SUMMARY

• Confidential is seasoned professional with 17 years of experience IT and business side of Financial Industry working as Program Manager, Senior Project Manager and Business Analyst.
• Currently managing portfolio of projects serving business users in Regulatory, Product Control, Financial Control and Compliance.
• He has a proven track record of managing Mid/Large scale projects $1 to $5M, leading 30+ member teams involving PM’s, BA’s and Developers, performing extensive risk analysis, improving operational processes and delivering on - schedule within budget. He has a strong work ethic, ‘hands-on’ mentality, high energy, excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with executive management.
• Manage portfolio of projects under SVP Americas Head of Finance and Regulatory IT
• Experience working on projects in Risk Management, Credit/Market Risk, Fixed Income Sales & Trading, Wealth Management, Dodd-Frank, CCAR and Basel Compliance initiatives
• Manage applications to calculate Risk Weighted Asset (RWAs) for Counterparty Credit Risk involving CVA (Credit Valuation Adjustment), daily PFE (Potential Future Exposure), CCE (Current Credit Exposure)
• Experience with Dodd-Frank Title VII, Swaps Dealer/MSP Registration, Central Clearing, Reporting, Business Conduct, Trading of vanilla IRS/CDS, mandatory clearing on SEF/DCM, Margin and Capital requirements
• Experience in managing Risk Register, Cost-Benefit analysis, Resource allocation, Budgeting, Issue Tracking, ROI, Vendor selection, Third Party Oversight and using tools like MS Project Server, JIRA, SharePoint
• Involved in managing third party vendors, creating RFP/RFQ, vendor selection and vendor tool analysis
• Extensive experience managing stakeholders, analyzing their communication needs, monitoring project progress as per baseline, creating performance reports like Progress, Status, Trend and Variance reports
• Experience working in Agile/SCRUM, DevOps, Waterfall and Hybrid Methodologies
• Strong experience creating BRD/FRD/SRS documents, Use Cases,
• Proficient in using tools like PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, Word, JiRA
• Managed and built global cross functional teams and built lasting relationships with stakeholders

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Management: Visio, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, JiRA, RTC

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2 z/OS (Mainframe) SQL Developer, Rapid SQL, Toad, DBArtisan, SQuirrel SQL

BI/Reporting: QlikView, SAP BusinessObjects XI R2, IBM Cognos 8, Crystal Reports 9/10

Workload Automation: Control-M Job Scheduler

J2EE App Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, iBOSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Governance, Oversight, Execution and Reporting on Key Regulatory initiatives
• Build Enterprise wide IT solutions in Regulatory, Credit Risk and Capital Management
• Successfully delivered multi-year program to Integrate with Moody’s Analytics framework for calculating RWA on derivatives trading, saving 20% cost to business by demising legacy applications
• Built Financial Regulatory Data Mart to host Derivatives data from Primary Trading Systems, process business logic for Closeout Agreement (CSA), Nettings, Collateral, Risk Metrics and Security Ratings
• Manage portfolio of major projects in Application Development, Trade Platform Migration, Infrastructure, IT Upgrades, Security and Reconciliations
• Manage projects for US CCAR Stress Testing, SACCR, and DFAST using QlikView for Reporting
• Produce monthly reports for various Governance Forums, Steering committees and Senior Management
• Manage team of PM’s, BA’s, Developers and Testers in US, Canada, India and Hong Kong
• Lead implementation of Basel II/III rules for RWA Reporting, CCAR and DFAST
• Work closely with Development Managers, Delivery Leads, Data Architects, PM’s on project details
• Involve Management and Key Stakeholders on existing Governance Model, Communication Model, distribute relevant Spreadsheets, PowerPoint decks and Project Plans
• Track Program financials, budget changes, monitor monthly actuals, forecast updates, vendor invoices for accuracy and burndowns
• Involved in IT Security, Internal Audits, SOX Compliance, Data Security and Quality Control
• Facilitate licensing with vendors like Bloomberg, Reuters providing key Ratings and Reference data
• Regularly review with Senior Management and Key Stakeholders on Portfolio/Project health, issues/risks identification and remediation
• Generate monthly accomplishments report and share with Project Sponsors and Senior Management

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered on Confidential group wide initiative to migrate back office accounting of Equity Derivatives from Global Calypso platform to SPARC
• Built Trading Book Workflow and Hierarchy Management application. CAMS - Central Account Management System
• Delivered projects critical to US Federal Reserve and UK’s PRA (Prudential Regulation Authority)
• Lead various projects delivering trading data for FDIC, FRY8, FRY14, Corep/CorB3
• Managed program SharePoint site and tracked all project management lifecycle documents
• Created Project Plans, communicate Test Plan, documented Test Scripts and coordinated Testing
• Determine project approach, resource requirement, team roles & responsibilities and overall schedule
• Involved in creating ToR (Terms of Reference), Scope, Schedule and Risk Management Plans

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed work stream of various projects automating reconciliation of post-trade derivatives data sent to Credit Risk, Market Risk and various sub-Ledgers as per Basel requirements
• Created summary Decks and Excel/PDF Reports on Trade Pop, MTM, Break Analysis for management and CCRSC user group (Counterparty Credit Risk Strategy & Control)
• Worked on resource allocation, moving developers and resources between projects as necessary
• Created BRD and for automating validation/recon process, defined business rules to filter complex cash flow data for Interest Rate Swaps based on Notional, Accrual and Payment dates
• Developed timelines and Project Plans using MS Project, created detailed schedules, identified critical path and worked on schedule compression
• Created cost estimates, monitored budgets and burn rates to ensure adequate availability of funding
• Identified, prioritized and categorized project Risks (internal, external or technical), created strategy to Avoid, Mitigate or Transfer risks and allocated budget for Residual risks
• Involved in Resource planning, Issue tracking, coordinating with offshore teams and running weekly management meetings
• Defined Use cases & scenarios, prepared test cases, expected results, performed manual testing, compared output against expected results, raised defects using JIRA issue tracker
• Coordinated & supported user acceptance testing, develop & managed the UAT run book, coordinated daily UAT calls, provided regular status/progress updates and managed change requests

Confidential

Senior Technical PM

Responsibilities:

• Managed one of many Workstreams of Dodd-Frank program and analyze IT Systems/Application changes required related to clearing and reporting
• Analyzed changes to existing system to onboard Rates and Credit products (Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions, Bond Options, CDS) for which the confirmation is not electronic as per new Dodd-Frank reporting requirements
• Analyzed major Dodd-Frank requirements like Registration, Central Clearing, trades mandated on Swaps Execution Facilities/DCM and Reporting requirements
• Implemented a web-based application to handle government securities and related products intended for use by the Fixed Income Sales desk and Sales Support staff
• Worked on web-based order management and trade execution system to effectively manage derivatives trading activity, pre-trade aggregation and post-trade allocation, Bulk trade execution
• Built Portfolio Risk Management application assisting IA's to perform portfolio simulation by replacing securities with certain asset classes, assessing risk for client family of portfolios
• Understanding of portfolio management in multicurrency securities, Equities, Fixed Income, portfolio accounting, Lifecycle of a trade, Lifecycle of an account, Security setup, Account setup
• Gathered requirements, created use cases for running simulations, rebalancing portfolios, calculating VaR, Beta, Yield, Sharpe Ratio, replacing equities with alternate products from various asset classes

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and directed report conversion efforts of 7 to 8 applications groups, devising strategies to handle unique challenges specific to application
• Supervised complete integration of Cognos SDK code, opened cases with vendor support to fix issues with session management and handling high concurrent connections
• Managed changes to baseline requirements for dashboards from the Strategy group through proper change control process
• Partnered with enterprise data core team in analyzing data quality from various feeds
• Presented features of BI tools like slicing and dicing of data, possibly beneficial to power users of strategy group for performing their analysis
• Worked with enterprise architect and senior technical leads on devising strategy on reducing Load on Enterprise servers exploring data caching techniques
• Provided technical expertise in configuring Cognos infrastructure components like Content Managers

Confidential

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed application interfaces using data extracted from underlying core system responsible for performing detailed premium calculations based on actuarial models
• Assisting in identifying shared components and business views used across applications
• Created High level business requirements, conducted JAD sessions and created wireframes/prototypes
• Involved in data mapping, identifying business requirements and translating to functional requirements
• Analyzed overnight jobs responsible for importing files from various sources like Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 databases
• Brought technical team leads from different group, facilitated brainstorming sessions and created process flows for the conversion effort
• Built new modules on .NET framework, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, Visual Studio using SQL Servers and DB2 as backend

Confidential

Data Analyst/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Setup real-time Replication database for reporting to reduce locking contentions on OLTP
• Designed methodology for extensive Stress Testing, Load Testing using Team Foundation Services - TFS and analysis of results
• Applied concepts of distributed computing by implementing heavy reporting on Windows Application (thick client), reducing hardware, bandwidth and licensing dependencies
• Automated the batch processing, overnight job scheduling of large reports by creating Windows services components invoking multiple documents
• Worked on application data access layer feeding data to various web services and Enterprise Service Bus
• Created T-SQL Stored Procedures (SPs), table and scalar User Defined Functions (UDFs) and Views
• Created DTS packages to import/export data between SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 databases
• Involved in Data Modeling, Database Schema Design on SQL Server by analyzing application’s business/technical requirement and planning for future scalability
• Redesigned database schema to support specific reporting performance requirements

Confidential

Reporting Lead/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created Crystal Reports using Standard, Summary, Listing, Cross & Drill down features
• Created custom reports and de-normalized data feeds from relational databases, aggregated data to consumed by frontend dashboards
• Used application authentication from MS Active Directory, integrated with central domain user accounts for single sign on for multiple applications
• Used Multi Threading to perform background tasks in Win Forms environment to execute overnight processes
• Worked on projects converting classic ASP application using COM components written in VB to Microsoft’s new .NET platform using ASP.NET, VB.NET