SUMMARY:

• Successful Strategist, Big Data Evangelist, Data Scientist, Disruptive Thinker and Thought - leaderwith extensive background in delivery of Business Technology integrated solutions, Enterprise Architecture and Data Management, Technology Transformations, Business and IT strategy and PMO. Teach Machine Learning(part-time) at Columbia University.
• 19+ years of IT experience leading Global programs, jumpstarting global practices, renowned for optimizing operations, leading complex turnarounds and application development teams.
• Led engagements from $3-48mm spearheading next generation technologies.
• SIX LIVE BIG DATA IMPLEMENTATIONS PLUS MULTIPLE POCs.
• Built 30-60-90 day action plans/roadmaps and executed/blueprinted them for multiple firms to help reduce TCO and achieve higher profitability.
• Strategized NoSQL and distributed databases solutions reducing 63 databases to 4 saving $28 mm+/year.
• Lead the 40 mm+ Commerce Model big data multi-year program across multi-asset classes for Confidential .
• Built trade capture system recording 2.3B+ option ticks in a single business day reducing TCO by 15 mm/year.
• Enhanced the customer fraud detection and risk protection system.
• Transformed and executed multiple asset classes risk management solutions (credit, market, counterparty, operational, sovereign including VaR, KMV, CVA computations) - GRAIN, RICE, Insights for Valuation, MoLAN applications etc and integrating with trade solutions. Cross savings across multiple organizations exceeded 55 mm.
• Revamped the BIG Reference Data Model and reconciliation across asset classes at Confidential - a 14 mm initiative.
• Instrumental in transforming Confidential from a product-led organization to a 92% services-led organization.
• Built the Advanced Financial Practice at Andersen from 2 to 32 people.
• Spearheaded the TSA-38 mm+ program for BSCH-largest bank in Spain saving 25mm+.
• Delivered the $42 mm “netbenefits” program for Fidelity which featured on WSJ and is live even today.
• Achieved business savings > 40 mm leading big data Business solutions for storage, cross-sell, risk measurement, regulatory reporting, valuation, analytics and fraud detection. Accomplishments involve Big Data implementation stack consisting of: (1) Columnar/correlation databases (2) Hadoop and its components including administration and performance optimization (3) Visualization and (4) Statistics and Analytics. Among the few to have this background.
• Am a practitioner on the field with a very hands-on approach. Built my own JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
• 6+ years of experience in design and implementation of large big data systems with data volumes of the order of 45 TB-30 PB. Built the Enterprise Solutions Architecture, not just the Data Architecture.
• USP: Accomplishment at various levels- combination of Program Head, Data Scientist, Operational Analytics, Business Intelligence or Discovery.
• Strong background in definition, execution and management of all aspects of software development(SDLC).
• Authored Hadoop papers: 1) Best practices in Hadoop and 2) Compression in hadoop and cluster rebalancing.
• Analyze anything using Data-Thanksgiving data, eating a burger in Manhattan.
• Authoring: Unlock the Potential by getting insights “Turning Data to Dollars in the Value Chain”
• Certified PMP working with top tier clients - defining requirements; modeling solutions using key technologies (J2EE, EAI, Finance Models, columnar DBs, SOA, latency, Hadoop, UML, RUP, messaging, ERP, CEP etc).
• Led teams and worked across continents-US, Europe, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, UK, India.
• Core competencies: Strategy planning and execution, Executive team leadership, Business technology integrated solutions, New program execution strategy, Captive and offshore CoEs, Best practices, Change management.
• Well-known speaker at industry conferences like Strata-Hadoop, NAFIS, Tradetech, Columbia University and Harvard Business Club on Hadoop, Future of Big Data, Distributed Computing, HFT, O&EMS, machine learning, text analytics, Data analytics using R, cloud computing in big data, building a single multi-asset class trading strategy etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

Data collection and Storage, Analytics and Financial Software: Hadoop and components hive, HBase, Oozie, Pig, zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, Hue, Mesos, Yarn, using MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Pivotal, data lake etc.

Search: Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene

Realtime Hadoop: Storm with Trident, Spark Streaming

Security: Voltage, Protegrity, Vormetric, Gazzang

ETL and data integration: Talend, Syncsort

Monitoring: Nagios, Ganglia

Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop Cluster

Analytics: time series, Random forests, SVM, K-clustering, Mahout, Machine Learning, Text Analytics, NLP, LDA, Naïve Bayes, semantics, ontology, Lexalytics, Provalis etc.

Financial Software: Front Arena, TSA(Trading Solutions Architecture), OMS, EMS, DMA, Algorithmic trading, HFT and CEP-Coral 8, Apama, tick data-Vhayu, FinCad, Fidessa, Pat Systems, Models for Fixed income, rates, forex, equities and derivatives

Columnar Databases and visualization tools: Vertica, Greenplum, MongoDB, Cassandra, kdB, R, Revolution R, tableau, Pentaho, Qlikview, Datameer, Bigvis, Acunu, Platfora, SAS, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, MySQLMessaging, Tibco, MQ Series, Webmethods, SeeBeyond, JMS, Kafka.

Market Data: Reuters, Bloomberg, Telekurs, Markit etc.

Architecture /services: TOGAF, Zachman, EA, SOA, CostXpert, SCA, grid computing, SaaS, Cloud computing

Application servers: Websphere, Weblogic, Jetty, Apache, Eclipse, JWS, iPlanet, JBoss, NetBeans

Development: C++, J2EE, JSON, C, C#, Servlets, Struts, Swing, hibernate, LDAP, Corba, .NET

OS: Unix, Linux, Windows

Business Modeling: Provision, ARIS, Bwise, Fuego, Rational, RUP, RSA, UML, TogetherSoft, Requisite Pro

Languages: K, R, Java, C++, VB, XML, C#, UML, C, SQL, WML, MatLab

Process modeling: UML, BPM, Rational Rose, Rational Suite, Visio, TogetherJ, RSA, RSM

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, RUP, CMMi, Waterfall, OOM, SOA, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Global Program Director /Lead Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic initiatives onbig data with finance heads and business managers,traders, program managers, for technology evaluation, selection, developing POVs and implementations including base models for MS globally.
• Work with PAGH-Program Area Group Heads for various IT portfolios to ensure global delivery and business transformations.
• Reporting to the CIO for global SDLC initiatives.
• Worked with stakeholders on budget planning for 2013(total ISGT budget is 1.2 bn), currently leading implementation of programs and delivery of the same with Program Area Group Heads while reducing the TCO.
• Leading the SDLC and PLC implementation initiatives for all ISGT and CTS programs-a global MS rollout.
• Tasked with implementing standards, procedures and associated toolsets for program management, process and reporting (PMPR)-a firmwide initiative to standardize all project management processes and practices.
• Work as programs coordinator for COO on budgets, programs implementation, program statuses, project health, and turning around amber and red projects.
• Commerce Model: Pioneer the entire program from Discovery-to-Decision Making using operational insights with minimal latency via visualization. Lead the conceptual, logical and physical data model using Agile methodology.
• This global program is a convergence of BIG data, data discovery, business intelligence and analytics.
• Led innovation by exploring, investigating, recommending, benchmarking and implementing data centric technologies for big data. Mapping of Big Data management technologies, Hadoop, Columnar databases etc.
• Spearhead various solution teams in Architecting, Designing and Implementation using data collection, Hadoop, messaging, algorithms, machine learning, analytics and visualization technologies. Led global teams to figure opportunities to mine insights from emerging data sets (social, mobile, machine, geospatial).
• Implemented a bi-temporal database, pioneer prime message bus, GRAIN, RICE risk and valuation engines with DSL.
• Responsible for Architecture, Integration, Technology Strategy, NLP and Data Discovery Platform. Currently focusing on Hadoop Integration, Data Visualization, behavior analysis and Architecture Improvements.
• Sqoop / Flume ingested data into Hadoop. Automated the ingestion using Oozie workflows. Set-up zookeeper leader and master node for configuration, naming and synchronization.
• Led Map Reduce implementation where required. YARN node manager, resource manager and application master customization set-up as part of new developments.
• Load data into Hive tables using dynamic partitions for query.
• Create UDFs or UDAFs for Hive. Run Hive and Pig Queries to generate regulatory reports eg: Daily exposure, margin calculations, ABS and MBS mature trades, satisfy Dodd-Frank regulations, CCAR and ICAAP requirements. Move data into HBase tables for analysis and query the data using APIs.
• Ingest data into Solr (Cloudera Search) and enable faster search.
• The system components included Hadoop pipeline with Pig, Zookeeper, HBase, HCatalog, Integration engine, Analytical foundation including statistical library and visualization engine using Tableau for website analytics, dashboard, forecasting and rendering which will be expanded for entire MSWIM.
• Ganglia for monitoring and Chuckwa was used for log collection and processing.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Program Manager / Evangelist

Responsibilities:

• Drove all elements of the end-to-end technology platform required to support the business (including operations, finance, corporate risk and underlying infrastructure) using agile.
• Define the roadmap for global implementation.
• This program detects abnormal activities and warns against fraud to customer accounts distributed by account type / location.
• Foster innovative technologies, build partnerships and recommend sustainable solutions. It drills down to account level details, usual spend patterns, customer behavior profile, key risk contributing events.
• Strategize the solution, led the database architecture and GUI, data aggregation, hadoop cluster, data storage and data distribution.
• Build the solution using Hadoop components, Hive, Hbase, PIG UDFs and UDAF, Oozie and Hue, connectors, messaging framework, various algos, mapreduce functionality, prescriptive modeling using NLP, Mahout.

Confidential

Program Manager /Business and Lead Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for program assessment, recommendations, suggestions, areas of improvement, audit and assurance.
• Lead a significant number of strategic operations system migrations /implementations as part of a larger transformation & change strategy managing complex cross-functional engagements.
• Spearhead framework, architecture and standards for a new data warehouse platform using agile and scrum methodology.
• Led regression analysis, predictive modeling including ML and Lucene and develop sentiment analysis.
• Managed the program with a team of quants / developers building an investment recommendation platform from different sources (equity/bond researches, twitter, estimize, finviz, the street, stock charts, recommendations etc. and portfolio diagnostics).
• Spearhead the engagement for Cluster analysis with GPU acceleration for q/kdb+ columnar DB.
• Data size on a daily basis was 18M+ stock trades, 2B+ option ticks, 550M+ ticks across exchanges.

Confidential

Lead Data Architect and Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the strategy, implementation of risk management and real-time market data systems.
• Build the BIG-Reference Data Model and reconciliation across asset classes acting as scrum master.
• Led the implementation of Molan-Mortgage and Loan analysis system.
• Mortgage credit risk model: Champion, design and develop mortgage loan level credit risk models.
• Main responsibilities:data preparation and analysis, risk factors design/extraction, risk profiling and implementation using early-stage Hadoop, MR, zookeeper framework with Hive queries. Risk models incorporated for in-house automated underwriting loan origination systems. This encompassed survival analysis, PD, LGD and EAD.
• Spearheaded project management including risk management and contingency planning, dashboards, pricing, resource management, managing offshore teams and vendors, proposals, client management, brainstorming sessions, IT governance and compliance, best practices and guidelines, meeting targets.
• Create new methodologies, reusable components and blueprints, best practices and delivery alliances for specific deliveries. Work seamlessly with counterparts in other regions to provide solutions to the global business.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager and Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategize the future state trading system-functional and architecture for Confidential .
• This combined Equity and Fixed Income Systems with risk management and trade execution, trade capture and settlement including OBS transactions.
• Responsibilities included roadmap, development and implementation of real-time risk and pricing models, maintenance and development of analytical calculation framework.
• Build the EDW. This integrated the data handled by multiplebusinessesto a single point where the headquarters can look at the overall performance and risk reports.
• Systematized precise simulation models. Analyzed time trends in financial performance indicators, quantified results, and recommended program improvements regarding risk assessment and workload administration.

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Built the Trade/Product Lifecycle system for trade capture, pricing, booking and structuring.
• Transform the operations of a major bank, leading a team of 70+ employees and client resources across organizational change, business process reengineering and technology delivery using an inbuilt DW.
• Responsible for the specification and implementation of large trading, risk management and real-time market data systems and trading simulations, automation of various strategies.
• Automated real-time order flow execution network. Implement best execution, facilitation for derivatives.

Lead Technical Architect/PM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trading Solution Architecture developed for the largest bank in Spain.
• Front office implementation for Investment Planning, Advisory and portfolio management for Fidelity.