SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of project management and Business analysis experience in scientific and financial software applications:
• Solid experience in SDLC and worked in Waterfall and Agile development environment.
• Extensively worked on Atlassian Jira - Certified Scrum Master by ScrumAlliance.
• Managed projects from requirements gathering to software rollout for various market data products and changes.
• Excellent in Project planning, kick-off meeting, weekly status meeting, requirement analysis, roadblocks and release rollout meetings.
• Managed various projects in financial data industry.
• Developed Quality, Scope, Schedule and Risk management plan during project life cycle.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Build and maintain the healthy relationship with vendors/clients and other department involving in projects.
• Acted as a Project Owner and represented as the voice & vision of the customer.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Sets up and manage support functions covering planning, tracking, reporting, quality management and internal communication.
• Extremely organized and capable of handling multitasks ensuring all the tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Excellent knowledge of handling big data warehouse, data analysis and verification.
• Worked in reference data, historical data, real-time data level 1 & 2, end of day data, valuation data and regulatory data.
• Excellent hands on in Confidential & Reuters applications.
• Solid understanding of Market data feed, exchange data content and messages.
• Excellent knowledge ofEquity, Derivatives,Fixed Income and various market data products.
• Fluent working in bothUNIXandWindowsenvironments.
• Thorough understanding of change and release management for software deployment and environment changes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Data Feeds: Elektron, TREP, RMDS, Bpipe

Databases: Sybase, SQL Server, PL/SQL

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, HTML

Protocols: FIX 4.2 Protocols, FTP, SSH, TELNET, HTTP

Incident Management Team: Track, Jira

Project Management Tools: MS Project, MSOffice, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Waterfall, Agile techs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project which entails the implementation and processing of exchange real-time pricing data.
• Managed and implemented the security status business logic to represent the current state of tradable security.
• Managed b-pipe and sapi real-time subscription fields and data distribution.
• Involved in project planning, requirement analysis, quality testing, release management and release rollout.
• Initiated the kickoff meeting with stakeholders to communicate the project timelines and descriptions.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning.
• Extensively used Jira for Sprint and task management.
• Developed and maintained Stakeholder register.
• Worked closely with Product Owners and coordinate product backlog
• Conducted system UAT and created Quality management plan.
• Define scope and developed work breakdown structure.
• Developed a detailed project plan and created a clear project schedule.
• Managed the project on SharePoint site and Confidential internal tools.
• Managing the feed related project from initiation requirement level to completion involving various stakeholders.
• Scheduled weekly team meetings with stakeholders for status updates.
• Worked on project and business documentation.
• Schedule release meeting to rollout software and changes. Coordinate releases of all stakeholders to fulfill dependency.
• Worked on Equity, Derivatives,and Fixed Income products.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirement, design, development, release and QA/troubleshooting.
• Worked on various market data level 1 and level 2 exchange feeds.
• Support development teams to ensure successfully execution of requirements and project delivery.
• Good knowledge of Exchange Datafeeds provided by the Equity markets (NYSE, NASDAQ, BATS, CME, TMX Canada, Alpha, Bovespa, BMF and other global exchanges) and the technologies
• Solid understanding of Confidential B-pipe API, SAPI and DAPI applications.
• Used various Confidential terminal functions and tools to analyze, test and verify the data and unit testing of code.
• Responsible for tracking of trouble tickets and resolution of escalated incidents.

Environment: Linux/UNIX, Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, XML, Jira, GitHub, Confidential, Bpipe, Windows 7, PL/SQL, Onetick, MS Office, Confidential Excel Add-in, MS Project, MS Office

Confidential, New York

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the data warehouse of market time-series in tick data platform
• Create a detailed project plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews and release planning.
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Providing status reports to the business stakeholders.
• Review weekly progress reports of Team members.
• Proposed and implemented various process improvements methods.
• Developed and maintained Stakeholder register.
• Conducted system UAT and created Quality management plan.
• Define scope and developed work breakdown structure
• Developed a detailed project plan and created a clear project schedule.
• Delegate the workload effectively within the team and monitor its progress towards completion.
• Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality.
• Manage review of test specs and ensure proper validation of subsequent test results.
• Developed Risk Management plan, Identified risks and plan to mitigate risks.
• Managed data subscription from vendor data, exchange data and EOD data from various sources.
• Worked on subscription of Reuters RMDS RFA and Confidential bpipe data feeds.
• Managed the project from subscription, mapping, collection, normalization and loading of data including various stakeholders.
• Involved in functional and technical design reviews.
• Involved in data quality management, quality analysis and issues, backload, verification and validation of data.
• Managed collection, subscription and publish of historical and live market data feeds NYSE TAQ, TAQ NBBO, CME, RMDS Reuters, ICAP, Tradeweb, EBS BrokerTec & Confidential .
• Worked on capacity performance and management, build tools to monitor infrastructure usage for capacity, analyze and follow ups for capacity and performance alerts, hardware expansion.
• Worked on change and release management for software deployment and environment changes.

Environment: Linux/UNIX, Shell Scripting, PERL, AWK, Jira, SVN, Windows 7, Sybase, PL/SQL, Onetick, MS Office, Putty, Tectia SSH Client, Cloakware, FIX 4.2, ITSM, SSH and FTP, ServiceNow

Confidential, New York

Business Analyst/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Working on and good understanding of various exchange market data level 1 and level 2 feeds.
• Write BRDs and execute test scripts for domestic and global exchanges.
• Wrote detailed test scripts across multiple testing cycles and environments.
• Organized Defect management on teamtrack and client issues on Jira.
• Involved in researching and modeling financial markets data and their events.
• Coordinated collection of business needs. Converted high level requirements to functional requirements and documented them in functional, navigational and page Use Cases.
• Prepared Functional Requirements documents.
• Participate in requirements elicitation session and review requirements to ensure they are clear, concise and testable.
• Excellent knowledge ofEquity, Derivatives,Fixed Income, andAUTEX IOI/AT products.
• Review requirement and software specification documents. Identify conflicts, errors in the documentation and provide feedback to business analysts.
• Writing Linux PERL, AWK and C-shell Scripts to automate regression testing and to test/verify functionality.
• Create and maintained test case repository in HP Quality Center 11.
• Writing PL/SQL for extracting and analyzing data from history database.
• Using TeamTrack and Jira for Defect Management and tracking.
• Create test scenarios and ensure the test coverage completeness and find any gaps.
• Hands on in Confidential desktop platform; Thomson One, Reuters3000 Xtra Elektron and Eikon workstation.
• Provide direction to team members and interface with projects team members outside team.
• Involve in Test Case Design, Test planning, Test Tool usage and Test execution.
• Manage build notifications and assist environment support team in deploying the applications into QA, verified production deployment accuracy and participated in production environment testing.
• Writing, maintaining and updating test documentation for various stages and phases of testing.

Environment: Linux, Shell Scripting, PERL, Teamtrack, Windows 7, HP Quality Center 11, PL/SQL, ThomsonOne, Eikon, Reuters3000 Xtra, WireShark, MS Office 2003/2010, Putty, SecureCrt, QTP 11, VBScript, Elektron, Eikon

Confidential

Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Coding unit testing and bug fixes for various features of software.
• Worked on textual phonetically speech database designs.
• Involved in functional and technical design reviews.
• Involved in speech data collection
• Developed, trained and test the speech recognition system.
• Used PERL, C and Shell scripts and HMM Toolkit.

Environment: Linux 9.0, C, ‘C’ Shell Script, PERL, HTK Hidden Markov Model Toolkit