SUMMARY:

• Results oriented IT professional with multiple years of specialization in software design, development, implementation and support using multi - tier client server architecture and Object-Oriented methodology in building and integrating complex financial systems while collaborating with teams globally
• Expertise in Java (Server & Client side Full stack), SQL, Confidential , Murex, Swift formats, FIX protocol related technologies with acquired business domain knowledge
• Developed Solutions for various business domains like Collateral Management, Fixed Income products, including Emerging markets, Equity Options trading flow, stock trading flow, Derivatives trading. Program/Basket/Algorithm Trading and other Real Time Trading Systems (FX Options & IR Derivatives OTC)
• Sound understanding and hands-on skill on Capitals Market products like Confidential and Murex and in-house systems
• Very good in gathering and understanding requirements, coding, design, development, testing and performance tuning of system modules and experience with Agile process
• Hands-on expertise in analysis and designing of Confidential -Interfaces, regulatory reports, system migration, gap-analysis and data mapping and various modules settlements, accounting, collateral etc.
• Experience in working with multinational clients and partners in both onsite-offshore models and vendor management projects
• Motivated team player with excellent interpersonal skills, professional communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Scripts: Core Java, Swing, C Sharp, C++, C, UNIX Shell Programming, SQL, MQ, JavaScript, XML

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server

Trading tools: Confidential, Murex, Acadia margin sphere, In-house trading applications

Other: Various IDEs like Eclipse, source control systems (Maven/TFS/Starteam), Scheduling systems like Autosys/TWS etc and various tools including performance tools/HP QC/JIRA/GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Senior Technology Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully developed enhancements and Implemented many Confidential projects using various derivatives and technology platforms using Agile methodologies
• Implemented highly complex Collateral Confidential Platform (Java based) for new highly customized Collateral Management System. Designed and developed the new Settlement interface including Custom cash payments and SWIFT payments involving flow design and daily message management with swift network (FundTech) and Custodian (JPM) for this new initiative. Also designed and developed Cash forecast reporting for internal Treasury workstation group. Extensively worked with various Confidential configurations including workflows, sd- filter, SDI, scheduled tasks, message setup, Confidential technical environment setup, Confidential upgrades, performance tuning the Confidential servers and Acadia upgrade with collateral module (including back office) upgrade, custom code development and performance tuning of system to name a few.
• Design development of solutions with ALGO Collateral, a workflow based Collateral management platform at Confidential for various projects integrating with other Derivatives systems for Market data, Inventory, accounting, reporting and various inbound outbound feeds, integration with TriOptima for exposure feeds and Clearing. Preparing an implementation plan to comply with government regulations such as Dodd-Frank & EMIR, and developing the solution for compliance with the regulations. Gathering feedback and providing timely business solutions by working closely with various business groups Collateral management group, Settlement group and Accounting groups and various IT Counterparts(onshore and offshore) in close collaboration. Collateral Optimization, covering OTC, Cleared and Listed Derivatives LOBs. The Dodd-Frank Collateral Project aims to provide an enterprise solution to manage collateral on a global basis, across asset classes and business silos.
• Successfully developed and maintained Derivatives Trade Order Management System (DTOMS) a highly complex global workflow driven application built on Murex workflows providing notifications to Portfolio Managers and Authorized Hedge Approvers. DTOMS controls all Confidential ’s derivatives single-approval (SA) and Program-Approval (PA) orders and it supports unwind-and-roll market-operations.

Environment: Murex/ Java/Oracle/SQL server/Acadia margin sphere/Algo-Collateral/TFS/XML/SSL/Agile

Confidential, NY

Senior Programmer/AVP

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced existing Fixed Income Swaps Trade-Capture system for Emerging markets. Mainly performing the gap analysis, design, development and implementation for various components involved.
• Designed and developed to add new functionality, flows on an existing front desk trading application DDM and enhanced various swap tickets GUI in the DDM Client and subsequent workflow changes in TCW workflow.
• Designed and developed better pricing mechanism for tickets via configurable pricing engine.
• Developed much needed feature like fees in non trade currencies for various swap products
• Implemented clearing flows (to ensure compliance with government regulations such as Dodd-Frank initiative) for Emerging markets for various currencies. Involved design and development in various components i.e. markit-wire application, tcw workflow, ddm client, chameleon.
• Interacting with Traders/operations/other-teams/offshore, gathering requirements, planning and fixing/design/developing/testing/refactoring code for functionality as needed and production support.
• Was involved in hiring process, training, coaching, and mentoring new people, cross-team training and peer code review process also.
• Worked with QA team to help test scenarios for the new changes. Coordinated production release with release-mgt team. Actively supported with Production and QA issues

Environment: Java, Swing, Spring framework, Xml, Solace, Soap, Eclipse

Confidential, NJ

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed frontend GUI using Swing for Equities Monitoring Tool for monitoring trades and booking for various trading flows. This GUI helps monitor the process health of the monitored applications.
• Worked mainly on Equity (stocks and options) trading flow on a front desk application called DOME (Derivative Order Management Engine).
• Designed and developed enhancements to the existing app to add new functionality, flows and SEC regulatory bindings. Implemented flows in DOME for different trading desks i.e. Derivative Retail desk, Derivative Sales desk, Institutional Traders desk on Confidential ’s trading floor.
• Developed many modules like order entry screen, Manual Allocation and clearance GUI, Rule based Sweep functionality, Incoming Order flow, History data lookup, Market data screen mgt., Executions flow, Account configurations, ticker-account configurations and other configurations, preferences and reports to enable user to administrate his settings for faster order management, to name a few.
• Worked on Autosys scheduling of the processes and wrote UNIX scripts for various processes.
• Worked on Security app maintaining entitlements for the apps in Equity group.
• Interacted with Traders/other teams/offshore, gathering requirements and discussing with our team and fixing/design/developing/testing/refactoring code for functionality as needed and for better performance.
• Worked with QA team to help test scenarios for the new changes. Helped even creating the scripts to makes sure the quality

Environment: Java, Sybase, Swing, C++, JBuilder, Eclipse, SQL, Aqua Studio, Shell scripts, Spring Framework, Autosys, FIX.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with FIX in developing the system which is Fix Compliant, Broker Neutral, Smart Order Routing system using Automated Market Making and Wave based Basket Trading of Global Equities, Futures, Options, FX and more.
• Designed & developed modules of Program Trading System talking to FIX Engines.
• Wrote Program Trading Algorithms for implementing the trading practices and formulae of the client. Algorithms: Top Level, Menu Driven, Destination, Startup etc.
• Wrote various Simulators (for simulating sell side behavior) and Translators and Fixlators (between system and fix engines) for the system.
• Developed and enhanced the system GUI using Swing and wrote Report generation tools using JDBC and prepared statements.
• Developed an Automated-Suite tool for FIX-Certification of the trading system against different FIX Engines based on FIX specifications. Developed Test scripts for automated testing of features system using Java reflection technology.
• Evaluated different Fix-Engines (i.e. Javelin & Cameron) for various comparisons on performance, stability, FIX support, robustness etc.
• Developed the build scripts for the system. Developed tools to verify compilation of the build files and to recursively pickup and compile files if any left out and then check up jars to confirm the same and notify otherwise.
• Used Lotus Notes for central resource & email facility.

Environment: Java, Oracle, Swing, JDBC,C++, JBuilder, VNC, JUnit, JBoss, visual source safe, Lotus Notes, WebEx, Shell scripts, Eclipse, SQL, Aqua Studio, Shell scripts, Spring Framework, Autosys, FIX

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed new enhancement features for the Currency Options products of ICOR, which is an Electronic Brokering system for trading FX Options & Interest Rate Derivatives worldwide.
• Responsibilities involved extensive coding, development & testing of new features using Swing & Smart sockets. Development of the Trading client GUI and server side, Trading server modules, Credit client and server modules. Bug fixing the existing code (both server and client side) & Testing.
• Design and development of cold and hot backup Fail-Over mechanism for the ICor Application, using the Talarian API for smart sockets and Java. Involved RT Server Cloud design and design.
• Was involved in Design, coding and testing of the new product Swaps based on the code base of FX.
• Wrote shell scripts/NT batch scripts for server maintenance group.
• Implemented Digital Certs and SSL between clients and server.
• Designed and developed the Load Simulating Tool to generate automated load for FX and Interest Rate Derivatives to gather performance metrics and useful graphs.
• Used Third party tools like Numega, OptimizeIt for profiling the both the Trading Systems.
• Used our client over Confidential environment for GUI load sharing. And compared the response time differences of our regular Java client on NT Server and the one Confidential environment using WinRunner

Environment: Java, JDK, Oracle 9i, Swing, JDBC, Smart Sockets (Middle Layer) & Smart MQ with C++ & Java, Open-SSL, Visual Café, Exceed, OptimizeIt, Cygwin, JUnit, Numega, Log4j.