SUMMARY:

• Successful evangelist with extensive background in the hands - on leadership and delivery of technology-enabled initiatives.
• Extensive experience in rolling out of strategic initiatives, managing IT operations and executing turnaround programs.
• Self-motivated visionary with the ability to add significant value through rapid formulation and execution of business strategy, jumpstarting global practices, translation of IT strategy into implementation plans, assembling and managing teams with diverse skill sets, driving global transformations and delivering results under highly challenging business situations, both as a leader and team player.
• Experienced Sr. Project Manager and Lead Technical Architect. Being an amalgamation of Business(SME), Finance, Technologies and Strategies, I provide value-add to FO, MO and BO across asset classes.
• Certified PMP working with top tier Investment Banks - defining requirements; modeling solutions using key technologies (J2EE, EAI, Finance Models, columnar DBs, SOA, latency, Hadoop, UML, RUP, messaging, ERP, CEP etc).
• Strong experience working with traders, quants on the front office and with middle office in trade lifecycle and risk management. Assisted traders in pricing, valuation and risk and quants in models application as I have a Financial Engineering background.
• Led teams and worked across continents-US, Europe, Singapore, Switzerland, Spain, UK, India.
• Have been a regular speaker at industry conferences on Hadoop, HFT, latency monitoring, trading systems, cloud computing, building a single multi-asset class trading strategy etc.
• Key business areas: Trade systems, risk management /models, derivatives, Front Office/ Middle Office/ Back Office, fixed income, FX, equities, credit derivatives, commodities, OMS, EMS, valuation and pricing, high frequency systems, master data management, rule based engines, grid computing, offshore management, managing global deliveries.
• Strong background in definition, execution and management of all aspects of software development(SDLC) - project management, requirements definition, business and system modeling, design, application development, change control, testing, training and configuration management.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Strategy planning and execution, Executive team leadership, Regulatory compliance, Quality assurance, New program execution strategy, Captive and offshore CoEs, Service area competency centers(SACC), Best practices, Process improvement, Change management, SLA and contract negotiations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

Data collection and Storage, Analytics and Financial Software: Hadoop and components like hive, HBase, Oozie, PIG, zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, Hue, MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks Pivotal etc.

Search: Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene,Realtime Hadoop - Storm with Trident, Spark Streaming

Security: Voltage, Protegrity, Vormetric, Gazzang

ETL: Talend, Syncsort

Monitoring: Nagios, Ganglia

Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2, Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop Cluster

Analytics: time series, Random forests, SVM, K-clustering, Mahout, Machine Learning, Text Analytics, NLP, semantics, ontology, Lexalytics, Provalis etc.

Financial Software: Front Arena, TSA(Trading Solutions Architecture), OMS, EMS, DMA, Algorithmic trading, HFT and CEP-Coral 8, Apama, tick data-Vhayu, FinCad, Fidessa, Pat Systems, Models for Fixed income, rates, forex, equities and derivatives

Columnar Databases and visualization tools: Vertica, Greenplum, MongoDB, Cassandra, kdB, R, Revolution R, tableau, Pentaho, Bigvis, Acunu, Platfora, SAS, Oracle, Sybase, Access, SQL, MySQL, eSQL

Messaging: Tibco, MQ Series, Webmethods, SeeBeyond, JMS, Kafka.

Market Data: Reuters, Bloomberg, Telekurs, Markit etc.

Architecture /services: TOGAF, Zachman, EA, SOA, CostXpert, SCA, grid computing, SaaS, Cloud computing

Application servers: Websphere, Weblogic, Jetty, Apache, Eclipse, JWS, iPlanet, JBoss, NetBeans

Development: C++, J2EE, JSON, C, C#, Servlets, Struts, Swing, hibernate, LDAP, Corba, .NET

OS: Unix, Linux, Windows

Business Modeling: Provision, ARIS, Bwise, Fuego, Rational, RUP, RSA, UML, TogetherSoft, Requisite Pro

Languages: K, R, Java, C++, VB, XML, C#, UML, C, SQL, WML, MatLab

Process modeling: UML, BPM, Rational Rose, Rational Suite, Visio, TogetherJ, RSA, RSM

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, RUP, CMMi, Waterfall, OOM, SOA, SDLC, UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Manager and Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• The Commerce Model is designed to implement a common trade and asset representation across all asset classes and functions. It includes end-to-end trade capture through risk management to the subledger as a “Single Source of Truth”.
• Captured the trade life cycles, assets, positions and reference data. The system developed provides a golden source for trades, assets, valuation and risk inputs, valuation and risk outputs, trade capture, confirmation, enrichment, booking and allocation, asset specific product architecture, obligation and payoffs including payment schedule, settlements and Finance-PnL, subledger.
• Lead the requirements gathering, business flow, system and design modeling for conceptual, logical and physical model design.
• Designed the functional architecture, data strategy using columnar database - a bitemporal versioned database. Revamped the Enterprise Reference Data as CRD, SRD and ERD.
• Spearhead the development of Pioneer Prime message bus for front to back, risk consolidation and DSL system using Google protocol buffers and Object API and wire API.
• Build the Olympus database-set of Optimus and Athena DB to support FO and MO trading, analytics and reporting.
• Orchestrated GRAIN for risk consolidation.
• Managed the requirements, architecture and design of RICE pricing and valuation engine for different asset classes and federal regulation.
• Leading the SDLC and PLC implementation initiatives for all ISGT and CTS programs-a global MS rollout.
• Tasked with implementing standards, procedures and associated toolsets for project management, process and reporting (PMPR)-a firmwide initiative to standardize all project management processes and practices.
• Work as programs coordinator for COO on projects implementation, budgets, program statuses, project health, and turning around amber and red projects.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager and Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of global technology experts in planning, requirements, development, deployment, operations and support.
• Lead project management, business analysis, design, development, SIT and UAT testing teams from three offshore vendors.
• Work with the product team, operations, OBT, CAS and integration teams leading the engagement.
• Lead the business requirements for ver. 4.2 creating UML diagrams and use cases including sequence, class diagrams and logical and analysis models.
• Revamped the architecture and design for account opening, workflow, account management, administration, client association, and Premier and Standard modules and integration with OBT, CAS.
• Carried out design and code reviews. Work with the UI team and weblogic team to reduce the delay in generating reports and ensure proper messaging.
• Development of IT governance model, metrics, project controls, compliance to processes/procedures.
• Responsible for program assessment, recommendations, suggestions, areas of improvement, audit and assurance. Define IT financial metrics, budget analysis and service delivery functions. Lead business processes and technology transformation. Define GODEM, maturity road map and risk mitigation strategy and change management processes.
• Deliver strategies for operations, project deliverables, milestones, recruitment, scope, best practices, maturity roadmap managing business expectations and responsibilities.

Confidential

Technical Architect /Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led global and offshore teams for Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office across asset classes.
• Assisting clients for integration with middle office and back office systems, message confirmations and payment configuration, collateral management.
• Led the revamp of GDS(Global Derivatives System) and PnL module including risk analysis.
• Led the development of DeltaTrader - the front to back office derivatives system.
• Built the integration framework for market data feeds, order management systems, middleware technologies, and databases. Built input adapters for event updates and multiple event processing.
• Supported arbitrarily-complex computation to process large volumes of messages at high incoming message rates exhibiting very low processing latency (from milliseconds to seconds).
• Developed trading platform infrastructure connecting multiple sites, exchanges, ECNs and liquidity providers.
• Defined the project deadlines, WBS, project plans for multiple and interactive projects.
• Co-developed a global expansion strategy for the Confidential with detailed revenue models, capital investment projections.
• Spearhead teams for bespoke software development, messaging requirements, interfaces and vendor solutions.
• Equity derivatives: Real time risk management
• Envisioned the concept, managed the development and implementation. Led the strategy, vision, analysis and implementation of FX hedging with FI. This was highly beneficial on Jan 17, 2011 when Tsunami and earthquake struck Japan.
• Our hedging strategy was used very effectively for prop and clients.
• Global Equities new products: low latency, high frequency and volatility arbitrage for the business.
• FI: Developed a new CDS system for BDS, CDOs-calculation of hazard rates and survival probabilities.
• Reconciliation: across asset classes for middle office for market and credit risk. e-trading suite: Built an SDP as e-trading suite to integrate pricing, liquidity, risk, permissions and pre-sales and multi-bank connectivity.
• Led the strategy and development of an OMS involving aggregator, smart order routing engine for aggressive alpha seeking strategy.
• Automated real-time STP, risk management, automated hedging, pricing engines and order flow products for FX.
• Led implementation of different algo strategies, algo optimization, market data feed handlers, analytic engines, execution engines, ticker data capture, order management, risk management and post-trade downstream feeds.
• Implemented algorithms, data structures, system design, threading implications, and strategies for optimizing performance-sensitive code.
• Successfully drive the planning, architecture, deployment and management of several mission critical applications.
• Participate in executive steering and operating committees for overall governance/compliance. Perform project reviews with internal audit and project review committees.
• Ensuring quality of work through QA and code review process

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Outstanding relationship builder, managed business expectations and gained the trust and respect of managing directors, strategic partners.
• Maintain quality standards, best business practices, lead high-impact change initiatives.
• Responsible for the specification and implementation of trading, risk management and real-time market data systems.
• Worked on the life-cycle of complex derivative transactions. Build the BIG-Reference Data Model.
• Managed business expectations, budgets, process analyses, HR issues and release management.
• Serve as the key tactical leader building the technology roadmap and ensuring global and local implementations of programs.
• Study the DMA and front office algorithmic trading systems and implement low latency trading strategies.
• Define event-based rules and patterns including back-testing.
• Spearheaded project management including risk management and contingency planning, dashboards, pricing, resource management, managing offshore teams and vendors, proposals, client management, brainstorming sessions, IT governance and compliance, best practices and guidelines, meeting targets.
• Position involved designing and re-engineering equities derivatives business processes to ensure optimal process between equities, futures and options desks and their cross-dependent streams.
• Create new methodologies, reusable components and blueprints, best practices and delivery alliances for specific deliveries.
• Equity derivatives: Order Management, OMS and EMS using CEP, exotics, limits, collateral, margins.
• Pricing and matching engine, blotter
• Led team for generation of curves, reconciles positions, trade valuation and pricing and calculating P&L, CDS.
• IRS AND CDS: Responsible for functional design and data migration of IRS and CDS. Led the implementation of ABS and MBS systems.
• Design and implementation of market data feed handlers.
• Design and implementation of APIs for tick data access and retrieval.
• Integrated in-trading functions, analysis, risk, compliance and reporting to provide better STP platform.

Confidential

Project Manager and Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Built the future state trading system-functional and architecture for Confidential . This combined Equity and Fixed Income Systems along with risk management and trade execution, trade capture and settlement including OBS transactions.
• Worked with traders, quants and developers, GFRM for model analysis, valuation and pricing acting as SME. Led the implementation of front office systems for CDS and ABS. Worked with traders for defining workflows. Implemented correlation models, various pricing models using Ho-Lee, Hull-White and Monte-Carlo simulations.
• Led strategic business planning, vendor management, negotiating strategic deals, building executive relationships, planning and budgeting to support the business, delivery and program management.
• Responsibilities included development and implementation of real-time risk and pricing models, maintenance and development of analytical calculation framework.
• Ensuring trade booking, client received confirmation, pre-settlement & settlement. Responsible for regulatory reporting.
• Automated STP, real-time risk management, automated hedging, pricing engines and order flow products.
• Collaborate with teams in the US, Europe and Asia to maintain a global offering consistent with regional business requirements and standards.
• Carried out due diligence for derivatives implementation, pricing and risk analysis systems.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Work at different levels for a mutual fund, hedge fund and a reputed investment bank.
• Built the Trade/Product Lifecycle system for trade capture, pricing, booking and structuring.
• Transform the operations of a major bank, leading a team of 70+ employees and client resources across organizational change, business process reengineering and technology delivery.
• Responsible for the specification and implementation of large trading, risk management and real-time market data systems and trading simulations, automation of various strategies.
• Automated real-time order flow execution network. Implement best execution, facilitation for derivatives.