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An accomplished IT executive with 16 years of experience in strategy, planning, architecture, execution and delivery of technical projects, with several years of global team management expertise. Proven experience in architecture and delivery of projects in the areas of enterprise-wide platform migration, data movement and warehousing, Business Intelligence and Reporting. Excellent track record in handling vendor client relationships, project risks, process implementations and onshore/offshore support models.

Areas of expertise:

Domains

Processes

Platforms

  • Financial Services
  • SDLC, RUP, OpenUP Agile
  • Data Warehousing
  • Foreign Exchange
  • Process Project Management
  • Business Intelligence Reporting
  • Securities Industry
  • Global team management
  • Firm-wide platform migrations

Technical Expertise:

  • - Databases: Oracle 9i 11g, SQL, MySQL, Hadoop, MongoDB
  • - Programming languages: Java/JEE, Javascript, Perl scripting languages, HTML5
  • - Enterprise platforms: ClearCase, Autosys TWS Maestro scheduler, IBM-MQ,
  • - Knowledge tools: SharePoint, Rally, Jira, Confluence, Rally and ServiceNow
  • - Reporting BI platforms: OBIEE 11, Tableau, SpotFire
  • - Market tools: Reuters, Bloomberg, Swift, Wall Street Systems FX .
  • - Process tools: MS-Project, Visio, MS-Office.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Wellington Management is a privately held global investment management firm servicing clients in the corporate, public, endowment and foundation marketplaces. Wellington has over 900 billion dollars of assets under management.

Confidential

Lead Engineer and Team Manager to Data Services group which provides firm-wide services in the areas of Enterprise Reporting, Data Movement and Business Intelligence. Architected and delivered the Enterprise Business Intelligence platform from POC to Production in record time. Championed the use of a centralized OBIEE environment as an incubator for small projects and spinning them to dedicated OBIEE instances based on usage by business-units. Developed a global support model for key, firm-wide data movement and reporting solutions.

Key Achievements:

  • Lead all development support of the Enterprise Reporting platform, which delivers over 24,000 batch reports every night to business around the globe via print, ftp, file-sharing email. Volumes exceed 90,000 reports per night around the year-end. The platform is written in Java/JEE on Tomcat, with web-service interfaces to Jasper, OBIEE, ORS and Cognos. A web-interface provides end-users with the ability to add/edit/delete reports and packages as needed.
  • Delivered enterprise-wide instances of Oracle's Business Intelligence platform from POC to Production in about 4 months from the date of original evaluations.
  • Initiated and managed a team of 20 offshore consultants and 8 onshore consultants for reports development, delivery and support, on an annual budget of 3 Million.
  • Redefined the strategy for multi-server production deployment of existing Enterprise Reporting application and migration of the platform from Weblogic to Tomcat.
  • Facilitated the evaluation of BI Reporting tools on VMWare under Linux Windows platforms, 32-bit 64-bit variations, with Active Directory integration and Single sign-on, for OBIEE, Jasper, Tableau and TIBCO SpotFire.
  • Delivered enterprise-wide Oracle Reports migration of 120,000 daily batch reports from Oracle Reports 6i to 11g. This project required close co-ordination with 6 business units to synchronize ongoing business-requested enhancements in parallel with migration and testing efforts for the new platform.
  • Lead the internal evaluation and WAVE analysis for next-generation database platform evaluation for unstructured data, with POCs on products like Greenplum, MongoDB and Hadoop.
  • Developed strategies for Active Directory based authentication and authorization schematics for OBIEE, to provide flexible and customizable grouping of business users and power-users with multiple roles in the organization.
  • Defined and implemented a follow-the-sun support model for all reporting and Business Intelligence products like Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos, Oracle Reports Server and Jasper.
  • Lead the team of professionals to redesign the report scheduling platform and its reporting engines to be entirely web-service based, with Tomcat Axis 1.3 integration for on-demand vertical and horizontal scalability in the future.

Confidential

State Street Corporation is a Fortune 500 company providing comprehensive financial services, including investment management, investment research and trading, mutual fund administration, securities lending and related value-added services to asset managers, asset owners, alternative asset managers, insurance companies and pension funds. SSC has over 25 trillion in assets under custody and over 2 trillion in assets under management.

Confidential

  • Key achievements:
  • Lead the Shared Data Services team from inception to a global strength of 8 FTEs 8 consultants in USA, 16 FTEs in China and 12 consultants in India. Responsible for development and support for all data movement and integration services with clients and vendors for State Street Global Markets, product evaluations and development of strategic recommendations. Served as a direct-report to the SSGM CIO in several selective, strategic and confidential, internal projects.
  • Successfully delivered a major platform migration project for Wall Street Systems FX Trading system across VAX to Unix, RMS to Oracle and WSS 3.4 to WSS 4.1 over a single weekend. This project involved 18 months of planning, risk-mitigation, technical and business testing for successful and on-time delivery. The delivery required extensive use of Perl/shell-scripts, Oracle database scripts and stored procedures, Unix mailbox interfaces and Java/J2EE components.
  • Architected and managed the delivery of State Street Global Markets' first data warehouse GMR from inception, architecture, integration, to delivery and global-support using IBM InfoSphere ETL tool, Oracle 11g database, Autosys scheduler, Unix-scripting and Java/J2EE.
  • Architected and managed the delivery of State Street Global Markets' first series of datamarts GMD for business-specific reporting on Oracle databases using IBM InfoSphere, IBM-MQ, Autosys, and Sterling Connect:Direct with Java/J2EE Web-services for event-triggered updates.
  • Architected and delivered Reporting platform using .NET MySQL for daily regulatory reporting and End-of-Day process monitoring and alerting system based on Java/J2EE and web-services and Oracle database scripts and objects.
  • Delivered SSGM's first remote in-country data-mart for the Seoul, Korea business unit to provide local regulatory reporting.
  • Architected and delivered a flexible straight-through processing STP platform for FX order from clients into the Order Management System, and end-of-day trade-confirmations from the Trading Settlement system back to the clients, reducing client onboarding time new to under 8 hours.
  • Managed the development of a global ETL team from inception to 16 members each in China and US. Worked at Hangzhou enable evaluations, hiring, mentoring setting standards for operations on both shores.
  • Managed the department-wide restructuring and integration of all code-assets into IBM ClearCase, from a variety of prior methods such as SCCS, PVCS un-archived code-assets.
  • Implemented LEAN and Follow-The-Sun models for global development and 24x5 support
  • Managed vendor-relationship from SOWs to managed services with the following vendors: Wall Street System UK , Ascential/IBM, Atlassia, Allustra, Deltix UK , Sterling Commerce, and All-round Automation The Netherlands .

Confidential

Context Integration/eForce was a provider of fixed-time, fixed-price turnkey projects in the B2B business space, and provided all services for a project from project management, business analysis, development, integration and delivery. Context Integration was also a strategic partner to Rational Corporation prior to its acquisition by IBM and contributed heavily to the research and development of the Rational Unified Process.

Confidential

  • Delivered several projects in the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Architect and Team Manager for GE Financial Services, Visa, AT T, MFS Investments, Scudder Investments, Bank of America, Merck Medco, Nickelodeon and Logistics.com.
  • Key achievements:
  • Responsible for client engagements from systems analysis, architecture, application design, development and delivery for fixed-time, fixed-price projects based on Oracle, Java/J2EE, BroadVision and ATG Dynamo dynamic content servers. Lead several teams on client engagements to provide functions from pre-sales, development, delivery to post-sales support.
  • Architected and delivered the initial schema and enhancements for the 5 rapid releases of the consumer-facing 529 Plan website for Liberty Funds/Columbia Management/Bank of America. The system was delivered using a combination of Java/J2EE, Javascripts, Unix Perl and shell-scripting on an Oracle database.
  • As a single technology specialist, delivered a complete database migration from Sybase ASE to Oracle by rewriting the Perl DBI/DBD interface layer between BroadVision Content Server and Sybase ASE 11.9.2. The operations of the overlying consumer-facing website were maintained to provide dynamic content to website users, except for a brief outage during the switchover. Extensive use of Javascript, Perl and shell-scripting was done with Oracle as the backend database.
  • Architected a Web-based Wireless application for a Property Management System based on Java,/J2EE and WAP/WML. Deliverables included a successful demo for the CEO of GeoFire.
  • Lead the architecture, development and delivery of the pilot release of transaction tracking and fraud detection system for Visa. The product was implemented using Oracle databases, Java/J2EE and C , and made API calls to a variety of vendor-services, including geographical tracking, distance assessment of transactions to customer's home zip-code, maintaining list of frequently used vendors and geographical locations etc.
  • Designed and developed the system for content-feed from and to Merck Medco's website, Merck Manual of Health from a variety of content sources. Responsibilities included delivering the modules for loading of content from FTP files, categorization and taxonomy of new and existing content in the database and profile based content navigation modules. This assignment also required extensive utilization of Oracle PL/SQL and BroadVision skills and tools provided by the two products to come up with an effective system for fast turnaround of feeds into production-ready content.
  • Developed modules for dynamic content generation, profile management and backend support for advanced search pages for Nickelodeon's site for merchandise, RedRocket.com. The site was built using BroadVision and Verity Search engine supported by an extensive collection of Java/J2EE and Javascript components.

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