VIVEK SRIVASTAVA

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SUMMARY

Business consultant with 6 years of international experience in Asset Management and IT. Analytical thinker and problem

solver with focus on processes, performance and profit improvements. Expert at leading teams on challenging projects.

EDUCATION

Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2010

MBA Focus Area: Finance GMAT: 700 GPA: 3.67

Honors: Associate at New Markets Fund, Social Venture Consultant, Selected for the renowned M&A competition

Leadership: Finance club officer, Elected representative at Graduate Student Government Assembly

CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA 2009

CFA Level-3 candidate: Scored above 70% (topmost category) in 9 out of 10 sections in CFA Level-2

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India 2002

B.Tech (Honors): Focus: Industrial Engineering, Among top 1% applicants, Full-tuition Scholarship, Best thesis award

EXPERIENCE

Ness Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad, India 2008

(NASDAQ: NSTC), Global provider of end-to-end IT services, operates in 18 countries with 7,800 employees

Client: Invesco is a leading independent global investment management company with $400bn assets under management

Senior Business Analyst / Associate Consultant

● Centralized newly acquired global investment lines into a single back office at Invesco, saving multi-million dollars.

● Evaluated fund management systems for their suitability to various investment lines, producing recommendations.

● Conceived a plan to test entire asset management operations for 40+ security types and 16+ transaction types –

demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of various asset management functions including trade processing, matching

and settlements, overnight jobs/feeds, fund accounting, corporate actions, reconciliation, compliance and reporting.

● Coordinated with global cross-functional teams, improving knowledge sharing, productivity and communication.

● Recruited, trained and led a strategic team of business and technical experts in asset management and IT technologies.

Arcot R&D Software Private Ltd., Bangalore, India 2007 – 2008

Holds 12 patents in the area of cryptography and is a leader in protecting and verifying digital identities.

Clientele: Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Citi, American Express, DBS, Chase, Wells Fargo, Pfizer etc

Team Leader

● Restructured the team and streamlined the processes to better respond to customer queries, improving productivity by

10% – honored with 'Spot Award' and later promoted prematurely for outstanding performance.

● Reduced fraudulent credit card transactions at major banks by applying cutting-edge patented cryptography.

● Forecasted the demand for customer support and analyzed ROI to budget the hardware infrastructure expansion.

Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chandigarh, India / London / Amsterdam / Brussels 2002 – 2006

Asia's second largest software services organization with 91,000 employees worldwide and over $4 billion in revenue.

Clientele: Deutsche Bank (London), ABN Amro Asset Management (London, Amsterdam), Proximus (Brussels)

Business/Programmer Analyst

● Facilitated the outsourcing of ABN Amro Asset Management operations to StateStreet, resulting in multi-million dollar

savings – honored with 'Spot Award' for techno-functional expertise, efficient coordination and personal flexibility.

● Conducted extensive client communication and frequently traveled to Europe, thus getting sensitized to the global

business environment and cross-cultural diversity.

● Forecasted revenues and carried out the resource planning for the “proposed” projects in the pipeline.

● Reengineered STP Adapter using access/macro at ABN Amro, reducing fault rate by 90% in trade-matching delays.

● Developed a Trade Interface using excel/macro at ABN Amro Asset Management, reducing entry effort to one-fifth.

● Centralized the yield curve and matrix analytics system at Deutsche Bank, resulting in 15% more efficient operations.

● Provided end-to-end IT services at major global banks in Europe while taking strategic cost advantage of off-shoring.

Tata Motors, Tatanagar, India 2001

● Balanced truck assembly line reducing delays, and applied kaizen eliminating defects in engine castings at the foundry.

Publication: PLAMUN: a platform for multi-user negotiation. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier)

Others: Portia Capstone Bloomberg Charles River Excel SQL/Oracle Cryptography VB C/C++ Java MQ Unix

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