SUMMARY

• IT professional with 20 years’ experience in enterprise systems management, support and application development. Project management, planning and leadership experience at Fortune 100 companies and software startups, building global and cross - functional teams.
• Managed an annual budget of $2 million. Provided end-to-end project oversight to global cross-functional teams of 200 people. Strong communication skills
• Strong experience in the financial and regulatory domain - Credit Risk, Enterprise Stress Testing, CCAR, BASEL, Fixed income analytics, Derivatives pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, Back-testing, Portfolio Sensitivity
• 7 years Project Management experience (PMP certified); 3 years as Project Lead
• Software Architecture: Principles and Practices Certification (Carnegie Mellon SEI)
• Candidate CFA Level III in Jun 2017
• Key contributor to the multi-year Credit Infrastructure Transformation Project at J.P. Morgan
• Received ‘Raising the Bar Award’ from CTO of Risk Technology at JP Morgan. Consistent top-performer at the workplace. Received many peer recognition awards

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Project planning/budgeting, Agile methodology, Financial Metrics, Situational leadershipStakeholder management

Software Skills: Big Data, Data Visualization, Private Cloud, Data Warehousing, ETL (Informatica), SOA, J2EE, Use-case analysis, Database performance tuning

Operating Sys: Linux, Windows 7/XP

Languages: Java, C++, Perl, Python

RDBMS: ORACLE, SYBASE, SQL Server

Financial Knowledge: CCAR, Enterprise Stress Testing, BASEL III, Dodd Frank, Credit/Market Risk, FICC trading support, Monte Carlo simulation, Fixed Income Analytics, Advanced Credit

SQA methodologies: Carnegie Mellon University's SEI/CMM model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Presented a project initialization plan for delivering the new system within a 12-18 month timeframe in two phases
• Streamlined development and testing processes. Trained and mentored junior team members
• Documented functionality of the existing system and gathered requirements for building out the new system through user interviews
• Actively tracked and reported project progress to Technology Director and business managers
• Identified data quality improvements and provided data governance
• Implemented process optimizations to improve performance of the system by 30%
• Explored map/reduce, Python and Hadoop based cloud technologies to re-architect the system using massively parallel computing paradigm.
• Provided data visualization capabilities to the business by generating graphs and plots using R. Identified data quality improvements and provided data governance
• Explored entrepreneurial opportunities in technology and finance
• Actively managed an equities, ETF, mutual fund and fixed income portfolio of $0.5 million using option strategies to hedge market risks. Generated annualized returns of 15-20%
• Volunteered at middle school competitive Math competitions and mentored gifted and talented middle-school students

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized and led working groups comprised of senior business analysts, business and QR managers to report project status, discuss system strategy and prioritize enhancement requests. Participated in annual planning and budgeting meetings with business sponsors and senior managers
• Provided technical leadership to the development team. Organized code reviews and led design and architecture meetings
• Supported CCAR(Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) Stress test runs for regulators
• Delivered BASEL II project for derivatives. Supported sensitivities and back-testing analysis for the derivatives portfolio of the bank
• Resolved trade pricing issues working with the Quantitative Research team and business sponsors
• Onboarded exotic derivatives products and implemented new functionality within the system like wrong way methodology for commodities, fix for rehypothecation spikes
• Analyzed UAT and SIT test results for correctness from a business perspective and presented them to the business for sign-off
• Conceptualized and led a multi-year Resiliency agenda implementing many fixes to improve system performance and stability. Received “Raising The Bar” award from the CTO for improving system resiliency

End-to-End Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Presented future system road maps to front office managers and business sponsors during yearly planning and budgeting process
• Analyzed and documented end-to-end data flows from front office to Risk systems, identified and resolved trade pricing and data quality issues
• Analyzed UAT and SIT test results for correctness and presented them to the business for sign-off

Senior Consultant

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Researched deployment and configuration of Application server and recommended reverse proxy based architecture. Recommended use of durable topics and message driven beans for pub/sub based messaging
• Integrated system with Netegrity SiteMinder to provide password/digital certificate based authentication

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead of Continuing Engineering Team supporting 3 versions of Secure Messenger. Part of teams delivering newer versions of Secure Messenger
• Designed and developed a Java Shared Library for CORBA based Secure Messenger product. Used several OO Design Patterns. Fixed Java memory leaks in JacORB libraries
• Implemented support for secure envelope for PKI. Implemented support for HTTP reverse proxies, policy based secure email redirect and common name check for digital certificates
• Tuned core server for performance achieving 90% performance improvement in many cases
• Fixed concurrency issues like deadlocks and race conditions. Resolved high availability issues
• Designed, developed and implemented Futures & EFP Real Time Trading System in Java. Gathered and documented requirements from traders regarding the look and feel of the UI, specially the trade blotter
• Developed system for PV valuation & historical analysis of GIC deals in C++
• Architected SYBASE Replication server implementation for Warm Backup and Disaster Recovery sites
• Implemented upgrade to new architecture using EMC enterprise storage and E4000 server
• SYBASE Database Administration production support for Trading floors