PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Result - oriented, accomplished, self-starter and reliable Certified Agile Product Owner, Business Analyst (product management) with a proven track record of more than 10 years’ experience in business analysis, software development, product, client and project management.
• SME (Subject Matter Expertise) in implementing Front, Middle and back office for Commodities (Crude, Refined Products, Natural Gas, Power, LNG, Metal, Precious Metals and Softs/Ags etc), Fixed Income, FX (i.e. Openlink Endur and Right Angle).
• al knowledge of Basel Reporting, EMIR/Dodd-Frank Swap Vault Reporting, SEC Compliance Reporting (Blue Sheets, Order Execution (605) and Order Routing (606)), Trade Processes, data Integration, and Commodity Logistics/supply chain, risk Calibration, Credit Reporting, liquidity/gap Analysis, sensitivity Analysis, VaR.
• Hands on experience in cross platform development using C/C++/C# by using multi-threading, multiprocessing, thread synchronization, synchronous and asynchronous operations on Linux and Windows.
• Lead custom development effort, troubleshoot client specific issues, and provide optimal solutions at a worldwide scale.
• Experienced in serving as primary liaison between business group and technology team throughout the Project Life Cycle.
• Experienced in project charters and project plans development and business requirements gathering & requirements analysis.
• Experienced in managing various technology products, their road maps and agile teams as SCRUM Master and Product Owner.
• Work experience includes effective implementation of requirement elicitation, change control Management, defect prevention Management, release management and project Management tasks throughout the project life cycle (PLC).
• Excellent team player with ability to work on multiple tasks and also work independently with minimum supervision.
• Exemplary knowledge and experience in the financial industry with clear conceptual understanding of various financial instruments such as physical commodities, equities, bonds, fixed income securities and derivatives, and risk management.
• Strong strategic planning and tactical activities regarding the product.
• Driving solution to set across teams (development, sales and marketing communication).
• Analysis the potential landscape of the market for the product and perform competitive analysis/
• Strong analysis and communication skills with an ability to transform the needs of stakeholders into functional/technical requirements backed with experience and in computer science and quantitative finance domain.
• Revitalizing internal and external client relationship management, negotiation, decision-making, conflict management and network development skills.
• Understanding of software development (c++,vb, c#, java), scripting (javascript, OpenJvs, OpenComponents, Python, SaS, R) and database management and querying skills (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, PostgresSQL, Mongo DB).
• Strong experience in enterprise functional/business analysis, gap analysis, root cause analysis, feasibility/risk studies, business requirement studies (elicitation, analysis, recording, management and traceability), defining project plans, writing system test plans and developing test/use case scenarios.
• Solid experience in business process architecture (modeling, engineering, and management), wire frames, swim lane diagrams, flow charts, sequence & activity Diagrams and Use Cases using UML and MS-Visio.
• Thorough understanding of external trading system integration (Bloomberg, Reuters, Markit, MCG, iOPT, DBCSmartSoft, Cubelogic) and trading exchange integration like CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), ICE (Inter-continental Exchange), LME (London Metal Exchange).
• Thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and variants (i.e. Agile, Prototype, JAD); employed best practices in project management and business requirements gathering.
• Designed the UAT test plans, schedules and handled the entire responsibility for UAT testing, Defect resolutions and issue resolutions including the implementation of issue escalation procedures.
• Conducted UAT testing and User sessions along with developing the user manuals; adequate experience in writing SQL queries to retrieve and test the data from databases.
• al knowledge of Finite Difference methods, Binomial Model, Multinomial Trees, Stochastic Calculus, Time Series, Brownian motion, Weiner Process, Ito’s Lemma, Monte Carlo Simulations, Black Scholes, Bayesian Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Business Analyst / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Understand the product vision, road map and evaluate various approaches to implement effective solutions.
• Collaborate with other product owners, product managers and other stakeholders to drive product strategy, design, innovation and overall product direction.
• Understand and provide mathematical solution for transportation problems such as headway bunching and gapping.
• Provide pre-sales services including system engineering, technical product presentations,, and troubleshooting for multiple products
• Drive innovation by translating thoughts and ideas into tangible product requirements in the form of features, epics and user stories.
• Prioritize stories and defects based on progress, costs, and customer value through transparency into the justifications used and accountability for results.
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the implementation team.
• Set objectives for the sprint and drive the iteration by accepting completed stories with a focus on product quality.
• Work with the Business Readiness team members to formulate a detailed and comprehensive release plan.
• Review/demonstrate sprint related or general functionality with external stakeholders and customers.
• Provide guidance and encourage the debate of alternative solutions within their team.
• Identify and ensure implementation of product success evaluation, articulate results, and identify opportunities for further product and feature improvements.
• Interact with Product, Project, and Strategic Account Managers to assist in growing and developing new business opportunities.
• Coordinate software release meetings and prepare customer facing release notes and documentation
• Operate cross-functionally dealing with matters of market analysis, strategic product planning, and driving the direction of the product

Confidential, New York, NY

Strategic Business Analysis/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• FX - XVA Implementation
• CCAR Management Add-on submission for 2016.
• Equities - XVA Implementation.
• FX, Equities and Commodities model integration testing.
• Spearheaded the Capital Market Cross Asset CVA project planning and deliverables to meet Federal reserve requirement.
• Performed business requirement gathering for various asset classes (FX, Equities and Commodities).
• Assisted in the business analysis for upstream and downstream feeds to Cross Asset XVA system.
• Volcker.
• Finance GL postings
• Sales Force (CSA Terms and Ratings)
• Counterparty Credit
• Customer management systems
• Assisted in model integration testing for FX CVA, Equities CVA and Commodities CVA models.
• Assisted in CCAR management add-on bank holding companies scenario runs for internal submission and official submission.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• pMotion and cMotion upgrade to v14- (Client Name: RWE) cMotion - Marine (Crude Oil, Refined Products Market) Front Office Implementation - (Client Name: OMV Austria, Zug, London, Shell NA) cMotion - Pipeline & Marine (Crude Oil, Refined Market) Implementation - (Client Name: Shell NA)
• Scheduling Services - European & North American Natural Gas, Crude and Power Clients. (Client Name: Shell NA, Enbridge)
• CME/ICE Exchange Interface (Client Name: TrailStone)
• Active Position Manager (APM) for Power Clients.
• Hourly gMotion - (European gas Market) - (Client Name: Wingas Germany) vDesktop - Visual representation of Gas & Power Networks. (Client Name: BG)
• Endur - IAM (MCG) Trade and Schedules Interface - North American Power Market (Client Name: Pacific Corp)
• Endur and iOPT Trade, Schedules and Optimization Interface (IRM - OpenLink’s Risk and Optimization Module) (Client Name: Shell Europe)
• Trade/Deal, Schedules and data Bridge (i.e. Deal Bridge), Data Map Manager - European Hourly Gas Market (Client Name: Wingas Germany)
• Spearheaded the Energy/Capital Market Trading system modeling for Front Office, Middle Office, Logistics and Back office for energy companies (Shell NA/EU, BP, RWE, OMV, Petrom, Wingas, KOCH, Petronas) and banks (Citi Bank, Credit Suisse, Barclays) using OpenLink’s Endur Software.
• In depth understanding of customization effort for Front Office, Middle Office and Back office related business processes.
• Experienced with modeling physical / financial contracts for financial markets with various underlying assets (Crude Oil, Coal, Power, Refined Products, Power, Gas, Metals and Agriculture (Corn, Wheat, Soybean)).
• Experienced in Physical & Paper OTC Trade Modeling, Exchange Trade Modeling, Commodities (i.e. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Power, Metals, Precious Metals, Emissions, Aggs) Logistics, Storage and Supply Chain Modeling, Trading Interfacing (i.e. Reuters, Bloomberg, Markit, CME and SAP), Reporting & Simulation Results configuration (PNL, MTM, Monte Carlo VaR, Greeks, Correlation for Greeks, Hedge Effectiveness, Yield to Curve etc.), Active Position Management (APM & RTPE), Referential data setup (Personnel, Book structure, Parties), Back office Settlement (i.e. settlement desktop), Invoicing, EOD Workflows.
• Strengthened and institutionalized complexclient relationships and ensured timely delivery of quality deliverables of projects.
• Demonstratedproduct-knowledge growth and enhanced external customer contact through constant communication with some of the financial world's most demanding and knowledgeable people -- hedge-fund managers, traders, and operations personnel.
• Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers.
• Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning.
• Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.
• Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.
• Participated in following phase the SDLC process.
• Preliminary Analysis phase by discussing requirement with client during workshops and mock up interviews.
• Systems analysis, requirements definition phase by translating outcome from workshops and mock up interviews into BRD (Business requirement document).
• Systems design phase, by writing FRD (functional requirement document) that will bring BRD into context of the system with screen shots and pseudo code etc.
• Testing phase, by creating Business use cases, test plans, test scripts, involve in client’s user acceptance testing and bug fix tracking.
• Implementation / Deployment phase, by working closely with client’s technology and business users, provide production and parallel run support to system users and managers, so that successful go live can be achieved.
• Heavily involved in all stages of the Agile product development and project management, that includes.
• Planning the backlog of development items.
• Reviewing each iteration item from the backlog and prioritize them.
• Collaborating with team members to review each development items.
• Perform the QA on each development item.
• Once satisfied with that item, release it for the delivery.
• Executed data collection, tracking, cleansing to perform complex analytics for regulatory reporting (i.e. CFTC) using database management tools (i.e. SQL Server and Oracle).
• Built reputation for working successfully with previously unhappy clients (effective communicator) and efficiently collaborated with various teams and high profile individuals (i.e. Head traders, CTO, CFO, and Quants etc).
• Excellent conflict resolution, relationship Management, Project Management (Agile, Lean Agile, Prototype and Waterfall), Expectation calibration, time and priority management skills.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Loan Management System (FLEXCUBE)
• Implementation of End to End sales tracking system
• Marketing Campaign (Paper, Radio, TVC) for Product Launch
• Implementation of Call Center
• Shariah & Legal Documentation for Mortgage Product
• Responsible for a product line of 2 products representing $4 million in sales revenue for Mortgage & Auto Financing. This portfolio generated sales of (10 billion PKR) $135 million annually.
• Boosted product line sales from (1.8 billion PKR) $24 million in 2006 to (3.6 billion PKR) $48 million in 2007, a 48% increase, and managed the bank’s $10 million expenses by using various drill down techniques.
• Launched and managed business intelligence department for evaluating the financial and operational performance various banking sectors using Cognos Report Studio, Cognos Metric Studio, Cognos Analysis Studio (Retail, Corporate, Cash Management, and Investment).
• Ledinstitution-wide strategic team developed to launch home finance product by aligning responsibilities of internal teams (sales, operations, credit, settlement, IT and Legal).
• Roll-out Loan Management System (FLEXCUBE), End to End sales tracking system, Marketing Campaign (Paper, Radio, and Television Video Commercials) for Product Launch.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Amex (American Express Credit Card)-Consumer Product Cross Sell
• Online Service Management System
• Merchant Tracking System
• Visa Credit & Debit Card Tracking system
• Re-engineered, designed, specified, developed and managed Credit Card, Auto and Home Loans processes by automating their process flows that increased customer satisfaction level by 45% and reduced customers. (ASP.NET, SQL Server, MS-Project, ERWin)
• Re-engineered, designed, specified, developed and managed American Express Credit Card Cross Cell initiative that resulted in production of more than 20,000 Cards for within 1½ Months of its initiation. (ASP.NET, SQL Server, MS-Project, ERWin)
• Built sense of ownership, by defining end to end process flows using Wireframes and Swim lane diagrams. (MS-Visio)

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed Distributed Healthcare Messaging System (HealthCare – HL7 Protocol), Patient Medical Billing/Insurance Claim Module (HIPPA Standard) and EMR (Electronic Medical Record). (C#, SQL Server)