SUMMARY

• Over 19 years of diverse experience across production support and maintenance, release management, operations management, QA, testing, application integration, project management and user training, requirement study and development
• Knowledge of the EquitiesAlgorithmic, Smart Order Routing, ProgramTrading, Foreign ExchangeTradingand Credit Risksystems and ability to support Trading desks
• Extensive experience in change control, configuration management and incident management
• 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 test procedure documents
• Consulting for Goldman Sachs Equities Algorithm Trading for five years, Citigroup Equities and Foreign Exchange for five years, Bank of America Credit Risk for two years, JPMorgan Equities Program Trading for nine months, Morgan Stanley Equities/Options/Futures Smart Order Routing for five months and British Telecom Billing and Inventory for four years
• Bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur, India / Professional certificate in Portfolio Management from NYU, NY

SKILLS

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

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Environment Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and supportof multiple QA environments for production releases
• Releaseand Deployment management for production releases
• Support for non-production and emergency release testing in QA environments
• Execution of performanceand capacity improvement test cases
• Documentation of release and testing procedures

Environment:Linux, SQL, DB2, Informatica, Shell Scripts, JAVA

Confidential

Senior Production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide application production support, maintenance and integration of new low latency Smart Order Routing applicationwith legacy application flow
• 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
• Liaised with various internal group, exchanges and ECNs to fix 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

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
• 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
• 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
• DevelopedUNIX shell scripts for clean-up and maintenance of the environment
• 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
• Designed and developed tables, triggers and stored procedures in Sybase
• 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

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Documentation of the functional and design specifications of the application
• Designed and developed tables, triggers and stored procedures in Sybase.

Environment: UNIX, 'C', C , Sybase 11.9.2

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Lead 2 member team for application support and system testing of the application
• Documentation of system test cases and performed system testing of the application
• Off-shore team set-up for the application

Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle 8.0.5, JavaScript, HTML

Confidential

Production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, development and unit testing of the application
• Maintenance and production support of the application
• Written triggers and stored procedures for the new changes in the application
• Tuning PL/SQL applications using SQL Trace for performance improvement

Environment: Sun Solaris, 'C', PL-SQL, Oracle 7.3, DB2, COBOL, MVS XA

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Migration of the COBOL code to use DB2 database in place of IDMS database
• Writing test scripts and performing unit testing for the migrated code

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, MVS/XA