Project Manager Management

Sachin Richard Mathias

A: ** Myee Cr Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 Australia M: 046*-***-*** E:

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

Profile

With more than a decade's experience in banking & financial sector,

Sachin applies his technology expertise & leadership experience to add

value.

In his 16 years of IT career in the banking and financial sector, Sachin

has executed hands-on and leadership roles as Team Lead, Technical Lead and

Developer. He has implemented systems using Java/J2EE technologies, BPM

tools and Content Management Systems. He has contributed technical

expertise at every stage of SDLC. He has been hands-on even in leadership

roles. He has worked in traditional Waterfall & Agile development

environment.

Having worked for Westpac Bank, Standard Chartered, Nomura, Lehman

Brothers, SunGard and S1 he has acquired good knowledge of various

verticals within the banking & financial sector. He has also worked as

consultant for SunGard, S1 & Golden Source Corporation.

With his PMP certification and Scrum Master Certification, he has also

demonstrated his leadership in project implementation using the traditional

Waterfall and Agile methodologies

He is an Australian Permanent Resident, eligible to work anywhere in

Australia. He has worked with Australian firms like Westpac and Fairfax

Media.

Domain

. Digital Media - Content Management System for Websites, Mobile Sites

and Mobile Apps

. Consumer Banking - Credit Cards, Corporate Banking

. Wholesale Banking : Cash Management - Payment Exception &

Investigation

. Wealth Management: Private Asset Management, Private Investment

Management, Advice

. Capital Markets : Cash Equities, Equity Derivatives - Warrants &

Structures products, ESOPs, Wholesale Debt Market, Trade Lifecycle,

Middle and Backoffice

Technical Expertise

Sachin has working experience with the following:

SDLC Agile - Scrum, TDD, Waterfall, RUP, Prototyping

Methodology

Development Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlet, EJB, JMS, SOAP & JAX-RPC,

Tools SOAP based Web Services, REST, UNIX Shell

scripting, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Java Scripting

Open Source Frameworks: Struts, Spring, Hibernate,

Mule ESB, ExtJS

BPM Tool: Pegasystem's PRPC 5.5 / 6.1.

IDE: IBM RAD / Eclipse, JBuilder, Oracle

JDeveloper, IntelliJ

Software Configuration Tools: ANT, Maven, Hudson,

CVS, Subversion (SVN)

Testing Tools : JIRA, JUnit, Selenium

Performance Tuning tools: JProfile, JMeter,

Gigaspaces & Ehcache

Reporting & analytical tool: Crystal Reports,

Understanding of OBIEE & Jasper

Other Technologies: Microsoft Visual Basic 4/5/6,

MS Visual Foxpro, Foxbase

Application Weblogic AS 8.1 / 9.2, Websphere AS 6.1, JBoss 5x,

Servers Oracle 10g App Server

Databases PL/SQL for Oracle 9i / 10g, Informix, DB2 UDB 9.5,

MS-SQL Server, ERD tools for database design

Financial OFX, FIX on SunGard Transaction Network, SWIFT

Protocols messages : Payment and E&I

Design Tools UML, Rational Rose, MS-Visio, Object Oriented

Concepts & Design Patterns

OS LINUX, AIX, Sun Solaris UNIX, MS-Windows

CMS Adobe CQ 5 with JCR, OSGI & Sling technologies,

Methode, Ooyala Video CMS

Employment History

Fairfax Media

Sydney, Australia

Business media

18th March 2013 - till date

Role: Software Development Team Lead

Domain: Digital Media

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for team's delivery of development projects for java based

content management system for media websites, mobile sites and mobile

(iOS and Android) Apps in an Agile-Scrum development environment.

. Responsible for the quality of the team deliverable, ensure code review,

testing, and processes around releases are strictly are adhered.

. Work with System Development Manager and Project Manager on resource

forecasting, estimation, allocation and project planning.

. Work with Product Manager on backlog grooming and task estimation.

. Work with Technical Architect on designs and technical decisions

. Line management with mentoring, performance review & conflict resolution

for 5 direct reports.

. Liaise with contractors and vendors on development projects.

. Liaise with testing team for Integration testing and UAT to ensure

quality.

Accomplishments:

. Australian Financial Review Mobile site (m.afr.com) and iOS and Android

Apps.

. Redesign of Smart Investor website (www.afrsmartinvestor.com.au)and iOS

App.

. Implementation of the new Video Content Provider for all websites, TV

sites and mobile (iOS and Android) Apps for Australian Financial Review,

Smart Investor and Business Review Weekly.

Reason for leaving: Job Stability

HCL Australia Services Pty Limited

Sydney, Australia

Information Technology and Services Industry (BFSI vertical)

20th August 2012 - 15th February 2013

Role: Technical Project Manager

Domain: Credit Card Origination, Wealth Management - Advice

Responsibilities:

. Deployed as consultant with Westpac group - Westpac Bank & BT Financial

Group.

. Project manage the full cycle of support and quarterly maintenance

release projects, from project initialization to delivery for existing

Java / J2ee based Westpac Credit Card Origination systems & vendor

product for Collections

. Liaise with Level 1 team to prioritise issues targeted for the quarterly

maintenance releases.

. Liaise with vendor on upgrades of vendor application.

. Project planning, estimation, tracking, resource planning, and release

management.

. Liaise with testing team for Integration testing and UAT to ensure

quality.

. Status reporting to Westpac Senior System Manager.

. Analysis of Planners Risk Management system functionalities for BTFG

Wealth Management

Reason for leaving: Redundancy

Standard Chartered - Scope International

KL, Malaysia

Wholesale Banking Industry 27th January

2010 - 30th April 2012

Role: Technical Team Lead & Technical Project Manager

Domain: Wholesale Banking - Exception & Investigation of Payments

Responsibilities:

. A technical person to go to, hands-on with system design, development,

design review, code review and implementation of Java EE and ESB based

technology solutions.

. Review existing system performance using profiling tools. Propose

improvements for new enhancements and expansions.

. Lead & manage the quarterly maintenance release projects in an Agile

development environment, for existing Pega PRPC based Smart Investigation

system and Java / J2ee based historical data archival system for the

Wholesale bank customer service group.

. Lead & manage platform upgrades of BPM technology solutions based on

Pegasystems PRPC. Liaise with vendor for support on the upgrade

. Work with Architects from Pegasystems on design and solutions

. Liaise with testing team on Integration testing and UAT to ensure quality

. Liaise with business on requirements, priorities, UAT & status of the

deliverables.

. Coordination with software vendors and contract resources suppliers.

. Line managed and mentored a team of 7 with PRPC, OBIEE and Java EE

expertise

. For a brief period managed Level 2 & Level 3 Production Support team for

users across US, UK, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Japan

. Involved with project management activities: task scheduling and

allocation, cost estimation, forecasting, risk management, maintaining

project documentation, ensuring compliance with project management

processes, resource management, tracking and status reporting at PWC

Reason for leaving: Migrated to Australia

Accomplishments:

. Implementation of performance improvements & enhancements of a customised

Pegasystems PRPC based Smart Investigation (SI) tool for Exception &

Investigation (E&I) following an Agile approach.

. Vendor product PRPC and SI platform upgrade from version 5.1 to 5.5.

. Data archival module for Historical Investigation Case data and payment

data in a Java EE based data archival system. High cost saves with

release of storage space and Pega licenses.

. Redesign of Bulk Data processing framework leveraging the SEDA

architecture of Open Source Mule ESB framework, to improve processing

turnaround time by 40% using Agile - Test Driven Development methodology

. Mule ESB framework based Integration solutions for Wholesale & Consumer

Banking using Agile - Test Driven Development methodology

. Adoption of "SwiftNet E&I", support for SWIFT's 16 new XML messages for

E&I functionalities thus further improving the E&I STP

. Improve overall performance stability of core application by completely

moving out reporting functionality to an OBIEE based analytical &

reporting solution in an Agile development environment

Nomura (erstwhile Lehman Brothers)

Mumbai, India

Investment Banking Industry 4th

April 2005 - 8th Jan 2010

Role: Technical Project Lead

Domain: Private Asset Management, Private Investment Management, Equities

Derivatives

Responsibilities:

. Development and Support of Java EE based applications for Neuberger

Berman, Lehman Brother's company for Asset Management in an Agile

development environment

. Involved in full SDLC: Requirement analysis, system design, development,

review of design/code, testing & implementation of Java EE based

technology solutions

. Reviewing and implementing improvements in system design and performance

. Liaised with Global IT Security team to ensure compliance with firm's IT

security policies

. Liaised with Business stakeholders on requirements, prioritizing

deliverables and UAT

. Line managed and mentored teams with total size of 15 with Java EE,

PL/SQL expertise and BAs

. Involved with project management activities: project planning, managing

deliverables, status reporting to business stakeholders and PMO.

Reason for leaving: International opportunity with Standard Chartered in

Malaysia

Accomplishments:

. Ported Equity Linked Warrant Website from Weblogic to JBoss AS, a Java

EE based sales website for the equity linked warrants business in

Korea and Hong Kong. This development was done in an Agile development

environment.

. Effected improvements in quality, turn-around time of deliverables,

and system performance for Enterprise Customer Relationship Management

(ECRM) system, a Java EE based web application for the Sales and

Research business.

. Designed, developed & implemented Java EE based frameworks in an Agile

development environment for Neuberger Berman to quickly port Informix

4GL based Portfolio Management reporting system's functionalities.

o Introduced GigaSpaces for data caching in the above frameworks

to allow exchange of bulk data across multiple technology

platforms.

. Implementation of improvements, integration & maintenance of SunGard

Trusts Accounting System & Private Investment Accounting System

Datamatics Ltd.

Mumbai, India

Information Technology and Services Industry (Capital Markets)

17th November 2003 - 28th March 2005

Role: Technical Team Lead

Domain: Financial software products for SunGard

Responsibilities:

. Involved in full SDLC: requirement analysis, system design, development,

review of design/code, testing & implementation of Java EE based web

application solutions

. Liaising with SunGard's US technology team for functional and technical

requirements

. Leading & mentoring an offshore team of 10 with Java EE and PL/SQL

expertise

Reason for leaving: Opportunity with Lehman Brothers, an Investment Bank

Accomplishments:

. Designed & ported ESOP maintenance & trading functionalities of

SunGard's Investors Accounting System, a COBOL based legacy App., to a

Java EE based web application. Web Service Integration with SunGard

Transaction Network using FIX protocol for order routing. This project

followed the traditional waterfall methodology.

TCG Software Service Private Limited

Mumbai, India

Information Technology and Services Industry (Financials)

12th May 2003 - 14th November 2003

Role: Technical Team Lead

Domain: Financial software products for Golden Source Corporation

Responsibilities:

. Lead offshore team of 3 on low level design, coding, testing & supporting

Java EE based UI Framework for Financial Technologies International's

Business Engine

. Liaising with client's Project Manager on deliverables from offshore team

. Travel to Austria for transition of support & development projects from

Austria to India.

Reason for leaving: Better opportunity

vMoksha Technologies Limited

Pune, India

Information Technology and Services Industry (Banking)

25th March 2002 - 9th May 2003

Role: Technical Team Lead

Domain: Corporate Banking software products

Responsibilities:

. Lead offshore team of 5 on low level design, developing & testing Java EE

based components for S1 Enterprise Financial Platform, a corporate

banking platform. This project followed the traditional waterfall

methodology.

. Enhancement & Support of Administration module of S1 Enterprise Financial

Platform

. Interactions with S1 's onsite US technology team on requirements and

deliverables

. Coordinating with OFX certifying officials on certification of the OFX

Server component

Reason for leaving: Personal family reason

Accomplishments:

. OFX certified Java EE based OFX Server component for S1 Enterprise

Financial Platform, to allow OFX compliant banking desktop

applications to interface with the banking platform.

Ways India Limited(sister concern of HomeTrade)

Mumbai, India

Information Technology and Services Industry (Capital Markets)

3rd March 1999 - 22nd March 2002

Role: Lead Developer of MS-Visual Basic & Java EE based application

Domain: Java EE Middleware products from Brokat

Responsibilities:

. Designing & development of java based Web & mobile based WAP applications

in an Agile development environment

. Provide Pre-Sales Technology support for Brokat 's Java EE Middleware

products.

. Enhancement & Support of MS-Visual Basic back-office applications for

HomeTrade

Reason for leaving: Company shutdown

Accomplishments:

. Designed & developed a Java EE web based Task management and Alerting

solution.

. SMS based and mobile WAP site application for stock trading option

Euro Asian Securities Limited (HomeTrade)

Mumbai, India

Capital Markets Industry 23rd November

1998 - 2nd March 1999

Role: Developer of MS-Visual Basic & Oracle Forms application

Domain: Back-office for Equities & Wholesale Debt Market

Responsibilities:

. System Designing, Developing & supporting backoffice applications for

Equities & Wholesale Debt Market in an Agile Development environment

using Pair Programming approach

. Consulted Traders & Back Office users to identify and document

requirements

Reason for leaving: Transferred to Ways India Ltd, a Home Trade company

Research International india

Mumbai, India

Market Research Industry 14th April

1997 - 21st November 1998

Role: Visual FoxPro Developer

Domain: Market Research

Responsibilities:

. Developing and supporting Visual FoxPro applications

Reason for leaving: To join technology team in Capital Market domain

Education

. Bachelor of Science in Statistics from University of Mumbai,

India 1993-1996

. Graduate of NIIT, Honors Diploma in Computer Programming &

System Management from NIIT Mumbai,

India 1991

-1996

Certifications & Trainings

. Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance (License No.: 000237150)

. PMP Certified from PMI (License 1453073)

. Fast Track & Bootcamp to PegaRULES Process Commander v6.1 by

Pegasystems Inc.

. Executive Development Program on Capital Markets by Dun & Bradstreet

Recognitions

. Received highest rating as the best manager in the manager's survey

conducted by the technology division of Lehman Brothers, India.

. Quarterly Outstanding Performance Award (March - May '06) for

contributing to initiatives at Lehman Brothers, India.

. Leadership Award for Leadership in Execution in recognition of

exceptional completion of assignments that contributed to the business

of Datamatics Ltd.

. Received Quarterly Spot Awards for Best Performance for 2 consecutive

quarters (May - Aug 2002 and Sep - Dec 2002) at vMoksha Technologies

Ltd.

. Other recognitions and Manager Recommendations are available on my

LinkedIn profile: http://my.linkedin.com/pub/sachin-richard-

mathias/1/b51/889

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