SUMMARY:

• 8.5+ years of total IT experience that consists of Software Development, Application support and Administration for critical business applications for Front Office tools in the domain of Asset management.
• 6.5 +years of experience in Asset management domain.
• Release Management/Technical Specialist/Production Support Lead in the Capital Markets space with experience in FidessaBuy - side, LatentZero, Sentinel, Minerva, Tesseract, Derivatives, Cameron FIX, Equity, Fixed Income, System Integration, thinkFolio, Project Management and WebSphere Application Server administrator.
• Well versed with the Trade Life cycle.
• Involved in Confidential and Fortis integration and for BNPP and Fortis Integration.
• Responsible for handling incidents\problems for Application involved and pro-actively monitoring the applications and ensuring closure of issues.
• Familiar with the release process from DEV to PRO deployments.
• Documenting Application operational and incident manual and to the offshore team is an essential part of my profile.
• Successfully implemented the project for Fidessa Confidential Separation with Minerva and Confidential Upgrade to V12.
• Responsible for technical upgrade of thinkFolio infrastructure to host additional Tesseract users.
• Well versed with Configuration and Release Processes.
• Strong Client service orientation, dealing with users from Different time zones.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Problem Solving Tools E-learning - ILI
• Problem Solving Tools 2 E-learning - ILI
• Active Listening Skills E-Learning
• Time Management E-Learning - ILI
• Assertiveness Skills E-learning - ILI
• Speak UP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain: Asset Management, Bonds, Equities, Derivatives, FX, Fixed Income

Domain Tools: Front Office Tools-Minerva, Tesseract, Confidential and thinkFolio

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003\2008,UNIX,Linux,Solaris

Database: Oracle 10g,11g, Sql Server2012

Development Tools: Excel VBA, Crystal Reports, Ground works Nagios, LSR

Tools: Nagios, SmokePing, Crw, RTMON, SmartSockets, Beyond Compare, process Explorer,Mq Explorer,JIRA,BMC Releaseme,ServiceNOW

Web Server: IIS6.0, WAS6.1,IHS 6.1,11S 7.0, WAS8.0,IHS 8.0

Configuration Management Tool: SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installing thinkFolio and responsible for upgrade to new Product release.
• Application production support for thinkFolio and interfaces.
• Setting up Groundworks Monitoring for Citrix, Application servers and provide timely reports to all the stakeholders.
• Responsible for Citrix configuration in terms of users sizing.
• Documenting and carrying out the DR procedure for thinkFolio.
• All the Release management activities and coordinating the tasks between different teams.
• Creating incident and operational manuals for thinkFolio.
• Supporting Testing teams in test environments for any issues to get the sign off for production release.

Confidential

Technical Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Changes on the existing Minerva Application and Citrix servers.
• Supporting testing across different environments and resolving issues.
• Co-coordinating with BAs and Application vendor to put in patches and fixes.
• Installing Citrix Servers and publishing new Applications on Citrix for end users.
• Automated Start\Stop scripts for new Confidential landscape on Linux servers.
• Analysis for development, Implementation, configuration, maintenance for Confidential V12.
• Prepare deployment / migration plan to promote changes to UAT/PRO etc.
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.
• Co-ordinate and promote releases to various deployment environments.
• Arrange required technical/Functional testing for each change.
• Liaise with all the other teams like abnitio to achieve the final end to end environment and have their changes included in the migration plan as well.
• Technical presentation to all the Business stakeholders about the new architecture.
• Creating Installation and operational docs for the new setup.

Confidential

System Administrator\Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Capstone Application Support and Maintenance
• Capstone Services Maintenance
• Service Releases and Upgrades
• Patch Installation and Upgrades
• Production and Test Environments Support
• Bug Reporting and Coordination with Latent Zero
• Data Loading
• Performance Analysis
• Capstone Utilities Development, Enhancements and Maintenance
• Customization of Confidential for varied user requirements of Traders, portfolio managers.
• Bulk Order Loading and Validation for enabling import of excel orders into Minerva
• The complete cycle of receiving the enhancements, analyzing them, testing them and then implementing them.
• Processes like recording, prioritizing, tracking, and resolving issues/enhancement requests have been streamlined by way of implementing appropriate tools like test director.
• Configuration management and other processes have been reviewed and modified.
• Newer utilities have been written and the existing ones enhanced to help business perform more efficiently.
• Analysis and fixes are being implemented to take care of the performance issues.
• IT Audit of the end to end front office environment has been undertaken to identify performance bottlenecks and address them proactively.
• Out of office hour support in critical situations
• Single point of contacts for Minerva related issues.
• Installing and Configuring thinkFolio and providing Production support in case of any issues with system Integration with Minerva.

Confidential

Platform: IBM WAS 6.1, IHS 6.1, MQueue, Oracle and Sybase, WAS8.0,IHS 8.0

System Administrator\Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• WAS Installations
• Configuration of different environments
• Application deployments
• Supporting the project teams for migration through DEV, INT, UAT and finally to PRO.
• Production and Test Environments Support
• Troubleshooting and resolving Issues.
• Configuring SSL s and Application Security.
• Documentations in terms of installation docs, operational docs etc.
• Day to day support activities as WAS administrator.
• In-depth analysis to fine tune the Environments specific configuration for improved performance
• Managing 30 Applications on 4 different environments with 4 dedicated environments.
• Managing WAS and IHS servers -30 WAS servers and 32 IHS servers
• Up gradation of existing Applications
• New Application deployments
• Single point of contact for all WAS related issues.

Confidential

System Administrator\Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• System Administration.
• Installing and configuring servers for different test environments -INT, UAT and finally Production.
• Carrying out the hardware signoffs as in compliance with FIM standard
• Managing Version control.
• Patches deployment.
• Supporting the Minerva4.0 Testing.
• Setting up Application servers, Remote request servers for Paris, Tokyo and Boston.
• Configuring Web servers for Minerva and Confidential web reporting.
• Creating Install and operational docs for Minerva4.0.
• Configuring LZ service sets.
• Automatic restart of LZ Services.
• Creating scheduled jobs to report any differences on the server to the SVN repository.
• Installing Pre requisites and tools such as process explorer etc for trouble shooting errors.
• Configuring LSR- Live state Recovery.
• Configuring and Publishing LZ applications on Citrix.
• Citrix Administration: Granting and revoking access to users to different Published applications on Citrix.
• Installing Citrix servers for LZ client.
• Providing Trouble shooting and resolution to the errors encountered.
• Carrying out Various DR tests before GO-Live.
• Configuring Profile Picker.
• Configuring Smart sockets cloud as a part of Minerva configuration.
• Fat Client Launcher-Creating Batch files for users from different locations to use specific INI files for their respective Minerva FAT Client.
• Configuring Cameron Engine for FIX connectivity.
• Round the clock support for any production issues.
• Resolving any slowness and connectivity issues with remote locations.
• Configuring Service checks and graphs in Groundworks Nagios to report any problem with the application.

Confidential

Software Engineer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis
• System designing which includes Technical Design Document creation
• Creating Unit Test Plan for the project
• Interacting with business analyst to freeze the requirements
• Programming different modules of the application
• Performing unit testing and system integration testing
• Creating user manual for the application
• Providing production support as well as further enhancements

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Studying existing system
• Accepting incidents from client
• Production support
• Providing client with status report
• Configuration management activities like maintaining versions of application, baselining etc.
• Performing unit testing for the enhancements done.
• Updating all the technical and functional documents to in corporate the changes done

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements, Requirements Gathering and Impact analysis for the changes
• Production support for different reports currently operating
• Preparing software promotion document as well as cutover documents for the new reports generated.
• Creating New Reports and changing existing ones based on the Business requirements.
• Setting up the Web servers.
• Migration of Confidential from SQL Server (ABN) to Oracle (Fortis).
• Development and Unit Testing.
• Configuring schedules to mail the reports to intended users at the scheduled time.
• Supporting and resolving Testing and resolving production issues.