Project Manager Management

Srikanth Komarina, PMP, CSM

Cell phone: 651-***-**** ********@*****.***

Profile Project manager with strong technical background and proven track record in understanding

business requirements, working with business groups and end users to convert

business requirements to technical solutions with an emphasis to achieve rich client

experience. Adept at overseeing all facets of project life cycle, including initiation

and planning, change, risk and issue management. Exceptional project team

builder, motivator, and mentor. Pro-active risk manager and problem solver, who

takes personal ownership of a project. Ensures customer satisfaction and project

success with skillful employment of project management best practices

Experience Summary

Project manager with 6+ years of experience leading all phases of technology projects

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Business analyst with ability to plan and manage multiple projects aligning business goals with

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technology solutions to drive process improvements

Certified Scrum Master managing projects from grass roots in Software Development to Enterprise

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Delivery

Expertise in both agile and waterfall project management methodologies

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Experience in designing tools and applications for financial institutions

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Ability to leverage technical and financial acumen to communicate effectively with various business

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teams and proactively communicate project status, issues and risks to stakeholders and management

Technical Skills

Management: Project Management and agile development practices

Languages: C++/C, C#, VBA, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, T-SQL

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, Oracle Apps 11i, SQL Server

Tools: Rally, Jira, Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, SQL Server, Microsoft IIS

Version Control: Git, Subversion, PVCS, Clear Case, Perforce

Professional Experience

XR Trading Aug’10-Present

Project Manager

Primary contact for gathering trader requests, analyzing the impact and monitoring the implementation

of changes to the proprietary trading system. Work with team of developers, business analysts and

technical writers to develop project plans(work scope, task descriptions, budget estimates and

resource requirements) to meet business objectives. Monitor implementation of connectivity to various

financial exchanges to ensure timely completion within budget and achieve high quality output.

Expansion to Australia

• Managed the successful expansion of trading activity to the newly opened location in

Australia. Successfully coordinated with trading and networking team to ensure there

was no delay in the project and making sure management was regularly updated with

the progress

• Managed team of 5 developers to make sure the exchange specific code was ready and

thoroughly tested before going to production

• Realized cost savings of around 50K per year by suggesting utilizing the same socket for

sending and receiving data in simulation for Australian Securities Exchange

Connectivity to various exchanges

• Organized and facilitated scrum activities like sprint planning, daily scrum meetings,

sprint reviews and retrospective which enabled creation of quality exchange specific

code within half the time frame

• Discuss technical solutions with developers, providing technical support and conduct

code reviews

Migration from C# to C++

• Lead team of 10 developers to transition from the legacy C# application to C++ to realize

substantial time savings for latency sensitive trading application which was one of the

factors to substantially increase the revenue of the company by 20 percent

• Developed a method to test the trading application interaction with various exchanges to

enable more robust bug fixes and cost effective beta testing

Infinium Capital Management May’09-Aug’10

Project Manager

Responsible for analyzing, managing data needs for the entire company and planning for future

requirements. Managed a team of developers to successfully migrate the entire backend from MySql

to OneTick(Third party financial tick management database) within 6 months

• Responsible for analyzing various third party solutions and making a cost benefit analysis for

the upper management

• Determine road map dates based on priorities and provided executive level summary of

project plan and weekly status

• Utilized agile scrum methodology to help manage and organize the team

• Realized massive latency improvements by suggesting implementation of a managed(C+

+/CLI) data access layer for data retrieval compared to the vendor provided C# API

• Tremendously improved client experience by ensuring no down time for critical applications

Deephaven Capital Management Mar’05-May’ 09

Project Manager

Worked directly with the chief risk officer in managing a team of developers and analysts. Responsible

for architecting, designing and monitoring the development of various technology tools to monitor and

manage risk for the entire company.

• Significantly streamlined the overnight batch processing to reduce the processing time

from 14 hours to 8 hours.

• Architected and managed the development effort to develop a client reporting

infrastructure for the entire company resulting in a cost saving of 100K. Design was

flexible to generate daily, weekly and monthly reports and aggregate the data in various

different ways.

• Monitored the development and successful rollout of a real time risk monitoring service

to allow traders to actively manage portfolio risk. Provided ability to measure risk across

various metrics like fund group or by country. Front end was developed using MarkIT

and the backend was analytic library developed in C/C++.

Sr. Software Engineer

• Developed a currency option tool to aid traders to determine their exposure due to

currency options, currency forwards and futures. Tool can also be used to determine

various hedging strategies across portfolios or strategies. Tool was flexible to compute

the net exposures across various strategies and in various currencies.

• Developed a risk arbitrage deal monitor to calculate the spreads of event arbitrage

deals. Had the ability to alert user whenever deal spread goes above or below user

defined critical values.

• Developed a mechanism to download financial data from MarkIT and use it to compute

and store the spread of all Credit Default Swaps held in the portfolio

• Developed a portfolio pricer to price various financial instruments held in the portfolio.

Design process involved interacting with various portfolio managers to determine the

models used for computation and providing options to traders to aggregate and view the

information in various ways.

Education Master of Science in Computer Engineering Aug’02 - Dec’04

CGPA: 3.81/4.00,

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Bachelor in Computer Science & Engineering June’98 - May’02

CGPA: 7.90/10

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India

Publications

“An Optimal Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for gene expression data”, Sudip Seal,

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Srikanth Komarina, Srinivas Aluru, Information Processing Letters, 2005, 93(3), pp 143-147.

Honors

Premium for Academic Excellence (PACE) Award at Iowa State University for 2002-2003

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Ranked top 0.5% of all students (~200,000) taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for IITs

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Secretary for IEEE Student Chapter at IIT Guwahati

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References: Available on Request

Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/komarina

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