SUMMARY

• A certified Scrum specialist with excellent knowledge of Financial Market, business transformation & strategies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

BA - SM

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the rate trading desk, analyze systems and processes, develop new application and produce data analytics.
• Managing requirements in JIRA.
• Analyze data, situations and key variables in-depth
• Ensuring team progress by helping to remove obstacles, connect dependencies, smooth complexities and support decision making
• Identify, assess and solve complex business problems
• Collaborate with Business SMEs to understand overall strategy and business needs
• Develop proposals and advocate Agile approaches to senior leaders and team member

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

BA-PM

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a BA with multiple Scrum Team.
• Managed development of individual project artifacts including scoping documents, project plans, score cards, risk & issue trackers, BRDs, FRDs & traceability matrices for Dodd-Frank & BASEL.
• Managed requirements for Data Quality & Lineage.
• Developed positive relationships with Project Sponsors, Innovation Managers, and other teams to enable the PMO to provide support including facilitation, tracking and reporting on Counterparty Credit Risk & Market Risk projects.
• Analyzed upstream structured, Semi-structured and un-structured trade data including Fixed Income, rate, credit, equity, commodity, and FX & suggested changes in the system to get CCAR compliant.
• Provided analytic support by coordinating data extraction from various databases and data interpretation using SQL to support UAT.
• Managing Data integration from different sources to support AML process.
• Collaborated with application/product owners to conduct impact assessments for requested enhancements; highlighting cross platform and downstream dependenciesas well as limitations.
• Developed Feed Spec & Dev Guides for Uncleared Margin Rules for OTC derivatives across the globe for title VII of DF regulations compliance.
• Developed requirements for FAS-133 loan reclassification.

Confidential, New York City, NY

BA-SM

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements for end-to-end post-trade processing solutions for exchange-traded and OTC derivatives across asset classes (Fixed Income, interest rate, credit, equity, commodity, and FX). The solution consists of different product-Scape such as TradeFlow (FiServ), TFEA (In-house), Summit (MiSys), Tradebooker (In-house), EagleSTAR, FMA (In-house), Algo (IBM), MARKIT, FINCAD for Trades, Fees & Margin processing & recon.
• Implemented Dodd-Frank Compliance for Cleared OTC products such as CDX, IRS & OIS with SEC Issued Proposed Regulations such as Mandatory Clearing, Position Limits, Trade & Portfolio Recon, Uncleared OTC Margin and Real-time and EOD Reg Reporting.
• Act as Scrum Master for one or multiple teams, providing a learning environment to maximize team efficacy and overall business value
• Participated as BA in multiple Scrum Teams.
• Partnered with the QA team to review business requirements early in SDLC, to increase the Dollar value per QA testing and acceptance.
• Managed requirements for Data Quality & Lineage. Activities consist of Data verification, Avoiding Data duplication, old & Legacy data remediation.
• Prepared Communication plan & metrics to record the progress of the quality transformation to for the stakeholders as a part of PMO.
• Executed SQL queries/ UAT with business users

Confidential, New York City, NY

BA-Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring team progress by helping to remove obstacles, connect dependencies, smooth complexities and support decision making
• Integrated front-office products on trading technologies for multi-asset class investments equity, fixed income, FX, OTC derivatives, listed futures and options, Interest Rate Swap.
• Prepared Global FX & OTC PBA Project plan, Risk scheduling, growth monitoring & resource management
• Prepared multi Geography resource dashboard & task scheduling matrix.
• Created & explained requirements/stories in JIRA (Earlier in VersonOne).
• Conducted Iteration Planning & Retrospective meetings.
• Managed schedule & Time Tracking.
• Reviewed Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Quality Incidents.
• Managed test activity from offshore.
• Planned existing solution to leverage other geographies.

Confidential

BA-PM

Responsibilities:

• Led business analyst teams in execution of multiple projects in derivatives solutions including integration of trading platform, collateral management, risk management and back office operations enhancements of derivatives operations for asset management.
• Performed feasibility analysis, scopes projects, and works with the project management team to prioritizes deliverables, and negotiate on product functionalities.
• Track and report daily schedules. Use metrics to manage and communicate scrum team activities to stakeholders.
• Track status across projects and communicate any risks or concerns to stakeholders.
• Work with Product Managers to develop User story details including acceptance criteria, mockups and test input as necessary
• Built Data Quality definition.
• Prepared reports of production issues & setting priority to resolve.

Confidential

BA-PM

Responsibilities:

• Member of FIX Architecture team, who are responsible for the implementation of FIX build projects (Algo trading, allocations and low latency etc.) and provide support for all issues surrounding FIX Connectivity.
• Integrated with various Electronic Trading Systems such as Reuters Eicon (earlier Xtra 3000), Tradeweb, Charles River, TradeFlow (Fiserv).
• Technical understanding to support FIX gateway users on a day to day basis and manage the configuration and testing of the FIX gateway providing clients access for Order Management systems and algorithmic trading.
• Prepared documents on business requirements.
• Functional specialist on Markit EDM product to the Technical and BA Team as needed. This may include major initiatives and/or minor upgrades/fixes
• Performed business process modeling, end-state architecture, requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders from front-office trading, middle-office pricing, risk management, performance attribution, offshore back-office team for collateral management and settlement
• Managed test plans, Test Metrics, developing Traceability Metrics, test cases and test configuration management.