Project Manager Development
Resume:
S antanu Sengupta
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S UMMARY
M ore than thirteen years of experience in leading the technology development teams through the
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full development and implementation lifecycle – spanning across domains related to trading, prime
brokerage, pricing, performance analytics, risk management, compliance, clearing and accounting
of various securities, primarily equities.
P articipation in business and governance functions such as preparation of application inventory,
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implementing corporate mandates, supporting audit activities, construction and tracking of
matrices, Financial Analysis and Budgeting, Operational Efficiency Improvement and Strategic
Planning and vendor relationship management.
E xtensive experience in interacting with traders, analysts, vendors, offshore implementation teams
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and other stakeholders in various financial environments for understanding of requirements and
explanation of tools and technologies.
U nderstanding of Finance and Investment concepts including various fundamental security types,
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derivatives, asset pricing theory, risk analysis and related computational techniques such as
financial modeling, numerical methods and statistical analysis.
M entored junior staff in various technology and leadership development programs.
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C OMPUTER SKILLS
P aradigms/Processes
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P latform/Architecture etc.: Object Oriented Analysis Design and Development, Service Oriented
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Architecture (SOA), Data Architecture and strategy, Complex Event processing (CEP)
P rocesses: Rational Unified Process, Agile Development
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Languages/Technologies
P roficient in: Microsoft Visual C++® and C#/.net, Unix C++, Java/J2EE/JDBC/JMS, APAMA
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monitorscript
F amiliar with: Microsoft Visual Basic® and VBA, MATLAB, MQSeries, Sonic, FIX Protocol
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Software
D atabase: Oracle, TimesTen, SQL SOA Platform: WebSphere Process Server
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T ools: WebSphere Integration Developer, APAMA Dev Studio, Market data (Reuters, Bloomberg)
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Microsoft Office, scripting
P latforms: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows® 2000, Microsoft Windows XP
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E DUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
B achelors of Engineering (Electrical/Computers) –Bengal Engineering and Science University, India
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M asters of Business Administration (Finance/Technology) – Northeastern University, U.S.A.
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E XPERIENCE
2 001-Present
S tate Street Corp.
D ivision: SSGM
L ead the development, enhancement and maintenance effort of multiple trading applications
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including OMS, smart order routing, connectivity to trading venues, pricing, compliance and
clearing using the various trading technologies. Manage the development of various interfaces
with trading systems (Fidessa), market data providers (Reuters) and external reporting agencies
such as NASDAQ and BOAT. Consolidate the data strategy and create a shared data platform for
all trading data.
C onduct business and governance functions such as development of technology best practices and
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standard operating processes, preparation of application inventory, implementing corporate
mandates, supporting audit activities and construction and tracking of matrices.
C ontribute to the overall equities vision architecture by architecting the long-term technology
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strategy for the SSGM Equities team. Providing overall guidance on the technology development
process by leading programs such as architecture review, technology brown bag session etc.
I mprove operational efficiency by leading the effort for streamlined development and automated
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build/release process.
W ork with project manager to create the project plans, release schedule etc., coordinate with
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infrastructure teams for capacity provisioning and enterprise-wide infrastructure efforts and work
with strategic sourcing for licensing, vendor contract etc.
D ivision: Investor Services
L ed various projects from inception to deployment
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1. R e-design of the Performance and Analytics system and related databases that
calculates the performance parameters like the market value, net present value,
Internal rate of return etc. and generates various reports based on the analysis of
data.
2. D evelopment of the price sourcing system that acts as a centralized acquisition,
storage, and distribution mechanism of securities prices for all the applications
within the company that requires the prices of equity, fixed income and other assets
for valuation and other purposes.
3. D eutsche Bank integration effort by analyzing the functional gap and implementing
features such as pooling accounting, hierarchical pricing, flexible fund cycle and
other accounting functions on top of State Street’s NavAlert Platform.
4. D evelopment of a scalable and multi-threaded Financial Calculation Engine based on
the Formula One ActiveX Control (Server side component that is similar to MS Excel)
5. C onversion of NavAlert Application to Microsoft Visual Studio .net platform.
6. I mplementation of Market Data Monitoring system to ensure data quality from
various sources.
7. A utomated delivery of Mutual Fund NAVs to NASDAQ CTCI.
P articipated in business and governance functions such as preparation of application inventory,
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implementing corporate mandates, supporting audit activities, construct and tracking of matrices,
vendor relationship management etc.
E valuated and selected platforms/technologies/frameworks, design the core components of the
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application, review design, code and test plans. Define and implement standards, best practices
and processes.
C ommunicated and coordinated with other development teams, offshore teams, business teams
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and upper management. Mentored junior developers.
P articipated in establishing priorities, release planning and deployment scheduling activities.
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2 000-2001
V iridien Technologies
D ivision: eSolutions
T echnical Manager - Led the development, release and deployment of various ecommerce
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applications including CVS.com and Woolworths.com e-Commerce sites using J2EE technologies.
I ntegrated the backend content management system with the e-Commerce site.
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P articipated in prototyping and designing a mobile commerce framework.
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P articipated in pre-sales presentations as a technology expert.
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1 999-2000
S tate Street Corp
D ivision: Mutual Funds Services
T echnical Lead - Participated in design and development of the NavAlert System to automate the
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daily routines of fund accounting while eliminating manual intervention. This effort automates the
calculation, validation and dissemination of key daily fund data using a workflow risk management
system.
A uthored a white paper on using three tier distributed architecture to make the system more
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modular and reusable.
C reated various scripts to automate routine development tasks.
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1 996-1999
T ata Consultancy Services
D ivision: Financial Systems and Applications
T echnical Team Member - Participated in the development of a web based configuration tool to
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manage and configure various asset data for one of CITIBANK Japan’s asset management
systems.
P articipated in the development of a publishing system that provides functionality to load, review,
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modify, store and distribute internal and external mutual fund performance and related reference
data.
P articipated in the development of an Integrated project management system is a tool to
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automate and centralize the regular project management activities.
P articipated in the development of a Year 2000 Analysis tool to speed up the analysis process of
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the vast number of Y2K project it got. Depending upon the input date pattern and data structures
the tool parses the program code and finds all the possible places of hazards.
C ERTIFICATIONS/COURSES
S OA using IBM Process Server
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L inux Fundamentals and System Administration – Boston University
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C # application development and data access using Visual Studio 2005.
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M ATLAB Fundamentals – The Mathworks
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A PAMA Algorithmic Trading Platform – Progress Software
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P rinciples and Qualities of Genuine Leadership – State Street Corp.
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D elegating for Shared Success – State Street Corp.
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S trategic Thinking – State Street Corp.
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U nderstanding the securities Industry – State Street Corp.
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