Manager Project

DANNY MOHAN POORAN PERSAUD

Orlando, Florida

Email: *****.*******@***********.***

Cell #: 321-***-****

SUMMARY

Front office development: Twelve years of front office development, working alongside traders. Implemented front, middle and back office functionality. Delivered order management, pricing, trade capture, P&L and market risk functionality. Experience of Fixed Income, FX, Bonds, Repo and Equity Derivatives products. Managed global development teams of ~20, in 4 locations. Managed numerous projects to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions which meet specific business needs.

Project Management and Business analysis: Business systems analysis and problem resolution experience. Knowledge of project management methodologies (waterfall, RAD/Agile), software development best practices, business process improvement and reengineering techniques, and iterative product development.

Technology: Experience of mission critical trading applications co-development and implementations. Skilled in global system development and deployment, interfacing to trade processing systems, risk management and limits applications. Knowledge of RPC, distributed object and message based systems architecture. Experience of Windows and UNIX platforms, relational databases. Good knowledge of OO development especially C++ and Java.

Management experience: Responsibility for, and experience of budget definition and management, and, cost allocations. Management and delivery of IT production services, Service Delivery (Change, Incident and Problem Management). Software License and Asset Control. Experience of client/vendor relationship environments.

Success is achieved by establishing strong business relationships, being delivery focused to meet business objectives and maintaining effective communications with business heads.

SKILLS

Development tools: Java, C & C++

SQL databases: Sybase, Oracle

Middleware: Corba (Iona), Tibco/Rendezvous

Operating Systems: WINDOWS, UNIX

PMP qualified (Project Management Professional)

ISTQB Certified Software Tester

EXPERIENCE

UBS Investment Banking Technology (Zurich) Contract through RMIT 9/2016-2/2018

Program Manager

Budget resp: ~4.5m CHF

Responsible for ensuring the regulatory reporting requirements for IB FX Post Trade are met in a timely and complete manner. This is one component of a wider strategic regulatory reporting program. Responsible for managing a pool of FX IT Business Analysts to drive delivery of the regulatory reporting requirements, which includes planning solution delivery with multiple development team, and coordination of Front-2-Back QA testing.

Ensuring project planning for multiple reporting jurisdictions

Risk management and mitigation; Issue management and resolution

Proactive communication of status of plans, tasks, milestones, risks, issues, etc.

Effective steering of projects and key decisions

People management of both direct and matrix reports

Regulators included CFTC, ESMA, ASIC, MAS, HKMA etc.

Zurich Insurance (Zurich) 11/2012-8/2016

Senior Project Manager

Budget resp: ~1.0m CHF

The department is responsible for the applications used across Investments Administration and Accounting. I was responsible for implementing a global Test and Release Management process, which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications. Implementation of the governance process for projects and initiatives. Key factors include: review of test strategy, cases, project plans and results reports. Driver is to improve consistency of approach and raise quality of delivery. Also responsible for planning and controlling testing for a major application upgrade which was rolled out globally in August 2013.

Established a risk based approach to testing for the August release

Consistent test methodology for all regions

Single tool used to track testing cases and defects

Improved management reporting

Initiated IFRS 9 project

UBS Global Asset Management (Zurich) Contract - FDM 10/2011-11/2012

IT Project Manager

Budget resp

Background: Contract role covering whilst the Department Head was on maternity leave. The role was Head of Production Services (Switzerland) with responsibility for Application Support, Service Management and Quality Assurance. The Swiss team is one hub of a global team with specific responsibility for the support of 44 applications in the Swiss region, and can support a further 110 applications globally. On joining the group, my primary focus was establishing close working relationship with the business users to improve the quality of service delivered to them. This had suffered since the permanent head went on leave. I also rebuilt credibility and partnerships with the development teams, to aid faster resolution to users’ requests.

Reduction in operational risk

Stabilization of the production environment

Improved communication with the business

Faster resolution of user request

Improved management reporting

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (London, UK) 1/2010-10/2011

Application Development/Delivery Program Manager

Budget resp: 6.8m USD

Responsible for managing the technology team delivering business solutions for UK Discretionary Wealth Management. The team of 22 people was comprised of Project Managers, Business/Technical Analysts, Developers & Testers, and had total ownership of initiatives from definition of business requirement and value/benefit, to delivery of the value added. The platform supports Fixed Income, Equity and Funds products encompassing order management, trade capture, settlement and valuations. This requires liaison with external vendors to manage ongoing maintenance, development and bug resolution between the firm and these vendors. Functionality delivered included deal capture, internal P&L, market risk, compliance and client reporting.

Managing the full Software Development Lifecycle of multiple complex projects across the Discretionary Technology area (from minor enhancements to significant standalone projects)

Ensuring detailed project planning within and across projects

Risk management and mitigation; Issue management and resolution

Continual process improvements through adherence to pragmatic best practices

Financial planning and budget management including accurate and ongoing forecasting for your projects and staff

Proactive communication of status of plans, tasks, milestones, financials, issues, etc.

Effective steering of projects and key decisions

People management of both direct and matrix reports

Staffing and staff planning within and across projects

UBS Global Asset Management (London, UK) Contract - FDM 1/2008-1/2010

IT Programme Manager

Budget resp: 5.2m USD

The key objective was to expand and mature the Production Services capability for Application Support, Service Management and Quality Assurance for Global Asset Management.

My role was to develop and manage a programme to expand the group to support 200+ applications from 4 global hubs.

Responsible for establishing and managing a number of workstreams to transition application support knowledge from application development teams. The role included liaison with external offshore and outsourcing vendors. Ensuring Risk & Audit Compliance and Service Improvements.

Career break 6/2007-12/2007

Managing a family business and learning yacht sailing in Florida.

Lehman Brothers (London, UK/USA) 4/1998-6/2007

Senior IT Project Manager

Budget resp: 1m – 50m USD

During the nine years with Lehman Brothers I enjoyed five different positions of responsibility.

Project Manager in Mortgage Capital Division. 6/2005-6/2007

The key objective was to integrate the technology of two mortgage servicing companies acquired by Lehman Brothers into a new mortgage servicing entity. This was a transformation program and I was responsible for managing a number of workstream leaders to deliver core technology services for the new company. I worked with senior stakeholder to establish a new target operating model to transform the business, and, worked with the businesses to implement change in a strategic manner.

Established the project office, recruited a team of thirteen which included project managers, business analysts and a test manager. Engaged with key stakeholder to establish the business requirements and obtained sign-off. Implemented project management disciplines to ensure successful delivery of the programme.

Appointed Chief Operating Office to the Equity Technology 2/2004-6/2005

Responsibility for improving operational stability for the Equity Division. I was responsible for implementing processes for root cause analysis of production systems failures, and for establishing procedures to stabilize the production systems. I introduced rigorous change and release management procedures, incident management and problem escalation, incident post mortem review and action plan. Involved the business in the new request review and prioritization process, worked with development teams to ensure proper documentation was maintained, bugs were tracked, and standard development life-cycle practices were introduced. I was accountable to the Head of the Equity Division for the key performance indicators and metrics.

Appointed as Chief Administration Officer to the head of IT Infrastructure technology 6/2002-2/2004

Responsibility for the Project Management, Service Delivery and Software & Hardware Asset tracking teams. Key responsibility for the budget preparation and cost allocation responsibilities for Infrastructure technology. Responsible for Service Delivery (Change, Incident and Problem Management). Software License and Asset Control. Responsible for the project management team.

Project Manager 9/2001-6/2002

Responsibility to introduce and co-ordinate firm wide initiatives that include Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning for the Equity Division. Additionally responsible for coordinating the Application migration programme for Equities as the bank prepared to move to new premises. The main functions were more aligned to those of an operations officer with a particular bias towards improving the service delivery to the business. In this capacity, participating in the definition of the Service Level Agreements, Change management process, problem notification and escalation processes.

Front Office Project Manager for Equity Derivatives. 4/1998-9/2001

The role involved the support of Equity Derivatives pricing and trading applications for the London desk. My role involved close liaison with the business to work in partnership on new initiatives to define requirements, identify problems, and improve application stability. Plan, organize and manage the local project team of seven. My responsibilities included ensuring that trades and prices were fed to middle and back office systems and to ensure that P&L and market risk information was delivered to the front office.

Work closely with Global Head Derivatives Technology to ensure that global strategic initiatives were successfully implemented. I was also responsible for developing and implementing the warrants pricing and trading system for the European markets. Designed and implemented a distributed calculation engine for Monte-Carlo simulations.

Partnered with the business to develop and implement a derivatives order management systems to an Italian banking partner (Fineco) as well as the Milan and Frankfurt exchanges

Union Bank of Switzerland (London/USA) 2/1991-3/1998

Front Office Project Manager for Money Market and Fixed Income

The role involved the management of a portfolio of projects within Short Term Interest Rates (STIR) Technology. These projects covered a range of products including Money Market, FX, Bonds, Repo and interest rates derivatives lines. Responsible for the management of business analysts, developers and project managers within a global team of 18 staff. Delivered a global trading platform with order management, pricing, trade capture, P&L and market risk functionality. Integrated straight-through-processing with risk management systems and middle & back offices processes.

The project portfolio included platforming to strategic technology and continuously adding new products to the platform. Responsibilities included development, production support and scaling the infrastructure to support business expansion.

Success was achieved by establishing a strong business relationship, being delivery focused to meet business objectives and maintaining effective communications with business heads.

CitiCorp Investments (London) 6/1990-1/1991

Application Developer

Responsible for the development of a number of extract, transform and load applications – including preparation of reports for the front office business.

Bankers Trust (London) Ltd. 5/1989-4/1990

Project Team Lead

Project Team leader, systems analyst and programmer responsible for the replacements of a Sovereign Bond Trading system. Responsible for the reverse engineering the legacy system, defining the requirements and designing the new system. Delivered a trade capture, P&L and market risk application used in the London & Frankfurt offices.

Barclays Bank Ltd. 11/1988-3/1989

Application Developer

Responsible for the development of an Asset Tracking System (fixtures and fittings). Responsible for requirements gathering, design and development of the application using FoxPro.

Sole responsibility for liaison with the users during all project phases which included coordination of user testing and implementation.

Mocatta & Goldsmid Ltd 9/1985-11/1988

Application Developer

Responsible for the development of number of applications for this bullion house, using dBase, FoxPro and later Clipper. The applications were typically extracting data from the mini-computer and producing reports for internal use or the Bank of England.

EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

BSc Mechanical Engineering 1982

Project Management-Associations of Project Management Professionals.

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