Background encompasses more than * years of experience in Wall Street
(Trade Support - Equity/Options/FX/Bonds market makers, Quant Support -
liquidity/market data/order fill rate/identifying "profit" stocks, Back
office - trade clearing operations)
Summary of Qualifications
. Senior level front office trade support
. Expertise in complete trading life cycle (trade, clearance, security
reporting (NYSE, NASDAQ - OATS).
. Expertise in Equity/Options Market Making application support
. Expertise in Equity/Options front office support/maintenance,
development, testing, end client certification.
. Expertise in Sybase, PSQL, Unix, Perl
. Knowledge in C, object oriented C++, C#
Professional (Market Maker system design/maintenance) Experience
Company : Citadel Investment Group march 2008-Jan 2010
Designation: Trade Support Analyst
Project : Citadel Execution Services (Market Maker team)
Location : Chicago
. Manage/support the entire 'Market Maker' trading system in Citadel.
Assist traders in technical/FIX issues.
. Work with traders on identifying liquidity/order execution Fill
Rate/Market Data Utilization Edge
. Work with quants/business to identify/generate report of most volatile
stocks/most traded stocks et al.
. Work with IT development team for system design/order execution speed
. Complete technical assistance to traders starting from new client's
test trade to live day to day trading.
. Assist back office for clearance of trades.
. Assist NASDAQ OATS clearance with business/compliance team.
. OATS software development/maintenance (complete oats software
development from scratch)
. Assist clients/exchanges with End of Day reports
(development/maintenance of reports).
. Develop/Maintain scripts which would check and give clearance for
start of day and end of day for the entire Market Making business.
Company : Sun Trading LLC, Feb 2010 - Oct 2010
Designation: Trade Support Administrator
Project : Sun Trading Solutions
Location : Chicago
. Start the entire 'Market Maker' trading system (IT) from scratch.
Build the entire market maker trading system platform (IT).
. Work with traders on identifying liquidity/order execution Fill
Rate/Market Data Utilization Edge
. Work with quants/business to identify/generate report of most volatile
stocks/most traded stocks et al.
. Establish/Test network and FIX connectivity with clients and establish
connection in production.
. Complete technical assistance to traders starting from new client's
test trade to live day to day trading.
. Assist back office for clearance of trades.
. Develop/Maintain scripts which would check and give clearance for
start of day and end of day for the entire Market Making business.
(Perl, Shell scripting)
. Developed complete Sun Trading Solutions intranet web page for
authorized client/management use. (CGI perl)
Company : Open Systems Technologies, Nov 2010 - July 2012
Designation: Senior Software Engineer
Client : Credit Suisse
Project : Investment Banking Rates Support
Location : New York
. First point of IT contact on Credit Suisse Rates trading desk for any
and every IT issues (3 member IT team in NY).
. Work with business/IT teams on live Risk/PNL issues on daily basis.
Analyze/Report to senior IT management about day to day IT issues in
the trading desk.
. Perform SOD checks across the system and give clearance for start of
day trading to the desk.
. Monitor live processes state, trade breaks from previous business
days, new trader/sales set up issues
. Establish/Test issues with dev/testing/sales teams.
. Complete technical assistance to traders/sales starting from new
client's/trader's test trade to live trades.
. Assist back office/middle office for clearance of trades.
. Develop/Maintain scripts which would check and give clearance for
start of day and end of day for the business. (Perl, Shell scripting)
. Developed scripts which would assist in finding faulted trades
(causing bad risk/PNL etc)
Company : Experis Manpower, Jul 2012 - Current
Designation: Senior Consultant
Client : Morgan Stanley
Project : Investment Banking Rates Support
Location : New York, USA/Chennai, India
. Front office Trade Support operations (Foreign Exchange) in a global
financial services firm
. Manage/Support FX cash/options and Ecomm IT plant.
. Perform Ready for Business checks (start of day)/Handover (end of day)
checks in FX IT plant
. Support traders on their Trades Risk and their Profit and Loss during
trading hours
. Assist back office/middle office for clearance of trades.
. Monitor/Assist system alerts in the IT plant
. Monitor/Assist client/exchanges FIX (Financial Information Exchange)
connections.
Other (IT) Experience:
Company : Tata Consultancy Services, Nov 2006 - mar 2008
Designation : IT Analyst
Client : Morgan Stanley
Project : Post Execution Processing
Location : New York
Technical Skills : Perl/Unix/Shell/Sed/Regular Expressions/Autosys/Sybase
. Lead a team of two member's offshore (Canada)
. Bridge between front office equity team and back office at Morgan
Stanley
. Complete assistance to front office technical/business team in
clearing the trade to back office.
. Assist Back office/Compliance team in clearing the trades.
. Develop/Maintain scripts/web pages which assist traders (for example
locate a trade in the entire trading system and its journey from
client to back office)
. Stress, Load, Performance testing of components
. Development/Maintenance of scripts for regression testing.
Project : FC2 Renovation
Location : Pune, India
Technical Skills : Perl/Shell/Regular Expressions/Sybase
Trading applications migration from Unix/Linux (Europe Trading
Applications)
Rebuilding/Testing applications (from shell to perl)
Testing compatibility with Linux.
Check scripts for Infrastructure(Linux systems), Database Stress.
Company : Skyscape.com India Private Limited May 2005 -
Feb 2006
Designation : Software Developer
Project : Health care books in PDA
Location : Navi Mumbai, India
Technical Skills : Perl/XML/HTML
The project encompass digitizing textual information from published media
books like books, journals in medical fields and viewing on PDA's using
Palm and WinCE's.
Project involves development in Perl for converting, mapping and validating
XML, HTML, Quark data.
The application data is parsed via perl routines (developed by me & team),
formatted using style sheet and made compatible to palm and wince.
Education
B.Tech Information Technology (2000-2004)
Madurai Kamaraj University
VYOM labs software testing certification, Mumbai.