Senior Information Technology professional with more than fifteen years successful Global experience aligning technology with strategic global business objectives. Client-focused professional with solid background in project management and strategic planning. Worked with clients that include major Hedge Funds and Financial institutions in NYC, Singapore and Mumbai.

Confidential

Domain Manager

• Job dimensions include managing the Securities Master and Corporate Actions Project teams. Established a top-notch team of finance, IT, quality and project management professionals to support 400 users based in Miami, London, Geneva, Madrid, Monaco, Lisbon, Jersey, Bahrain, Singapore and Hong Kong. Key focus of this position is the cross functional and cross cultural management of Senior Stakeholders, Global users, internal and external resources.
• Under the Program managed Securities Master System and Corporate Actions Systems which are integrated with ERI's OLYMPIC, banks core accounting system and AAA Portfolio Management System. Securities Master is an Oracle ADF based system that manages Static data, Prices, FX Rates, Ratings Moody's, S P etc. . and calculates Risk Scores for Client Suitability profiling, European Tax, Custody Fees, Financing Ratios. Corporate Actions System processes mandatory corporate actions from creation to entitlement, booking and reversals of events.

Key Results:

• As a senior project manager managed a strategic 2000 man day project with budget of over 2 million EUROS, responsible for budget forecasting, planning, system development, schedule, configuration management, change management, quality assurance and performance of the project throughout the SDLC using waterfall methodology. Coached and mentored Project Managers within a technical team environment that included both internal staff and consultants. Encouraged best practice in project management and project planning with focus on relationship management with business and other away teams in Geneva and Paris.
• Successfully integrated acquisition of Fortis portfolio.
• Robust management of technological risks and overseeing initiatives aimed at bringing in operational efficiencies. As a senior analyst facilitated user workshops and analyzed vendor systems for alternative analyses to address the changing needs of the business where by improving run-the-bank activities. Developed the project plan, business requirement documents, WBS, process work flows and data structure enhancements to improve performance and throughput. Presented dashboards and status to Executive committee to track progress and address risks and issues for accurate Stakeholder reporting.
• Managed the Corporate Actions Automation Project to eliminate manual inefficient processes and bringing in cost benefit with reduction of 4 FTE's.
• Worked with PMO office to achieve CMMI level 2 for Wealth Management IT HUB.

Central point of contact for Market data providers such as Telekurs, Reuters, Bloomberg etc.

Confidential

Senior Analyst

• Job dimensions included a client facing role that involved analysis of user requirements and business opportunities to improve back office operations.
• Visual Portfolio Manager VPM is a multi-currency portfolio management system for Hedge Funds which virtually supports any asset type and features robust general ledger capabilities as well as investor and partnership reporting tools. Role involved managing a team of developers and analysts, from recruitment through annual appraisals. Meeting with clients to gather requirements converting them into technical requirements, designing data structure enhancements, development and deployment of software and user training primarily using VB.Net, ASP.Net, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, ASP, Visual FoxPro 9/7/6, MS SQL Server 2005/2000/7.0.

Senior Analyst/Team Lead Programmer Analyst

Developer

• The following modules were developed to handle necessary Accounting treatment of various instruments like Equities, Fixed Income securities, Futures, Forwards, Bank Debts, Repos, Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps and Options.
• Global Corporate Actions Module -Designed and developed the Corporate Actions Module to handle
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Spin-offs and Splits
• Dividends and With holding Tax
• Fixed Income Accruals and Payment of Coupons
• Swap payments
• Internal transfer of Positions between Strategies/Portfolio Managers.
• Internal transfer of Positions between sub legal Entities.
• Transfer of Positions and Cash between Clearing Brokers.
• Met with clients to design the Bank Debt Module to handle Loans and Revolvers. It was developed to handle
• Initialization of the global commitment
• Set up of Tranches to handle multiple accrual streams
• Commitment Reduction
• Tracking of Positions and Daily Accruals
• Payment of Accruals

Automation of Options Module

Designed and developed this module to automatically Exercise, Assign or Expire Call and Put Options. Based on the market value of underlying instruments long positions were Exercised if the position was In-the-Money or Expired if the position was Out- of- the- money. Alternatively short positions were Assigned if the position was In- the -money.

Prime Broker and Third party Interfaces

The module involved interfacing with various prime brokers like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, CitiGroup, Chase and administrators such as Citco. My role involved discussing the various formats available at different brokers and creating time sensitive applications to report and Upload End of Day trades and create Position Reconciliation tools.

Other Modules

Developed the Security Master, Fund Master, Broker and Clearing Broker Master, various maintenance modules such as Deals to handle Swaps, Rate Entry to handle Coupon and Deal Rates and Default of Bonds.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Project - Financial Accounting System/Production Reporting System

Ingres, Oracle 7.x. This project was designed for Reliance a prestigious polymer industry in India.

This product generated custom reports and graphs.

Programmer

Project - Financial Accounting System

Purchase Booking, Sales Invoicing, Journal Vouchers, Contra Vouchers etc. It generated various reports like Cash and Bank Books, Profit and Loss Statements. Involved in Programming, QC, Unit testing, Execution and Implementation of the Finance System.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Project management Tools: PMI Methodologies, Clarity, Open Work Bench, MS-Project, Visio and
• SharePoint
• Languages: PL/SQL, SQL, VB, VB.NET, ASP.NET , VFP
• Tools: MS Visual Studio Visual InterDev, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual SourceSafe , MS Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer , PS SQL, Oracle ADF Framework
• Databases : Oracle 11g, Oracle 9i , MS SQL Server v 7 / 2000
• Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX
• Change Management Tools: Remedy and JIRA