Project Manager Software Engineer

Vishal Patel

**** ******* *****, 732-***-****

Avenel, NJ 07001 ***************@*****.***

SUMMARY

A senior IT leader with 13 years of extensive experience in project

management, project engineering and development. Specializing in high

performance applications in FX trading and the banking industry with proven

experience in bridging organizational goals to productive solutions. Proven

success in coaching and training agile teams of both on-shore and off-shore

resources in order to maximize productivity.

1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IO-WORKS, New York. Apr 2011- Apr 2013.

Project Manager

Project: FX-works - FX algo trading platform

Managing project expectations, communicating with management teams,

ensuring on time, on budget delivery of solution. Management of project

staffing and balanced use of on-shore and off-shore resources.

. Provide leadership on development of cloud based version of IO-WORKS's

FX trading platform by working with business leads and management

resulting in successful product release deemed critical for IO-WORKS's

strategic growth.

. Reviewed long term business goals with executive teams and identified

additional, low cost solutions to add to original project request

resulting in increased client base by 50%

. Stream lined project planning and development effort after recognizing

significant weakness in established processes common in fast growing

start up. Introduced formal processes for project planning, time line

estimation, QA testing and release management.

. Worked with multiple banks and ECNs to bring in new exchange

connectivity to the platform resulting in improved feature offerings

by the platform. FX-WORKS now offers out of the box connectivity with

more than 15 banks and ECNs due to this effort.

. Initiated simulator development efforts which resulted in faster

development and accurate testing of the system.

. Significantly reduced memory foot print and increased performance of

the platform by introducing performance testing in development life

cycle, resulting in stable and robust product. Platform now executes

trades in milliseconds.

Environment: Java, Jetty Web Server, Flex, H2O, Mina, JMS, Quick Fix

FX Alliance, New York. July 2006 - March-

2009.

Project Manager

Project: Quick Trade, Quick OMS, Aggregator, Treasury Center,

Administrative application, Archive Blotter

Managed development of multiple systems of Fxall's FX trading platform with

daily volume of approximately $80B. Responsible for overall delivery of

process implementation and software releases.

. Restored FXall's reputation and gained new source of revenue from

customers and shareholders by managing on-time delivery of white-label

version of FXall's flagship trading product, which had previously

experienced more than one year of delays

. Delivered strategically critical cross-currency-netting product on

time by leveraging prior architecture enhancements and keeping project

focused on essential deliverables in fiscally challenging environment

in which budgeted headcount was reallocated to other projects

. Delivered latest trading GUI which was earlier out sourced and was

more than 8 months delayed with serious technical and design issues

resulting in release of robust product which was keenly awaited by

board of directors

. Realized significant cost savings by developing strategic plans that

allowed customers to be migrated from third party system to FXall's

proprietary platform in corporate settings where relationship managers

were unwilling to confront risks associated with transitioning

customers

. Turned around group of 10 developers struggling to produce reliable

products by enforcing best practices and building an aligned

development team which resulted in stable software releases and more

than five-fold decrease in major and critical system issues

. Reduced memory footprint, increase performance, and reduced size of

front end trading UI application by changing object model and

continually profiling software to make incremental platform changes

resulting in UI capable of handling banks increased quoting

capabilities

. Developed replacement of phased out version of FX pricing system using

latest open source APIs. This implementation acted as test bed for

other trading system as new technologies where tested in production.

Environment: Java, SWING, JINI, Spring frame work, Hibernate, Gigaspaces,

Sonic, Oracle

Morgan Stanley, New York. (Amtex Systems) Oct 2004 -

Jun 2006

Sr. Software Engineer

Project: RiskXchange (Risk Management group)

Software engineer in Morgan Stanley's risk management technology team,

worked on implementing tools and techniques to improve system performance

and increase stability of risk management systems used by front office

users.

. Reduced memory foot print and improved performance by changing

object model and profiling the applications

. Delivered performance improvement of entitlement retrieving module

by 77% by replacing inefficient store procedure based data

retrieval with dynamic SQL query

. Improved performance of application up to 20% by changing data

architecture

. SQL optimization and by creating appropriate indexes

. Gained significant performance improvement and product stability by

identifying inefficient portion of code and replacing it with

appropriate design pattern based code

. Help client reduce unnecessary work load by developing and

periodically running data integrity reports

Environment: Java, JSP/Servlet, Sybase, Morgan Stanley internal API's, DB

Artisan

S1 Corp., Charlotte (Challenger Systems) Feb 2002 -

Oct 2004

Sr. Software Engineer

Software engineer in professional services group of S1 corps with the

responsibility to implement customized features requested by clients which

were some of the largest banks in the country. Implemented SWIFT messages

for Fed wire, book transfers, ACH as well as assisting client's IT

department in integrating online banking application with back office.

Project: US Bank & Fleet Bank (Corporate Internet Banking)

. Exclusively retained on US Bank project until completion because of

delivering stable code at faster speed resulting in increased

profit in professional services group

. Efficiently implement features requested by client using best

design patterns and coding standard which were later adopted in to

core product due to its benefits

. Helped in lowering cost of implementation by identifying and

resolving issue in development phase which would have been costly

if identified in implementation phase

. Assisted clients IT department in implementation of phased results

in successful bank wide release of new product without any black

outs

. Provided valuable input to core product team based on expertise

gained by working in professional group

Environment: Java, Visibroker - CORBA, iPlanet Server, Swing/AWT, DB2,

AIX, MQ Series

Other Projects Jan. 1998 - Jan 2002

Project: Si Partners

Environment: J2EE, JDBC, Java Servlets, Swing/AWT, JMS, LDAP, Oracle

Project: www.EuroCircuits.com Automated Administration System (AAS)

Environment: Cold Fusion 3.0, Sybase

Project: www.MyCSIL.com (B2B Portal)

Environment: Java Applets, Swing, Sybase, JDBC, RMI

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Finance from Gujarat University - India.

Advance Diploma in Computer application from Academy of Computer Technology

- India.

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