Manan Shah
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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Barclays Capital, New York City, NY, Analyst
(Sep 2008 - Present )
. Provide bi-weekly project updates key initiatives underway in Equity
Synthetic to senior management in Prime IT
. Manage the prioritization queue of requested enhancements for Delta1
raised by various stakeholders (MO/IT/desks)
. Working on incorporating an inventory of all outbound feeds from
Delta1
. Working on a project to integrate SRD with FI systems to obtain
bucketed delta risk by tenor for equity swaps at SOD
. Working to identify an alternative system of counterparty data for
Delta1 since the current source (EM) is being retired
. Facilitated in migrating the opening balances for Single Stock Swaps
and Portfolio Swaps from GOS to FISS
. Analyzed and documented the various risk monitoring metrics for equity
swaps and hedges that will facilitate the desks globally to identify
breaks on the Synthetics Risk Dashboard at SOD
. Analyzed and documented the requirements for US Compliance reports for
single stock swaps and portfolio swaps
. Analyzed and saw-through the development of expected versus actual
payments' workflow for all swaps in Delta1 downstream to FISS and TDB
to ensure that Finance Control have a better handle on payment breaks
while journaling
. Gathered and documented the requirements for breakable swaps in Equity
Swap Manager screen and oversaw the development and the testing of the
new feature in the UAT environment
Lehman Brothers, New York City, NY, Analyst
(Mar 2008 - Sep 2008 )
. Analyzed the business requirements of the traders for the front end
GUI application and made the necessary changes that will enable them
to be more effective in performing trades
. Supported the traders with the positions they hold and helping them
resolve issues in case there are breaks in the Global Positions
Management tool
. Worked with Operations team to analyze and develop the workflow for
the 'reconciliation process' to achieve close to 0% breaks at the
start of day
Autodesk - AutoCAD Product Group, San Rafael, CA, Business Analyst Intern
(May 2007 - Aug 2007)
. Developed Business Partner Relationship document for the CIO to help
him understand levels of contact in case an outage occurs and how it
would be escalated
. Acted as a liaison between the business process managers, technical
personnel and subject matter experts to identify 182 unique functional
requirements for the new Autodesk tool
. Interviewed 33 executive level subject matter experts worldwide to
develop the RFPs that were sent to the vendors
. Helped create flow diagrams for core process areas (ITIL) that were
used in formulation of the strategy for the roadmap.
. Automated spreadsheet/data modification for Change Management Group
using JavaScript, VB embedded in HTML
. Updated and improved Autodesk's SLAM Chart Application (Real-time GUI)
using ASP, JavaScript, VB Scripts embedded in HTML and Oracle that was
used to display the status of critical business services all over the
organization
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Masters in Information Systems Management
(Dec 2007) GPA- 3.58
City University, London M.S. in Business Systems Analysis and Design
(Dec 2005) Merit (Higher 2.1)
University of Mumbai Bachelor of Engineering in Computers
(July 2003)
TRAINING & COURSEWORK
Carnegie Mellon University - Project Management, Negotiations, Business
Process Modeling, Service Management
SKILLS
Java, HTML, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, MS Project, MS Excel, Rational Rose (UML)
LEADERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES
. Volunteered at Acorn school in Brooklyn with other Lehman Brothers'
employees to help paint walls
. Treasurer of Carnegie Mellon University's Service Management
Organization (CMU-SMO)
. Worked with nonprofit organizations to organize 'Community Service
Event' for 25 summer interns at Autodesk
. Organized and participated in Meals of Marin community service event
for 4 Autodesk employees where we prepared food (breakfast, lunch and
dinner) for 79 people fighting life-threatening diseases
. Represented Autodesk at San Francisco Aids Walk.