SUMMARY

• 6 years of experience in the IT Industry wif complete SDLC - Planning, Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Maintenance
• Over 3 years of customer-interaction experience
• Over 3 years of experience as a Team Lead
• Very good understanding of Financial Trading systems, especially Repo Trading, Agencies, Treasuries and FXOs
• Proficient in C, C++ and Java (Servlets, JSPs, JDBC, Java Applets, AWT, Swing)
• Working knowledge of JSP Custom Tag Libraries
• Good understanding of Oracle/DB2/MySQL/MSSQL
• Extensive Front-end Designing wif HTML/JAVA Script/CSS/AJAX
• Experience in design and development of Intranet /Internet application using Java/J2EE framework
• Consistent team player wif excellent communication skills and problem solving skills
• Extensive experience in working wif business teams to understand business and gather functional requirements

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, C, C++

Application Server/ Web Server: Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, WebLogic

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML

Frameworks: MVC, Struts, Spring

GUI: AWT, Swing, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, AJAX

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, OS X

Others: Citrix, JNDI, JUnit, ANT, Log4J, Web Sphere MQ, JDBC, UML, RUP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Environment/Technologies: Java, Unix, Sybase, XML, C#, SVN

Assistant Vice President / Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the process of revitalizing NoeManager and JViewer - Merrill Lynch’s equity back-office Java applications
• Lowered the memory footprint of the two back-office applications; Changed the way certain methods were handled - moved non-user-action-required tasks to run in the background on Swing Worker threads, essentially improving the performance of the applications
• Eliminated the OS dependencies of the applications and changed the method of deployment - Moved away from X Display server based deployment and implemented Java webstart based deployment, saving the firm the cost of X Display Client and Server licenses
• Designed and implemented a Java-Excel based streamlined process of generating allocation reports from the database saving an estimated 5 man-hours per month
• Formulated and implemented a strategy for migrating the existing code from an almost-obsolete repository into a new and better-managed SVN repository, saving a few development hours a month in dealing wif dilapidated repository
• Collaborated wif other teams and stakeholders in building a new model of client-data/client-profile, which increases the efficiency of the back office and reduced the customer’s reliance on developers for their day-to-day activities

Confidential, NA

Environment/Technologies: Java, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, PHP, CVS, SVN, XML, SQL Server, JIRA, PhpBB

Software Engineer / Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to TradeBlade as a Java Developer in various capacities
• Instrumental in requirements-gathering and preparing of Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Technical Specifications of Dashboard after discussions wif Business and Technical teams
• Involve in design and implementation of Dashboard interface for tracking market orders, trades and logins on a per-bank basis for Mortgage Backed Securities, Repurchase Agreements and Agencies
• Design and develop Operational reporting tool dat generates Excel reports from Audit DB based on various configurable criteria for MBS, Repos, Agencies and FXO
• Develop configurable TradeBlade password management policy/logic, which allows banks to specify password storage/history criteria for their traders
• Develop JIRA JSP Plugins to serve the requests of users
• Track and analyze latency issues between various components for products such as Treasuries and Agencies
• Assist QA in Functional and User Acceptance testing
• Reproduce issues found in production and track them through closure in development/QA
• Run a plethora of performance monitoring tools and track performance across various product builds
• Lead the Application Support team which spans across NY and London
• Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, critical thinking, and cohesive team effort
• Work wif Product Managers and Business heads to understand requirements and provide better technical support for all the products
• Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve product issues wif other teams (development, server support, and sales among others)
• Keep the project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishment, issues and statuses
• Keep track of product release cycles and track releases in QA, Integration and Production
• Provide technical application support for various financial products such as Agencies, Treasuries, Repos, FXOs, CDS and USD
• Interact wif traders, brokers and market administrators in understanding business use cases
• Debug/analyze issues reported, and escalate them, if needed, to product-specific development teams for further analysis
• Track production issues/defects through development, QA, UAT and production release

Confidential, PA

Environment/Technologies: Servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, Weblogic 8.0, Struts 1.2, AJAX, Unix, CVS, HTML, XML, Javascript, Oracle 9i, Taxware

WebTech Developer for State Engine Configurator

Responsibilities:

• Develop the tool using Struts framework
• Develop Action classes, Action Forms and Form Beans
• Develop web pages wif AJAX (which does most of the client-server communication)
• Develop Utility classes to access the Database and various other activities
• Integrate State Engine Configurator wif RemoteTools (an application dat hosts various other tools such as the State Engine Configurator)
• Develop test cases for unit testing and QA

WebTech Developer / Project Coordinator f

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact wif the Finance team and get involved in requirements gathering process
• Use XML as a data transfer medium for communication between the web-side (Java/Oracle) and JDA
• Design JSPs/Servlets to accept new and old-style GCs and process them through appropriate channels
• Develop test-cases for unit testing and QA
• Manage/Coordinate development and testing activities in the absence of the Project Manager
• Assist Project Manager in the PMO process - Planning, Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Tracking
• Actively involve in launch/deployment of the new-style GCs to various partner stores
• For every new store launch, set up the Taxware Nexus
• Rollout a build every month containing the binaries pertaining to the latest tax information
• Develop test cases for QA
• Support QA activities in testing the month’s release
• Support production rollout of the latest Taxware build