SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of diversified experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Software Design, Development, Data modeling, Implementation and Quality Assurance of web based and client server applications using n - tier architecture, with extensive experience in Finance & Banking solutions
• Financial industry experience including Fixed-Income, Equities, Futures, Options, Equity Derivatives, Trading, Settlement Processing, Risk Management, Treasury Management Systems, Asset Management (Buy/Sell Side), Annuities, Mutual Funds, Credit Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Cash Flow
• Ten years understanding of operations and hands on experience in front and middle office of an Confidential (within their capital markets/investment banking division) Systems experience in all of the following: Fidessa, Geneva, Phase3, Shadow Financial, Bloomberg OMS, Murex, Alpha, TPS, NETX360 , Sophis, Delta1, CBTS, ATLAS, Synfiny, GMI, RANSys, BPS, TCW, Openlink etc.
• Experience in the financial industry in a Broker/Dealer, Prime Brokerage, Clearing Organization, Understanding of Business and Financial concepts
• Managing a team of business analysts and Developers, JIRA issue tracking product, bug tracking, issue tracking and project management, close liaison with Business personnel to Division Head level in Product Control, Front Office, Compliance, Treasury, Derivative Middle Office, Global Equity Finance and Settlements
• Products, services and knowledge of the Prime Brokerage business and flows across equity, fixed income and derivatives asset classes
• Established PMO, policies, guidelines, processes and continuous improvement recommendations to standardize PMO disciplines
• Proven experience at building, motivating and leading professional teams, managing projects and supporting client relationships, implementing large & multiple projects successfully and ability to interact with all levels of Management
• Result-driven, highly motivated, creative, with strong analytical & logical acumen & proven experience at building, motivating and leading professional teams, managing projects and supporting client relationships, implementing large & multiple projects successfully
• Exceptional ability to simultaneously manage multiple matrix teams to consistently deliver complete projects on schedule and within budget, despite intense pressure and aggressive timeliness
• Influential technical leader and skilled negotiator, successfully presenting strategic high-impact technology proposals and project plans to executive management to achieve buy-in, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Expert in effectively implementing Agile and SCRUM methodology across Global teams
• Business Requirement Gathering and Analysis/UI Design, writing Business Cases, Use Cases, Flow chart, Wireframes, Functional Requirement Document while supporting Development, Testing, UAT and Production environments
• Project Planning and scheduling, Facilitating Meetings, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Change Management, Contingency Planning, Quality Assurance, Cost Analysis and Cost Estimation
• Project Integration management, Scope management, Time management, Cost management, Quality management, Human resource management, Communication management
• Planning and scheduling, Performance Reporting, Status reporting, Progress Management, Forecasting, Human Resources Management, Resource Allocation, Team Development
• Writing and executing Test Plan, Test Matrix, and Test Plan. Hands on experience with Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Defect Management, GUI testing, Stress testing
• Equities, Fixed income securities, Corporate bonds, Money market securities, Mutual fund, Municipal securities, Over the counter, Options, Annuities, Currency, ETF, REPO, SWAP and Global securities. Firm grasp of overall Equity trading Business, focusing on Middle and Back Office roles and responsibilities
• Trade life cycle, Order management, Trade enrichment, Trade processing, straight through processing (STP), Trade settlement, Trade correction / cancelation, Trade confirms, Pre-Trade, Trade and Post-Trade activities. Detailed knowledge of Equity trade-processing features, including; event processing, allocations, margining, reporting, settlements, risk
• Front office, Middle office and Back office clearing processes, with DTCC and OCC. Prime Brokerage business, Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory & Compliance, Audit, and Finance functions
• Notional principal contracts, Total return swap, Single stock swap, price return swap, custom index basket swap, portfolio swap, structure notes, OTC options, custom index basket, convertible bonds, Derivatives over equity-linked indices and futures on single name stock.
• Global trade processing system, Fee and Commissions on domestic and global trade processing
• Front office activities like order capture, FIX, trade capture, sales/trader affirmation, trade matching, broker and internal trade flows, Order Management and Electronic Management Systems (OMS/EMS)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Methodologies: RUP, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Solution based, Extreme, JAD Sessions, RAD, Spiral, Lean

Financial Application: Geneva 8.5 (Advent), Phase3 (SunGard), Fidessa, Shadow, Alpha, TPS, NETX360, Sophis, Delta1, CBTS, ATLAS, Synfiny, GMI, RANSys, BPS, TCW, Openlink

Reporting Application: Business Objects, Web focus, SQL Server Reporting Services

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PHP, Pl/SQL, HTML and XML

Data Warehousing Tools: Informatica, Toad, Teradata

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Visio, Basecamp, Clarizen, Jira

Content Management Tools: Interwoven, Documentum, Teamsite

Databases: Teradata, Oracle 10i, Db2, SQL Server 2008, MS Access

Testing Tools: Selenium, QTP 8, Load Runner 7.X, Test Director 7.X

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 95, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, iOS, Android

Others: TCP/IP, WAP, Mantis, JIRA, Bugzilla, Testlink, Lotus notes, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Outlook, Media Wiki, Google Analytics, Blogger, SVN, CVSSharePoint, Omniture, Web analyst, VDI, VPN, WebEx

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager / Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• As an IRS Operational Tax Project Manager, supported the next phase of the Operational Tax Programme’s development and transition to a fully global programme. Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Accountable for planning, executing, and delivering all in-scope aspects of each project. Additional duties included status reporting and executive communication, issue/risk escalation and mitigation, and overall people management. Operations Tax project manager worked closely with key project team members, technology partners, and senior-level stakeholders to ensure transparent and successful delivery .
• Lead key project meetings and working groups to understand workflows, processes, procedures, business needs, storyboards and create the required user stories. Build a common understanding across a diverse stakeholder group of how the project can be delivered within an Agile framework.
• Worked closely with the Project sponsor to manage Senior Stakeholder engagement and expectations (typically MD & Dir level business heads). Maintained accurate and up-to-date status reporting practices, providing visibility on status against milestones, with transparency of risks, issues and dependencies. Managed conflict resolution in a rapidly-changing, high-pressure environment. Managed direct reports and third party resources. Acted as the ‘honest broker’ in resolving conflict, navigating barriers and political sensitivities. Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects. Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
• Identify and manage interdependencies between applications, platforms, services, and environments. Ensure smooth communication within the project team and other cross-functional teams. Interface with external stakeholders and manage stakeholder expectations as needed.

Sr. Project Manager / Business Analyst

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Trading activity, Settled trades, Unsettled trades, Position, Cash details, Cash Balances, Dividend pending, Dividend paid, Profit and Loss, Equity Report, Transaction history, Short Stock Interest, Interest report
• Gathered requirements from Client services and Operations for new suite of Client’s reporting.
• Produced and regularly updated the project and status documentation in a timely manner, including project summary reports, project plans & associated schedules, issue and risk logs, functional specifications, technical design specifications, management status updates/reports, action log.
• Escalated risks and issues as necessary, developing and implementing mitigating actions in partnership with stakeholders.
• Created and maintained the WBS, Schedule, Project Status Document and list of Open Issues across multiple internal and external teams. Held weekly WebEx meetings with all responsible teams to get their respective status and follow up on any open issues.
• Analyzed prior days trading activity and ensured margin requirements / capacities were in order; prepared daily “capacity summary” and reported margin capacities as well as cash forecasting to highlight current days’ buying power and liquidity situation.
• Performed accounting responsibilities such as reconciling cash balances and positions with the fund administrator and prime brokers
• Analyzed and updated counterparty exposure report; engaged in gathering margin, cash, swap line excess, and current assets under management figures.
• Functioned as prime brokerage relationship manager and handled field prime brokerage questions, all prime brokered accounts and field investor inquiries; collaborated with client service representative and sales contacts on interest rates, margin rates, and any other ad hoc inquiries.
• Served as liaison between hedge funds and the firm for both prime brokerage operations support and value added services to simplify hedge fund’s interaction with the firm.
• Supervised all operational aspects of prime brokering a hedge fund; responsible for overseeing house margin requirements, financing in different currencies, trade clearing and settlements in global markets, corporate actions, and accounting.
• Worked with the tax team and corporate action team to plan project WBS, estimates and coordinate project tasks and timelines.
• Managed project plan, getting updates from all project members, recording risks and devising mitigation and contingency plans, Reporting any changes or concerns to senior management.
• Worked closely with Advent (Vendor) and Newedge Infrastructure team to upgrade Geneva.
• Reported status, issues, risks and change requests to relevant stakeholders on a regular basis, including reporting against budget, productivity, capacity, development effectiveness and others as necessary.
• Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platform. Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime.
• Created and maintained the project plan with all phases, Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, QA and Migration.
• Provided overall direction for establishing project requirements, priorities and deadlines, integrated project plans into Program Plans.
• Commission, Exchange Fee and Regulation Fee Schedules, Trade, Position and Balance reconciliation: Euro clear and Bradesco
• Corporate action module design and testing.
• Work closely with Business and Technology groups to understand the relevant Business processes and root of Business needs/concerns from end to end, to design options for appropriately sized solutions to solve the Business needs and to work with all stakeholders to arrive at consensus on these solutions.
• Specification Writer, Implementation Support Resource and Subject Matter Advisor, engaging a diverse set of Business groups (Compliance, Legal, etc.) and Technology groups (onshore and offshore), around the world to deliver solutions for Financial Compliance/Regulatory & client Reporting need.
• Liaise throughout the development of solutions with the Technology and Business teams to ensure that the requirements are clearly understood and that the adjustments that inevitably arise at this level of activity are appropriately managed through the Change Control process.
• Conduct periodic steering committee meetings with executive and senior management to communicate high-level project status, obtain critical decisions and guidance, and ensure continuous organizational commitment.
• Document current and future state business process and information flow maps. Perform root cause analysis to identify current state process inefficiencies.
• Work closely on an ongoing basis with both IT (DBA, QA, System Administration, and BA) and non-IT (Client Support, Product Development) teams.
• Develops and manages all facets of a project planning and execution including, but not limited to: project schedule/milestones, scope and requirements definition, budget, resource requirements, quality management plan, progress reports, and issue management.
• Helped in research and decision making for how to migrate a physical Datacenter
• Created Cost Estimation document comparing possible platforms for migration
• Discussed all the open issues and came up with a contingency and mitigation plan
• Was responsible for full SDLC process including creating and maintaining detailed documentations, schedule, release plan, QA plan and final Sign-off for migrating all the services successfully with minimal amount of downtime for all applications
• Was a single point of contact for the IT team for migration of all applications
• Took ownership and responsibility for the success of projects through planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to IT application development projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished On-time and within budget
• Acted as a Scrum Master and was responsible for holding all Scrum ceremonies for all the projects
• Responsible for developing and maintaining program-wide plans, preparing weekly status reports, and providing updates to senior management and Executive Members in Paris
• Created and executed change requests, development plan, resource management plan, cost analysis across multiple projects and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Responsible for creating Yearly and Quarterly IT budgets, Cost Estimation, Cost Analysis and Resource Allocation for all projects
• Created monthly Management reports and charts for Executive members in Paris, submitted deliverables and monthly invoices to receive payments from corporate office in Paris
• Continuously reviewed the process and tools and proposed improvements to make the SDLC process more efficient
• Managed the QA team closely to ensure the Quality and integrity of sites is always maintained
• Liaise with onshore and offshore teams including R&D team, Business team, Operations team, Marketing team, IT team and QA team; support and train users; documentation; monitor and troubleshoot any issues with deployed models, daily batches, properly documenting and escalating to developers or third party vendors as needed

Environment: Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Oracle 10i, MS project, Visio, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, Toad, FileZilla, FIX

Sr. Project Manager / Product Development

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Trade activity report for Confidential
• Gathering data requirements and design data model for Regulatory Trade extract report
• Data mining and data field derivation as per Confidential and Compliance requirement
• Gathering business requirements on report and further creating test scenarios to make certain that testing results correspond to the business expectations
• Create project plan, test plan and tracked project during various phase of SDLC. Achieved almost all the project milestones during project on time
• Create periodic status reports for end-users, and implementation team, visibility into the progress of the implementation
• Actively participated in JAD sessions from requirements gathering phase through UAT
• Gathering data requirements and design data model for Bluesheet report
• Understood current business processes via interviewing key users in Compliance and IT department
• Prepare formalize product requirements and create BRDs and FRDs
• RFP for data warehouse vendor selection. Lead role in infrastructure/vendor selection and timeline for installations
• Develop and manage detailed Project plans from vendor selection to creating data marts for business
• Planning & scheduling of Teradata hardware and network updates on Confidential infrastructure
• Lead data analysis role & gathering business requirements to prepare ETL document
• Manage data loading from source systems (Mainframe & archive files)
• Testing data loading script and data load to stage EDW tables
• Business analysis on Trade and account data for data enrichment and business requirements
• Data validation, conversion and massaging to load trade activity data into Trade data mart
• Creating Test plan and performing business testing on trade data
• Data warehouse for Trade, Account activities and Security Master (Teradata)
• Bluesheet report upgrade for Confidential . Front-end e-analytics application, embedded in NETX360 for report creation

Environment: FIX, Message Queue, Web Services API’s, MS project, Visio, MS Excel, Teradata SQL assistance, .Net Framework

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirement for “ Confidential ” which support principal vs. agency trade, street side vs. cross
• Functional specification for Orders, Executions and trades
• Business requirements for
• Balancing with the street side trade
• Institutional Trading vs. Retail trading
• Trade repair queue and reference file requirements for security (PROM) and Account (CID) processing
• Templates for Functional Specifications, Use Case, Supplementary Requirements, Test Cases and Weekly QA Quick Metrics, contributed to the development of TPS file input system from trade input source systems
• Process improvement for Intraday vs. End of day trade correction and cancelations
• Interacted with the end-users, core technical and finance personnel to gather business requirements and compiling Functional requirement specifications (FRS) for TCMS
• Generated UML (Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams), Use Cases, Supplementary Specifications as a part of the requirements for Prime View application and the corresponding data format for the various reports within
• Interviewed the Business to Gather, Manage and track requirements
• Developed Traceability Matrices, Interacted with user, Development and QA Teams to ensure overall quality and data validation
• Analyzed and validated the trades and validated the successful generation Reports
• Developed Test objectives, Test Hierarchy, Test cases, Traceability Matrix and scripts, coordinated User Acceptance Testing, Collaborated with Developers as needed to isolate root use of defects and analysis and maintained defects
• Documented the results of each test, and provide error reports and correction requests to the appropriate developer

Environment: MQ IBM-Mainframe, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Visio, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, TSO, FIX

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Simultaneously planned and directed the project and assisted other project managers in working with the client representatives
• Coordinated with Tech team, Database team, QA team, Production team and Product manger
• Coordinated with all Stakeholders including Business, IT Director, Marketing managers and designers to rollout applications
• Created Project plan, Test plan and Tracked project status, open issues and bugs during various phase of SDLC achieving various milestones during project on time
• Provided regularly status report to Business owners, senior managers, and IT director
• Understood current business processes via interviewing key users and IT department
• Studied and understood an existing home grown application as source of input / validations
• Evaluated and Mapped current business scenarios with existing application

Environment: Java, WebSphere3.5.3, JSP, JavaScript, XML/XSL, SQL Server, MS Access