Director Info tech. Financial services

Harsh Gupta

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EDUCATION

MBA Concentration Finance/Accounting, Sam Houston State University, Texas

MS Information Systems (MAS); University Of Texas at Dallas, Texas

BS Mathematics, Physics and Geology; University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India

Visa Status -US Citizen (Eligible to work for any employer in US)

SUMMARY

Insightful and results driven, a truly global IT professional with notable success directing a broad range of IT programs to accomplish business objectives. Excel at providing full life cycle, large scale custom development, vendor implementations, negotiating outsourced programs and monitoring them in a post contract environment.

Outstanding leader who is able to coordinate and direct all phases of multi million dollar program efforts (applications and Infrastructure) while recruiting, managing, monitoring, motivating and guiding teams of highly complex skilled IT professionals. As a global IT manager I have successfully delivered solutions with benefit to clients in remote locations such as Europe, Hong Kong and other parts of North America.

Reporting to the Global senior Director of technology, I have more than 15 years of Information Technology experience, including hands-on software development and program management combined with two master’s degrees in business MBA and Technology (MS).

My experience includes in-house development and vendor provided IT solutions, dealing in diverse businesses and technical areas. Business experience consists of Automotive and Financial Services Industry, including Investment management and Retirement Industries.

Leadership Acumen

Most notable expertise in retaining or rescuing various IT programs, one example is the rescue of the applications development program at Invesco, setting up an off-shoring program.

Consolidation of multiple data center program saving $17 Million over 5 years and increasing productivity by 30+ percent.

Multiple years of experience creating and implementing IT strategies to make pragmatic use of existing technologies and staff capabilities, based upon the culture and maturity of the team.

Identify needs and create IT teams from a demand management perspective.

Business Acumen

Adept at learning and understanding the key to the business success, as evidenced by the opportunity to consolidate data centers.

Able to leverage IT and business knowledge for the attainment of corporate strategies, as demonstrated by a succession of positions, each with greater scope and responsibility.

Experience developing business case justifications for the creation, or revamping of, IT applications and infrastructures.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Currently responsible for Integrating a functional area across multiple locations for the assets (about 150 billion dollars) acquired from Morgan Stanley / Van Kampen. Integrated systems from Businesses acquired.

Integrated multiple other acquisitions in Invesco systems.

Work Experience

Managed programs of varied complexities, including a large data warehouse…a multi-year $4.2 M program.

Integral part in saving $17 Million by leading a strategic effort of infrastructure consolidation and application migration to one data center from multiple geographic locations.

Key player in start-up a new PMO, defining a methodology for consolidation with functions, which include:

Change management process

Application development standards

Standard application development methodology with a phase gate approach

Quality control

Metrics collection for reporting etc.

Led multiple groups across diverse business functions simultaneously for custom application development and vendor product implementation. Each of the multi-tiered custom developed solutions has a concurrent user base of 200 plus users.

Managed both fulltime and contract resources.

Researched vendors, negotiated and implemented an outsourced solution as a replacement for in-house development. Reduced costs and improved quality leading to measureable increase in client satisfaction.

Implemented large Data warehouse for eagle Investment Systems Pace Warehouse.

Communication Skills

Built rapport and respect with business clients & partners as well as within the IT organization, across organizational and geographic divides.

Proven success in selling concepts.

Presentation to large IT Teams.

Key Accomplishments

Implementation of a Large Investments management Data Warehouse (Eagle PACE performance)

Set up an offshore program, and governance for the program.

Insourced / Data Center consolidations into one large data center in Houston.

Brought data and systems over during an acquisition process

Set up a global support model

Managed global programs with global IT and Client teams.

CAREER PROGRESSION:

INVESCO PLC - May 2000 till Present

INVESCO PLC (IVZ) is a Large Asset Management company with various types of investment opportunities in domestic and international marketplaces. Houston is the hub for computing needs for this global organization, spread across North America, Europe and AsiaPac.

IT - Global Head (Application Dev) of Performance Risk and Analytics Jan 2006 –Present

Managing a budget of about $8 million. Since taking over this role I have increased efficiency of the IT team and improved quality of the delivered products. This is evident by the yearly client survey, which have an upward trend. In 2010, my teams enjoyed a rating of 4.2/5 scale, unparalleled by any other IT team at Invesco.

I am responsible for looking after all of the needs for this business function across the globe.

Responsibilities include:

In house development and support efforts for our investment performance, risk, analytics and quantitative research department (with clients and IT teams across the globe). In house development includes full lifecycle development of various systems (Including Contribution & Attribution system, Fund Management, business intelligence, decision support systems, Investment Performance, GIPS and investments risk) on various windows and Unix platforms with a mix of proprietary technology. Custom development involving transaction based system with real time pricing feeds and other market data from Bloomberg and Reuters.

Built an order management system interfacing with check free APL for high net worth individuals wealth management as well as working with other OMS like MFTP, CRD, single security master systems CADIS and portfolio accounting systems like Portia and FMC, fund accounting systems fund station and MPOWER.

Leading efforts to build analytics systems interfacing with Factset and many more systems over the course of my tenure in financial services industry. Most of the custom development is large enterprise applications with 200+ end users and was accomplished using .Net 2.0 framework with service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Along with these custom development efforts, I am involved in various other vendor implementation efforts where my team went thru defining requirements, RFP, vendor selection, negotiation and implementation of outsourced solution (Eagle investments systems Pace data warehouse and Performance ).

As a director for these departments I am responsible for directly supervising multiple teams locally and in remote locations in UK, Hong Kong and India involved in development and providing support for various computing needs of business clients. Lead teams engaged in full lifecycle custom application development of various systems (Including Contribution & Attribution system, consolidated executive reporting, business intelligence, decision support systems, and investments risk) on various windows and UNIX platforms with a mix of proprietary technology.

Responsible for various large vendor implementation efforts, in which my team went through defining requirements, RFP, vendor selection, negotiation and implementation of the outsourced solution.

Program Manager: (ITO / BPO for BOT / Global sourcing) June 2006 -Sept 2008

Managed an off-shoring program for various IT development activities as well as back office business process off-shoring ($7M/yr IT Program).

Responsible for:

Business case development for off-shoring.

Vendor selection for BOT of ITO and BPO.

Scope development of various phases of BPO and ITO.

Contract negotiations.

Developing and negotiating SLA with the vendor.

Program governance.

Execution and monitoring against the plan.

Continuous process improvement.

Manager Consolidation (In Sourcing) PMO March 2003- Dec 2003

In a post-merger environment, lead an effort leading to savings of $1 million over 5 years. I was responsible for consolidating all of the application environments from Northeast and Midwest into Houston, which included major offices in NY, Boston, Louisville and Chicago. Some of these cities have multiple locations. This was a complex undertaking, both from a technical and management perspective. This required periodic updates to executive management of these business units, as well as resolving the technical and process related challenge of merging multiple technical platforms without impacting the ongoing business.

Manager IT (Investments Perf. Risk and Analytics Americas May 2000 -Jan 2006

Responsible for the Investments Performance and Risk function from an IT perspective for North American business partners. This included vendor product implementation and custom development. Job responsibilities were a subset of the Global role as above.

Reynolds & Reynolds Technical Manager Infrastructure Group October 1998 - May 2000

Reynolds is involved in exposing ERAtm data from a multi-value universe database for its automotive dealers, and makes it available in a relational view to be used by various applications including e-business applications.

Responsible for project management and technical architect tasks, including technical design and conversion of a multi value DB to relational views in order to integrate web apps with legacy systems for automotive dealers etc.

Led the design of “on star” registration process via a www enabled application. This increased the efficiency from two weeks to an hour. Provided technical sales & marketing support.

Currently hold a US patent developed during this period. Patent is for a method to exchange of key automotive data between the three bix automotive companies in Detroit.

Claremont Technology Group Inc. Consulting

Manager Conversion and Bridging: Clarety tm June 1996 -September 1998

“Claremont” was building a framework of three-tier client server solutions for the Retirement Industry.

Performed various project management & daily operations tasks to manage the development effort, including team building, planning, executing tasks, measuring and controlling the project. Implemented processes for change management and version control.

Managed a team of business analysts and DBAs. Responsible for requirements gathering via JAD sessions and one-to-one client interviews, including a team of data modelers to develop logical & physical data model for the product.

My team led the effort of fine tuning the DB during the testing & performance tuning phase of the project.

Responsible for converting the legacy data into the new DB.

Responsible for data audits and control checks for the retirees’ data.

Manager: Thorn Americas January 1995 - June 1996

Implemented and managed a development environment for SDLC of a group of 13 applications for its Rent– A-Center stores. Applications ranged from Inventory management to CRM systems.

This included:

Setting up development, test and production environments.

Methodology for testing and migrating through the environments.

Version Control and Change Management.

Transition of methodology and support responsibilities to the client personal post production.

Manager: State Teacher Retirement System of Ohio January 1994 to December1994

Project manager of the Decision support and Reporting sub system for the Investments Management.

Responsible for:

Project management (planning, resource allocation, prioritization & monitoring the progress of the project).

Analysis, design, development, testing, Implementation and post production support of the reporting subsystem.

Repeated the above processes for another executive reporting subsystem for the member benefits

Analyst Programmer: STRS of Ohio September 1993 -January 1994

Performed hands-on roles as a programmer for various client server development projects, participating in full lifecycle development. These projects were related to investments management. Project responsibility included but not limited to:

Analysis, design, developing testing & implementing these projects in teams.

Plan & document the batch cycle to fit in the nightly cycle for the vendor product MAXIMIS (an Investment management product).

Price Waterhouse Consulting

Consultant: Integration Support Contract (IRS) February 1993 -September 1993

In an effort to speed the process of tax returns, the IRS launched “Tax System Modernization“. I was the part of the team doing the requirements gathering and logical design for the system.

Interviewed clients for requirements gathering.

Conducted JAD sessions and developed a process & logical data model.

Defined and help develop a problem tracking system.

Managed Programs involving Technology:

Programming Java, PowerBuilder, Python, VB, C++, .net, Crystal Reports, business objects, Biz Talk, Informatica

Platform Client Server, intranet and Main frame

Databases ORACLE; SQL Server, SYBASE, DB2, VISION, Informix, access

Other Tools IEF (Information Engineering Facility), ERwin/ERX, OMT

Operating Systems DOS, OS2, MVS, Windows, Windows95, WindowsNT, Windows XP, UNIX

Technical Knowledge (Hands On):

Office Productivity Tools Power Point, Word, Excel, MS Project , Visio etc

Relational Databases ORACLE; DB2, SQL Server, XDB

ICASE & Other Tools Power Builder, IEF (Information Engineering Facility), ERwin/ERX, OMT

Operating Systems DOS, OS2, MVS, Windows NT, Windows XP

OTHERS

Professional Memberships

PMI (Project Management Institute) http://www.pmi.org/Pages/default.aspx

IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing Professional) http://www.outsourcingprofessional.org/

SIM Society of Information Management http://www.simnet.org/

REFERENCES: Excellent references will be provided on request

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