Executive Leadership – Technology

Executive technology management leader consistently successful in identifying, qualifying, building consensus for and implementing technologies, enterprise systems, operational intelligence and compliance and product development. Top-fight problem-solving and decision making talents. Vast experience across DevOPs, IT Security and Controls, monitoring and testing. Ably manage M&A, reorganization, and process improvement initiatives.

Broad cross-functional leadership experience with Application Development and Support, IT Operations Management (ITOM), ITSSM, Establishing COEs, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Quality and Operations, Big Data, Data Governance, Infrastructure and Project Management. Extensive experience in Regulatory requirements, developing enterprise technology framework, data standards and controls, assessing operational efficiencies, information security and people management.

Career Accomplishments

Directed major financial institutions and global Companies to ensure a strong technology culture by developing, maintaining and implementing cutting edge solutions to address business opportunities. Develop strategic plans for global implementation of large systems and operation of client services, product support and quality assurance. Initiate and enforce strict budget-controls addressing company need and promotion of growth.

Hands on experience of designing, developing and deploying Applications and Data Integration platforms; with experience over time moved into leadership and advisory position with strong knowledge of current technology ecosystem. Manage new practices design, enhancement, and remediation projects, including formulating project plans and timelines, facilitating working sessions, reporting on progress, and driving execution.

Education

M.S. Mathematics and Finance, Columbia University, New York, NY

M.S. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

B.S. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Professional Experience (25+ Years)

Citigroup, New York, NYC, NY Jan. 2011 – May 2017

Global Functions – Technology Head – Global Functions, CTO

At Citigroup initially chartered in early 2011 to bring together Global Functions Technology on a single platform, within 3 months assumed oversight of Product and Technology Group responsible for initiating, designing and deploying the applications and data analytics. Led the architecture, deployment and operations of the User Interface, data warehouse, big data platform and Infrastructure which currently has approximately 2000+ users from all regions and lines of business. Senior Citigroup Management and Board can access high-level metrics from this platform on mobile devices running on Android and iOS. Oversaw $55M operating budget and staff of 600.

Led team in applying leading edge technology to deliver innovative, dynamically interactive solutions such as Java Based UIs (ExtJS and Angular JS), Analytics platform on Big Data and Data Visualization for senior leaders.

Technologies – ORaaS RAC (Data Warehouse), Splunk, AppDynamics, Ab Initio, SAS, ExtJS, Angular JS QlikView, Microstrategy, Cassandra, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Amazon Web Services, Elasticsearch/Lucene.

Executed multiple programs in parallel to build 12 applications under the Compliance - Risk initiative

Led team in applying leading edge technology to deliver the Global Compliance and Risk’s new Corporate Scorecard and Metrics for 160 countries. As part of this program, consolidated the Auto and Manually Collected Metrics as per the Data Warehousing best practices (Inmon and Kimball). The Manual Collection application was built on ExtJS and Oracle. Data Sources comprised of all Compliance and Risk Sources and major data warehouses.

Implemented the Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment Platform comprising of the survey/questionnaire tool (replace Excel based surveys) on ExtJS/Oracle and the Assessments calculation for risk ratings in a star schema data model sourced from ODS using Oracle with SAS as front end (to replace 2000+ excel data sheets manual upload into Archer).

In 2014, initiated the Horizontal Risk Assessment Product based on high-risk products across Citigroup for all lines of business as per OCC Consent Order. This is built on Citi’s Strategic Risk-Compliance Platform and went live in Dec 2015.

Established the Center of Excellence for application performance across Citigroup on Splunk (Big Data platform) and AppDynamics for all other applications.

In 2014, designed and delivered the Institutional Clients KYC Metrics Automation platform on Angular JS / Hadoop. Approximately 35+ KYC sources including Citi KYC are being sourced; metrics are built in the ETL and accessed by KYC global community of 350 users.

Developed business cases to document opportunities (analytic, reporting, new products, services and opportunities for data monetization, etc.) enabled by emergent big data tooling (Apache Hadoop, NoSQL, and associated tools.

In 2012, linked the Citi’s Data Quality Management Process and rolled out Citigroup’s along with Issue Management and Resolution Process. By the end of 2014, a total of 350+ systems from all businesses were integrated into DQP with Monthly Scorecards and Metrics published to Operations and Technology Seniors.

Drove operating costs down 30% over 3 years while maintaining service levels through strict budgetary control and effective vendor management and onsite-offshore resource management to ensure competitive pricing.

Realigned the department into a lean, agile group to manage the use of internal Cloud services and offerings as a cohesive service. Developed, maintained and facilitated implementation of integrated IT architecture.

Responsible for ITOM and ITSSM for all my applications.

In 2015, lead the NoSQL strategy to build the real time Trade Data Analytics platform on Cassandra, Ab Initio to calculate aggregations/statistics on 15 – 18 Billion FIX messages per day. Higher latency analytics done in Hadoop using Pig and Hive (now Paxata). Data Storage, enterprise level monitoring and reporting to match and reconcile trades for all of historical Trading data was built on Hadoop/Hive Tables. The acquired data was used to perform analysis such as fraud detection, AML routines etc.

Starting 2014, Partnered with Global Technology and Operations to rollout the Global Product Citi ARC – Audit, Risk and Compliance Web based Portal as part of Franchise Risk and Strategy to report key risks – Country Risk, Model Risk, Operational, Credit Risk (wholesale and retail), AML and Trade Surveillance, Assessment/Controls and Finance. This platform to be rolled out in early 2015 will enhance the conversations with our Board of Directors, allow end users in Risk, Audit and Compliance to see a holistic picture and enhance the efforts of the global reporting units.

Delivered Risk and Operations report findings to executive management and Audit Committees, including recommendations for control enhancement and process improvement considerations based on industry best practices.

Set up the Data Triage Model and Data Acquisition Strategy to manage large number of Data sources. Partnered with CDO for Data Quality Program, active participant of Citi’s IMR (Issue Management and Reporting) process and E2E programs for data reconciliation.

Responsible for employee feedback and mentoring of direct reports.

Blackstone Group, NYC, NY Jan 2011 – Feb 2011

2 months consulting between Ambac and Citigroup. Advising CIO Office on designing and deploying applications and Data Management best practices and launching of a single client platform.

AMBAC Financial Group, NYC, NY June 2009 – Dec 2010

VP - Head and Chief Architect Technology

At Ambac Financial Group responsible for IT roadmap, re-engineer existing applications for Fixed Income - Muni Bond Financial Guarantee business model and build the platform for high latency analytics along with BI reporting. Oversaw $12M operating budget and staff of 35.

Technologies – MS SQL Server, Informatica, Talend, SAS, Cognos, Appdynamics

Responsible for establishing the Applications and Data Analytics, Visualization and Quality Vision and Strategy at Ambac Financial Group. Setup the Data Analytics and Management Road map and all subsequent planning with right mix of techniques and technologies. Responsible for construction of new data integration platform, Metadata management, Corporate Data Governance and Control Framework, Data Quality and Change Control.

Manage Architects, Development Leads, Report development leads and Data Modelers and structured the Technology team. Responsible for Application Development, ITOM, Business Intelligence (BI), and Web development and deployment of adhoc and canned reports for various SBUs.

Set up Technology Framework and Risk Assessment strategy within Ambac. Managed the 3-month project with IBM to implement the best practices for embedding risk and compliance into institutional culture. Set up the Controls Framework plan to satisfy SOX compliance and external regulators. Set up Data Quality and Change Control. Manage the DG Team to implement the Controls and ensure all projects are SOX and FASB Compliant.

Establish and maintain relationship with the Global Reporting Community as part of Statutory and FASB Reporting and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance.

Responsible for employee feedback and mentoring of direct reports.

Munich Re Group, Princeton, NJ and Munich, Germany Dec 2002 – May 2009

Director, Technology

As Director at Munich Re Group was responsible for building the application development and Data Integration Platform (DIP), Data Quality, Business Analysis and Solution Definitions; Technical Recommendations; and Testing and Project Executions. Was the “Point-of-Contact” with Sales and Marketing, Portfolio Managers, Internal Underwriters, Risk Managers, Actuaries, Controllers and Derivatives Traders for the developmental issues and challenges of Enterprise Data Integration.

Technologies – Oracle, MS SQL Server (ODS), Informatica, SAS, Appdynamics, QlikView, Cognos, SAP – FSRI and SAP – BW.

Responsible for Enterprise application Strategy and Implementation at Munich Re for Insurance, Capital Markets Investments and Reinsurance business. Also responsible for the construction of SAP BW implementation in Primary Insurance Business. This project with an annual budget of USD 25M was initiated in December 2002, implemented iteratively in multiple phases till January 2007. The budget was then reduced to USD 12M annually.

Provided leadership, direct, plan, and design for the team responsible for development, deployment and support of DIP Platform and SAP implementation. Partnered with the business team and external onsite and offshore vendors to ensure the successful implementation.

Responsible for formulation of replacing the existing legacy Data Warehouse. Worked with the global business user community and Change Management teams on timely retirement of various components of the existing Data Warehouse.

Responsible for Implementation of Data Warehouse, a long term effort, aimed at developing a new ODS and an EDW consisting of conformed normalized subject areas and dimensional data marts to enable operational and BI reporting for Sales and Marketing, Trading, Insurance and Derivatives (Equity, IR, Cat and FX) business areas.

Led the deployment of SAP BW for Primary Insurance Business, a strategic reporting platform integrated with SAP – FSRI.

Led the enterprise-wide deployment of Informatica Suite of ETL/Data Integration tools. Participated in the development and implementation of enterprise-wide Data Warehousing, Data Architecture and Data Modeling strategies.

Led the adoption and implementation of Data Architecture, Metadata Management and ETL best practices, standards, templates, and repeatable processes and subsystems.

Issues and risk management, mitigation and escalation to C-level executives for critical decision-making. Identify and control changes in projects, implement change management process to control scope changes.

Established strong risk management procedures and controls to ensure that MRAm and our clients are properly protected.

Established and maintained relationship with the Global Reporting Community as part of Statutory Reporting, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance and FAS 133.

Responsible for mentoring and employee feedback of direct reports.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE (USA)

UBS, NJ Apr 2001 - Dec 2002

Senior Consultant

Worked on structured integrated banking applications which cover the entire range of banking activities, from retail savings and loans and all corporate operations to data exchanges with payment systems and card institutions. (NKS, SWIFT etc.), and delivery of reports to the regulatory commissions.

Deutsche Bank, NYC, NY Mar 1999 - Mar 2001

Senior Consultant

Worked on the global banking product development to facilitate web deployment of banking services.

GE Capital, Stamford, CT Jan 1998 - Feb 1999

Senior Consultant

Worked with GE Legal and Tax team for management of financial, reputation and regulatory risks incurred by the GE Capital as a provider of services to its clients.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE (Cap Gemini - Europe and Asia-Pacific)

Citibank in Singapore & Australia May 1996 – Nov 1997

On-site development of a generic front-end for Regional Cash Management, automating receipt of file-based payment instructions and sending payment advises applicable to all countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

AI Translator Application Integrator) of General Electric Information Services GEIS) and CEFI Controller constitute the basic system components of CEFI. SWIFT messages are created for cross-border payment instructions involving transfer of message creation data from HP to IBM using MERVA message transmission interface.

J P Morgan, UK and Singapore Dec 1991 – Apr 1996

Analyst in a team of Developers and Business Analyst for front end banking applications.

Involved in data analysis related to the full credit life cycle (acquisitions, portfolio, and collections), ad hoc research requests, and managing partner activities.

ADDITIONAL INFO

US Citizen, available immediately.

References available upon request.

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