PROFILE SUMMARY:

• A result oriented professional with over 20 years (13 years in US) of rich and combined expertise in IT Application Development, Business Intelligence, Cloud Infrastructure, Security and support. Showcased over 8 years of excellence in Financial services sector specially in Private Equity, Investment Banking, Real Estate Fund, Healthcare, & Hedge Fund industry alone in design, customization, implementation, support & management of core business critical applications, infrastructure & security
• Holds the merit of creating, owing and managing an IT budget of approx. $10M USD/year
• Showcased excellence at providing leadership and team building roles for Project Planning, Project Delivery, Process Modeling, Data modeling, Solutions and Scalability Architecture including Requirements & Domain Analysis Achieved using modeling tools and approaches like UML, the Rational approach
• Possess experience in managing the IT staffs, including direct/indirect employees, technical specialists, business analysts and external vendors
• Strong experience in industry standard software development methodologies like, Waterfall, Agile Methodologies, and Scrum.
• An effective communicator & negotiator with strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Extensive experience in various IT Transformation projects in Applications, software development, data centers & infrastructure areas.
• Extensive experience in working with multi - national vendors

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager

Texas, USA

Key Result Areas:

• Showcased excellence in design and development of enterprise business applications and reports using .NET, Java, Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, T-SQL, Hadoop Big Data platform, Java, XML, Java scripts, Web Services, SOA, and HTML.
• Responsible for leading a team of 5 core developers (both Onsite & Offshore) and delivering software components on time to customers
• Assist domain architect in documenting product roadmaps, gather system details for detailed design.
• Serve as a liaison between business units and vendor teams to assist in addressing and resolving technology domain issues. Investigate and resolve application functionality related issues and provide support. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving application/integration issues. Follow-up and close out everyday action items.

Highlights:

• Showcased excellence in E2E implementation of:
• Built a custom e-learning/training platform "Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AMLCFT)" for an investment bank using .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, JavaScript and Microsoft SQL Server database. Custom reports were built using Microsoft SSRS.
• Built a custom trade approval/declaration system "Personal Account Transactions" for an investment bank which is used by their member of staff intending to purchase or sell a security listed on any stock exchange anywhere in the world as part of their regulatory requirement. This application was developed using .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, JavaScript and Microsoft SQL Server database. Custom reports were built using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting tools.
• Automated and Implemented “Survival Analytics” an alarm based Network performance Dashboard for network service team & “CDR Analytics” (Customer Call Details Records) for marketing team for promotional offers using Hadoop Big Data & Java to achieve customer satisfaction & retention.
• Implemented an informative & impactful analytical dashboards for “CPE lifetime Alarms” (Customer Premise Equipment/setup box) and Customer Growth at region-wise for corporate financial team to make a wise decision on capital investments.
• Responsible for assessing business drivers and defined the strategy, technical architecture, data models, Oracle OBIEE infrastructure, MS BI stack, Power BI and Big Data Hadoop platform (Hortonworks) with 40 nodes cluster environment.

Application Development Manager 

Key Result Areas:

• Showcased excellence in design and development of enterprise business applications and reports using .NET, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Power BI, Hadoop Big Data platform, Java, XML, Java scripts, LDAP, Web Services, SOA, HTML, SAP Business Objects, SSIS, SSRS, Crystal reports.
• Responsible for managing development teams (both Onsite & Offshore) of different scales ( 25-30 team members) spread across multiple countries, Middle East, Spain, London, India and Belgrade as part of the custom S/W application development, BI solutions & support.
• Supervised the processes to ensure compliance with application development in alignment with architectural direction, security standards, and technical controls and procedures. Collaborated with analysts, developers, business users, consultants and stakeholders to determine resource allocation to ensure all projects are delivered on time and under budget. Managed the procurement, development and implementation of hardware and software facilities to ensure timely and cost effective provision of service.
• Led the maintenance, control, upgrade and development of IT systems for the future technical and operational requirements of the organization as planned. Managed, guided, and assisted employees by direct reports to perform their functional operations in accordance with set policies and procedures. 
• Translated Business requirements into well-designed project plan for applications with accurately estimated timeframes for work completion. Provided level-2 support for the business applications/enterprise software.
• Defined and Base-lined DevOps framework for Product Development Life Cycle. Involved in various IT Transformation projects across applications, automation and infrastructure.

Highlights:

• Showcased excellence in E2E implementation of:
• Implemented an informative & impactful analytical dashboards for Deal tracking pipeline for investment teams and management using Hadoop Big Data to track the deal flow.
• Implemented an informative & impactful analytical dashboards for prospective investors tracking pipeline for fund raising team & management using Hadoop Big Data to improve the investment products sale opportunities.
• Analyzing Effectiveness of a New Sales Tool an iPad application with “Behavior Analytics” using Hadoop Big Data to make a wise decision on capital investment.
• Implemented an informative & impactful analytical dashboards for CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) voluntary activity monitoring by region wise employee level using Hadoop Big Data
• Responsible for assessing business drivers and defined the strategy, technical architecture, data models, MS BI stack, Power BI, Executive Dashboards, Tableau and Big Data Hadoop platform (Hortonworks) cluster environment.
• Technical & Project Management of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and HR solutions for the portfolio companies owned by Abraaj. Built executive dashboard reports using Microsoft SSRS and published on Microsoft SharePoint.
• A comprehensive CRM, Fundraising, Event management using eFront, Netage Solutions Dynamo platform which is built exclusively for the Private Equity & Hedge fund business Integrated with the fund administration system for pulling out fund and other financial details for the Investors. Built executive dashboard reports using Power BI & Microsoft SSRS.
• A comprehensive Portfolio Management System using Baxon PCMS (SaaS model) to automate the entire portfolio management process. Built executive management dashboard reports using Power BI.
• Implemented Deal Pipeline and Exit Pipeline using Microsoft SharePoint technology, SQL Server and .NET. Built executive dashboard reports using Microsoft SSRS and published on Microsoft SharePoint.
• Comprehensive Knowledge management portal & collaboration tool using Microsoft SharePoint and .NET. Built executive dashboard reports using Microsoft SSRS and published on Microsoft SharePoint.
• Roambi a mobile business intelligence solution that transforms data from major BI Systems into dashboard-style mobile analytics for iOS & SharePoint

Technical Lead

Texas, USA

Key Result Areas:

• Showcased excellence in design and development of Content management system (CMS), IT Business tools, and IT Collaboration tools using Windows, .NET, Web Services, SOAP, HTML, VXML, IIS, Google Search(GSA), WCF, UML, LDAP, SOA, Lotus Domino and Lotus Quick Place (v6.0), and SQL Server.
• Designed and developed an interactive voice enabled (IVR) application using VoiceXML, NUANCE speech recognition engine, Voicegenie, .NET, and SQL Server 2005
• Responsible for leading a team of 25 core developers (both Onsite & Offshore) and delivering software components on time to customers

Solutions Architect

Portland, Oregon

Key Result Areas:

• Showcased excellence in design and development of Web and Windows based Enterprise management application software suite to manage Intel hardware platforms.
• Played a vital role in designing and developing Web/Windows based Enterprise management application software suite to manage the health and status of the Intel high-end, low-end, Headless Appliance Servers, e-Business servers, Network routers, SSL accelerators, e-Business director, Embedded cards, and Internet Gateways. Task involved creating Use Cases, implementing interactive web pages/User Controls/Custom Controls, WMI instrumentation providers, XML Web services, Data Access Layer(DAL) using C#, VB.NET, Web Services, Java, JFC/Swing, C++,ODBC, JDBC, COM/DCOM, ASP, JSP, Java, HTML/DHTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML/XSL, ADO.NET, WMI and SQL Server
• Responsible for leading a team of 20 core developers (both Onsite & Offshore) and delivering software components on time to OEM customers like HP, Gateway, Dell, and NEC

Technical Lead

Key Result Areas:

• Authorised for leading a team of 15 core developers and delivering software components on time to US clients