SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of diverse experience across production support and maintenance, releasemanagement, operations management, QA, testing,application integration, project management and user training, requirement study and development
• Knowledge of the EquitiesAlgorithmic, Smart Order Routing, ProgramTrading, Foreign ExchangeTrading and Credit Risksystems and ability to support Trading desks
• Extensive experience in change control, configuration management and incidentmanagement
• Good understanding of FIX protocol and client on-boarding procedures
• Experience inUNIX, SQLs,stored procedures, PERL scripts and Autosys
• Project lead for the on-site / off-shore team for three years
• Expertise in writing support, requirement, technical and testproceduredocuments
• Consulting for Goldman Sachs Equities Algorithm Trading , Citigroup Equities and Foreign Exchange , Bank of America Credit Risk , JPMorgan Equities Program Trading , Morgan Stanley Equities/Options/Futures Smart Order Routing
• Bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur, India / Professional certificate in Portfolio Management from NYU, NY

SKILLS

• Languages: Shell Scripts, Perl, PL-SQL, 'C', C , JAVA
• Technologies/ Tools: Autosys, Subversion SVN ,Informatica, ETL, TransactTools, Remedy,JIRA, CVS, AEGIS,FIX, TIBCO RV, REDI, Python, HP Open View
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Sun Solaris, Windows, MVS/XA
• Databases: SQL 2008, SybaseASE 15, Oracle 8.0, Ingres 6.4.2, DB2, IDMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Release Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and support of multiple QA environments for production releases
• Release and Deployment management for production releases
• Refresh QA environments for production and non-production testing
• Support for non-production and emergency release testing in QA environments
• Execution of performance and capacity improvement test cases
• Scheduling and coordinating infrastructure activities in QA environments
• Developed UNIX shell scripts for clean-up and maintenance of the QA environments
• Documentation of release and testing procedures

Environment:Linux, SQL, Autosys, Shell Scripts, CVS, DB2, Python, Informatica, ETL, JAVA

Confidential

Senior production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide application production support, maintenance and integration of new low latency Smart Order Routing application with legacy application flow
• Supported front office traderson the trading floor for the trade related issues and queries
• Troubleshoot the environmental and trade processing issues
• Notification, escalation, initiate outage management calls and assist with recovery
• Understand, document, schedule and perform outage war games DR/BCP and recovery procedures
• Incident management and reporting of all the production issues

Environment: Linux, 29 West, LBM, Shell Scripts, Perl, Sybase, FIX protocol

Confidential

Senior Prod/QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Performance and Capacityimprovement of the system components
• Set-up and support for external customers' and brokers' certification testing
• End to End testing for regulatory and compliance changes
• Perform unit, integration and system testing of the various system modules
• Troubleshoot the environmental and trade processing issues in UAT
• Identification, documentation and implementation of end to end automation test cases

Environment:JAVA, Sybase ASE 15, MS .NET 3.5, TIBCO, TransactTools

Confidential

Senior Production SupportSpecialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide application production support, maintenance and implementation of Equities Algorithmic and Smart routing applications and related In-house product suite
• Supported front office traders on the trading floor for the trade related issues and queries
• Notification, escalation, initiate outage management calls and assist with recovery
• Liaised with various internal group, external market data vendors, exchanges and ECNs to fix production issues
• Own daily change management and release new changes, bug fixes, patches and configuration change to Production
• Understand, document, schedule and perform outage war games DR/BCP and recovery procedures
• Developed different reconciliation reports using UNIX Shell scripts / Perl / Sybase for business coverage team
• Instrumental in migrating the application from Linux Rhel 3.6 to 4.5.2
• Set-up and support for external customers' and brokers' certification testing
• Involved in integrating trade feeds to compliance systems using Stored procedures / Shell scripts

Environment:Linux, Shell Scripts, Perl, Sybase,TIBCO, JAVA.

Confidential

Production Support / QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Lead 3 member team to set-up, support and maintenance of Citigroup's equities applications and infrastructure in the FIX Connectivity test environment
• Set-up and support for Citigroup's Equities external customer testing in FIX connectivity test environment
• Co-ordination with multiple teams at multiple locations for Global Equities FIX Connectivity test environment set-up
• Documentation of the new enhancements, support and maintenance of the applications
• Co-ordination between on-site and offshore team for project deliverables

Environment:Sun Solaris OS, UNIX, Sybase, MQ, Perl, JAVA

Confidential

Production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Lead 3 member team to provide 24 7 Global Tokyo, New York, London application production support and maintenance
• Co-ordination between various groups and escalation and managed project scheduling, issue tracking and resolution
• Maintenance and enhancement of the functionalities in existing PERL module
• Documentation of the new enhancements, support and maintenance of the application

Environment:Sun Solaris OS, 'C', UNIX, Sybase, UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl, JAVA