Project Manager Maintenance

KRISH NAMBUDIRIPAD KRISHNAN

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Westminster, CO 80234

Tel: 303-***-**** Cell: 303-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

Summary

Applications Developer with over 20 years’ industry experience in designing and implementing financial systems solutions in support of business goals; Expertise in managing projects through all phases of the system development life cycle - including requirement analyses, writing and reviewing business requirement document & design specifications, testing & implementation, and on-going support & maintenance functions – applying industry best practices and project management methodologies.

Technical Proficiencies

Environment: TANDEM/Guardian OS and associated file systems and utilities; C, COBOL85, Java, SCOBOL, TAL, and Visual Basic languages; Enscribe and NonStop SQL RDBMS; Object Oriented and Client/Server application development methodologies; Familiarity with ODBC, Internet and cross network applications and facilities, data import/export, and presentation methods; Working knowledge of PC packages and tools, such as MS Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, and Word.

Work History

Wells Fargo (Application Systems Engineer) Mar 2006 – Present

Presently involved in the enhancements, maintenance and support functions of the CEO Wires Application in the HP/Tandem Guardian & OSS environments; Participated in the user requirement analysis to develop appropriate technical solutions on the back-end servers and databases, in close coordination with the application's front-end team; Actively involved in the preparation of proper documentation of the application's functionalities, change control management procedures and production problem analysis and resolutions; Exposure to front-end application development using Java.

Self-Employed (Software Consultant) Aug 2005 – Mar 2006

Worked on small to medium sized projects that included new application development, enhancements, maintenance, and customization to existing HP NonStop applications. Major works undertaken include embedded SQL query optimizations; standardization of source codes; Pathway Screen conversions to Web Clients and required changes to the resulting Java Classes, RSC setup and deployment of GUI screens.

Environment: Windows, Visual Studio, C, COBOL85, Java, SCOBOL, TAL, SQL Server, Pathway, Enscribe & NonStop SQL RDBMS. The work involves interacting with users for requirements gathering/analysis, developing functional and technical specifications, presenting proposal of solution options, coding and testing.

Application Development, Analyst Lead (JPMorgan Chase 8/05 – 11/05)

• Served as Project Manager for the implementation of a client-server product to perform OFAC validations of the International ACH transactions.

• Participated in the complete system development life cycle, implementation and ongoing support functions; Involved in the maintenance of the ACH application running on the Tandem/HP Nonstop environment.

Sungard Securities Processing, New York, NY Nov 2002 – Aug 2005

Senior Technical Analyst/Offshore Project Manager

• Served as Project Manager for the offshore development team in India – This included: Feasibility studies; Analysis of vendor proposals; Establishment of the required infrastructure; Recruitment of multi-level technical staff; Project scheduling & estimates, Risk analysis, People management and ongoing liaison functions for the application conversion project; Responsible for the ongoing day-to-day interfacing activities with the home-office, and the monitoring of work progress and providing guidance to the team members on technical and business aspects.

• Served as Technical lead in the development of an automatic matching process for the trades generated in-house against those transmitted by the exchanges that executed them; Assisted in the Project Management activities

• Participated in the conversion of legacy screens to user-friendly GUI’s by generating the required Web clients and modifying the Java Class files, and RSC components.

• Worked as the lead technical member of the development team in the customization of the Phase 3 securities processing application, involving in all phases of the complete life cycle of software development. Extensive use of Nonstop SQL, SCOBOL, COBOL85 and TAL.

Self-Employed (Software Consultant) Mar 2002 – Nov 2002

• Worked on project proposals for custom application development, enhancement, and maintenance of existing software. Participated in coding, testing and implementation of new products in C, C++, Java, Tandem SCOBOL/COBOL85, and Nonstop SQL

Advest, Inc., (MONY Group), Hartford, CT Mar 2000 – Jan 2002

Senior Applications Developer

• Managed the architectural design, development and implementation of the interfacing for the legacy OMS application with a new trading system (MOXY), employing FIX (Financial Information Exchange) protocol and using client/server technology; Developed the necessary Java client and all interfacing batch/server programs for the Tandem OMS to manage the message queue, data interrogation, and order routing to various exchanges.

• Actively participated in the requirement analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of new enhancements and regulatory modifications to the application system and associated job control routines, and day-to-day interactions with the exchanges, users and vendors

• Developed and maintained several batch and on-line transaction processing server programs to support the Order Management System (OMS) for a securities trading and clearing application; languages: C, COBOL85, SCOBOL, TAL

Consultant (Deutsche Bank, ING, Merrill Lynch, New York) Oct 1997 – Jan 2000

• Involved in the development and maintenance of ATLAS (MPCT) application system requesters and servers, ENFORM reports for operational review, job control routines and other utilities and functions in TACL (Tandem Advanced Command Language)

• Provided Y2K problem analysis and solutions, and enhancements to deal-reconciliation module for a major financial software package, which supports trading and clearing of securities

• Frequently interacted with the users and group managers to analyze and formally define their requirements relating to functional problems and system modifications

• Served as the lead programmer analyst for several development and enhancement projects from conceptualization through implementation, providing project management functions along with the necessary guidance to junior team members.

Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenerette (DLJ), New York, NY Jun 1996 – Sep 1997

Senior Programmer Analyst

• Developed and maintained application programs to support securities clearing; Managed the successful implementation of a time critical application to meet the regulatory deadline

• Analyzed numerous application modules for possible Y2K problems, made recommendations, and implemented the resolutions

• Maintained and enhanced several SQL based servers to improve/optimize the embedded queries using TAL & COBOL85 in Tandem/Guardian environment.

Tucker Anthony, New York Mercantile Exchange, NY Apr 1995 – Jun 1996

Consulting Position/Programmer Analyst

• Provided consulting services to securities and trading industry for the resolution of Y2K problems

• Enhanced and maintained trading application programs; Served as a senior development team member in the facilitating of new commodities trading.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., New York, NY Jan 1992 – Mar 1995

Senior Programmer Analyst

• Developed and maintained program modules, batch as well as on-line requesters and servers, and job control macros for a large application to support online trading of securities

• Managed the complete project life cycle for the implementation of support modules for regulatory reporting and online monitoring of high-yield securities transactions

• Worked on Tandem Nonstop/Guardian using languages: C, COBOL85, SCOBOL, TAL in the Enscribe as well as NonStop SQL RDBMS.

GTE, Bothell, WA Jan 1989 – Oct 1991

Consulting Position

Application development and maintenance under Tandem pathway environment using TAL, COBOL85, SCOBOL and NonStop SQL. The application (NMCC – Network Management Control Center) modules include Service Order Entry/Management, Directory Enquiry, Calling Card Maintenance, Facilities Management and Billing for telephone industry. Job functions required frequent interaction with users for requirement analysis.

Prior Experience

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., EMIRTEL, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Nov 1977 – Nov 1985

Systems Engineer

Involved in the operation and maintenance of Automatic Telex Exchange; Initiated and developed traffic analysis software to meet the CCITT regulations, which saved the company time and processing costs; Received GM’s award for this accomplishment.

Coordinated the network management activities for a large mainframe installation consisting of IBM, and ICL computers with a host of geographically distributed terminal network (on-shore as well as off-shore locations).

Electronics Corporation of India, Ltd., Hyderabad, India Jan 1974 – Oct 1977

Scientific Assistant

Systems test and troubleshoot mini computer hardware modules such as CPU, Memory, I/O Controllers and various interfaces; Installation and maintenance of computer systems at user locations.

Education

BS – Computer Science, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS - 1987.

MS – Computer & Information Sciences

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ - 1988.

Leadership/Other Experiences

Volunteer EMT - Served as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician responding to 911 calls at the East Brunswick Rescue Squad, NJ (1998 – 2000)

President – Kerala Association of Washington – Played a key role of organizing the cultural organization of an ethnic community from Kerala state, India. Served as the founding President and led the activities such as membership-drive, cultural programs. During my tenure, the membership grew from about 50 people to over 200. Website: www.kaow.org (Seattle, WA - Year 1991).

President – Kerala Association of Colorado – Serving as the President of this cultural organization that has strength of over 600 members living in the Denver area. Major activities include organizing cultural programs, ethnic functions and celebrations giving the community adequate exposure to the public. Website: www.colorerala.org (Denver, CO -Year 2009 & 2011)

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