Project Manager Management

SUMMARY

Comprehensive Business analysis, Product management, Technology strategy

and Software development experience, with over 18 years. Managed cross-

functional teams with diverse technical and geographical backgrounds in

planning and executing projects in financial services, wireless and

telecommunication domains. Core areas of expertise include:

? Technology Management ? Wireless/Telecomm ? Product

Management

? Enterprise Architecture ? System Integration ?Offshore

Development

? Client Relationship Mgmt ? Profit & Loss ? Vendor

Management

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, IL

MBA (Finance, Marketing and Strategy) June 2003

(Dean's Honor List, New Venture Challenge Finalist, Authored a paper on

Warren Buffet's Leadership style.)

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Buffalo, NY

MS Computer Engineering 1989

(Received NY State Research Fellowship, Published paper in IEEE Conference

on Neural Networks)

MADRAS UNIVERSITY (PSGTech) Coimbatore, India

BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering (With Honors) 1985

PROFILE

. Experienced software technologist in wireless/telecom (12 years) and

financial services (6 years)

. Business Analysis, Product Management, Vendor and Technology Evaluations

(8 years)

. Experienced building and managing relationships with External/Internal

business and product vendors (5 years)

. Managed teams of up to 12 people with onsite/offsite model (6 years)

. Highly technical with strong business and product knowledge of financial

services and telecom/wireless.

EXPERIENCE

CITI - Global Transaction Services Jersey

City, NJ

Consultant - Project Manager - Middle Office Portfolio

Management/Trading 6/08 - 3/09

. Managed rollout of Vestmark/PORTIA Managed Accounts Platform for 2 Key

clients comprising 80K accounts Responsible for business analysis

(account admin, model management, reconciliation, account rebalancing &

trading), 3rd party vendor management & End-to-End product delivery.

Established test automation frameworks for SIT, UAT and Performance

testing.

. Managed 'in sourcing' of Vestmark platform to Citi data center that to

cater to the growth in clients and accounts and to improve platform

stability inside Citi, with separation of duties rules per Citi

standards. Performed gap analysis on market data feeds used in house vs.

the vendor. Reviewed vendor contract with technology and business.

Created financial and operations model, management reports and acceptance

test plan. Expected savings: $1.5M/year

LEGG MASON, INC ((previously Citigroup Asset Management 2005-06))

Stamford, CT

Lead Business Analyst - Front Office Trading/Portfolio

Management 1/07-11/07

Consultant - Business Analyst/Project Manager (Citigroup Asset

Management) 1/05-12/06

. Global Equities Trading System: Served as the Lead BA for Fidessa Latent

Zero(Tesseract, Minerva)/PORTIA implementation to consolidate 3 legacy

front office/trading/ compliance platforms around the globe supporting

equities, FI and options trading. Created a tactical solution to

integrate Bloomberg real-time pricing feed with LatentZero and other back

office systems. (Responsible for Business/functional/technical Analysis,

system/data architectures, workflows, QA, SIT and UAT plans)

. Senior business analyst on consolidation project to centralize 3

compliance systems onto Latent Zero's Sentinel platform. Compiled

requirements, functional specs, use cases (SIT, UAT); worked closely with

business and technical teams. Guided QA team in building test cases and

assisted in testing of applications. Provided user training and

acceptance testing.

. Managed the rollout of the CRAMS project to replace GCR feeds for managed

accounts, as part of the firm wide transition to a new concentration

reporting system for SEC 13D/13G reporting.

. Performed business and systems analysis to implement Charles River /

PORTIA to implement portfolio accounting, order and trade management

workflows to replace legacy systems to increase efficiency and to reduce

operational risk for global equity, fixed income and balanced portfolios.

Eagle PACE used for reporting. Bloomberg and Reuters were used for market

data. Omgeo CTM used for post-trade to pre-settlement workflow automation

using standard STP messaging.

. Managed the rollout of the DATAWARE project for managed accounts, as part

of the firm wide implementation of employee trade monitoring and approval

platform.

. Conceptualized, developed and maintained 'Top 10 Programs' dashboard for

PMO office to aid decision making for senior management team during the

post-merger transition.

. Web Platform for Separately Managed Accounts: Managed the rollout of a

Front Office Decision Support Web Portal Platform used by the firm's

Private Portfolio Group, to manage accounts and Client Reporting

functions for 200,000+ accounts with more than $40bn in AUM. This project

involved managing the software rollout of 10 cross-functional platforms.

Responsibilities included project planning, business analysis, use case

scenarios, Model management for Accounts administration, order routing

and Client Reporting functions.

VOLANTE TECH - Data Management Solutions for Financial Services Industry

New York, NY

Consultant - Product Manager

4/04 - 12/04

. Reporting to CTO, created business and functional Business models for a

suite of message management products targeting asset management,

brokerage and clearing firms. These products provide complex message

transformations based on message definitions in the metadata repository

resulting in improved data quality, reduced errors and elimination of

hand coding without performance degradation.

ISYS INC - Technology Strategy, Telecom & IT services and business

consulting firm Chicago, IL

Principal 1996-2004

Roles: Software development, Architecture, System Engineering, Product

Management and Business analysis.

Selected clients and accomplishments include:

IT services

. Ernst &Young: Consulted with Ernst & Young, to develop content management

and workflow portal for a large travel services firm. New enhancements

increased website traffic from 100,000 to more than a million unique

users per month. Built ROI model to evaluate ASP vendors.

. Norwest: Consolidated consumer-lending systems for Norwest's post merger

efforts with Wachovia using Client-Server Technologies. Significantly

expedited the loan approval process by 50%, with the number of

applications reduced from 27 to 10.

. Options Clearing Corporation: Managed a cross disciplinary team of 8 to

develop high availability and reporting architectures for Options

Clearing Corporation's real-time options clearing system. Robust error

recovery mechanisms built into the architecture reduced the overall cost

of the platform, by $2M a year.

Telecom/Wireless

3Com: Consultant - Product Manager (team of 4)

. Managed the development of fault tolerant Network and Service Management

software for the CommWorks (VoIP, Wireless data) platform. The

architecture was designed to span across multiple operating systems and

protocols, creating one binary which was deployable across multiple

platforms. Resulted in Cost savings of $4M in software life cycle cost

over 2 years.

. Performed technology/vendor due-diligence/contract negotiations to select

real-time middleware platform.

. Performed industry analysis of on 3rd generation wireless data networks

and authored a white paper.

. Managed requirements definition and implementation of a fault-tolerant

naming service for CommWorks.

True Position: Consultant - Systems Integration (team of 3)

. Defined interface control API describing messaging interface between

Wireless Location System (WLS) and internal subsystems, drive test client

and 3rd party application vendors.

. Managed drive testing trial for wireless carriers, demonstrating location

enabled and 3rd party applications.

. Design and development of System Configuration Utility (SCOUT) used to

manage, configures and test WLS.

Motorola: Consultant - UI Designer/Product Manager (team of 6)

. Managed the Architecture definition & development of Application software

Layer (Applications & UI) for CDMA & DECT handsets.

. Engaged with marketing and carrier account teams to define custom

features and product improvements.

. Wrote concept paper on over the air software update and network phonebook

backup, which was the implemented, FOTA solution on devices shipping for

3-4 yrs.

. Assisted senior management in the contract negotiation process to select

protocol stack software vendor.

. Implemented product line extensions (for DECT) to large retail warehouse

customers with $10M new sales.

Teradyne: Consultant - Project Manager (team of 4)

. Managed requirements definition and implementation of software download

feature for 4TEL Line Test system. Rollout resulted in savings of

$500/node/year on a carrier network of 5000 systems.

Tellabs: Consultant - Software Architecture & Systems Engineering

. Software architecture, requirement analysis, tools evaluation of an

element management platform for voice-over-IP and optical switching

system. This system was based on Telecomm Management Network (TMN)

standards to enable carriers to deploy new services faster and to improve

end-to-end quality of service. Performed technology due-diligence efforts

on 2 potential acquisitions valued at $80M.

USWest: Consultant - Software Engineering

. Designed and developed a network capacity planner tool set that supported

customer service planning, implementation and management of network

capacity processes. Resulted in elimination of manual processes, that

led to consolidation of 6 call centers.

Business Consulting

. Duff & Phelps:

Evaluated early stage investments in healthcare IT sector. Performed

qualitative and quantitative due diligence. Built valuation models using

DCF, comparables and venture capital methods.

CALISYS INC - Application Integration Group San Jose, CA

Director, Solutions Delivery 1994-1996

. Managed turnkey projects in custom and packaged ERP solutions for

industrial companies with an ROI payback of less than a year due to

business process improvements realized via integrated applications.

. Setup a development center in Bangalore, India and grew the practice from

4 to 50 consultants.

. Managed global project delivery teams of varying sizes (5-30).

Responsible for $1M revenues out of $6M total.

SIEMENS - Communications Product Group Boca Raton, FL

Product Manager 1993-1994

. Gathered requirements, did competitive analysis and wrote Produce

Requirements Documents (PRDs) for network management solutions for

Siemens Frame Relay/ATM switching product line with 15MM revenue/yr.

. Led a task force of 6 people to consolidate the management traffic

(alarms and events) from 5 switch sites to one NMC site using Cisco

Router and Net Expert platform. Negotiated system integration contracts

worth $1.5 MM.

. Performed technology due-diligence and cost-benefit analysis on a $75M

software acquisition.

Technical Lead 1991-1993

. Led team of 10 engineers to design and develop network management station

software for frame relay network. Managed the outsourcing relationship

for the build out of UI software from a 3rd party vendor.

. Coordinated/Managed cross-functional software feature testing teams in

Australia, Germany and US.

. Managed the development of management agent, E1 subscriber network

interface software for Frame Relay network node of Siemens EWSM product

line.

Senior Software Engineer 1989-1991

. Design, development and testing of network management (agent, manager)

and embedded software for packet and cell switching products.

. Designed and implemented AMA Billing processor for Siemens' ATM switching

system. The software formats the raw charging data into the Bellcore

format and transmits to the RAO billing center.

. Development and testing of Administrative Processor (AP) system for X25

network. Provided training to customer support team, lead the efforts of

integration and system testing.

TVS ELECTRONICS, Bangalore, India Software Engineer

1986-1987

ENTREPRENEURIAL WORK

WIRELESSWARE - Software platform to deliver wireless applications to

handheld devices Chicago, IL

Founder 2000-2001

. Led business plan efforts, product requirements and marketing strategy.

Developed architectural prototype.

. Performed wireless industry competitive research to analyze business

model viability. Made a field trip to India, Japan and Europe to

understand the consumer behavior and usage patterns of wireless

applications.

TECHNOLOGIES

Vendor Products: Vestmark, Fidessa LatentZero(Minerva,Sentinel), Charles

River, Portia, PAM, POMS, OASYS, SWIFT, FIX, Markit

Financial Products: Equities, Fixed Income, Mutual Funds/ETF, Options and

Structured Products.

Market Data: Bloomberg, Factset, IDC and Reuters.

Financial Skills: Security Analysis, Corporate Finance and Valuation (DCF,

Multiples, Comparables and VC).

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, AbInitio, Solid, Times ten, Informix,

Access.

Languages: Java, C++, C, SQL, XML, Shell scripts, Perl, VB.

Enterprise Tools: J2EE (EJB, Servlets), Weblogic, Websphere, Hyperion,

Autosys.

Design/Methodology: Rational Rose (UML, Rumbaugh), SDLC (waterfall,

iterative, agile), DDTS, SEI/CMM.

Systems: Unix (Sun, HP, IBM), Windows NT, Linux, VAX (UNIX 4.3 BSD/ VMS),

Tandem (Guardian, UNIX)

Communications: TCP/IP, UDP, Wireless, Frame Relay, ATM, Network Mgmt,

Corba.

Other: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Erwin, Teamtrack, Clearquest.

PERSONAL

. US Citizen ? Won Eagle Scout Award from President of

India

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