SUMMARY:

• Over 8 ½ years of experience in financial services consulting. 6 years on sell - side and almost 2 ½ years on the buy side.
• Demonstrated ability leading requirement analysis, feasibility study, prototyping, testing and end to end large scale full lifecycle implementations.
• Strong understanding of capital markets
• Knowledge of OTC Counterparty Risk, Credit Risk and Market risk for both OTC Bilateral and OTC Clearing Model.
• Knowledge of Sell Side, Buy Side and Central Clearing House Businesses
• Experience in facilitating JAD sessions / requirements workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Experience developing process models/process flow diagrams, Use Cases and Use Case diagrams.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Knowledge in Capital Markets, Investment trading, hedge fund, brokerage, Securities Trading, Currency processing, Foreign Exchange processing, Portfolio Management, Corporate Action and Client Reporting.
• Knowledge of systems that are used for front office (FO-Sales, Trading, Research and Structuring)-, middle office (MO-Risk management) - and back-office (BO) systems which are developed by in-house technology staff.
• Can set aggressive goals, demonstrate a sense of urgency and execution at priority
• Persuasive and concise communicator; expert in modifying complex technical information for multiple audiences, and coaching subordinates for greater productivity and understanding.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis Skills: Scope Initiation, Business Proposals, Requirements Definition, Problem Resolution, Structured Walkthrough, Workflow Analysis, Gap Analysis, Design Review, Business Process Management, Product Management, Business Impact and Risk Analysis, Gate Review, Confirmations, Post-Implementation Review and Defect Management.

Project Management Skills: Change Management, Client Relationship building, Risk Management, Strategic Planning and Reporting, Technical Writing, Budget Planning & Cost control, Vendor Management, Strategic Change Management, Onsite-Offshore Management, Virtual team Management.

Financial regulation: Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Gramm-Leach-Bliley act (A.K.A Confidential Relief Act), Volcker s Rule, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Data Protection Act of 1998, IFRS (IAS39), CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Adequacy Review), SOX

Security Identifiers: ISIN, CUSIP, RIC, Sedol, ticker

News Agencies and Feeds: Bloomberg, CQG, Reuters, Thomson financials, financial times, FISD, SIIA, IDSI, Extel

Credit Rating Agencies: Moody s, S&P and Fitch

Systems Experience: Findur (STP, Risk, Front to Back), Reuters Kondor+ (Deal Capturing, Position and Pricing system), Calypso (Workflow, eXSP, etc), Sunguard (Cross Asset trading), Fedport (Proprietary trading), Charles River, Palisade (Risk Analysis).

Business Process Modeling: UML/ Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Object Diagrams, Package Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Communication Diagrams, Component Diagrams, Deployment Diagrams, Process Flow, ER Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams.

Oracle Database: Oracle 11g, 10g, Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i and Rainstor file system.

Oracle Apps: General ledger (GL)

Prog/ Query Languages: SQL, UML, XML, FPML (OTC Derivatives)

Operating Systems: MS-Windows

MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Project

Methodologies: Project Life Cycle (PLC), Agile Project Management, Release Management, Change Management, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), PRINCE2, Prototyping, test methodologies (Equivalence partitioning, Boundary value analysis and error guessing)

Tools: Camtasia Studio, Adobe Captivate 3 and 4

Collaboration Tools: Microsoft Communicator, Microsoft Live meeting, WebEx Products, SharePoint, Mindjet Mind Manager (for Brain Storming Sessions)

Miscellaneous: GUI Design Studio, MatLab, IBM Rational Rose, VMware Work Station, VMware ESX Server 3.5, Smart Draw 2008, Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix Access Gateway

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Consultant/ BA/ QA Lead

Environment: Collateral management applications (Margin call calculator and Algo v4.6), HP ALM, PL/SQL Developer, MQ OMB utility, SSH Tectia terminal, Putty, Rapid SQL 8.1.1, Rainstor Db, Oracle Db, Confidential Compare, HP QTP, HP Performance Center, Baretail, Informatica 9.5.1, BMC Remedy, ITSM tools, SOAP toolkit, Browser test utilities, Vision Repo Client (front office in-house), Office 2010, Project 2010, Citrix.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and documenting functional and non-functional specifications.
• Detailed review of in-house vendor alternatives compared to outsourcing to a service provider for credit risk and collateral management solutions concluding project with a final recommendation.
• Process included: Current state gap analysis, scope of the options, economic impact analysis vs. current state costs, estimated timeline and sequence of steps to execute each option, and feasibility analysis
• Work with the application and technical architecture teams to plan one or more of the following: Components, Assembly, Product, Performance, User Acceptance & Technical Architecture tests
• Determine all testing environment requirements, data requirements and tools
• Review the development process to ensure that defect tracking is properly addressed
• Work with the Release Manager to plan the application releases into QA and UAT environment.
• Manage testers work throughout the test plan development and test execution to ensure that testing in on time and within budget
• Ensure the team follows testing standards, guidelines and testing methodology
• Report progress against plan to stakeholders via Daily/Weekly reports
• Provide walkthrough of all team deliverables to stakeholders
• Review BRDs, FSDs, Test Scenarios and acquire sign-off
• Identification and escalation of risks and issues
• Hands on test execution
• UAT and Production environment checkouts (after weekly code drops)

Environment: Collateral management applications (Margin call calculator and Algo v4.6), HP ALM, PL/SQL Developer, MQ OMB utility, SSH Tectia terminal, Putty, Rapid SQL 8.1.1, Oracle Db, Putty, Confidential Ccompare, HP QTP, HP Performance Center, Baretail, Informatica 9.5.1, BMC Remedy, ITSM tools, SOAP toolkit, Browser test utilities, Repo Client, Office 2010, Project 2010, Citrix, Acadia Messaging Platform.

Confidential

Lead Analyst/ BA/QA (Capital Markets)

Responsibilities:

• Engage development team to review business requirements, obtain development effort estimates.
• Manage a list of projects/tasks for each upcoming release.
• Coordinate testing and facilitate business user signoffs.
• Manage requirements traceability matrix and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Document and Review business requirements document (BRD), Design Document, technical and functional specifications for completeness.
• Gather and define business requirements.
• Analyze and map processes (current state/future state).
• Produce high quality documentation that includes but not limited to: Vision Documents, Functional and Non-functional Requirements Documents, Use Cases, and Test Cases.
• Communicate with various business units to gather requirements and resolve issues.
• Communicate with other project teams to identify interdependencies and resolve issues.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project objectives.
• Create test case documentation and document defects using Quality Center
• Analyze data and application code and report status and issues to the Project Manager.
• Maintain Requirements Traceability and keep project team informed on any changes in the requirements through defined change management process
• Define and maintain Business Value Realization plan describing how project success is defined and will be measured
• Incrementally verify requirements through user testing. Assist Product Owner in user acceptance testing and end users
• Work closely with Ul designer and project team on clarifying requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Manage change in requirements based on the defined process
• Assist Product Owner in the development of User Guides/Manuals

Environment: Findur (STP, Risk, Front to Back), Reuters Kondor+ (Deal Capturing, Position and Pricing system), Equities, Fixed income, Derivatives, Portfolio Management and Risk Analysis

Confidential, New York

Lead Analyst (Financial Planning and Analysis/ Hyperion Planning and Code 1+® and Verimove™)

Responsibilities:

• Document requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Communicate with stakeholders using data and process models to clarify and validate requirements.
• Manage requirements traceability matrix and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Document and Review business requirements document (BRD), Design Document, technical and functional specifications for completeness.
• Develop risk analysis document, UAT test plan and test cases.

Environment: Oracle EPM 11.1.1.3 (Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM), Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial management (11.1.1.3), Hyperion SmartView, Hyperion Financial Data Management (FDM), Work Force Planning(WFP), Hyperion Shared Services, Reports, Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Architect (EPMA)),PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleSoft HR, Cognos, IE 7, Windows Server 2003, Quality Center 10.0, Microsoft Office Suite and Oracle Database 10g.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business requirements Documents, System Requirements and Use Case Documents.
• Analyze and interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Perform stake holder analysis and determine appropriate requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation tasks for the project.
• Documented Foreign Exchange (FX) Trade process flow, brokerage deal process and Futures& Options (F&O) trade Process.
• Interviewed Key Users to gather the Business Requirements for the Application Integration. Prepared a Business Strategy Document based on emerging technologies for Global Derivatives Clearing Business and High Frequency trading infrastructure planning initiative.
• Perform Market Risk Analysis by measuring the losses that the firm would experience under a variety of normal and extreme market conditions, across asset classes, for all trading desks globally.
• Analyze Pricing models, external reporting requirements for market risk information.
• Participating in evaluating and introducing new products and business
• Converse with the business regarding credit risk management, Risk Adjusted Performance Measurement (RAPM) and economic capital topics and current practices.
• Develop strategies relating to the credit monitoring process, quantitative financial analysis and potential application of risk management technology

Environment: Calypso (Workflow, eXSP, etc), Sunguard (Cross Asset trading), Forex Trading, Futures, Options, Global Derivatives clearing business, Pre and Post trading infrastructure, Automatic Market makers (AMM), Risk mitigation methodologies. Windows 2003, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, MS Office Suite.,Quality Center, QTP.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis and daily support of Charles River IMS, Bloomberg POMS and a proprietary trading system (FedPort)
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, storyboards, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• As part of my job I analyzed and supported a number of proprietary trading, onboarding, managed products and risk-management applications (Middle office) used by the business.
• Analyzed applications that are integrated and fully automated Settlements and Confirmations System, to process Investment products like Interest Rate Products (booked from front office), Equities Products (front office), and Banking Products (front office).
• The client’s strategy is also to enhance operational efficiency within derivatives, increasing the levels of Straight through Processing (STP) and control within the business.
• Support an application which provides customers with direct exchange connectivity and full orders routing abilities. The current market feed with the information about products and prices, in real time from the exchange. It also allows you to place an order for the relevant price or quantity.
• Prepared the user/business requirements, functional specs and use case documents.
• Also provided Mitigation plans for the Risks and Issues identified.

Environment: Proprietary Systems (Fedport), Charles River Trading System, FIX Protocols, Unix shell scripting, Low Latency trading architecture, Dynamic Return models, Credit risk management, Market Risk management, Execution management Systems (EMS, Direct market access (DMA), Windows NT, Active Directory, Oracle8i, TestDirector 8.0, QuickTest Pro 8.0