Bala Prasad Kolan

Chicago

Phone: 312-***-****

E-mail: adlgz6@r.postjobfree.com

Experience Summary

Project/Technical Lead with 16+ years of experience in Mainframe Application Development, Maintenance and Production Support within the Enterprise level transformation projects, lead the full life cycle delivery of the technical solutions for Business from initial concept, requirements gathering, specification, design, delivery, acceptance to post production operational support.

14+ yrs. of experience in Analysis, Design, Development and testing, implementation

& support.

12 yrs. of experience in Banking and Financial Services domain.

Extensive experience in coding and testing (Unit, Integration & System)

Good exposure to Quality Procedures and Processes.

Rich experience working with clients like JP Morgan Chase, The Northern Trust & UBS.

Quickly adapting to the client environments and understanding their systems.

Good exposure to all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Good Communication skills Self-motivate and Ability to take initiatives and hardworking with a goal to learn new technologies.

Managed delivery and execution of projects under Enterprise program with team size of 5+

Involved in project strategic planning, resource allocation, budget and timelines

Created project plans, project documents and status reports (daily and weekly)

Tracked project status to ensure project milestones completed on time, on budget and with the desired results

Participated in production incident and crisis management events, supporting resolution activities and providing regular status updates to front-line support teams and customers

Performed due diligence of changes to ensure application releases meet support criteria before being deployed into the production environment

Independently performed the analysis, design and development of high volume, low latency applications for mission critical systems delivering high-availability and performance to best meet customer needs

Participated in support meetings to perform release activities, weekend readiness and/or system issues

Took ownership of the most complex Production issues in identifying and proposing the solutions

Developed and maintained process and procedure documentation (knowledge management)

Supported systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) by providing insight to testing teams in order to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage

Proficient in Waterfall, Agile, Scrum methodologies, SDLC and Production Support

Managed and guided resources aligned across Onsite, Nearshore and Offshore

Designed and implemented application architecture with Senior Enterprise architects

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering JNTU, Hyderabad 2003

Visa

Visa Type H1B

I94 Valid until Feb 2022

Key Accomplishments

Brain Bench Certification in COBOL, Natural, SQL, VSAM, CICS, JCL.

Built Generic Solutions through SOAP CICS service on Mainframe Platform for cross platform downstream applications.

Performance tuning high CPU consuming Jobs (MIPS Reduction).

Skills

Mainframes utilities, COBOL, JCL, DB2, consomption CICS, CICS Webservices and VSAM

Endeavor, Change Man, SCLM, Expeditor and Eazytrieve, File Aid, Tritune

Control M, CA-7, MQ and Solace Queue

IBM CDC, IBM Data studio, Squirrel and Rapid SQL

SOAP – UI for Mainframes and Webservices Testing, XML Schema, WSDL

Waterfall, Agile Methodologies – Scrum

JIRA, HP ALM and Quality Center

SharePoint for documentation, Microsoft Office, Project and Visio for technical design and process flow

Projects

PROJECT PROFILE 1:

Project Title: Pricing Operating Platform (POP)

Client: Northern Trust

Duration: Sept 2017 – till date

Location: Chicago US

DESCRIPTION: POP is new Pricing Application (i.e., Pricing Operating Platform) which is being designed to replace existing Legacy pricing applications APR (Automated Pricing) system and Pricing Repository and Scrubber (PRC) in Phased wise. This is an long term project, which business taken up to complete migrate to POP from the Legacy. As part of this Project, all fixed income and Equity assets has being migrated to POP platform from 2017 to until now. Legacy Mainframe application APR sends custody holdings and its Asset characteristics data to POP. POP uses these holdings and Asset data for pricing the assets for the End-of Day. POP gets the Pricing data from the different Market Data Providers like Bloomberg, Reuter’s data for all the regions APAC EMEA & Latin America and US. POP uses these Market data from different vendors and masters the Price by applying the business rules and then masters the prices. This Mastered Price is exported to Legacy Mainframe APR to feed the prices to downstream applications. Currently, Intraday Pricing of Assets is under development for migrating to POP for mastering the prices for the intraday holdings. After this, Client Directed Pricing and Client Provided Pricing will be taken up.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Onshore Project lead for PRS, Project requirement analysis, System study, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and production installation, independently worked in different change controls and project dockets. Took overall responsibility of understanding the client processes and followed their standards to achieve quality product. Preparation of Test plan & Test cases and execution of the same. Research and respond to inquiries from business partners. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Knowledge Management to create repository of system/business/domain knowledge.

PROJECT PROFILE 2:

Project Title: Pricing SOAP Service (PRS)

Client: Northern Trust

Duration: June 2017 – Sept 2017

Location: Chicago

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: APR (Automated Pricing) system and Pricing Repository and Scrubber (PRC) System together constitute the Pricing Repository & Scrubber (PRS) application. The APR system resides on the mainframe. The APR system is responsible for maintaining a current list of asset holdings from various custody systems and creating Asset characteristics files which containing the asset information and sending the information to the PRS system on the Unix platform. The APR system also receives pricing information from several vendors for various types of securities held by Northern Trust clients. This pricing information is used by various systems, including, but not limited to Reporting and Valuations. This new pricing SOAP service is designed and developed on Mainframe to provide the pricing information to downstream application, which consumes these prices for Client Valuation and Reporting.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

As Onshore Project lead for PRS, Project requirement analysis, System study, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and production installation, independently worked in different change controls and project dockets. Took overall responsibility of understanding the client processes and followed their standards to achieve quality product. Preparation of Test plan & Test cases and execution of the same. Research and respond to inquiries from business partners. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Knowledge Management to create repository of system/business/domain knowledge. Participated in the Defect Summary meetings to understand the defects and also update the status of those to the team members

PROJECT PROFILE: 3

Project Title: Assets Instrumentation and Pricing

Client: Northern Trust

Duration: Nov 2016 – May 2017

Location: Chicago

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Asset Pricing Accounting is the central repository of data about assets, their institution, account and pricing information. It has interface with number of other subsystems like Trade applications and feeds data to legacy systems like Fund Master and IMS. Also, many other applications like PACE, Management Reporting etc. directly retrieves data from “APAR”. For any asset related information makes APAR one of the most critical of all applications. APAR system is fed by number of vendors CUSIP, Bloomberg, FTS/EXTEL, BRIDGE feed streams to keep the system updated with most current of asset related information. AIP database follows “Real Global Financial Data Model” from FTI (Financial Technologies International). It is based on IBM’s DB2. APAR database includes identifiers, quality ratings, descriptions, industry classifications, prices, issuer data, income events, corporate actions, fixed income characteristics, geographic data and taxation characteristics.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Onshore Project lead for AIP, Project requirement analysis, System study, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and production installation, independently worked in different change controls and project dockets. Took overall responsibility of understanding the client processes and followed their standards to achieve quality product. Preparation of Test plan & Test cases and execution of the same. Research and respond to inquiries from business partners. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Knowledge Management to create repository of system/business/domain knowledge. Participated in the Defect Summary meetings to understand the defects and also update the status of those to the team members

PROJECT PROFILE: 4

Project Title: Money Market funds Reforms

Client: Northern Trust

Duration: Jan 2016 – Nov 2016

Location: Chicago, USA

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Trust Bank reporting (TBR) application has one of the regulatory project impacts which was called Money Market Reform project. I was involved in this project right from requirements – design phase to production implementation. This project involved a team of 8 people with onshore-offshore coordination. Project involved COBOL, DB2, VSAM, MQ series and other mainframe technologies as well. Project was about regulatory requirement which will have Variable Net asset value for some Instruments to make sure Fund accounts are properly priced per risks involved.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Onshore Project lead for MMFR-TBR, Project requirement analysis, System study, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing and production installation, independently worked in different change controls and project dockets. Took overall responsibility of understanding the client processes and followed their standards to achieve quality product. Preparation of Test plan & Test cases and execution of the same. Research and respond to inquiries from business partners. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Knowledge Management to create repository of system/business/domain knowledge. Participated in the Defect Summary meetings to understand the defects and also update the status of those to the team members

PROJECT PROFILE: 5

Project Title: Loan Servicing Platform.

Client: UBS

Duration: Jan 2015 – Dec 2015

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: UBS WMA Automating the Loan Servicing for BUSA, UBS FSI, UBS Credit Corp. CLIENT DESCRIPTION: UBS's wealth management division offers high-net-worth individuals around the world a range of advisory and investment products and services. The UBS Wealth Management Americas approach is based on the trusted relationship of UBS Financial Advisors and their clients. UBS experienced Advisors are committed to understanding clients’ needs and delivering insightful informed advice to help them realize their dreams. UBS global strategy is centered on strengthening UBS’s leading Wealth Management Americas franchise while integrating and finding synergies among the Investment Bank and Asset Management divisions to deliver outstanding solutions for our clients

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As team member LSP, project requirement Analysis, Coding & Unit Testing, Code review and Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing. PROJECT

PROJECT PROFILE: 6

Project Title: SWP & Access Account Auto Termination.

Client: UBS

Duration: Sep 2014 – Dec 2014

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: UBS WMA Access & SWP account Auto termination. Automating the process of terminating SWP and Access accounts for Partial & Full and No liquidation

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Offshore Project lead for Auto termination, project requirement Analysis, Coding & Unit Testing, Code review and Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing. Code deployment & Production support.

PROJECT PROFILE: 7

Project Title: A 2 I Conversion

Client: UBS

Duration: Jul 2013 – Aug 2014

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: UBS WMA will be converting all Old Share mutual fund classes, in Advisory programs, into their corresponding New Share Classes as per contract negotiations. This conversion will provide clients with more accessible and cheaper class of mutual funds, however there may be implications to the way and amount of fees paid to the firm and FAs. Most of the competitors use advisory/institutional shares

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Offshore Project lead for A2I Conversion, preparation of System Design document based on BRD and DRD. Peer review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Preparation of Test Plan, Test Design Specifications, Test script and cases, Test Summary Report as per client quality process. Execution for Unit and Integration Testing, Defect tracking and resolution, using Mercury Quality Center as Test management tool. Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing. Participating in Daily Status Calls.

PROJECT PROFILE: 8

Project Title: Mainframe & SAP PI Integration.

Client: MPC

Duration: Jul 2012 – Jun 2013

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: MPC is currently using the Web methods services. Now MPC wants to Migrate to SAP PI for process integration. So, in the new world MF files needs to be sent to the SAP PI server from MF.

PROJECT PROFILE: 9

Project Title: Toolset Automation

Client: UBS

Duration: Jan 2012 – Jun 2012

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Automate the current application, proposal, enrollment and trading process for all paper-based UBS Discretionary products. These include: Managed Portfolio of Global Selections (GS), Managed Portfolio of ESG Investments (ESG), Managed Portfolio advised by Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC (RBA), Managed Portfolio of Selections. Additionally, all accounts enrolled in MAC Global Selections of ETFs will migrate to a separate, new UBS Discretionary product within UBS Managed Portfolio. Having all UBS Discretionary products offered through IS Toolset will allow greater visibility and give FA’s more security that these program are supported by the firm which will in turn help to grow assets in one of the target growth programs for the Investment Advisory Program.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As offshore lead, requirement Analysis, preparation of System Design document based on BRD. Peer review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Preparation of Test Plan, Test Design Specifications, Test script and cases, Test Summary Report as per client quality process. Execution for Unit and Integration Testing, Defect tracking and resolution, using Mercury Quality Center as Test management tool. Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing. Participating in Daily Status Calls.

PROJECT PROFILE: 10

Project Title: Client Specified Pricing

Client: Northern Trust

Duration: Feb 2010 – Dec 2011

Location: Hyderabad, India

DESCRIPTION: The objective of the project is to provide Client Specified Pricing to NT IOO clients. In this client will specify Scrubbing rules. Based on the Client rules, the winning price will be derived. By offering this product NT is able to stay competitive in the market by addressing the current industry pricing practices available to clients. This is an additional pricing flexibility for the NT IOO and custody in-house investment managers.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As offshore lead, Impact analysis, requirement clarification walkthrough, and Designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for client owned applications. Coordinating with business partners during integrating testing and User acceptance testing while working with 3rd party vendor. Design walkthrough with onsite counterparts. Coding and Unit testing. Adhering to client coding Standards. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Preparation of Test Plan and Test cases and execution of the test cases. Preparation of Release tracker & Implementation plan. Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing. Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members. Transition of project to Support team by conducting knowledge sharing sessions.

PROJECT PROFILE: 11

Project Title: Tri-Party Reverse Repo.

Client: JP Morgan Chase (UK Bournemouth)

Duration: March 2009 – Jan 2010

Location: Pune, India

DESCRIPTION: A Tri-Party Reverse Repo is where our client is long in cash & the cash is loaned out to a counterparty in return for stock as collateral which is lodged with a 3rd party Collateral Manager. Our client is the collateral taker in this process. The collateral agent is responsible for settlement, collateral management and maintenance of multicurrency report transactions. Cash settlement and collateral management is based on delivery against payment (DVP) settlement. Collateral received in connection with a Triparty repo exposure is monitored and marked-to-market on a daily basis to ensure the collateral margin requirements is maintained.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As offshore lead, Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and Designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for client owned applications. Design walkthrough with onsite counterparts. Coding and Unit testing. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members.

PROJECT PROFILE: 12

Project Title: Trafic Takedown

Client: JP Morgan Chase (UK Bournemouth)

Duration: Aug 2008 – Feb 2009

Location: Pune, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Euro clear has a vision to create a domestic market for Europe by harmonizing market practices and consolidating IT platforms. They aim to tackle market inefficiencies that make the cost of cross border transactions in Europe prohibitive in comparison with the cost of domestic transactions. With these changes being driven through by Euro clear, JPMC must make changes to their back office to synchronize with the new market practices and the IT platforms. Such large changes have presented JPMC with the opportunity to rationalize their back-office infrastructure and provide a more streamlined system. A strategic part of that rationalization is the decommissioning of the Trafic application (including the Trafic GUI).

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As offshore lead, Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and Designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for client owned applications. Design walkthrough with onsite counterparts. Coding and Unit testing. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members.

PROJECT PROFILE: 13

Project Title: Auto FX Migration

Client: JP Morgan Chase (UK Bournemouth)

Duration: Apr 2007 – Aug 2008

Location: Pune, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The FX Bookkeeping system is today a fully automated foreign exchange broker system, acting as an intermediary between the Investor Services Cosmic systems and the Treasury dealing rooms’ front-office fxXpress systems. Deal instructions received from the source are transmitted to fxXpress for pricing. Upon completion the deals are returned to FX Bookkeeping, which in turn passes the information back to the source system. As per the initiatives taken to enhance the FXB application to accept the non-custody related transactions and thus allow flows from other TSS products to leverage and execute transactions through this mechanism, re-engineering the existing FXB application from the COSMIC Mainframe platform on to a web platform has been taken up. FXB application is envisaged to provide an interface to all the Source Systems and the Users (UI) via a standard FX Bookkeeping Interface. Services and features that FXB application will provide are same as the ones offered by the existing FXB Mainframe application along with some enhancements and process optimizations that have been requested by the application users.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Developer in this project, Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and Designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for client owned applications. Design walkthrough with onsite counterparts. Coding and Unit testing. Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence. Sharing knowledge gained with new team members.

PROJECT PROFILE: 14

Project Title: Sweep FX

Client: JP Morgan Chase (UK Bournemouth)

Duration: Aug 2006 – Apr 2007

Location: Pune, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Clients that wish their accounts to be included in Sweep FX will provide Sweep FX standing instructions for the accounts. A standing instruction for an account will hold the information on the sweep date, time, subsidiary and master accounts, their customer number, currencies etc. Sweep Scheduler, which will produce, store and send to CER a list of balance requests for the next business day sweep. To ensure contingency three balances will be requested for accounts that do not allow late sweeps (i.e. they should be swept exactly on the sweep time), otherwise one balance request will be produced.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As Developer in this project, I did Impact analysis and System design document Coding and Unit testing. Adhering client coding standards. Unit testing and System & Integration testing and providing UAT support.

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