SUMMARY

• 14+years in business advisory consulting at Financial Services companies like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential & Confidential and Confidential
• Extensive experience on Financial Products and implementation of solutions - Calypso, Lombard Risk, Acadia Soft, Summit, Imagine, Paragon, Kondor+, Sungard Phase 3 and multiple in-house solutions within various lines of business OTC Derivatives, Fixed Income Securities, FX, Repo Trading, Front Office, Middle Office, Back office, Central clearing, Security Lending, Collateral Management, Dodd Frank, EMIR, Swap Data Repository SDR, Regulatory reporting, and Risk management space.
• Well-rounded knowledge on various asset classes' mechanics, market trends, data requirements and operational processes involving OTC Derivatives (Interest swaps, currency swaps, swaptions, credit default swap, Total Return swap etc.), Foreign Exchange (FX) Products, Fixed Income Securities (Bonds), Repos, Sec Lending / Financing, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Forwards, Futures (interest rate, stock index, currency) listed and OTC Options (Stock options, bond options & Warrants), Funds & Investment Portfolio Management
• Experienced in leading Business Analysis & Architecture, Program/Project management, Agile Product management, Roadmap and Book of work planning & execution for both strategic types initiatives like New products, re-engineering, conversion/migration, upgrades as well as Regulatory transformations.
• Experienced in leading change agenda and managing team effort through the entire Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) starting from Requirements gathering, initial gap analysis, Functional Architecture & Design, development, QA testing, UAT production roll-out and post-release support, collaborate with cross-functional teams comprising business partners, IT development, quality assurance, usability engineering and production support teams
• Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall Project Management handling projects/teams in transition between the two or using a hybrid model, promoting best practices helping the team through their adoption.
• Experienced in leading engagements to understand business user's needs/priorities and pain points, assisting and influencing them in developing project proposals to mitigate risk, reduce cost and waste and drive up efficiencies
• Experienced in eliciting/gathering Client Business Requirements (BRD), user story creation, backlog grooming, solution definition & functional Architecture and Design (FSD) with Interface specifications, impact matrix, traceability, use cases, test cases, and high level/detail level diagrams: data flows, process flows, sequence diagrams ensuring completeness and sign-off.
• Experienced in acting as a liaison between the business and technical teams and attaining trusted advisor status
• Experienced in leading QA testing and client onboarding efforts and with cross-functional and cross-regional project teams
• Experienced in managing teams comprising of consultants and perm employees located across geographies
• Excellent presentation skills and experienced in speaking to large audiences such as client conferences
• Excellent analytical skills to support senior management across the firm
• Superior Communication skills and experienced in personnel.
• Project Management:GAP Analysis and Impact assessment
• Stakeholder Management:User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Business Requirements gathering:Application Documentation
• Business/ Technical Impact Analysis:Financial Securities and Derivatives
• IT Strategy and User Documentation:Business Process Modeling
• Epic and user stories development:Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
• Business Process Flow Design: Web Content Management System
• Develop FSD:RUP and Agile Projects
• Team Management:Time management and organizational skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: JIRA, Quality Center, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla

Database: SQL, Oracle

Software/Systems: Front-office systems, Middle-office systems, Calypso, Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Investment Performance systems, FIXML, FpML, MS-Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, C, MS-Project, MS-Visio, MS-SharePoint, Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - New York

Sr. PM/BA (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Lead a geographically distributed Israel and USA delivery team to assess project timelines and resource requirements and ensure business requirements are clearly documented, understood and tracked as well as ensure that IT deliverables are in line with business objectives and are tracked against KPI; acting as a key liaison between Business & Technology stakeholders utilizing in-depth understanding of the various business units versus the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
• Manage and guide team in daily deliverables to drive implementation provide inputs in prioritization and deep-dives on design of integrated solutions (process, technical & organizational) ensuring end to end solution will deliver the required business results while keeping a view of extensibility for future needs
• Develop and maintain project charter, project plan, WBS, tasks, milestone, RAID logs and cost estimates. Project level reporting via monthly reporting, steering control meetings and ad hoc reports.
• Share Calypso expertise for overhauling and configuring Calypso for Portfolio Security-master set up, data, Product definition, workflow configuration, static data, market data, Trade and Position Routing, Calypso Workstation, blotter, Task station to support the bank’s derivatives trading and settlement, Funding management, P/L, risk management (Liquidity, Market Risk, Credit Risk), Treasury operations, trade and position management including corporate actions, collateral management, Benchmarking including concentration checks, reporting.
• Consolidate requirements, build consensus, conduct JAD sessions and deep-dives, promote best practices, ensure that team is following formal project documentation BRD, FSD, Design documents, UAT test plan/test cases, Ops manuals
• Monitor and control risks and issues and break down barriers to success, escalate appropriately to senior technology and business leadership.
• Provide effective stakeholder management by chairing steering committee meetings and working groups to deliver a consistent global message on progress, dependencies and technical aspects to key stakeholders, manage agendas, resolve conflicts and build consensus among stakeholders
• Plan and coordinate UAT and go-live with third parties like SWIFT and Federal reserve

Confidential -New York/North Carolina

Sr. PM /BA (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Business (Desk Heads, Business Managers and Product Development) to understand their needs / priorities / issues, Coordinate and facilitate strategic discussions across various organizational departments and teams like Front Office, Product Management, IT (Dev & QA) to establish project scope, current and future states, key pain points and gather requirements and ensure benefits of initiatives are understood and agreed as part of the approval and prioritization process
• Face off to Senior Business executives, build superior relationships and act as their trusted advisor while managing stakeholder expectations and facilitating joint work group sessions from inception to implementation for various work-streams under the strategic OTC Derivatives program driving execution as per roadmap ensuring timely and cost-effective solutions with desired quality.
• Guide team in daily sprint meetings as Product Owner using CA Agile Central/Rally; coordinate with various teams collaborating with IT to drive implementation and proper testing of functional requirements; provide inputs in prioritization and deep-dives on design of integrated solutions (process, technical & organizational) ensuring end to end solution will deliver the required business results while keeping a view of extensibility for future needs
• Act as Product owner throughout the Agile Project Lifecycle facilitating sprint ceremonies, perform backlog grooming and prioritization, create detailed epic, user stories and acceptance criteria, assist Dev & QA team in sizing and sprint planning; Coordinate frequent demos and facilitate UAT ensuring active involvement and process adherence by end users.
• Share best practices and ensure that teams follow formal project documentation BRD, FSD, LLD, QA Plan, Test cases, UAT, go-live playbook and other established processes for all changes and all documents are kept up-to-date and signed-off.
• Perform Change management/Change control by periodic reassessment of project progress / project re-baselining, negotiating win/win arrangements.
• Assessing project risks and tracks issues identify patterns, make inferences and draw conclusions to take appropriate actions for risk mitigation

Confidential - New York, NY

Sr BA/PM - Business Solutions Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Drive the delivery of an inventory of projects from inception to implementation for various strategic, industry, regulatory, mandatory, BAU or streamlining initiatives within Operations; ensure timely and cost-effective delivery with desired quality.
• Coordinate and facilitate strategic discussions across various organizational departments and teams i.e. Client Services, Product Management, Sales/CRM, Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT (Dev & QA) and other functional areas to establish project scope, current and future states, key pain points and synergies/opportunities and ensure benefits of initiatives are understood and agreed as part of the approval and prioritization process.
• Serve as trusted advisor to db Sec lending, db Collateral and Valuations Business businesses for Book of work BoW management, capture/analyze business requirements and translate to functional specifications and work closely with technology partners to make sure quality delivery.
• Provide input in deep-dive design sessions with Tech team sharing best practices and resolve any architectural decisions through detailed analysis, and considering what’s good for the firm and the clients
• Perform key activities like gap analysis and impact assessment, BRD, FSD, data analysis, Messages analysis, flow diagrams and collaborate on QA Plan, Test cases, UAT, go-live playbook, ensure program governance controls and all documents are kept up-to-date and signed-off.
• Assess project risks and tracks issues, identify patterns, make inferences and draw conclusions to take appropriate actions for risk mitigation.
• Lead and coordinate all aspects of system and user acceptance testing (UAT) and user including documentation of test evidence and materials/user guides.

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Sr. PM BA (OTC Derivatives SME)

Responsibilities:

• Drive scoping, prioritization, planning and collaboration with key stakeholders in PMO, Product LOB, Clearing House Operations and Technology (Dev & QA Testing) in multiple strategic and tactical Derivatives Clearing Initiatives, managing timely and cost effective delivery of these projects from inception through implementation ensure with desired quality
• Organize and conduct cross-functional working sessions; lead discussion among Senior Stakeholders to assess impact of changes and analyze gaps, making presentations to executive committee.
• Understand the firm’s strategic roadmap and current state, provide input in determination of Target state, Functional architecture, Business Analysis, Build/Buy decisions; influence solutions design in order to ensure they are in-line with business objectives fully and realize business benefits.
• Provide overall subject matter expertise and act as Product Owner and lead delivery team in assessing user stories and epics for each sprint, negotiate delivery timelines between Business & Technology partners
• Perform requirements gathering & analysis, Functional Specifications, FpML development, mapping and validation encompassing post-trade event and mandatory reporting by different methods e.g FpML, Csv; collaborate on QA Plan, Test cases, UAT, go-live playbook
• Perform Scrum backlog grooming, Track tasks, milestones; Prepare and perform presentation/project status/governance reporting to senior management
• Assess project risks and track issues to identify patterns, make inferences and draw conclusions to take appropriate actions for mitigation. Follow up with teams on commitments and actively monitoring roadblocks to the progress of the project escalating when necessary.
• Lead/represent in Project steering committee and governance meetings to deliver a consistent global message on progress, dependencies and technical aspects to key stakeholders, manage agendas, resolve conflicts (if any) and build consensus among stakeholders.
• Lead and coordinate all aspects of system and user acceptance testing (UAT) and user including documentation of test evidence and materials/user guides. Facilitate roll-out and client onboarding.
• Perform Change management/Change control by periodic reassessment of project progress / project re-baselining, negotiating win/win arrangements
• Conduct post go-live look back analysis to identify improvements to existing processes and make recommendations.

Confidential - Boston, MA

Sr BA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Goldman Sachs and Confidential business to conduct gap analysis between the two enterprises, prioritization of gaps and target state determination.
• Converting high level gaps into detailed Business requirements document (BRD) around T0, T1 reporting.
• Bespoke offline reporting (for e.g. performance, contribution, delta adjusted market values, exposure, liquidity, etc.) using multiple data points (accounting, risk and performance data) coming from different sources.
• Online reporting enhancements on My Statestreet.com critical for integration.
• Custom classification of securities by clients
• Lead prioritization meetings with business stakeholders of the project, gathering feedback and ensuring consensus and sign-off.
• Facilitating project meetings and project status reporting, escalating potential roadblocks and issues in a timely manner.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Cross Asset Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Conducting client interviews to elicit requirements and gather feedback about issues and pain points.
• Performing preliminary research by analyzing, developing and proposing enhancements to current business processes, reports, and applications in order to optimize system effectiveness.
• Write BRD, FSD and perform gap analysis
• Support Product's space and act as SME for product mandates in specific areas.
• For Buy-side clients- NAV and Fund Performance Analysis, Asset Management, Money Market Funds, Order Management System (OMS), Portfolio-benchmarking analysis, Risk and exposure measurement, performance reporting etc.
• For Sell-side clients- Cross Asset P&L Analysis and PL Attribution, Intraday Real-time PL & Risk Analysis, PL Explain and PL by Greeks, FX Deal Station, various Trade Lifecycle events, Trade Allocation, CCP Clearing solution
• Worked on trade capture, position generation and monitoring, workflow configuration, market data manager, pricing, validation of P&L, Risk & VaR figures for multiple asset classes both exchange-traded and OTC for e.g. Foreign Exchange (FX) Spot, Forwards, Non-deliverable forward, Swaps, FX Futures, FX Options, Equity and Equity Derivatives (Exchange trades and OTC Options), Futures, Precious Metals, Fixed Income Instruments (Bonds & Repos etc), Credit Derivatives Single-name and baskets, Interest Rate Derivatives swaps, swaptions, caps-floors etc, Funds and Portfolio Management
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Responsible for leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing/ controlling, and closing) associated with projects that are long-term, line of business-wide and medium to high in risk, scope, and complexity.
• Manage client expectations in the enhancement request process. Partner with clients in investment banking space and hedge funds among others to gather client-specific requirements and customized solutions. Worked closely with clients to capture product feedback, ensure customer success and deliver customer s.
• Manage projects by driving enhancements to the current product and feature set and for customized product solutions for clients. Manage resources allocation and organize team effort for timely and high-quality deliverables by setting milestones and KPIs and KRAs
• Identify and mitigate project risks and facilitate elimination of project roadblocks.
• Review test plan and test cases with QA and guide QA group where necessary to confirm correct product behavior. Actively monitor and promote continuous quality improvements through Defect Reporting, Defect verification and Defect tracking ensuring all reported defects are closed before final sign-off
• Update project status and generate project status and executive reports as required.
• Provide consultative support to clients during implementation and go-live.
• Contribute to Documentation & in respective areas of expertise.
• Make presentations in Client Conference and potential clients.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Management
• Business Requirements gathering, and documenting business/data/application/technology architectures, requirements, user stories and business rules.
• Creation and maintenance of functional specifications document, use-cases and system analysis of multiple concurrent projects on different websites of Schwab.com domain.
• Conduct detailed research data analysis, Business process models/design, logical data models, standards and guidance
• Conduct Gap Analysis between current state and future state of systems.
• Manage change requests to requirements and specs and plan for those changes to fit into the overall project plan and release schedule
• Liaised between business partners and technology team on requirements and acted as point of contact for deliverable team for any functional clarifications and issue resolution.
• Technical
• Lead System Testing & User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of new projects and major and minor releases of the web trading and domestic Schwab.com website.
• Worked on both-
• Transactional type projects like New Options Page, New Funds Page, Online Third Party funds transfer, Account history, Integrated Balances Page.
• Integration type projects like Schwab.com-Schwab Bank integration, Credit card, Schwab.com- external party interface (like Wall Street, PHH etc)
• Logged and managed defects in Rational Clear Quest.
• Maintained project documentation on global repositories like MS-SharePoint
• Participate in Defect Triage meetings and contribute in requirements traceability matrices

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

BA-QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business, functional requirements and use cases and developed test plans, test cases and test scripts for both positive and negative tests.
• Maintained requirements and test repositories using Quality Center.
• Tested the application according to business specifications.
• Performed User-Acceptance Testing and System Testing.
• Prioritized and reported defects using Quality Center to present documents and reports in weekly team meetings.
• Lead/Participated in weekly status meetings, conducted walkthroughs, documented proceedings, and mentored new team members in test documentation and test case execution.
• Modified and maintained test cases with changes in application interface and navigation flow.
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand Business Requirements and Conceptual Design to create Test Plans and Test Cases
• Involved conducting Quality Assurance sessions to validate System Testing outputs
• Participate in User Acceptance Test (UAT)
• Log, track, and report progress of all tests.
• Tracking and verification of defects using the Test-track defect tracking tool.
• Testing the applications’ compatibility with different browser/OS combinations