SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT professional with in - depth knowledge of employed technologies and methodologies used in Capital Markets, Finance and Banking.
• Delivered and supported resilient systems from concept to realization to firms
• Over a wide variety of platforms. Mindful and trained on IT Audit, Ops, Support and firms regulatory and information security needs.
• Partners well with LOB as well as IT stakeholders at all levels, including C-Suite and offshore teams.
• Significant experience in working with off-shore teams spread across India, Ireland and Hungary while supporting desks in London and New York; worked with various team sizes ranging from 15 to over 100-member teams.
• In-depth Information Technology skills with strong background application delivery in major platforms used in Capital Markets and Banking with firms.
• Delivered Business Intelligence and Desktop as well as Web solutions with full regards to rapidly changing business needs.
• Delivered and supported cross platform applications to Sales and Sales support teams. Increased capacity from 200 brokers and sales staff to over 600 users replacing platforms to increase High Availability and improved performance on three tiers. Subsequently, ensure that T+1 reports as well as KPIs are published 8am in all the regions.
• Heavily invested in learning about Predictive Analytics and have hands-on training on a few.
• Very well versed in working with Senior Line of Business Managers and SMEs to understand business needs, offering alternatives with critical success factors on radar, developing POCs followed by managing SDLC with on-shore and off-shore staff. Works comfortably with C-Suite as well as other staff members in the hierarchy.
• Orchestrates the SDLC process in close interaction with stakeholders from business as well as support staff; these include Audit & Regulatory, IT Security, Infrastructure, Business Continuity for DR testing events, Operations, and Enterprise Architecture teams and be the point person for communication across these groups.
• Leans towards Continuous Integration platforms (where available) to ensure seamless release management and to effectively control change management pipeline.
• Well versed with manual as well as automated Quality Assurance implementation, have employed both approaches with on-shore and off-shore teams and in-house as well as third-party (vendors).
• Research and utilize best of the breed solutions within the constraints of Enterprise Architecture and even suggests evaluating technologies to bring in the infrastructure. For a regulatory finance reporting improved calculator speeds by 5 times that allowed controllers to tweak the just-in-time inputs/adjustments and run numerous iterations of the process before reporting the results to external agencies.
• Oversee development and review of SDLC documentation as required. These include BRDs, FRDs, FDDs, DDDs, RICEFS (IBM), RSA (Architecture), and Test Plans, Test Results, Phase Entry and Phase Exist checklists with complete traceability as desired from BRDs to downward.
• Drive a variety of meetings including following. Prepares and distribute meeting materials prior and post meetings.

EXPERTISE IN:

• Project Management
• Program Management
• IT Risk Management
• IT Audit (SOX)
• Stakeholders / SME Meeting
• Triage Meeting / Process
• Remote Team Management
• Vendor Meetings
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehouses
• Data Governance
• Big Data
• Quality Assurance
• Data Quality
• MDM
• IT Dashboards
• Risk Indicators Reporting

TECHNOLOGY STACKS:

Big Data: Hadoop, Cassandra, Horton Works, Kafka, Nifi

Data Analytics: QlikView, PowerBI and Tableau.

Microsoft: .Net, IIS, ASP, WPF, WCF, WSDL, VB6, Ext.JS, JavaScript, BizTalk

Java: J2EE, JAX-WS, JMS, Apache, Tomcat, CXF, JUnit, Spring, JPA, MQ Series IBM Main Frames, MVS/TSO, VM Systems.

DBs: Sybase, Access, DB2, UDB, SQL Server, H2, KDB

Programming: Cobol, VB6/.NET, C#, C++, SQL

Scripting: JavaScript, HTML, Rexx

Components: JBPM, Activiti, Lucene, Drools, Infragistics

ETL: Informatica, Ab-Initio & DTS (now SSIS)

BI/Reporting: SSRS, MSAS, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, QlikView, familiar with SpotFire, and Tableau.

Modeling: ERWIN, Visio, UML, RSA

Agile/Scrum: Rally

Tracking Tool: JIRA

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Data & Analytics Stream Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working with Technology Portfolio Office to develop reporting solutions, and in parallel, automating data feeds into the Enterprise Data Lake (Hadoop/Horton Works) and moving this to Apptio (Cloud/SaaS).
• Confidential is an IT Cost Transparency tool that uses industry standards provided by Confidential Council for Technology Business Management. In first 4 weeks delivered Labor Cost and distribution Analytics by business as well as Geo for firm’s location/vendor strategy. Currently building dashboards push adaption of the new global time entry system (PPM) rolled out by the firm recently, this is for employees as well as contingent workers.
• Developed a complete roadmap to utilize Enterprise Data Lake and Analytics for Portfolio Management and to show back returns on investment and match them with the planned gains in the CBA (Cost-Benefit Analysis) documents.
• Worked as a senior leader to run/participate in these three streams in parallel in Agile format with daily stand ups with Dev, Vendor teams and stakeholders team members.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager -

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility included delivery and review of phase deliverables across teams in New York and Tokyo.
• Core Banking Tracks included Deposits, Loan (Mainframe), Loan (Distributed), Trade Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Payment Systems.
• Infrastructure tracks comprise of Data Warehouse, Networking, Enterprise Service Bus, External Notification Systems, IT Operations/Governance, and Quality Assurance.
• Worked closely with development team members and senior management in New York and Tokyo to meet the project goals. This role also requires working at strategic and tactical levels with QA, Security, Risk, Data Management, Operations and Infrastructure leads.
• Focused on Data Warehouse project as a co-project manager worked with over 46 external and about 20 internal resources to ensure timely delivery of Code during the construction phase. Worked in a very challenging environment where changes were constantly requested from up-stream as well downstream system.
• This role required liaison with third-party software testing team which was largely offshore and also pro-active coordination with local Central Project Management Office as well PMOs from Tokyo.
• Driving development review meetings design change meetings, triage meetings with local as well as teams in India and Japan was a significant part of the role. Led the team from Design, Development, SIT and UAT phases during this process.

Confidential

VP - Finance IT

Responsibilities:

• Designed a new architecture to modernize the platform used to generate Financial Risk Reports (CCAR) e.g. Basel Reporting. Goal of this task to create a blueprint to improve modularity, traceability, transparency, performance and scalability.
• Developed POC and improved calculation process by 5x times.
• Helped with migration to new platform as well as decommission of legacy platform.
• This application takes inputs from upstream system using ETL tools and provide web (ASP) interface for Financial Controllers.
• Enhanced user interface to bring efficiencies for end-users. Removed sticky state on single server and move the application to IIS farms in North America, Europe and Hong Kong. Converted application to ASP.NET.
• Extended this system to from 200 controllers to 600 controller and brokers by creating separating data marts for controller and brokers.
• Launched this application in the quarterly sales conference and presented the demo in a room of about 150 people from sales and senior management.
• As the reliability of data increased on the revenue systems, our group was retained to add a compensation module for brokers in Europe.
• Filled in the shoes of a business-side analyst worked with compensation controller to understand, document, verify and disseminate compensation rules.
• Oversaw SDLC and implemented the solution (ASP.NET) with sophisticated reports that educate controllers in pin pointing data gaps before the actual compensation process is run.
• Utilized revenue data and integrated it with HR and Marketing Feeds to develop this desktop compensation system (WPF based).
• Once again filled in the shoes of a business-side analyst worked with compensation controller to understand, document, verify and disseminate compensation rules.
• Oversaw design, architecture, development, testing, support training and implementation of this application.