Project Manager Management
Resume:
Eshan Ch
Email: ********@*******.***
Address: Huntsville,AL,35801
City: Huntsville
State: AL
Zip: 35801
Country: USA
Phone: 602-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: Negotiable
Willing to Relocate
Primary Skills/Experience:
5 years of extensive experience in Financial Services Industry with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experienced in extracting, analyzing, specifying and validating business process requirements and preparing detailed specifications, project plans, business case and implementation plans.
Skilled in using MS office applications for day to day activity, Ms Visio for drawing flow diagrams.
Experienced in following projects from conception to production and a strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Worked in all phases of the project: Planning, Requirement Gathering, Change Request Management, Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing.
Extensively used various SDLC methodologies such as RUP, RAD, and Agile for development of the software systems.
Organized Joint Application Developments (JAD), Interviews, Workshops and Requirement Elicitation sessions with clients.
Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Cost benefit analysis.
Established and documented business processes with internal groups, vendors, and customers for Change Management Process.
Mercury Quality Center, SQL, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Rational Rose, Microsoft Windows XP/2000, FIX Engine, UML, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager
Educational Background:
Financial
Job History / Details:
ESHAN CH
Business Analyst
Phone: 602-***-****
Email:********@*******.***
Location: Huntsville, AL
Open to relocate Nationwide in US
Available Immediately for Contract Jobs
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
5 years of extensive experience in Financial Services Industry with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experienced in extracting, analyzing, specifying and validating business process requirements and preparing detailed specifications, project plans, business case and implementation plans.
Skilled in using MS office applications for day to day activity, Ms Visio for drawing flow diagrams.
Experienced in following projects from conception to production and a strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Worked in all phases of the project: Planning, Requirement Gathering, Change Request Management, Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing.
Extensively used various SDLC methodologies such as RUP, RAD, and Agile for development of the software systems.
Organized Joint Application Developments (JAD), Interviews, Workshops and Requirement Elicitation sessions with clients.
Experienced in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Cost benefit analysis.
Established and documented business processes with internal groups, vendors, and customers for Change Management Process.
Involved in business process re-engineering and workflow architecture.
Highly proficient in interacting with business users and authoring Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Collaboration diagram, State-chart diagram, Component diagram, based on UML methodology using CASE tools like MS Visio and Rational Rose.
Strong knowledge of Financial Statements, Financing Structures, Derivatives, Capital Management, Portfolio Management, Performance Measurement, Stock Valuation, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking and Brokerage, Valuation of Fixed Income Securities, Debt hedge accounting, Applied Mathematics, and Capital Markets.
Knowledge of modeling of Options, Futures, Forwards, Exotics, Swaps and other derivatives, and Variable Products such as Variable Annuities and Variable Life.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Mercury Quality Center, SQL, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Rational Rose, Microsoft Windows XP/2000, FIX Engine, UML, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
JPMC, New York, NY 05/2011- Present
Business System Analyst
JPMC provide services in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity.
The Project objective was to develop Pricing model for Fixed Income and to assist Managers in carrying out various kinds of Mergers & Acquisition analysis.
Responsibilities:
Participated in Data Analysis and Design with the Data Architect in defining data sources and required data content for the data warehouse component.
Generated daily and weekly Fixed Income (bonds) and Derivatives (Swaps, Options) analysis for front office and financial management, using Excel PivotTable and SQL query(DML and DDL commands)
Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
Analyzed Business Requirement Documentation and Functional Specification Documentation using UML methodologies.
Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design of the fixed income pricing module.
Tracked the defects in legacy reports as per end users. Compared the results and tracked the differences in excel
Experienced in developing Test Cases and Test Plans based on business requirement.
Developed the objectives and strategies for client portfolios and actively assisted and participated in the investment decisions which impacted the Fixed Income Portfolio.
Created Data Flow Diagrams and business process flowcharts on which the actual system architecture would be based.
Maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the deliverables of a project.
Extensively worked on creating User Requirement Specifications (URS), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), and Business Process Documents and also developed System Requirements.
Collaborated with IT and other internal departments to ensure proper sales credits allocation and data integrity.
Conducted Financial Statement Impact Analysis and What-If Scenario Modeling Using Hyperion (Strategic Finance).
Performed financial research and analysis, additional projects and responsibilities as assigned
Environment: Windows XP/7, XML, MS SQL Server 2005, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office Suite 2007, MS Project, UML, RUP, MS Visio 2007, Crystal Reports 8.5, Oracle 9i.
GENESIS SECURITIES, NY 02/2010 04/2011
BUSINESS ANALYST/ QUALITY ANALYST
Genesis Securities provide services in equity trading over the counter. The Project involved building a web based trading platform for Equities and Equity Derivatives (Options). The project incorporated understanding and documenting the complete trade life cycle and making STP (Straight through processing) of trades. A trade involves multiple stages, from front office to middle office to back office, each of which requires specific activities to be performed.
Responsibilities:
Gathered requirements by means of interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, business analysis and workflow analysis.
Specialized in QA and Software Testing of Client/Server and Multi-tier Applications
Documented and communicated system requirements and supplementary requirements like complying with industry regulations such as Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Demonstrated strong analytical and project management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
Interviewed SMEs, asked detailed questions and carefully recorded the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
Served as a liaison between business and technology and was responsible for meeting with business users, writing business and technical requirements, and developing and executing test scripts.
Conducted milestones planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings with various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams.
Performed and coordinated the analysis and design of business systems.
Communication protocol FIX (Financial Information exchange) was used for basic order flow related to cash trades and for real time exchange of information.
Complete understanding of trading: how trade is executed and in depth knowledge of the data flow of the equity from front office to back office.
Extensively worked on middle office process and its control, this includes handling validations (of stock orders), booking (orders) and confirmations of orders.
Knowledge of institutional trade processing (including electronic trade confirmation, matching, Straight through processing (STP) and current industry initiatives).
Worked on all phases of a project from inception to delivery.
Agile methodology was used to support the system.
Involved in different phases of Test effort like Integration testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance testing.
Environment: Windows XP/2000, MS-SQL Server, MS Office Suite, Visual Studio, MS-Project, HTML, XML, Rational Request Pro, Test Director.
Mass Mutual, Springfield, MA 09/2008 12/2009
Business Analyst
Mass Mutual offers securities and investment advisory services through MML Investors Services, Inc. which is a broker-dealer, by offering a wide array of quality investment products and services.
Helped in implementing straight through processing solution to build and automate a mutual fund and variable annuity order entry system with suitability checks in accordance with FINRA 2821 rule. This involved integration of the order entry system with the back office system.
Responsibilities:
Identified Business Requirements for new/revised automated systems.
Worked with Legal and Compliance for compliance specific requirements.
Reviewed, analyzed, and documented current and future business process flows
Used Agile methodology for business analysis.
Developed and wrote test plans specifications to incorporate all design features for new products, enhancements to existing systems due to legal changes or system upgrades.
Research system problems, document and communicate findings.
Responsible for facilitating the UAT process with the Users for the Business.
Evaluated and made recommendations from a business perspective, the feasibility of designing/revising new or existing computer systems
Analyzed and documented business processes and determined high level business requirements by interacting with the business users.
Used Mercury Quality Center 9.0 for all type of change requests including defects, enhancements, issues and documentation changes
Assisted the development and documentation of test scenarios and test cases based upon existing business requirements
Provided input to PM on project status denoting any yellow/red flags and business impacts
Interfaced with vendor to communicate requirements and issues as well as resolution of defects Requirements/Competencies
Environment: Agile Methodology, UML, Web services, XML, WSDL, SOAP, J2EE, Omega, Emtex, Expressions, FileNet
Windward Investment Management, Boston, MA 06/2007 07/2008
BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST
Windward Investment Management provides investment strategy advice to wealthy clients, trust funds, pensions, and endowments. The project was about INHOUSE eRISK software protocol meant to automate the process for decision-making and review of their financial services to keep track of historical data, Statistics, Market Data, Evaluation on Investments, Fixed Income and Derivates and also to make enhancements in the credit risk management system to prepare detailed analysis.
Responsibilities:
Prepared the Vision and scope documents for the project and worked closely with the Project Manager in planning, scheduling, coordination and implementing methodology.
Responsible for Gathering Requirements from the Quantitative Risk Analysts and Portfolio Managers to produce Business and Functional Requirements for Risk Management Application.
Responsible for regular interaction with the Equities, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange Division to gather Market Data to base the Market Risk Analysis.
Created analytical models that estimate future credit risk and losses at the account level for all existing and prospective loan products.
Developed risk tracking analysis and risk performance measures, such as custom score cards, for all Bank loan products.
Ensured that relevant UML diagrams and Tools were used in all requirement documents and prepared Use Case Models, Flow Diagrams, Sequential Diagrams in MS Visio.
Assisted the development team during the 2nd and 3rd iteration using the RUP model.
Managed critical paths and bottlenecks in conjunction with Project Tracking Reports for Senior Management.
Performed Feasibility Analysis for the proposal of the new system.
Conducted Gap Analysis to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system.
Extensively used MS Excel for data reconciliation purposes and assisted developers in creating Macros for data Reconciliation purpose.
Environment: MS Windows 2000, MS Office 2003, Rational Suite 2003/2001 (Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest), SQL Server 2005/2000, Toad, Oracle 9i/10g, HP (Quality Center 9.2, QuickTest Professional 8.2/9.2).
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science
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