Front Office Engineer

ROBERT ASHOK

***********@*****.***

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Career Objective

Sixteen years of IT experience in Financial Software with expertise in Business Analysis, Development, Support and Off-shore Team Management seeking Mid-Senior Level Management to deliver effective Business Solutions.

Experience and Skills Summary.

Senior Finance Technology Professional with expertise and experience in Technical Delivery, Business Analysis, Second\Third Level Business Support and Implementation of Applications as agreed in Statement of Work.

Good understanding of Trade Life Cycle from (Sell Side) Investment Banking, (Buy Side) Private Banking and Asset Management.

Strong understanding of front-to-back trade flow (Trade capture, execution, Order Management, risk / pnl reporting and settlement) of OTC Financial Products [Equities, Fixed Income/Rates, FX, Commodities, Derivatives and Structured Products]

using FPML Schema.

Technical Expertise in Multi-tier, Applications using VBA, Java, C#, JEE, TIBCO EMS, TIBCO RV, Servlets, Struts, JMS, Oracle, Sybase, UNIX, LINUX, PERL, AUTOSYS, CTRL-M and products like Reuters 3000 Extra, Exstream and Aprimo.

Managerial experience includes managing offshore teams, UAT, Change management, documentation and tracking. Concurrently Managed Multiple Projects, Demonstrated Project Management, Leadership qualities, and excellent problem solving skills.

Worked closely with the Business to understand Requirements, Provided Tactical Technical solutions, Review Functional Specifications, Producing and Executing UAT Test Plan and managing the offshore teams.

Skill Sets

Operating Systems : Unix (all flavours) and Windows.

Client Server, N-Tier : C#, VBA, Core Java, JEE, Java Script, Struts, EJB, PL/SQL,KDB, Restlet, HTML, XML.

Databases/RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and SqlServer.

Application Server : Weblogic, Orion.

Financial Products : Fixed Income (Bonds, Interest Rates), Commodities, Structured Products

Scripting Languages : Shell scripting, Perl, VB, JavaScript.

Business Exposure : Front Office and Middle Office (Fixed Income), OMS (BuySide), Transfer Agency.

Financial Tools : Reuters Extra 3000, RMDS, T24.

Middleware Technologies : TIBCO EMS and RV.

Educational Qualification

Bachelor of Science Mathematics, Loyola College, University of Madras, 2000

Diploma in Business Management, ICFAI University, 2005.

Employment History

SGX

Team Lead / Solution Architect

Singapore

Apr-2018 to present

Credit Suisse

Senior Tech Lead(Consultant)

Singapore

Nov 2011 to Apr 2018.

Nomura Securities [FICC]

Associate

Japan

[Oct 2008 – Nov 2011]

Lehman Brothers

Senior Developer

Japan

[Sep 2007- Sep 2008]

Franklin Templeton Investments

System Analyst

USA/India

[Jan 2005 – Aug 2007]

Fidelity Investments

Software Engineer

India

[Jun 2004 – Jan 2005]

Polaris Software Lab Ltd

System Engineer

India

[Jul 2000 – May 2004]

PROJECTS

SGX Singapore [Apr 2018 to present]

Senior Tech Lead.

Responsibility to take over the OMS Bond Trading platform from TradingScreen and manage it internally.

Elicit and documents business/user requirements and translate them into user-stories for development.

Provide both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the sprint to the management

Undertake Analysis to support continuous improvement projects

Re-Engineering Application to suit the growing requirements

Technology : Java 8, Gemfire, Maria DB.

Trading and Execution, Credit Suisse [ITCAN Pte Ltd] Singapore [ Nov 2011 to Apr-2018]

Senior System Analyst.

Subject Matter Expert of Structured Products, Derivative Products (OTC) Related Order Management Applications within Private Banking Trading and Execution team.

Technology: Java, VBA, C# (WCF), SQL Server, ORACLE, (REST, SOAP), T24, TOCF.

Role and Responsibility:

Stakeholder Management of Front Office, Technology and Operations for Third Party Structured Products.

Gather and document business requirements and analysis, system configuration, integration, maintenance of Private Banking Order Management System.

Leading the team for various Project varying from 2 to 8 members.

Built up the Structured Product OMS from the ground up using SOA (SOAP and Rest API).

Support and co-ordinate UAT, defining testing requirements together with the QA team as well as the business users

Working closely with the user groups and business teams,

Managing delivery of various Regulatory Projects (DTCC, MAS)

Respond to production incidents and help resolve and/or escalate in a timely manner and coordinate with other technology groups to resolve incidents and problems.

PRISM, Nomura Securities Tokyo [Jul 2009 – Nov 2011]

Senior System Analyst

Prism is Fixed Income Market Data Server that has interface with Reuters to provide live data to Traders, Analytical Teams, Quants and stores historical end-of-day fixed income market data, provides interface to traders to view and save fixed income market data directly from their spreadsheets covering the following trading desks Commodities, FX, Rates and Credit.

Technology: Java, JEE, JMS, TIBCO RV, TIBCO EMS, C#, Weblogic, JBOSS, PERL, VBA, Spring, Sybase, Eclipse, CVS, Maven, Autosys, FPML.

Environment: Linux, Solaris.

Role and Responsibility:

Work closely with the Front Office, Middle office to support all Business flows and applications for the Rates, FX and Commodities.

Undertake Analysis to support continuous improvement projects

Re-Engineering Application to suit the growing requirements

Ensure that incident and problem management, change management and request fulfillment, is delivered to the best possible levels

Provide the Application Support and documenting all business requirements, are involved in solution finding, delivering the solution, prioritizing tasks, managing user expectations and resolving problems which may arise

Continuously innovate and Improve the overall Application Performance.

Working on enhancements, production issue analysis and fixing issues

PIPE & Rosetta, Lehman Brothers & Nomura Securities Tokyo [Sep 2007 – Jun 2009]

Senior System Analyst.

Point Integrated Pricing Environment is an Integrated platform that provides the single source of various Curves [Yield and Discount], a unified interface to a collection of Analytical Providers covering a wide range of Fixed Income Securities. Also Provides Scenario Simulation for the Risk Analysis.

Rosetta embodies the Central Business Modeling Language for Fixed Income.

It is an XML (FPML) based Messaging Language for communicating the Product Information, Market Data and Analytic Requests between various Systems.

Technology: Java, JMS, TIBCO, Weblogic, JBoss, Sybase, Eclipse, CVS, Ant.

Environment: Linux, Solaris.

Role and Responsibility:

Worked with various Analytical Provider and teams to gather, elaborate and document the Requirements for Pricing and Risk Analytics.

Worked on enhancements, production issue analysis and fixing issues

Co-ordination with Global teams and Analytical provider teams for Managing releases and ensure latest compliance Activities

Worked on build, testing and release of applications to production using ant builds.

Implemented Lehman strategic build and deployment tool for Fixed Income applications.

Next Generation Marketing/Interactive Doc Generation/ Global Portfolio Content Interaction

Franklin Templeton, India [Feb 2005 – Aug 2007] Project Lead

Next Generation Marketing is a MRM System for the Jobs taken up the Marketing Department of Franklin Templeton Investments, US and Canada.

Interactive Document Generation is a portal Application generates the documents (PDF and PowerPoint) for the various Marketing and Sales Needs by user needs based on the Various Marketing Data.

Technology: Aprimo, an Object Oriented J2EE based product from Aprimo on Orion server and Oracle Database, Weblogic Portal and Exstream Dialogue.

Environment: LINUX

Role and Responsibility:

Managed a Team and Offshore vendors across Geographical locations

Was Responsible for re-engineering the Aprimo MRM Product to suite the Templeton Marketing Needs.

Worked with Business Analyst, Front office for Onsite Requirement gathering and providing production support.

Managing Production Releases and Implementation, data maintenance, interfacing with Front Office Team

Develop tactical and strategic solutions for a better production environment.

Concurrently handled Multiple Projects

Financial Publishing, Fidelity Investments, Bangalore – India [Jun 2004-Jan 2005]

Support Analyst

Financial Publishing provides a Rating, Historical market data view, Data analysis report in form of a journal about Mutual Funds.

Technology: Java, Perl, Unix Shell Scripting, Sybase

Role and Responsibility: Support and enhancement for the applications.

WEBCQ, Polaris Software Lab Ltd [Apr 2003 - May 2004]

Developer

Credit Cards Management Systems (CARDINDIA) is a comprehensive system designed to manage the Credit Cards business of CITIBANK N.A. This system handles the issuance, maintenance and processing of the different types of Credit Cards such as Diners, Master Cards and Visa. The system is compatible to handle the issuance, maintenance and processing of International Cards such as Diners International, Master International and Visa International.

Technology: Struts, EJB

IDE: Eclipse

Roles and Responsibility: Module Leader,

Was responsible for Requirement gathering and providing a strategic solutions.

Handled core Important Modules like Bill Payment.

Transfer Agency System, Polaris Software Lab [July 2000- Apr 2003] Developer

The Mutual Fund Registrar & Transfer (R&T) System is a system to help Citibank and non-Citibank personnel from the Investor Service Centers. The centralized back office efficiently manages large volumes of mutual fund transactions on behalf of its customers who are Asset Management Companies.

Technology: Core Java, JSP, Servlets, Oracle 8i. SQLJ, Pro *c.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Preparing Functional Specifications, Design and development of new modules as per requirements of the user.

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