in the Investment Banking/Insurance/Pensions domain in various roles ranging from Lead Application designer, Module Leads.
• Thorough conceptual understanding and experience in designing J2EE based frameworks.
• Good understanding of UML; experience designing J2EE applications using Enterprise Architect and Rational Rose.
• Good understanding of the Middleware technologies and has experience in working on IBM Web sphere application server, Jboss 4x and Tomcat.
• Extensively worked in FINANCIAL and BANKING DOMAIN - RISK MANAGEMENT/ ASSET MANAGEMENT/ TRADING.
• Worked with Senior Architect’s for design discussion and improve Application Architecture.
• Extensive work experience in apache Struts Framework with MVC architecture, Spring Framework and Hibernate.
• Excellent conceptual base in Object-Oriented Design and Implementation Methodologies, Core Java design Patterns, and Web based Architecture using web technologies like JSP, Servlets, Struts, spring, Hibernate and EJB, Angular JS.
• Hands on Experience in working on Agile Development Methodologies, Water Fall and Iterative Models.
• Strong in Core Java API, multi-threading, Collections and XML programming
• Trained on and use SEI CMM Level 5 certified development processes.

EXPERTISE AREA:

Expertise: An accomplished Software Engineer with over 14 years of specializing in software development with good experience in the full life cycle of the software design process. Progress made in career to play various roles like lead java developer, lead designer, architect and project manager. Extensive experience in finance domain/ investment banking/ trading/ equities/ asset management/ risk management.

Domains: Capital Markets, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income, Asset Management, Mutual funds, Trading Risk Management, Futures and Options, Securities, Wealth Management, Investment Management, Trading, Risk, Compliance, Cash & Liquidity, Collateral Management, Clearing and forwarding / Margin delivery, margin recalls, margin returns, Collateral Bookings, Trade Exposure. Workers Compensation - Claims Management, Property & Casualty and Life Insurance

Products and Asset Classes: Exchange-traded and Listed Derivatives Subject-matter expert, Futures, Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Repos, Barrier Options, Warrants, Cleared OTC IRS, repos, fixed income, bonds, futures, options, FX, NDF’s, CFD, Structured Products, equity, Exchange-traded Funds (ETF), Interest rate derivatives, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, CDX, ITraxx, CDS options, ABS vs. ABX Index and CDO.

Regulatory: Dodd-Frank, FATCA, UMR (Uncleared Margin Requirements for OTC Swaps, derivatives), EMIR, SOX, Volcker Rules, Tax, FAS 133, FINRA, CFTC, CDR, MiFid, Regulatory Reporting, Basel II, Basel III, Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), BaFIN, Financial Services Authority (FSA) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Java, J2EE including JSF(using MyFaces, Tomahawk), JSP, EJB 2x 3.0,Hibernate and XML technologies, Java Swing

Languages: Java, PLSQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Angular JS

UML Tools: Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose

Development Tools: Eclipse, NetBeans, MyEclipse

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Unix

Middleware: IBM Websphere application server, Jboss 4x and Tomcat

Scripts: Java script, HTML

Database Connectivity: JDBC

Databases: Oracle 8i, MS SQL Server 7.0, DB2, MySQL

Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Rational Clear Case, C VS, Subversion

Domain Knowledge: Workers Compensation - Claims Management, Property & Casualty and Life Insurance, Investment Banking

Build Tool: Maven, ANT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Architect /Manager (Technology)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Enhancement and Support for Collateral Management application.
• Involved in developing a PoC for new Dodd Frank Regulatory. Received client appreciations for successfully building it which saved the Bank huge money.
• Involved in technical and design discussions with the team
• Managing the project from US with onshore-offshore model.
• Involved in developing Batch Jobs using Spring Dependency Injection and PL/SQL.
• Involved in design and execution of SWIFT and MINT reporting application for our in-house Settlement system using Spring JDBC, web service and PL/SQL.
• Involved in developing Report Pages using Angular JS and also did a PoC with Ext JS for checking better usability
• Involved in designing and developing Web service application to bridge Vendor application with in-house Collateral Engine.
• Managing Releases as Service Packs for the product as per Business needs or Dodd Frank Regulatory changes.
• Responsible for coordination and sign off process for integration testing and UAT.
• Involved in building dashboards to monitor team performance and productivity.
• Involved in holding weekly meetings with IT VP (client) to discuss upcoming events planning, tasks prioritization, value adds, optimizations activities.

Confidential

Architect / Manager (Technology)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing development and maintenance projects within Banking and Mutual Funds applications comprising 32 team members
• Developed technical specifications from business requirements for large enhancement projects.
• Involved in developing enhancement requirements using core JAVA and Hibernate
• Implemented intraday pricing gateway using core JAVA
• Responsible for quality of deliverables and performed code review and impact analysis.
• Managed the project from US with onshore-offshore model.
• Responsible for coordination and sign off process for integration testing and UAT.
• Involved in setting up production support model by defining key metrics to monitor the service level.
• Involved in building dashboards to monitor team performance and productivity.
• Received client appreciations for no escalations from business group and providing quality and continuity of business
• Involved in holding weekly meetings with IT directors (client) to discuss upcoming events planning, tasks prioritization, value adds, optimizations activities.

Confidential

Architect/ Development Manager (Technology) and Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement review by closely interacting with the customer and establishing the required set up to articulate the project execution.
• Involved in Development of Pricing Rule Engine using Oracle PL/SQL.
• Involved in developing batch application using Core Java/ Hibernate to extract pricing information and reconciliation
• Redesigned the existing application for an upgrade to the JDK 1.7 from JDK 1.4.
• Delivered core architecture solution for the system and technical components
• Implemented the web application using Spring MVC 3.0.
• Involved in monitoring and finalizing design specifications.
• Involved in creating build and deployment files using Maven.
• Involved for code quality and reviews
• Performed unit and integrated system testing
• Responsible for planning release schedules, allocation and delivery times lines as per CMMI level 5 process model

Confidential

Development Manager (Technology)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a project of 15 team members
• Involved in requirement review by closely interacting with the customer and establishing the required set up to articulate the project execution.
• Involved in technical discussion and finalizing design specifications .
• Involved in the Generic/Utility for Report creation templates, Exception Handling and Logging mechanism
• Involved Core Component development for ETF and Bond Security Calculators using Spring Dependency Injection and spring JDBC templates
• PL/SQL stored procedures and created the stored procedures using
• Involved in Ctrl-M Job creation automation using JAXB.
• Was responsible for planning release schedules, allocation and delivery times lines as per CMMI level 5 process model
• Responsible for code quality and reviews
• Performed unit and integrated system testing
• Involved in Risk Management, Project Quality Index management.
• Received client accolades for successful completion of each project phase with minimal defects
• Involved in holding weekly meetings with client and higher management to discuss the progress of the project and also to discuss on further growth opportunity of the project account.

Confidential

Lead (Technology)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement review by closely interacting with the customer and establishing the required set up to articulate the project execution.
• Involved in Development using MVC framework
• Involved in monitoring and finalizing design specifications.
• Performed unit and integrated system testing
• Involved in code reviews

Confidential

Lead Designer/ Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead designers responsible for setting up a blue print architecture solution for Scottish Life.
• Responsible for realizing the security requirement including the authentication and authorization processes using JAAS framework
• Responsible for developing and design of the core framework components.
• Responsible for developing Workers Comp and Pension Maintenance module using EJB3.0, Hibernate also dealt with programs of Angular JS.
• Responsible for creating on Quartz Schedulers for Batch Jobs
• Implemented the web application using JSF
• Development lead responsible for realizing the Direct Benefit functionalities including Scheme, Member, Contribution and Benefit Management
• Responsible in introducing Maven as the build tool in the project and successfully implemented the same

Confidential

Team Lead, Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for offshore deliveries related to Contract Engine
• Module leads with responsible to deliver the project on time.
• Worked on Message Driven Beans as per of Adaptor modules
• Developed modules using EJB and MVC framework
• Involved in building generic utilities to cater to exception Handling, Bean Factory, Data Conversions
• Responsible for all PoC and R&D activities related to Contract Engine and New technologies
• Responsible for leading a team of around 10+ resources
• Responsible for configuration management activities.
• Performed unit testing using JUNIT and integrated system testing.
• Build manager using Rational Clear Case
• Quality lead from the offshore team
• Awarded the best developer and reviewer.