SUMMARY OF SKILLS
Business Strategy/Analysis
Technology Strategy Planning
Global Project Management
EDUCATION
M.B.A. Systems and Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
B. Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
A multi-national banking conglomerate New York City, New York, 2006-2007
Sr. Vice President – Equity Platform
Reporting to Global Head of Equities Technology, directed activities of the Application Support, QA and Platform groups. Customers included the Trading, Connectivity and Risk & Analytics technology areas and over 1000 traders. This complex environment includes managing 300 Sun servers, 5 large QA environments and version control over 400 applications. Managed a multi-cultural team of 60 resources – on-shore and off-shore. Proficient in Development, Monitoring, Diagnostics, Hardware Asset Management, Capacity Planning, Networks/Firewalls, Messaging, Sybase/Oracle, Automated testing, and QA.
• Built an application support team from scratch to take over production support responsibility for applications in the Connectivity area;
• Developed and executed a far-shore low-cost outsourcing strategy for the QA function. Reorganized the function to focus on testing features, business flow and performance;
• Guided development of Automated QA utilities to bring down regression testing times from 10 to 3 days;
• Revitalized the Platform Monitoring program – comprising iWatch, BMC Patrol, ITRS and others – by rationalizing deliverables, schedule, risks and phases;
• Participated in Systems Retirement program chaired by the CFO of the organization. Represented Equities in IT Effectiveness program at the Capital Markets and Banking level for the CIO.
• Initiated and directed a comprehensive review of the Trading infrastructure comprising Sun & Linux severs, MQ series, Tibco and Veritas clustering, to sustain anticipated multi-fold volume increases.
A multi-million dollar financial products company, New York City, New York, 2003-2006
Practice Head, Capital Markets
Directed activities of Capital Markets Practice for this $200 Million financial services specialist. The company has unique products in the area of Investment Banking, Securities Trading and Data Warehousing. Responsible for assessing business needs and opportunities, determining pricing strategies, service architecture, team building and delivery. Managing P&L of $30 Million.
• Provided strategic advice to Prime Brokerage division of a well-known multi-national investment bank. Focus was on conceiving and implementing a comprehensive service infrastructure.
• Completed a strategic project to advise an incubator of hedge funds in the areas of Marketing; trading; risk management and compliance; fund operations (settlement & clearance); portfolio accounting and hedge fund accounting; and performance reporting. The advice centered a) on selection of trading and portfolio accounting systems; valuation of exchange traded, thinly traded and OTC products across asset classes such as stocks, options, bonds, swaps using techniques such as mark-to-market and model-based; b) on integrating FinCAD based in-house risk management system with trading system (intra-day risk management) and portfolio accounting system (portfolio level risk management); c) on end-of-day reconciliation and clearing on behalf of fund managers; and d) on fund accounting.
A well-known diversified financial servicec company, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2000-2002
Vice President (Executive Director)
Directed activities of Investment Management business systems. Responsible for aligning IT to business goals, P&L of multiple cost centers, Software Quality Assurance program using CMM, application development and architecture, staffing, budget forecasting and tracking, Audit and Finance interface. Delivered financial results against goals and supported multiple geographic locations. Managed budget of $15 Million with team strength of 50+, inclusive of Asst. VPs, Business Analysts, Data Modelers, Architects, Application DBAs, Developers and testers. Managed multiple market data, valuation and product vendors.
• Interfaced Broker/Dealer systems with portfolio accounting systems that catered to a wide spectrum of asset classes such as Stock, Bonds, Swaps, Options, CDSs and MBSs. Implemented systems for clearing/settlement workflows.
• Created and chaired a steering committee to align IT resources with business priorities.
• Reduced IT computing costs through modernization, resulting in repeatable savings of $1,000,000 or 67%.
• Moved the company from a position of potential liability to 90% accuracy in, and on-time completion of customer statements, through implementing CMM software quality initiatives.
A product and services company., Tarrytown New York, 1993-2000
Systems Manager
For this multi-million dollar software tool maker and professional service provider, managed multiple client relationships with revenue/contribution responsibilities. Also held oversight responsibility for a portfolio of projects. Details follow –
• A large financial services company (24 months)
Managed Project Management Office to push through CMM initiatives, resulting in reduction in production failure rates by 30%. Deployed these across 70 departments – 1000 programmers.
Designed and implemented guidelines for project appraisal, prioritization, monitoring and go/no-go decisions across the entire organization.
• A well-known retirement fund (20 Months)
Working with business community, analyzed requirements to segregate books of accounts (Trading and Banking) into for-profit and not-for-profit books. Redesigned accounting systems to cater for each of these types of businesses.
• A small capital management company (12 Months)
Directed activities of an applications development team - from business analysis phase to implementation - to revamp portfolio management systems resulting in automated asset allocation and rebalancing. Features included support for all asset classes, tax and multiple basis accounting, as well as multi-currency accounting. Reconciliation with custodians and prime brokers and interfaces with risk systems.
• A large re-insurance company (15 Months)
Analyzed and specified requirements to create risk optimization and balance sheet protection systems for corporate clients, resulting in a better ability to reduce risk over multiple years and risk types.
• A mid-size money management company, New York (17 Months)
Developed a relational data warehouse to store trade data using Entity Relationship Modeling and dimensional modeling. Architected a SYNON OBSYDIAN/C++ based portfolio accounting system, using Object Modeling Techniques. Features included all common asset classes, multi-currency and multiple basis accounting, support for auto-trade generation.
A large banking and trading conglomerate, Dubai, UAE, Systems Manager, 1990-1993
Managed Application Programming Department of the banking unit for the largest conglomerate in Middle East.
A well-known professional services company, India, Project Manager, 1986-1990
Managed outsourced projects for this major provider of outsourcing services. Responsible for delivery.
A well-known automotive manufacturer, India, Business Analyst, 1981-1984
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Project Appraisal/Financial:
Internal Rate of Return, Discounted Payback Period, Multi cost center projections, Cost Allocation, Risk Planning, Software Quality Assurance
Project Management:
Rational Unified Process, MS Project (Enterprise), CA Super Project Expert, CMM, COCOMO, Function Point Measurement, Project Process Management, ISO9000
Technical:
MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Access, XML, VBA, SQL-Server, ASP, WinRunner, TestDirector and QTP. |
