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GOPAL BALIGA

Cell -732-***-**** ● acpt1h@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

• Over 15+ years of IT experience with 10+ years in the Financial Industry with good knowledge of Agile

development methodology with ITIL framework for Service Support and Service Delivery principles.

• Extensive experience in delivering medium to large scale projects focusing on high performance, highly

available and scalable solutions for high transaction applications.

• Extensive experience in Brokerage products – Equity, LO, FX, FI, OTC Trading with FIX Protocol.

• Worked with Risk, Compliance, Supervisory Managers to implement Dodd Frank, Reg E, EMIR,

Cleared/Non Cleared Derivative, Account Restriction – KYC, AML etc for FX and OTC trading products.

• Extensive working knowledge of FX & Commodity trading product – Spot, NDF, Fwd, Swaps, Time

Deposit, Limit Orders and Option.

• Extensive experience in FX settlement process with/without Nostro and with Settlement cut off deadlines..

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Sun Solaris 10, HP-9000 servers, Linux, Intel-based systems.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Sun Solaris/SunOS, VMWare

Languages: JAVA, JSP, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Servlets, PERL, PHP, Java Script, XML, Shell

Script

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, MySQL & Ms-Access

Tools: PL/SQL, PRO*C, Oracle Portal, Rogue Wave Libraries, CVS, Connect Direct

UML Tool: Rational Rose, Oracle JDeveloper

Reporting Tools: Actuate Reports 9.0, Oracle Developer 2K, Crystal Reports, JChart, WebFocus

Protocols: J2EE/Struts/Spring, CORBA, Tibco RV, FIX 4.0/4.2/4.4

Application Server: BEA Weblogic, Tomcat

FIX Server/Tools: Appia 7x, Bloomberg Terminal, TTAlert, TTCert, Tradescope

Market Data: Reuters TriArch and Wombat.

Regulatory Reporting: OATS, DPTR, OTS, ACT

Project Management ITIL, RAD, Scrum, BDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

J P Morgan Chase, Vice President, Asset Management, NY 08/10 – present.

• Working as Application Manager for FICC platform for Private Bank. Role involves managing and running

highly visible projects for FX & OTC products under Brokerage Trading platform. Working with Business

Heads and various regulatory PM’s - Dodd Frank, RegE, EMIR, ALR in implementing a 1 to 2 year plan in

implementing regulatory & cleared trading model changes in FX and OTC platform globally.

• Day to day responsibility includes planning and delivering FICC releases every 3 months using Agile

methodology in a Scrum team setup. Managed daily FX Scrum calls and bi-weekly Sprint meetings with

prioritizing deliverables with constant tracking of backlog and effort estimation for pending work.

• Managed migration of in house FX Electronic Trading Platform from Old legacy VB application to Flex

based scalable platform. Worked with FX Business, Settlement team to streamline FX flow end to end.

• Managing Projects in all areas of FX – Spot delivery, Forwards, Limit Order, Swaps, NDF, FX Term

Deposit and Commodity and Option to streamline day to day business requirement and production

issues.

• Built and Managed separate CSA FX screen to support FX Spot, Wire and Draft settlement.

• Worked with Front & Back office team to prioritize FX in coordinating quartely releases for FX Desk

• Defining and Managing FX roles and entitlements in LDAP, for various teams and business users.

• Continuous communication with International team to plan out FICC requirements and plan out build

releases to share common FX & OTC modules across global teams.

• Closely tracking and managing global FX project deliverables, Quality Center Enhancements/defects,

assigning QC’s to onshore/offshore developers, Managing Change Request process, Ensure Build

availability in all test environments, Updating Senior management on build progress status.

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• Worked closely with operate team to plan out production roll out of the tool, creating and setting up

support run book, putting a call tree etc.

• Worked with cyber security team(CST) to reduce the Brokerage code vulnerability score to a lower CVS

score by getting dynamic scan/penetration testing done.

Environment : Solaris 10, Java, J2EE, JSP, Sybase 12/15 and FIX Protocol

Department of Treasuries (FMS)/CITIGROUP, DE 08/08 – 08/10.

• Worked as Build & Release Manager for Department of Treasuries (FMS) for their over the counter

receivables channel application.

• Role involved day to day operation and management of the O&M team for the receivables application,

24*7 problem and incident resolution, Build and Release Management functions for Treasuries public

facing web applications – www.pccotc.gov, www.tganet.gov and www.treaslockbox.gov

• Working closely with project managers from Treasuries, Federal Reserve Bank’s business strategists,

vendors, and other cross functional teams in planning out new releases, bug fixes and enhancement to

application using ITIL framework for Change and Release management.

• Analyzed business requirements/challenges and shaped them to technical requirements for developers

• Successfully managed medium to large projects using RAD methodology for quicker project turnaround

and faster deliverables.

• Coordinated successful production releases starting with requirement gathering to complete testing in all

test environments before production release, following ITIL methodologies of Configuration management.

• Involved in Disaster Recovery Exercise, Capacity Planning and Service Level agreement documentation,

checklist and script preparation, along with clear communication to all stake holders.

• Managed a team of 7 O&M staff along with mentoring and implementing ITIL process for service support

and delivery as per service level agreement.

• Good understanding of check settlement process with good working understanding of ACH and CHECK

21 check clearing agencies.

• Delivered daily, weekly and monthly reports including status reports, service metrics etc to higher

management.

Environment : Solaris 10, Connect Direct, Java, J2EE, JSP, Hibernate/Spring, Java Script, CSS, Oracle

10/11,Weblogic and Actuate reporting.

Deutsche Bank, NY 11/04 – 08/08.

• Worked in the capacity as Head of Client Connectivity Team reporting directly to Global head of Equities.

• Role involved defining and developing the technical architecture of the Global CCT (Client Connectivity)

Platform.

• Worked closely with business strategists, vendors, and other architects in NY, London and Tokyo with

developing and implementing a 3-5 year technical architectural plan for the CCT Infrastructure.

• Analyzed business requirements and converted them to technical requirements for developers in DB

Moscow.

• Heavily involved in the complete process of outsourcing level 1 system monitoring and UAT tasks. Wrote

RFP’s, reviewed proposals, and interviewed potential candidates.

• Daily work Involved enhancing FIX connectivity Infrastructure, FIX Connectivity support, FIX Certification

with client ECN/Exchanges, Integrating various desk request, Operation Planning, Production Release,

Server Maintenance and Backup and Disaster Recovery Process and Various application support and

enhancement.

• Develop and enhance FIX engine Plug-ins in Java. Used Solaris Dtrace utility to do JVM tuning and check

Garbage Collection.

• Work extensively in Java, JSP, Struts/Spring framework, J2EE coding and testing.

• Use Eclipse in day to day project building and testing.

• Daily liaison with global Client Adoption Team, Business Heads, Various Desks to synchronize CCT Portal

with Global Operation knowledge, Market data team to maintain Oracle database with live Market data

feeds.

• Co-ordinate Weekly release and manage Development Team in building the new Appia extensibility plug-

in.

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• Enhance CCT Portal design using JSP, Java, Struts, Apache web server, Tomcat App Server and MySQL

RDBMS server, Ant tool is used to do build/release management of Appia Engines. Wiki/Twiki is used for

online collaboration.

• Good working knowledge of trading FIX 4.0/4.2/4.4 protocol and running Javelin Appia Engine.

• Day to Day usage of Vendor products TTAlert, TTCert, Tradescope and Greenline product –

MagniFIX,VeriFIX and CertiFIX for day to day operation work.

• Worked extensively in Oracle PL/SQL to generate Regulatory reports – OATS, ACTS etc.

• Involved in Monitoring Project – Geneos, BMC Patrol, TradingMetrics, Komodo etc.

Environment : Solaris 8/10, Java, J2EE, JSP, Struts, Spring, Java Script, CSS, mySQL, Perl, Oracle 9/10,

Appia FIX engines.

AT&T, NJ 08/02 – 10/04

• Worked as Sr. Architect for AT&T. Project involves integrating customer call flow applications based on

leading edge Integrated Voice Recognition technology .

• Job involves designing and implementing voice application using VoiceGene and TellMe products, Oracle

database schema design and tuning, Heavy VXML coding, EJB, Servlet development for various AT&T

external & internal customers.

• Used SOAP /J2EE interfaces to communicate with client Host Interfaces.

• Also did reporting using Actuate and Oracle D2k product.

• Used BEA Weblogic Server as application server for VXML scripts and Actuate reports server.

Environment : HPUX, C++, Java, J2EE, Struts, Spring, JSP, VXML, Java Script, WebLogic 8, Oracle, Hibernate,

Actuate Reporting.

Various IT Firms 08/94 – 08/02

Will be provided, if required.

EDUCATION:

B.E. in Information Science and Technology, BMS Engineering College, India, 1994(Univ 5th Rank Holder)

Work Status: US Citizen

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