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Application support analyst

Location:
Singapore
Posted:
October 28, 2013

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Resume:

D.CHANDRA SHEKHER

Mobile: +**-********

E-mail:

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Summary

. Excellent experience in Investment banking as Application Support

Analyst.

. Technical expertise in supporting Mission Critical trading applications

in major Investment banks (Credit Suisse, UBS) in Singapore.

. Certified ITILv3 Foundation Course.

. Good domain knowledge of Investment banking.

. Good working knowledge on Trade Life Cycle, Equity, Fixed Income, FX,

Derivative instruments.

. Good working knowledge on FIX Protocol.

. Good working knowledge on messaging middleware technologies IBM MQ.

. Excellent knowledge and working experience in UNIX, Shell scripting and

Perl scripting.

. Excellent knowledge and working experience in Oracle, Sybase databases.

. Excellent working experience in Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Stored

procedures, functions, packages and triggers.

. Good working experience in supporting multitier (Java) applications.

. Excellent working experience in ETL tool Informatica Power Centre, SQL

Loader and Data warehouse.

. Technical expertise in customized scripts to automate the monitoring

which helps to identify and mitigate the risks with capacity and

eliminates manual intervention.

. Excellent working experience in gathering requirements, design (High

level and Low level), coding, unit testing and system integration.

. Good working experience in Incident Management, Problem Management,

Release Management, Configuration Management.

. Good working experience on SDLC processes.

. Excellent Client Interaction, written and verbal communication skills.

Experience (9 years 4months)

. Currently working as Software Technical Consultant in Origem Solutions

Pvt. Ltd, Singapore since July 2011.

. Worked as Software Development Advisor in DELL Perot Systems, India

from Nov 2005 - June 2011.

. Worked as Software Engineer in Global Energy Consulting Engineers Ltd,

India from June 2004 - Nov 2005.

Technical Profile

Programming Languages : C, C++, Java, Pro *C, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL

Scripting Languages : UNIX Shell scripting, Perl,

AWK, SED

Database : Oracle 11g, Sybase 12.5,

SQL Server 2008

Operating Systems : UNIX (Solaris 10), Linux,

Windows 7

Tools : Toad 9.2, SQL

Developer, PL/SQL Developer, ITSM Remedy Management

tool, HP Quality Centre, Business Objects, MQ Series

Application servers : Web logic

ETL Tools : Informatica Power

Centre 8.6.1

Scheduler Tools : Autosys, Control-M

Source Control : CVS, SVN

Web Technologies : HTML, XML

Education

Level Name of the Institution % of marks

obtained

M.Tech, Power NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 80.34

Systems (Deemed University), Warangal,

Engineering (INDIA)

(Formerly known as REC)

B.Tech, Electrical JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL 80.88

and Electronics UNIVERSITY College of Engineering

Engineering (Autonomous), Kakinada, (INDIA)

Intermediate Govt. Jr. College of Boys, Kakinada 79.10

(10+2) (INDIA)

S.S.C (10th Std.) M.S.N. English Medium High School, 81.91

Kakinada (INDIA)

Achievements and Awards

. Awarded Associate excellence performance award for outstanding

contribution in the USA client project in Dell Perot systems

organization for the year 2009.

. Stood as Topper of the batch in Bachelors of Technology (Electrical

and Electronics Engineering).

. Awarded "Best Outgoing Student" in Bachelors of Technology.

. Obtained 96.1 percentile in GATE-2002 conducted by Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, INDIA.

. Ranked 643 (among 1, 00,000 students appearing) in EAMCET -1998

conducted by Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, INDIA.

Projects

CS PC IT - Product control Applications

Organization

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Origem Solutions Pte. Ltd, Singapore

Client

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Credit Suisse (Investment Bank),Singapore

Tenure

-

July 2011 - till date

Team Size

-

7

Role

-

Application Support Analyst

Technology

-

UNIX (Solaris), Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL,

SQL Server 2008, Java, Web logic

Tools

-

Dataware House, ETL tool using Informatica Power Centre 8.6.1,

BOXI,PL/SQL Developer, Control-M, ITSM Remedy Management tool, HP

Quality Centre, Subversion

Abstract

This project consists of product control applications which generates

daily, Monthly and annual profit & loss (P&L) statements for a trading

desk. These applications receives trades, positions, cash flows from

upstream sources (Front Office & Back Office Systems) and receives

static data like book, product, counterparty data and market data like

Price, FX Rates and create cash balance/trial balances and generate

P&L reports for equity & derivative securities, validates and

reconciles front office and back office trades, positions, cash flows,

Balance sheet and P&L reporting and provides data to downstream

systems for general ledger posting and regulatory reporting

applications like Basel2 capital calculation.

Responsibility

Working closely with trading desks on position, P&L or other issues.

Working with USERS in analyzing missing/incorrect trade and Positions

data and coordinating with Trading Systems for the fixes.

Analyzing discrepancies in P&L & breaks for different type of products

like equities, fixed income (bonds), derivative instruments (futures,

options, swaps etc

Performing root cause analysis of missing/incorrect PV/Price/CASH data

in the application reported by USERS and participating in change

management.

Performing root cause analysis of incorrect accounting entries posted

to General Ledger.

Coordinating with Business Analysts for fixing missing accounting

rules and configuration of book/product data in the applications.

Identifying the opportunities for improvements in applications,

application bugs and coordinating with Application development team

for fixing permanently following change management process.

Identifying performance bottlenecks in the applications and

co-coordinating with respective teams to fix the issue permanently.

Performing root cause analysis of incidents, data quality issues and

resolving the issues in a timely manner with minimal Business impact.

Effectively communicating with various stake holders in negotiating

SLA/OLA for new deliverables and publishing service impact

notification to Users if there are any delays/issues in trading

systems.

Efficiently tracking issues in production environment and coordinating

with concerned teams for permanent fixes.

Developing the customized scripts to automate the monitoring which

helps to identify and mitigate the risks with capacity and eliminates

manual intervention.

Complete Automation of weekend maintenance of the applications which

saves 12 hrs. of weekly human effort.

Automation of critical milestone deliverables which helps support team

to track effectively and notifying users in case of Upstream delays

/application issues.

Involving in F2B batch critical path analysis and working with

development teams to rectify few incorrect dependencies which benefit

downstream feed deliverables.

Involved in transformation program effectively training vendor

resources to handle daily batches.

Performing deployments and supporting weekend releases.

UBS Equity IT - TAS DSS - Back Office Settlement System

Organization

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Dell Perot Systems, Singapore

Client

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UBS (Investment Bank),Singapore

Tenure

-

Mar 2006 - Oct 2007, Mar 2010 - June 2011

Team Size

-

9

Role

-

Application Support Analyst

Technology

-

UNIX (SunOS 5.8), Linux, Shell scripting, Perl Scripting, PL/SQL

programming, Oracle 10g, Sybase 12.5,Java

Tools

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FIX Protocol, MQ Series, Business Objects, Autosys, ITSM Remedy

Management tool, Toad 9.2, Subversion

Abstract

This project includes applications which performs back office

operations like trade processing, trade confirmation, corporate action

processing and dividends notification system which captures, processes

corporate events data and notifies clients and few interface

applications to security settlement system. These applications

receives trade data from clearing systems like Clear net, EUROCLEAR

through SWIFT Messages, validates and posts the data to Settlement

System. It also consists of applications which generate unmatched and

failed trade reports and notifies Clients.

Responsibility

Performing root cause analysis of unmatched trades and failed trades.

Addressing user queries and handling application issues. Prioritizing

the user queries and providing timely updates.

Prioritizing feed and message processing to the security settlement

system as per SLA.

Performing root cause analysis of incidents and resolving the issues

in a timely manner.

Effectively Communicating with UP stream and DOWN stream systems.

Following Incident Management, Problem Management and Release

Management processes.

Providing the reports to the users on adhoc basis.

Handling batch job failures and resolving in a timely manner.

Setup of system configurations like secure license keys (SSH keys) in

Unix Servers for secure data communication.

Migrating jobs from Unix's Cron to Autosys (scheduling tool) which

reduces manual effort and improves handling of job failures.

Automation of day to day activities like SOD checks, weekend

activities like bring down the application processes.

Performing deployments and supporting application releases.

Conducting business continuity plan tests.

VRS - Vehicle Reservation System

Organization

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Dell Perot Systems, India

Client

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Enterprise Rent-a-Car(One of the major Car rental company), USA

Tenure

-

Nov 2007 - Feb 2010

Team Size

-

13

Role

-

Senior Software Programmer, Configuration Controller

Technology

Tools

-

UNIX (Solaris), Shell scripting, C, Pro*C, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL

programming, JAVA

CVS, SQL Developer,make, dbx

Abstract

Vehicle Reservation System (VRS) is a product that provides complete car

rental solution. It is used by car rental companies for handling

reservation, billing & invoicing. VRS produces financial postings which can

be fed into an ERP system for accounting/financial analysis.

Responsibility

. Gather requirements from the client and performing requirement

analysis.

. Develop functional and technical design specification documents as per

the requirement specifications.

. Performing requirement gap analysis and producing traceability matrix.

. Develop the source code as per design documents following all the

coding standards.

. Mentor junior team members and conducting code reviews and suggesting

improvements.

. Prepare Unit Test Cases and perform Unit testing.

. Fixing of bugs identified in testing.

. Build and deploy the application in UAT environment.

. Configuration Management of source code and documents in repository

using version control tool (CVS).

. Identification of configurable items and creating branches, tags for

respective releases. Merging of source code from branches to trunks and

resolving conflicts for the complete project.

. Automation of source code check-in, check-out scripts, build and

deployment scripts.

. Following SDLC processes throughout the project.

. Performing the root cause analysis of the issues reported by Client.

POWER NET

Organization

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Global Energy Consulting Engineers Ltd, Hyderabad,

INDIA

Client

-

Chennai Electricity Board, Bangalore Electricity

Board, India

Tenure

-

Jun 2004 - Oct 2005

Team Size

-

5

Role

-

Software Programmer

Technology

-

C, C++, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, Unix,Windows-2000

Abstract

Power Net, A Power Workstation for performing analysis like load flows and

optimization, planning of Distribution Networks. The project identifies

technical losses and factors responsible for such losses. It also reduces

peak power, energy losses by using suitable optimization methods and

develops least cost solution for long term expansion.

Responsibility

. Design and enhancement of new functionality into the existing code as

per the client requirements.

. Calculation of rate of return, investment costs etc.

. Performing Bug Fixing.

. Converting static arrays into pointers.

. Incorporation of range of HTML reports like voltage drop, power flows.

POWER CUSTOMER

Organization

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Global Energy Consulting Engineers Ltd, Hyderabad,

INDIA

Client

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Chennai Electricity Board, Bangalore Electricity

Board, India

Tenure

-

Jun 2004 - Oct 2005

Team Size

-

3

Role

-

Software Programmer

Technology

-

C, C++, Pro*C, Oracle 9i, Unix,Windows-2000,HTML

Abstract

Power Customer, A Power Workstation for processing the application of a

prospective Power Customer. It evaluates the application by placing the

customer hypothetically on the nearest pole location and analyzes the

feasibility of providing connection to the customer from an already

existing Transformer. It also includes facilities like identification of

customer on the network map, preparing estimate report and finally release

of power supply.

Responsibility

. Design and Implementation of identification of new customer in an

electric network and to perform a technical feasibility test.

. Introduction of new features like calculation of voltage drop, power

losses.

. Incorporation of range of HTML reports like calculation of number of

existing customers present in an area, consumption of electrical energy, amount of money collected on electricity bills, arrears present etc

which enables power utility to check the financial health of existing

Power distribution system.

Personal Information

Sex & Marital status : Male & Married

Pass Category : Employment Pass (P2)

FIN : G5861057M

Passport No. : F6106880

Nationality : Indian

Present Address : #12-153, Blk 723, Yishun St 71, Singapore

760723



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