Project Management

• Highly motivated and accomplished PMP certified (No: 1408951) IT professional.

• More than 11 years of Financial Industry experience in managing portfolio of highly critical multi-tier cross platform applications like Equity Trading, Pricing, Alerting and FX Trading.

• 4 years hospital industry experience, delivered HMS (Hospital Management System), PMS (Pharmacy Management System), MMS (Material Management System), Oncology Info System and many other clinical systems.

• Currently managing complex and multi-tier web applications, and mobile stock trading applications for BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and Android. Using agile and waterfall methodologies appropriately.

• Experience in E-Commerce, Banking, Healthcare and Data migration systems.

• Excellent Team Leadership, Crisis Management, Negotiation, Communication, Analytical and Problem Solving skills.

• Working with business partners, trade specialists and customer care team to explore new products and enhancements in existing application portfolio.

• Current role is of Product Manager for key web and mobile applications.

SKILLS:

• Certification: Project Management Professional

• Project Management: Familiarity with PMI processes and implementing in ongoing projects.

• Tools: MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Vizio)

• Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

• Technical: AIX/UNIX, Java, Rational, Spring, Flash, Web Services, ORACLE, DB2, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, HTML5, CSS3, Phone-Gap

• Training Courses: Principles & Techniques of Project Management, Six Sigma

• Education: Master in Computer Science

EXPERIENCE

Mar ’01 – Present: Fidelity Investments, Boston/Merrimack

• Managing On and Off-shore team in a timely fashion to accomplish most optimized development schedule. Mentoring team members to assimilate corporate objectives and convert into their individual career goals.

• Creating project charter and milestones during initiation, managing change control process for the whole life cycle of the project, and then finally closing the project.

• Managing projects through all phases of the project management cycle; design, development, quality testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.

• Monitoring project performance and identifying areas for improvements.

• Reporting project status and other important information to project sponsor and other key stake holders through the use of formal (project status reports, month status updates, Executive Status Sessions) and informal communication methods.

• Managing multiple projects at a time including budgeting & resource management, product requirements, estimating costs and ROI

• Working with customer care team to explore new opportunities in the current applications.

• Meeting with stake holders, senior managers and business analysts to initiate and foster collaborative partnerships and to define project deliverables and milestones.

• Executing project plans and Managing testing, debugging & release. Managing overall User Acceptance delivery coordination to meet client’s expectations.

• Working with technical & QA team to identify process and technical improvements and implementation to improve overall operational efficiency.

• Mentoring team members in alignment with application needs and career goals.

• Proactively identifying opportunities to reduce operations risks associated with the processes and tools. Leads strategic efforts to evaluate, select and implement new technologies to enhance existing systems.

Summary of Projects:

Fidelity Alerts: Fidelity Alerts is a multi-dimensional product serving more than 6 million customers. It contains many highly critical applications to accomplish the strategic goal. It includes GUI and Daemons. Oracle, Sybase and DB2 have been used for data storage. Fidelity Alerts has the goal to deliver time sensitive critical information to customers in real time via various channels and platforms. It has been the best Alert system amongst all brokerage companies since last 6 years. I work closely work with customer care team to identify new features, enhancements and possibilities in the application.

This is a J2EE internet system serving all Fidelity Retail Customers. Customers set various types of alerts, like Trade Executions, Price Triggers, Watch List, Fixed Income, Account Balance and positions to receive those alerts on to their email, Active Trader Pro and/or any wireless device. This application resides @fidelity.com.

My Streetscape Wireless: My Streetscape wireless is a stock trading application for mobile devices. It serves all Fidelity’s advisors. Advisors perform all kind of stock trading activities on their iPhone and Android phone. I am the ScrumMaster in the development as well as the product manager of the product. Using Agile methodologies, getting phased development, setting intermediate deliverables and milestones for the development to present to client. Customers will be able to trade stocks (including conditional and trailing stop orders), mutual funds, see balances & positions, receive alerts, and trade & exchange foreign currencies via their iPhone and Android phone. It’s enhanced version will be coming for iPad, development is going on. iPad version will be having full order central in it. Leveraging iPad’s big screen for multi layer design of this product.

Family Office: Family Office group explores new opportunities with Fidelity’s wealthiest customers. Interacting with sales team of Family Office to provide various kind of marketing tools and features on iPad and iPhone. This is a peculiar application for Fidelity’s ultra wealthy clients. Using Agile methodology, converted website primarily using flex extensively to HTML 5 specifications, to make it iPad friendly. Coordinated with business sponsors to identify their requirements and worked with development team to accomplish the task. Bundled whole website in an app to run on iPad.

Wireless FX/Domestic Trading: A trading application which allows Institutional and retail customers to trade on their wireless devices. They can trade domestic stocks, international stock and settle the trade in US dollars or in the base currency of the stock. Currently enhancing current system to incorporate conditional orders for institutional customers.

Active Trader Pro Alert System: It’s a specialty system only for Fidelity’s active trading customers. All new Active Trader Pro customers are setup to receive their trading alerts on their desktop.

Alerts for Institutional Customers: This application has around 40 web pages. It’s a standalone website, serving to institutional customers. This application has its own authentication and authorization system.

IPO & Fixed Income: All Fidelity customers who want to participate in any Initial Public Offering or any Fixed Income have to sign up to get alerts, so they could be notified when the offering gets priced. Customers then download prospectus before actually participating for the offering.

Electronic Channel Applications’ Website: Managed a team of 4 developers to accomplish a web based application. Its an intranet system serving Fidelity employees. It provides various type of trading information for customers and other type of information for higher management. It involves multi tier platforms, mainframe, database

Who’s Who messaging: Employees can browse other employees’ contact information at Fidelity Central, from there they can send messages to any of the available device, as pager, office email or personal email. Employee can manage the contact information by making them public or private as they prefer to receive their messages.

Streetscape Alerts: A project built for business allies of Fidelity, they can sign-up alerts for their customers. Their reps can manage alerts for some or all customers depending on the customization of their product.

Back-end applications - Market pricing and trade support applications

• Over the course of time, have worked on various applications in pricing and trade support arena for different types of financial instruments; equities, fixed income, options etc. Few of the key ones are:

• Price trigger application for all financial instruments based on streaming market data pricing feed using Reuters Foundation API (RFA)

• Providing real time and delayed price quotes for all financial instruments, to various trade support systems, and other in house applications providing content to customers like market news and research, stock watch lists etc

• Conditional orders, trailing stop loss orders application for equities based on streaming market data pricing feed using RFA

• Exposure to S.W.I.F.T messaging and data transformation tools.

May ’99 – Mar ’01: Software Pundits, Burlington, MA - Consultant Software Engineer

Project: Rapid Porting System IBM, Waltham, MA

Managed a rapid porting team to install, configure and administer workstations and servers running on AIX systems. Managed a team of 6 engineers to port various applications running on other flavor of UNIX to AIX. Performed system installation, development and analyzed system code and made appropriate changes to port it on any specific operating system. Demonstrated the ported applications side by side (non AIX vs AIX) to customer for their ultimate satisfaction.

Oct ’97 – Apr ’99: Mindware Pertech Inc, Woburn, MA - Project Leader

Developed following warehouse and parsing systems for Hills Department Store :

Project: TRANSPLIT – A data warehouse system Hills Departmental Stores, Canton, MA

Platform: C-Shell Script/UNIX

As technical lead for team of 4 engineers, designed, developed and implemented and maintained data distribution system, which took transaction data from a proprietary Token Ring network (OLTP), processed it on a UNIX platform and passed the reformatted data to an NT platform. The system was been installed in various stores (currently 155). It used C and UNIX scripts on UNIX and PL/SQL on Oracle.

Project: PARSIT – A parsing system Hills Departmental Stores, Canton, MA

Platform: OS/2, AIX Languages: C & Unix Script (Korn Shell) Tool: SQL*LOADER

This is a parsing system used to reformat a transaction file and to analyze sales by the hour for a labor scheduling system (STAFFWORKS). It also involved loading a binary EBCDIC file into an USASCII database using conventional path of SQL*LOADER.

Project: RADIO APPLICATIONS Hills Departmental Stores, Canton, MA

Platform: OS/2, SUN SOLARIS Languages: C & Unix Script (Korn Shell)

Radio applications provide remote sale and merchandising functions such as shelf verification, label print, ordering, and receiving. Clients (Radios) invoke local procedure calls to local server (Store) and remote procedure calls to remote server).

Nov ’96 – Oct ’97: Mindware, (a PCL Software Exports Division), New Delhi, India - Project Leader

For Toshiba and NEC to develop applications for multiple operating systems. Quality Control Supervisor for all NEC projects

Project: OSIF (Operating System Interface) TOSHIBA, Japan

Platform: Sun Solaris & HP-UNIX Module: C Functions & System Calls Languages: C & UNIX Script (Korn Shell) . OSIF runs over HP UX & will take all the commands & C functions of Solaris as input & will internally call HP commands & functions & will generate the output expected for Solaris compiler

Project: APBase DIOSA (Distributed Integrated Open System Architecture) NEC, Japan

Platform: Sun Solaris, HP-UNIX and Win-95 Language: C, C++, PL/SQL

TOOLS: Visual C++, NEC ORB 3.1

Project Leader of APBASE ST (Application Base System Testing) team. It involves the complete testing of the modules of DIOSA as Process Control Service, Transaction Services, Directory Services, Command Control and General Control. Project Leader of Transaction Services, as a part of DIOSA Project. Quality control supervisor for all these modules.

Nov ’92 – Oct ’96: Batra Hospital & Medical Research Center, New Delhi, India - Dy Systems Manager

Supervision of all IT activities in this 400 bedded hospital. Managed relationship with vendors to accomplish various business needs. Led team of developers for Hospital and Material Management Systems.

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM & MATERIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:

There are so many report modules for report generation, but the system does not have such type of reports which have interaction between OPD and IPD patients. New programs have been developed to fulfill these type of requirements.

Platform: 'C', UNIX (HP-UX), HCL-MAGNUM.

Project: PAYROLL SYSTEM Platform: C, PL/SQL, PRO*C, ORACLE 7.2, HP-UX (UNIX release V)

The system not only prepares the pay slips, but it also keeps track of the leave status and loan status of every employee. Various reports and inquiries could be generated.

Project: PHARMACY SYSTEM Platform: C, PL/SQL, PRO*C, ORACLE 7.2, HP-UX (UNIX release V)

Pharmacy: The package supplies all the facilities of pharmacy, running with a hospital or independently.

Project: ONCOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEM C, PL/SQL, ORACLE 7.2, HP-UX (UNIX release V)

The system aids in the management of cancer patients as it builds patient case history during patient's multiple visit to the hospital. Whole treatment procedure has been recorded.

Jul ’91 – Oct ’92: National Institute of Computer Engineering, New Delhi, India - Systems Analyst

Taught to Graduate classes, managed development team for Financial Accounting, Inventory and Stock Ledger

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING with INVENTORY CONTROL

Environment: Clipper (sum 87), MS DOS, AT 386.

SHAREC: It consists of modules like share purchase from primary and secondary market, Transfer of shares certificates, Shares stock ledger, Share purchase/sale history, Share ledger, broker ledger, broker/bank account etc.

EDUCATION

May, 2011 Project Management Professional

May 1991 MS in Computer Applications

Avadh University, India

June 1988 Bachelor of Science

Meerut University, India

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