SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of IT experience as a Sr. Business Systems Analyst and web applications with strong understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
• Strong Analysis knowledge of Derivatives Trading Operations, Products and Markets, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Stock Valuation, Project Auditing and Financial Forecasting .
• Excellent Business writing skills in writing Business requirements document BRD, Use Case Specifications, Functional Requirement Specifications FRS, Software Design Specification SDS, Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Software External Specifications SES, Software Requirement Document(SRD), Data Dictionary, Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Workflows and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams.
• Extensive knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and working knowledge of Java Web Services using SOAP, WSDL, and RESTful, in terms of creation and consumption.
• Experienced in major financial instruments within investment banking, Loan, Mortgage and brokerage environments (Equity, Fixed income, FX, Derivatives, Securities, commodity trading, Mutual Funds, Options, Swaps, Asset Backed Securities, SWIFT Messaging, Underwriting process, Credit card services, Hedge Funds)
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements Sarbanes Oxley Specifications (Sox), SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and OOM (Object Oriented Modeling).
• Build daily and monthly recons between Charles River and accounting applications to be presented to trading desk leads.
• Experience designing and developing SQL statements and queries for Oracle Sybase and SQL Server 2000 database.
• Asset management, Fixed income, equities, trading, foreign exchange, derivatives, bond pricing/trading
• Experience in Six Sigma and process re - engineering methodologies / improvement techniques.
• Extensive experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases. Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C,C++,C#,VC++,VB,VB.NET,C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java, SQL, PLSQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Agile, Scrum, Linux.

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server,SDLC, Oracle, Teradata, DB2, Sybase

Application Servers: IBM Websphere, ATG Dynamo, DBMS,BEA WebLogic.

Internet: HTML, XML, VBScript, ASP, JavaScript, JSP, J2EE, Soap, WSDL, RESTful

Automation Tool: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Documentum

Banking Protocols: FIX, SWIFT

Bug Tracking Tools: Mercury TestDirector, Rational ClearQuest

Utility Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, TOAD, Adobe Photoshop

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reports (SSRS )

Data warehousing Tools: Informatica, Business Objects, Erwin

Testing Tools: Quick TestPro (QTP), TestDirector

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Risk analysis, Securities and their valuation, Asset Management (risks and returns), Asset Allocations, Bond pricing, Financial Derivatives, Cash flows, financing structure, Portfolio Analysis, etc.
• Responsible for creating and reviewing business requirements, functional specifications, project schedules, documentation and test plans.
• Generated requirements for Capital Markets - Fixed Income Investment Management Business, Portfolio Management, Hedge funds, corporate actions, Brokerage and Trading Model within the scope of both the Front and Middle Office.
• Interacted with fixed income business heads to finalize the Business Requirements for the Risk Management process.
• Conduct compliance auditing activities across multiple product lines for initial implementation phase and present findings to appropriate sub-committees.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in trading and post-trade processes in the US fixed incomemarkets.
• Developed compliance rules and applications integrated with Charles River Trading System. Many rules were not implementable using core Charles River Compliance therefore an alternative approach was devised to extend Charles River capabilities. Led extensive meetings with compliance management to manage expectations and solutions. Rules developed included issuer limits, issuer family limits, country limits, portfolio limits.
• Collected, analyzed and reported data to program director for resource utilization, compliance, and quality assurance for auditing preparation.
• Created customized reports in Charles River such as commission analysis report, boxed position report, take-over report, and compliance report etc. using Crystal Reports, Excel VBA and SQL.
• Involved in content management change control and Version Management. Performed regular updates to various static web pages.
• Knowledgeable in project management techniques, systems/business analysis, SDLC models such as Waterfall, Agile, Scrum & UML 2.0
• Utilized Cognos and Teradata SQL Assistant and Administrator to design and execute tests, including tests to detect fan traps and chasm traps in database design.
• Participated in developing test plans and test procedure templates and guidelines to be used by the project team with detailed screen layouts with regards to various types of corporate actions.
• Attended training courses for Capital markets which included Equity Derivatives, Fixed.
• In depth knowledge of RUP's Iterative Software Development Life Cycle, Waterfall SDLC and AgileMethodology
• Gather requirements, configure, support, and train on Agile for this company. Will also support other applications.
• Identified areas of risks, assessment, monitoring, having security and audit controls in place.
• Worked with Release management for Implementation Plans (Pre and Post) to define roles and responsibilities, efforts and dependencies

Environment: RUP, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect, Agile, UAT, MS Project, MS Office, DOORS, SQL Oracle 8i

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined scope of the project, gathered business requirements, preformed GAP analysis.
• Analyzed system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the project to comply with corporate rules and regulations.
• Financial products involved: Fixed Income, Equities, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Fund of Funds, Insurance, Retirement Planning, Generation Planning and complete Financial Planning.
• Responsible for automating the Corporate Actions Department so as to send and receive the notifications to/from clients.
• Extensive knowledge of Trade data accounting, multi firm processing capabilities. Straight through Business processing with integration through SWIFT messaging with counter parties through the complete settlement process.
• Co-authored change management control plan, Created risk analysis documents and created risk management plan.
• Performed audits and developed modifications and amendments data in systems using SQL commands, hand- editing, and bulk import.
• Interviewed area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Responsible to import the data from Crystal reports by using Cognos into Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Processed trades through Charles River (CRD), Order Gen, and LatentZero systems.
• Used Restful Web Services written in Jersey for communication with various other applications.
• Extensive knowledge of GAAP, financial accounting, investment banking, fixed income products and financial statements.
• Evaluated data storage considerations to store databases and transaction logs. Created databases using SQL Server Management Studio, Database Wizard and Transact SQL Statements.
• Presented and received approval for usage of product with the Credit Risk, Market Risk, Compliance and Risk Information Management teams
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA Testing and Report / Data Validation.
• Test Director was used for defect tracking and prioritizing defects and for enhancements.
• Extensive use of SWIFT messaging for secure financial transactions.
• Held daily and weekly meetings with the development and testing team to relay any change requirements.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Documentum, Windows NT/XP, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Sybase, EVPN, RUP, VBScript RM MIS-IP, C#. NET, ASP.NET, UNIX, Business Objects, TestDirector, LoadRunner.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Equities, Trade Cycle, Online Option Trading, Fixed Income Products, Foreign Exchange, Portfolio Management, Sales and Marketing, rules and regulations of AMEX.
• Worked as a business analyst to build enterprise reporting system to support Risk Analysis, Securities and their Valuation, Asset Management, risks and returns, Bond Pricing, MBS, ABS, Derivatives (repos, interest rate swaps), Money Market Instruments and used strong knowledge of financial statements, cash flow, Financing Structures, Capital Management, Portfolio Analysis, Budgeting, trade capture application, risk management, and Investment Accounting.
• Involved in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML) in an SOA environment.
• Applied detailed knowledge of application features and functions assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications
• Tuned DataStage transformations and jobs to enhance their performance.
• Conducted mass user interviews with brokers, enterprise user representatives and SMEs.
• Worked extensively with MS Excel
• Cooperated with development and onsite testing teams to ensure the configuration of the adapter with other applications.
• Extensively work on Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project.
• Provided business support to conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: RUP, Rational Rose 2002, Agile, Rational Clear Quest, Rational ClearCase, Rational requisite pro, rational Rational Robot Windows NT 4.0,UNIX, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL,SDLC, DOS and VBA, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Access.