Ketur Shah **********@*****.***
** ****** *****, **** *********, NJ 088**-***-*** 1542 www.linkedin.com/in/ketur SUMMARY
Innovative information technology executive with extensive experience developing enterprise applications at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Responsible for building complex software platforms, applications, Big Data warehouses (Global Trade Repository) for more than 45 regulators worldwide and 5,900 financial services organizations including the top 30 global banks. Business domains included Wealth Management, Alternative Investment Products, Managed Asset Services and Derivatives. Led initiatives to reduce and mitigate risk and satisfy local and global regulatory, compliance and AML requirements, ensuring compliance to SDLC/SILC and leading the CMMI Level III certification process for DTCC.
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY
Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, Spring, Struts, XML, Web services, Ruby on Rails, SOLR, SOLRJ Cloud Computing: Various Amazon Web Services, ATMOS, public and private clouds Database: Greenplum DCA (Both Half and Full Rack), Oracle, Sybase, UDB, DB2 Data Visualization and ETL Tools: Datastage, Goldengate, Attunity, Informatica, Cognos, Pentaho DI Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows and OS/390 (Mainframe), Ruby on Rails Development, Process and Project Management Tools: IBM RAD, ClearQuest, RequisitePro, Toad, Rational Rose Enterprise, HP-PPM, Mercury ITG, PVCS, IBM Websphere, IBM Datapower, BEA WebLogic, Ruby GEMS, Message Bus, portfolio, project, forecast and demand management tools Big Data Tools: Hadoop, NoSql, Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, Yarn, Zookeeper, Impala, Kafka, Spark, Storm, Docker, Hazelcast, R & SEDA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DEPOSITORY TRUST AND CLEARING CORPORATION, New York, NY 1999-2015 DTCC, as the premier post-trade market infrastructure, processes trillions of dollars of securities transactions on a daily basis and advances the automation, centralization, standardization and streamlining of processes critical to the global financial market's safety and soundness. Systems Director (2012-2015)
Responsible for leading and managing a world-wide team of 110 consultants and employees to develop trading, clearing, regulatory reporting, analytics, data visualization, Big Data warehouse applications to enable unprecedented transparency in the $650 trillion Derivatives market.
Developed the first Big Data warehouse at DTCC for Derivatives to enable regulatory reporting, data analytics and data visualization ensuring compliance and reduced market, credit and default risk
Created applications and tools achieving faster data search, data access, data mining, data analytics and data visualization to track the Derivatives market activity and produce metrics to support regulators across the world including USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan
Created web based and web services applications allowing direct access to the Big Data platform for positions, transactions, submissions and rejections for Credit, Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Commodity, Equity, OTC, OTC Lite, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Collateral
Managed large diverse and geo-graphically dispersed teams effectively utilizing an offshore- onshore model thereby reducing project cost by 60%
Served as an active member on financial services working groups and forums analyzing industry processing challenges which provide them solutions resulting in streamlined operations and reduced cost
Implemented design principles, tools and data management techniques for Big Data warehouses resulting in enhanced data transparency for regulators and DTCC member firms
Instituted stringent unit, assembly, systems integration testing, end to end testing and performance testing methodology using SILC/SDLC and SCRUM achieving highest code quality
Used Cloud computing (both public and private clouds) to ease application development and deployment to meet on-demand CPU, memory and storage requirements achieving higher scalability, disaster recovery and fault tolerance Systems Director (2002-2012)
Responsible for leading and managing a team of 45 consultants and employees to develop trading, clearing, settlement, profile, billing, reporting and analytics applications for $100 trillion Wealth Management, Alternative Investment Products and Managed Asset Services markets.
Developed the first tri-party XML based web services at DTCC called Fund/SPEED providing real- time access to client’s portfolios between the financial planner and the service provider.
Built trading applications allowing brokers to submit trades on the DTCC systems directly saving approximately $50 million in development costs at each brokerage house
Designed software solutions for products like Networking, Alternative Investment products and Managed Asset Services processing over 200 million daily transactions
Developed applications including Fund/SERV and Networking improving end to end trade processing enabling faster money movements thereby reducing monetary risk
Architected high speed XML processing increasing application performance by more than 500%
Built multicurrency trading capability allowing international brokers to trade mutual funds bringing additional revenue to DTCC and expanding customer base
Led the SDLC/SILC, IBM RUP and CMMI Level III initiatives certifying DTCC as the first company in the financial sector to achieve CMMI Level III Certification. Received award from DTCC chairman
Led architecture working groups building design patterns, coding and security standards to improve productivity and reduce errors
Managed annual project budget of $6 million
Scheduled monthly application performance reviews achieving application uptime of 99.9% reducing customer complaints by 40% and increasing customer satisfaction by 100%
Directed staff to use the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) reducing software licensing cost by more than 70%
Implemented software quality and security controls reducing code vulnerability thereby mitigating DTCC’s reputation risk
Served as active member on working groups and forums with DTCC’s member firms and finance industry partners
CONSORTIUM FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECH, Mumbai, India 1995-1999 EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications), Mumbai University 1991 - 1995 CERTIFICATION
Situational Leadership® II - Developing Competence, Gaining Commitment, and Retaining Talent Mastering Requirements Management – Rational University Oracle/Sun Certification for Java
Big Data Platform (Greenplum DCA) training
REWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Outstanding Leadership: CMMI Level III Certification (streamlining project) awarded by DTCC Chairman Outstanding Contribution: Mutual Fund Fund/SERV Risk Control Self-Assessment