Project Manager Quality Assurance

Suresh Babu

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Well qualified Project Manager / Business Analyst with extensive experience

in financial services. Expert in project management, design, development,

migration and implementation. Diverse technical expertise derived from

rapid learning and effective application of cutting-edge technology. Highly

communicative team leader who motivates and mentors people at all levels of

technical expertise. Facilitate problem-solving teams that accurately

assess technical challenges and successfully transform ideas into

appropriate workable solutions.

CORE KNOWLEDGE & SKILL AREAS

? Equities & Fixed Income? Listed & Credit Derivatives ? Mortgages ?

Asset/Risk Management? Analytical & Quantitative Skills ? IT background

? Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software & Languages: Perl, Shell scripting, POWERBUILDER 10.X, 7.X,

5.X, Microsoft Excel VBA, C#, XML, C, C++, SQL, Perl, XML, HTML, Microsoft

Visual Studio .NET, PEOPLE SOFT, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, PL SQL,

DB Artisan, Rapid SQL, OBIEE.

Databases: SYBASE, SYBASE IQ, ORACLE, 10g/9i/8i, SQL SERVER, DB2, MS

Access.

Other Tools: SQL*PLUS, Share Point, Rational Clear Case (SCM), Sub

Version.

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, UNIX, LINUX, SOLARIS

Management Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Credit Suisse, New York, NY

1999 - 2012 Project Manager / Business Analyst:

Reference Data Hub (RDH):

The Reference Data Hub - A central

global hub for Clients, all asset classes [Products] & Event master

reference data into a single, unified service available to all [front,

middle and back-office] applications within the bank. Managed & led cross

functional teams throughout entire project cycle.

Listed/OTC Derivatives:

Calculated the mark to market on

open positions, the initial and minimum margin requirements, cash and

account liquidating value based on positions by the number of contracts

bought or sold, contract description, and closing price. The main

instruments include futures contracts, options on futures, options on

listed equities, bonds, and equities. Calculated CVA Variability Charge

related to Basel III Counterparty Credit Risk [EEPE - Stressed/Unstressed]

for OTC Derivatives. US Regulatory

Reporting System:

Provided technical / managerial oversight (design, development &

implementation) in creation of financial reports and other mandatory

information that is required by the legal framework. [ (FR 2900, 2004),

Treasury International Capital (TIC-C, TIC-D, TIC-S), Bureau of economic

Analysis (BE- 605, BE-185, BE-15),Treasury Foreign Currency reports ( FC-

1,FC-2,FC-3) & Quarterly Services Survey (QSS) ] Data ware

house (Financial Data Mart):

Consolidated data model (CDM) for all product control subsystems for trades

and positions. It's a complex network of many heterogeneous subsystems for

data processing, data transmission, data storage, and data reporting. ETL

services prepare data for downstream systems asynchronously by performing

various data consolidation, enrichment, de-duplication and normalization.

Daily Monthly P&L

System (DMPLS): This system

performs daily P&L reporting, posting of daily journals to GL. It also

produces a series of reports for foreign securities based on GLI data for

use by the Tax department. The system feeds the SYBASE Data Warehouse with

trading P&L for Positions & Trades for NTPA positions. Non-NTPA P&L is

loaded from external feeds for Fails, Vision, MRS sales credits, pl.

Interest, repo, vision, swaps and settlement Balance Sheet

Inventory Reporting Tool - (BIRT)

Reporting tool to reconcile inventory balance sheet mounts between People

soft, Firm Inventory, Daily monthly & profit and loss system and Global

Price Master. This tool is critical to the bank's reconciliation process

and facilitates the product control function of verifying and signing off

on People Soft inventory GL account balances. Functionality includes

reconciliation by department, market value and positions.

OPERA for Mortgages (OFM)

Front to back reconciliation systems for mortgage backed securities.

.Involved in the development of system enhancements and participated in the

design and implementation. Month End Adjustment Reporting Tool (MAART) &

Index Arbitrage (IA): The system captures profit opportunities

between index futures and the cash market, minimizing risk exposure and

maximizing return. It continuously monitors futures and equity prices, buys

or sells future contracts and hedges the position with a basket of

equities. System is directly connected to the derivate and equity exchanges

to achieve low-latency and high transaction volume.

Skill Set Includes:

. Extremely strong IT background, specialized in building and strengthening

various financial systems and corporate information systems.

. Co-ordinate with Program Managers, System Architects and Development

teams. Communicate effectively with senior management.

. Worked closely with traders and product controllers. Extensive experience

in gathering, managing and documenting business (BRD) & functional

requirements & development experience of various data feed requirements

for financial products.

. Analyze existing systems and develop technical and functional

specifications. Performed gap analysis to compare the existing system

with the proposed system

. Analyzed, defined, documented and communicated business requirements and

solutions for a new Financial Data Mart. Redesign bank reconciliation

process. Automated delivery of various reports to regulators via ftp &, e-

mail.

. Experienced in writing User requirements specification (URS), Functional

requirements specification (FRS) documents as per the business

requirements and process flow.

. Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional

requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams. Produced

high level project plans.

. Worked as a liaison among business stakeholders to understand business

problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and recommend

solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

. Able to handle and perform effectively on multiple projects under high

pressure situations and consistently met tight deadlines.

. Worked on designing Test strategy test plans and test cases for

functional integration testing (FIT), regression (RIT) and user

acceptance testing (UAT) to improve overall quality of the application.

. Provided technical support for various applications that tracks P&L,

commodity futures & options positions,

. Defined requirements and collaborated on the design and development for

several financial systems.

. Well versed in Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System

Integration, and Scheduling.

. Created functional requirements for Basel II & Basel III to acquire data

from various financial systems to streamline firm wide financial analysis

and reporting.

. Designed and developed the entire intraday / overnight batch for various

systems using UNIX - Shell & Perl Scripts. Involved in writing SQL

scripts & stored procedures.

. Developed, maintained & supported front, middle, and back-office systems,

portfolio management systems, risk management systems and market-data

systems.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prudential Insurance, New Jersey, NJ

1997 - 1998

Group Life and Disability Insurance System (GLDI)

Contributed to design and all phases of [GLDI]- project planning,

development, implementation.

EDUCATION

. Master of Business Administration, Finance Management:

PACE UNIVERSITY, New York, NY

. Bachelor of Computer Science & Engineering:

MADRAS UNIVERSITY, Tamil Nadu, India.

Status: Green Card

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