System Management

ANANYA SHARAN

*** ****** *****, ********* *** • Durham, NC 27707

919-***-**** • ******.******@*****.****.***

EDUCATION

DUKE UNIVERSITY, The Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC

Master of Business Administration, May 2010. GMAT: 760. Recipient of Merit Scholarship Award. Selected as Career

Fellow for 2009-2010. Teaching Assistant for Market Intelligence. Member of the Marketing, Consulting and INDUS

(South Asian Business) Club.

MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Manipal, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, June 2004. GPA 3.7 Ranked 10th in a class of 212 students. Led 4 member

team to develop a Virtual Reality system to rehabilitate patients for the College of Allied Health Sciences, India.

EXPERIENCE

Summer 2009 CLIENT OPINIONS INC., Chapel Hill, NC

Product Management Intern

• Designed and launched benchmarking study for Valuation Scenario Services division of S&P

(Europe and US). Analyzed research data and prepared reports for Industry Roundtable attracting

over 50 leaders from the financial services sector.

• Initiated and strategized a new workflow system to enhance benchmarking and research capabilities.

• Designed a pricing model for new feedback collection systems for customers such as

TrainingIndustry.com and Air Methods.

• Interviewed MBA graduates for Project Management roles.

2004 –2008 PEROT SYSTEMS, Bangalore, India

Overseas Assignment at UBS AG, London

Designer, Client Response Team, 2007-2008

• Selected from pool of 40+ candidates to support technical design needs of Client Response Team for

MEMPHIS (Multi Entity Multi Platform Highly Integrated System), increased revenue by $500K

and received an outstanding customer support award for the effort.

• Spearheaded a $1 million project to enhance the trade management system to support UBS’s off-

shore operations in Hyderabad, India; worked closely with users in London and Hyderabad to define

needs.

• Expanded system to support and automate trades of asset-backed securities resulting in cost savings

of $2 million for UBS.

• Gained significant expertise in credit default swaps, options, synthetic futures and other complex

financial instruments.

Business Analyst/Designer & Developer, 2004-2007

• Successfully modified UBS system to produce automated interest rate trade agreements in German

and reduced manual translation and drafting efforts by 70%.

• Led a 4-member team to develop a system that met Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation

(DTCC) compliance for interest rate products; system enabled UBS to respond to market needs by

auto-matching trades of DTCC compliant counterparties and reduced costs by $3.6M

• Identified the need to quantify team effort spent on defect repairs and new requirements delivery;

devised system to capture and analyze metrics to improve productivity by 25%.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Certifications: Sun Microsystems© Certified Java Programmer.

Community service: Taught English and Mathematics to underprivileged children at Social Educational and

Development Society (SEDS), India.

Other interests: Enthusiastic traveler and avid reader.

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