SUMMARY

• 12+ Years of Analytical, organized and innovative Application Support Specialist in Front office application for top Investment Banks like Confidential USA, Confidential Securities USA, Confidential NL, also worked for Confidential as developer.
• 10 Years of Production Support experience in Fixed Income, OTC Derivative, FIX protocol, Order Management system, Trading floor support, Front Office support, Batch Scheduling, Incident/change/problem Management, Regulatory Reporting, Agile methodology, Project Management and in ITIL best practices.
• 7 Years of Trade Floor Support experience working in New York, London, and Paris in Derivative business.
• 5 Years of hands on experience in project management, project coordinator and expert in implementing ITIL best practices with in fixed income/OTC derivative area.
• Working closely with Front office and Back office business to support BAU under high pressure environment.
• RTB and CTB are key area of my responsibility where stability of all the systems are high priority.
• Provide subject matter expertise for FIX Protocol trading, OMS, STP, Trade Capture, Market Data Management, Valuation, P&L attribution/reporting, Structured Trade Analysis and Risk Reporting.
• Managing ongoing and daily Derivatives operations processing support to business(s) across all aspects of the derivatives trade lifecycle - trade support, settlements, collateral management, reconciliations and documentation.
• Comprehensive knowledge of STP (Straight Through Processing), OMS, FIX Protocol Trading, Financial Risk Systems, Financial PnL, systems and expertise in Various Products (SunGard’s INFINITY, Misys-SUMMIT, CALYPSO, ION) in capital market platform.
• Expertise in SunGard’s INFINITY/Misys-SUMMIT/Calypso tools. These products are being used in Trade booking, PnL and Risk generation for Fixed Income products.
• Providing a high level of intraday and overnight support for Back Office and Front Office users with business functionality such as resets, payments, post trades events, pricing, risk and critical upstream data feeds.
• Assisting the Front office business and BO team for their Middle Office work and functions around payments for the whole derivatives portfolio and resolving STP issues.
• Expertize in batch scheduling using tools i.e. BMC-ControlM, Autosys, Cisco-Tidal etc
• Hands on experience in Release and Change Management (Deployments, bug fixing etc.) using tool IBM-GSD/RTC/HPSM/JIRA.
• Strong understanding of basic accounting principles, brokerage accounting, and securities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Linux, UNIX, Windows XP,2007,2008, DOS

Languages: Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, XML-FPML, DOS programming, PowerBuilder, C++

Database: Sybase 12.5, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10g

Products: MISYS-SUMMIT, CALYPSO, SUNGARD-INFINITY, ION, BBG-TOMS, MARKITWIRE, TradeWeb

Ticketing Tools: IBM-GSD, RTC, HPSM, SM9, BMC-REMEDY, JIRA

Task Scheduler: BMC-CONTROL-M, AUTOSYS, CISCO-TIDAL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Production Support Analyst/Trade Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Providing connectivity to bank client and stock exchanges
• Calculating and publishing Financial and Market Risks
• Providing market data
• Allowing bank to execute the trade.
• Managing RTB and MTB teams to coordinate and deliver best results to the business.
• Manage and co-ordinate within Front Office and Back office team to deliver best Trade support.
• Running weekly call with the Vendor and taking care of the Changes going into production.
• Interact with the greater OTC Derivatives, fund accounting and valuations teams
• Ensuring compliance with existing and future trade reporting regimes
• Partner with Technology and Sales/Trading on systems enhancements and development
• Working in SunGard’s INFINITY front office trading system to provide trade flow support.
• Working on FIX protocol trade support and OMS for RBC traders.
• Providing end to end support on Straight through processing to flow the trades from electronic platform to INFINITY system in RBC.
• Working closely with Front Office business to make sure all the trade flow through STP platform.
• Supporting STP staring from ECN (BBG, TradeWeb, Markitwire etc), ION gateways, Mapping channels and Trade Booking into INFINITY tool.
• Market data support for INFINITY application for BOD and EOD of the business, close price contribution from different source systems.
• Handling PnL and Risk related query and provide day to day support to run the business as usual.
• Maintained all transactions in PnL and risk systems.
• Created and reviewed daily trading activity.
• Produced reports for customers, sales and trading.
• Liaised between Front Office and all areas of the firm.
• Identified efficiency improvements in all operational aspects of the business.
• Making sure all the system and environment are up and running during BAU.
• Make sure all the scheduled batches finished within agreed SLA.
• Taking care of EOD and BOD process on daily basis i.e. Market data and static data is updated on time.
• Taking care of all the Production Change going live, review, implement and perform PIV.
• Running CAB call to review all the production changes weekly.
• Work on Incident and Problem management closely with Dev team to fix the recurring issues.
• Follow all the ITIL process and implement best practices in the project.

Confidential, New York

Production Support/Trade Floor Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project lead for L2 support for Fixed Income products.
• Managed a team of 20 people to on risk reporting, trade support and reconciliation.
• Provided Subject Matter expertise of the following business processes using Misys-SUMMIT/CALYPSO Trade Capture, Market Data Management, Valuation, P&L attribution/reporting, Price Testing, Structured Trade Analysis and Risk Reporting
• Worked on STP flow i.e (BBG, Markitwire, ION gateways, MQ Channels, SUMMIT, Calypso) to provide trade flow support for Rates products booked by Confidential traders.
• Worked in MISYS-SUMMIT front office trading desk support. Supported live trading system for Confidential traders.
• Market data support for MISYS-SUMMIT application for BOD and EOD of the business, close price contribution from different source systems.
• Closely working with Traders, FO and BO team of SUMMIT and intraday support is the main part of my role in Confidential .
• Assisting the Confidential front office and BO team for their Middle Office work and functions around payments for the whole derivatives portfolio and resolving SUMMIT issues.
• Worked on all rates business (PnL and Risk) related query and provide day to day support to run the business as usual.
• Worked on CALYPSO Front Office system for Structured Credit Products in Confidential .
• Worked on BMC Control-M batches to make sure all the risk and PNL has been generated and jobs have completed with-in SLA.
• Created new jobs and batches in BMC Control-M for new businesses in Confidential .
• Run time support for all Rates Dderivative products i.e. Swap, Swaption, Exotic, Future, Option, Bond etc.
• Worked on a high level of intraday and overnight support and maintenance for the Confidential SUMMIT instance supporting Back Office and Front Office users with business functionality such as resets, payments, post trades events, pricing, risk and critical upstream data feeds.
• All BMC Control-M related change in PROD and UAT has been done as a part of FO support.
• Provided business solutions related to SUMMIT functionalities like Rate Reset, Expected Pay flows etc.
• Work on Incident and Problem management closely with L3/Dev team to fix the recurring issues.
• Iimplemented best ITIL practices in the project.
• Worked on regulatory reporting for all the third party trades within Rates business.
• Worked on global regulatory system to report all the trades to the regulators with-in defined SLA.

Confidential

Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in compliance team to make sure all the money laundering alerts are generated on time.
• Making sure all the transaction files are loaded into Informatica and apply scenarios on these transactions.
• Generating alerts by provided raw data to MANTAS.
• Developed Shell scripts for various change requests like to automate the Health check for the new and old environment, check the file arrivals, Data ingestion completion from the source systems.
• Performing several Hot fix installations for the Mantas 4.1/4.2.
• Analyzing and resolving Business issues which requires direct interaction with the Business user.
• Have written Triggers, SP, and Cursor. Have written complex Store Procedures and have used temporary tables etc. Able to design robust schema and have a good understanding of isolation level within database.
• Creating tickets to log all the issues and keep a track of these incidents.
• Attending CAB call and reviewing all the changes in REMEDY.
• Implementation of all the changes to make sure production is stable.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and planning was a main part of this Development work.
• Going through requirement and generating flow chart.
• Share the plan and flow chart with GECF.
• Worked in due diligence for receiving and sending all the cash files within time through Confidential .
• Worked in troubleshooting and creating the Confidential processes to send and receive the files through Connect Direct.
• Confidential is basically to create the flow through different systems and transfer the files.
• Worked on creating new flows and making sure files are transferred as per requirement

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Derivative Trading and Settlement System for Confidential .
• Gathering all the new requirement from the BSE and working on Feasibility Analysis.
• MOPS is the main part of this application to handle all the session of the market i.e. SOD, Trading, EOD, Settlement etc.
• Worked in all phases of SDLC as a team member for a number of projects like Derivative Trading and settlement system, Mops and BDS for Confidential .
• After receiving the request from BSE IT, we start with feasibility analysis, flow chart and complete SDLC process until post release done successful.
• Performed unit testing and prepared test cases along with user documentation