OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking business, technical, and systems analysis/support role in financial services where I can apply my strong analytical and project management skills.
• 20 plus years of experience in the development of trading systems software implementations with global front, middle, and back office coverage of Equity, FI, FX and Derivative products

SUMMARY:

• OpenLink Endur / Findur Specialization
• Prime Brokerage / Stock - Loan Expertise
• Strong Business & Technical Analyst skills and product knowledge across all Asset Classes, specifically FX, Fixed Income, and Derivatives.
• Extensive IT industry experience leading full lifecycle projects with SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to review processes, advise suitable changes to streamline processes.
• Agree priority of requirements and ability to manage requirements from feasibility to release stages.
• Exposure to other functional areas such as Middle Office, Back Office, Operations, Risk, Compliance etc.
• Experienced with dealing large data sets (trade data, data, etc.)
• Hands on software development experience using C++, C, Java, Sybase/Oracle/SQLServer, Ksh, Perl, Python

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: Solaris, HP-UX, Open VMSScripting: Perl, Python, JavaScript, JSP, Ksh

Languages/Libraries: Java/J2EE, C/C++, HTML, XML, Rational RogueWave, MFC, RMS

Software: Eclipse, Weblogic Workshop, JBuilder, DBAritsan, Rational Purify/Quantify

Tools: /Utilities: Putty, EditPlus, UltraCompare, ExamDiff Pro, Remedy Tracker, Mercury Quality Center

Database/ETL: Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, RMS, MySQL, Informatica PowerCenter

Versioning/Scheduling: CVS, RCS, Clear Case SCM Toolkit, Control-M/AppView, Autosys

Office Tools: MS Office for Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Visio, Access, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Specialized IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing Hedge Analyzer Module (HAM) for Macro / Micro Hedges and also responsible for implementing Dodd Frank Statutes
• Responsible for automating Futures closeout and Swaps buyout processes for Manulife’s General Accounts & Asset Management applications.
• Responsible for implementing Openlink’s Findur enhancements covering all aspects of trade entry, trade life cycle, valuation, risk, realized/unrealized G/L, collateral Management & Margin reporting covering Equity, Fixed Income, FX, and Derivative products.
• Responsible for implementing IBOR project by automating various derivative trades feeds to custodians.
• Responsible for configuring and maintaining data, market data curves, exchange traded instruments, OTC Derivative templates across several asset classes.
• Carrying out UAT, staging tests, and performing complete handovers on all system enhancements for front office.
• Work hand in hand with Development, QA teams as well as Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Accounting, ALM, and Treasury users on the enhancement, customization and improvement of new and existing systems.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Vice President/Technical BA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design and implementation of RIO (Real time information of order events) flow from/to Front, Middle & Back Offices for data warehousing, customer settlement, business intelligence gathering using FIX protocol messages. I am liaised with business and technology teams across multiple business units including Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Prime Finance, and FX.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Client Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathering, documenting and getting signoff on requirements while delivering business/functional requirements to development teams.
• Responsible for implementing Openlink’s Findur covering all aspects of trade life cycle including valuation, risk, P&L covering Swaps, Swaptions, Bonds, Repos, Futures, Credit Derivatives, FX, Commodities, and Options
• Responsible for implementing several Findur upgrade projects with large financial services clients. Configured Market Data Curves, Data, and EOD batch cycle.
• Responsible for creating test cases with detailed steps to test the validation, amendments, cancellations, buyouts (partial and full), closeouts, and novation of the current deal population
• Investigated client issues across several product categories (Swaps, Bonds, Options, Futures). Documented, communicated and resolved those issues working with production support, development, and QA teams.
• Trained ENDUR / FINDUR to operations, front, middle, and back office user groups.

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Developer/Technical BA, AVP, Prime Services

Responsibilities:

• Led a strategic initiative to design and develop new reports and web-based tools such as: stock-loan-availability, domestic/international trade-breaks and fails accruals (rebates, fee, short-sale-proceeds, credit/debit interest, consolidated), listed/index options, equity & commodity futures for the Prime Banking Portal project.
• Business/Functional Specifications:
• Enabled business analysts to create business and functional specification documents by researching and analyzing the current processes for feeds, extracts, and web reports. Responsible for creating functional and technical specification documents for global activity, positions, cash ledger, and options/futures reports for the development of the prime banking portal project.
• As a project lead, re-engineered the processing of F/X rates by creating a Global-FX-Standard-Rates Project starting from R&D, business logic development, pseudo code development, and interaction with business, data warehouse & treasury groups, technical/business specification documents development. Worked with data warehouse group to get the F/X rates in global standard formats and implementing these FX rates enabled PrimeView and Portal to show consistent F/X rates across the entire platform.
• As a project lead, reengineered Prime Services Benchmark Rates Data to show consistent bench mark rates across all the primeview reports, which required working with data warehouse and accrual system groups. Created technical specification documents with all the affected reports, developed an informatica ETL feed to source the benchmark rates (libor/fedopen) from the data warehouse system, and integrated the data across the entire primeview platform.
• Led a project to integrate the fixed-income, equity, and derivatives prime brokerages into the global prime brokerage reporting platform for savings of 5-7m USD. Responsible for integrating the repo related data and reports into the existing equity platform reports, making them as global reports. Integrated credit default swaps activity and position data into the global activity and position reports