NIPUNIKA KABADI
Montville, New Jersey Phone: +1-973-***-**** Email:
***** ***********@*****.***
GLOBAL BUSINESS PRODUCT/PROJECT/DELIVERY MANAGER
Results driven with passion for service, experience in driving strategy and
vision, managing P&L, building teams, enchanting global internal and
external users with innovative, easy-to-use financial software solutions
with right support to boost productivity and save costs. A professional
with expertise in all financial asset classes, thrives in challenging, fast
paced and dynamic environments, inspires product teams, and has focus on
priorities and client satisfaction with a positive, Get-it-Done attitude.
1 Global Experience, Results and Achievements
Deutsche Bank, New York, New York 6/2010 - 6/2011
Management Consultant, Product Owner, Rates eTrading
Product and project managed Rates ETD (US and European Treasury Cash,
Futures, Swaps) electronic trading and hedging Execution platform including
data, analytics and charts - formalize and document requirements, define
short/long term development strategy, Collaborate with key stakeholders
(Front Office, Development/QA, eTrading Exchange Connectivity and
Production Desk) in releases planning, perform product demos, build product
collateral, and establish right communication channels.
. Achieved overall user experience and quality improvements with the
product by formalizing iteration process, validating requirements with
users and reducing outages.
. Improved stakeholder relationships and product usage by meeting specific
business requirements, providing timely communications and educating
users with all the ins and outs of system.
. Launched CME's new OTR Treasury security 100% successfully within
Deutsche bank Rates business by collaborating with front, middle and back
office business and technology teams.
SunGard Banks and Corporations, Livingston, New 2007 - 2008
Jersey
1 Senior Product Manager
Spearheaded Global Product Marketing and Management of hosted and SOA based
AMBIT Real-Time Global Liquidity/Nostro Risk Management (including ETL,
Reconciliation) and notional pooling/funds transfer system for the global
financial institutions back offices to achieve accurate funding decisions.
Owned product road-map, planning, business and functional requirements
(BRD, FRD), technology development lifecycle, releases and SME support on
client escalations/notifications, sales processes, presentations, training,
project communication/reporting, integration/implementation plans, UAT and
sales tracking in SalesForce.com.
. Participated in sales process of three system licenses to global banks,
(revenue of $1.2 MM) by supporting with RFPs, solution architecture
proposals, implementation project plans and presentations.
. Upgraded the proof-of-concept to near production with two releases by
collaborating with, and leading teams globally: Program Management,
Development, Professional Services and Support.
. Defined and implemented intra-day Cash/Liquidity monitoring by
programming intelliMATCH 8.1 with matching passes based on internal
forecasts and SWIFT updates reported by the counter-parties.
Thomson Reuters, (Formerly Reuters) New York, New 2004 - 2007
York
2 Global Product/Project Manager, Institutional Equities
Directed Product-line/Project Marketing and Management of hosted, managed,
SaaS solution for buy and sell side broker/dealers - Sales & Trading
Liquidity Discovery contributions to Reuters, analytical data display in
Reuters Station (Analytics, Ticker, MarketWatch), buy-side Order Entry and
Data, Analytics (data mining, query, manipulation, business intelligence
and data presentation in creative formats). Managed $6MM in P&L, product
strategy/road-maps, planning, business/SWOT plans, financial modeling,
competitive analysis/positioning, business and functional requirements
(BRD, FRD), technology development lifecycle, prototypes, UAT, global team
building, 3rd party contracts, documentation, rationalizations, SME support
- client escalations/notifications, sales/marketing, training,
presentations, newsletters and Siebel.
Montville, New Jersey Phone: +1-973-***-**** Email:
07045 ***********@*****.***
. Added $250K to existing annual revenue and new referenceable clients by
successfully launching a new business intelligence reporting service that
was SEC compliant even before the announcement of the rules.
. Achieved revenue growth of 10% to 20% by adding new clients, and growing
usage volumes to 20% to 30% on a yearly month-to-month basis by
incorporating enhancements that enabled end-to-end solution.
. Led project teams globally by partnering with C-level executives for
resources and articulating the value proposition, objectives and project
plan.
SunGard Banks and Corporations, Fairfield, New 1999 - 2003
Jersey
3 Product/Project Manager
Directed global Product/Project Marketing and Management of hosted, SOA,
SaaS, browser-based multi-currency Global Treasury Management System
(Foreign Exchange (FX), Netting, Cash Forecasting/Management, Fixed
Income/Capital Markets, Derivatives (FX and Interest Rates) including
application security (data, user and functional), limits (counterparty and
trading), and Reports) for the back offices to standardize processes,
implement STP within front/middle/back office and improve audit/compliance
monitoring of their regional operations. Managed product planning, vision,
road-maps, FRD, enhancements, proof-of-concept, releases, project
resources, development cycles, test scripts, SME support on training,
communication, RFP, help-desk and requirements documentation.
. Achieved 25% of the division's total revenues in licenses and earned
recognition of "flagship product".
. Partnered successfully with six clients in production and five in pre-
production to help achieve their key business objectives by delivering
three major and three minor releases annually within a two year period.
. Earned management recognition for dedicated professionalism, and
commitment to superior product quality.
Verizon Wireless, Orangeburg, New York 1995 - 1999
System Architect, Provisioning 1998 - 1999
Led architectural development of a new intranet based provisioning system.
. Achieved JAVA-based proof of concept to support use cases and functional
requirements.
. Provided users with user interfaces for accessing specific subscriber
information from the wireless communications switch.
Senior Programmer Analyst, Fraud 1995 - 1998
Developed Forte (platform neutral JAVA equivalent) based system to build a
data warehouse and support business intelligence of shipping invoices
processing, detection and reduction of fraud to save on operating costs.
. Earned "Employee of the Quarter" nomination with the development of a
system that provided users with work-flow optimizations and easy access
to information.
. Automated shipment invoices tracking of cell phones with server-based
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems, reports (on-demand and
automated) and user interfaces for the staff.
2 EDUCATION
M.B.A. Certification, Rutgers Center for Management Development, New Jersey
B.A. Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey
B.A. English, Shivaji University, India
CERTIFICATIONS
Market-Driven Product Management, Pragmatic Marketing
Introduction to Financial Markets, FTI
Global Project Management, Reuters
1 TECHNICAL SKILLS
. Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), Java, SQL, Databases
. MS Products: Word, Excel, VBA, PowerPoint, Visio, Project