Software Developer Manager

ROHIT KUMAR, MBA, PMP

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EDUCATION

SIMON BUSINESS SCHOOL, University of Rochester – Rochester, NY

Master of Business Administration, Strategy & Marketing June 2017

Merit Scholarship recipient

VP: Consulting, Operations, Technology & Analytics (COTA) club, Member: Outdoor Adventure Club

THE TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND SCIENCES – Bhiwani, India June 2002

Bachelor of Technology (Honors), Computer Science

Member: Technical Society (Organized technological fests and quizzes)

CERTIFICATIONS & SKILLS

Certifications: PMP Certified – December 2016

Skills: Project Management; Business Analysis; Agile; Waterfall; JIRA; SharePoint; SQL; R; Tableau; Advanced Excel; Powerpoint;

EXPERIENCE

NORTHPOINT BUSINESS ADVISORS, LLC – Rochester, NY June 2016 – Dec. 2016

Senior Consultant Intern

Created five years’ strategic growth plan for Philips Healthcare, a multibillion healthcare device manufacturing company

Identified more than 30 M&A targets for a 100B global electronics manufacturing firm to help expand its manufacturing base in the USA

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE – Bangalore, India Sept. 2009 – July 2015

Senior Manager – Software Development (Jan. 2015 – Jul. 2015)

Managed cross-functional teams to deliver multiple product releases in agile software development environment, resulting in incremental revenues of $2m through of the success of major deliveries

Collaborated with end users in Operations and Risk divisions to understand their business needs and created requirement specifications for Default Monitoring application, reducing functional defects to below 1%

Guided quality assurance team to automate the test suite for a forex trading software, reducing regression testing cycle time by 80%

Manager – Software Development (Sep. 2009 – Dec. 2014)

Led a team of seven technical associates and quality analysts to deliver a forex and precious metals trading software, increasing revenue of the business unit by $1m

Performed root cause analysis of historical defects and formulated mitigation plan thereby reducing total defects by 25% and functional defects by 10%

Promoted a Banking Analytics software to different department heads at global headquarters of the bank in Paris, increasing the user base of the software by 200%

Conceptualized and developed processes for on-boarding and domain and project specific knowledge transfers, reducing

new joiners’ on-boarding time by 67%

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TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES – Bangalore, India Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2009

Business Analyst – Team Lead

Collaborated with multi-cultural teams from Japan, China and India to ensure smooth development of the algorithmic equity trading software, which provided annual savings of $2m

Conducted bi-weekly product demonstrations for the Hong Kong clients to validate their needs prior to the project delivery, reducing development team’s rework by 25%

Compiled business requirements document (BRD) by collaborating with equity traders in Hong Kong and finalized

scope of the algo trading software

MERRILL LYNCH – Mumbai, India Mar. 2006 – Sept. 2007

Senior Software Developer

Developed and delivered multiple exchange connection plug-ins using APIs, which helped equities and derivatives exchange trading product (X-direct) to connect with over 20 stock exchanges across the world

Awarded with “Best performer award for individual excellence” for superior performance in the equities trading project

CMC LIMITED – Pune, India July 2004 – Nov. 2005

Software Developer

Designed and developed multiple software features of a commodity exchange software used by over 100 commodity traders

Performed peer code reviews which increased the quality of the code thereby reducing number of defects in production

ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Activities: Led a team for Clean India initiative, participated in National Service Scheme as a primary school instructor

Interests : Yoga instructor, Cooking enthusiast specializing in Indian and Italian cuisines

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