System owner for Calypso trading platform and other systems of records for interest rate derivatives, credit derivatives, commodity energy derivatives, equity derivatives and FX options. Supports multiple desks including derivatives, corporate treasury and mortgage. Responsible for technology to support front to back functions including pricing, risk, static data, workflows, SDR-DTCC reporting, accounting, settlements, collateral, clearing, hedge accounting and bond issuance. Dynamic career progress to director.Responsibilities:• Directed a large globally distributed team spread across three continents responsible for multiple critical derivatives applications. • Planned, budgeted and managed multiple complex programs and projects with budgets of $15 million - $20 million within 2% variance. Managed scope and prioritization with 20+ stakeholders.• Reduced the turnaround time by 75% for onboarding new products and regulatory projects by distributing functions across multiple applications, creating scalable and robust procedures and automation.• Provided build versus buy analysis for new business projects.• Led transition of multiple teams from waterfall to agile (Scrum and Kanban), and drove teams to adopt microservices, Jenkins pipelines, automated configuration migration and automated testing.• Established best practices, including agile planning and development, test automation and DevOps. • Authored and implemented a multi-year plan for all derivatives applications.• Provided vision and long term strategy to teams. Translated it to smaller deliverables. Coached and engaged teams for a higher degree of collaboration and motivation.• Worked with auditors. Helped coordinate response to regulators like OCC, NFA, CFTC, SEC and FDIC. • Designed procedures to mitigate risk compliant with enterprise data governance, software vulnerability management, agile scrum practices.• Created a centralized production support team for derivatives applications.

Epsilon is a consulting firm specialized in implementation/enhancement of Calypso and Principia derivative management systems. Worked with developers and testers to streamline testing of Principia implementation.

Implementation/enhancement of derivatives trading systems like Calypso, Summit, ActiveViam, Openlink Findur and Principia at top tier investment banks. The applications are used by front, middle and back office for trading, risk analysis, accounting, financial reporting etc.Responsibilities:• Involved in identifying project scope, tasks involved, estimated time required to complete tasks, timeline, Gantt chart etc. The estimates were presented to upper management.Involved in writing business cases, new project proposals and proof of concepts (POC).• Performed requirement gathering, formulated test strategy, created test plan and test cases, executed functional tests, created user guide and performed end user training. Performed component tests, system integration tests (SIT), user acceptance tests (UAT), parallel tests and monitored Deployment.• Worked with derivatives like interest rate swaps (IRS), cross-currency Swaps (CS), futures, options, swaptions, cancelable swaps, caps, floors, forward rate agreements (FRA), risk participation agreement (RPAs), credit default swaps (CDS), FX spots, FX forwards, FX swaps etc. and fixed income instruments like Treasury Bonds, Treasury Bills and Treasure Notes.• Implemented IFRS hypothetical methodology and accounting rules like FAS 133 hedge accounting, FAS 52 and FAS 157. Developed accounting rules like GAAP to Fair Value Basis Transfer, FAS 52, mark to market, year end balance recognition• Developed expertise in pricing curve setup, accounting rules, standard trade and position level derivatives reports, accounting and settlement reports.• Implemented interfaces with Blackrock Aladdin, Loan IQ, Peoplesoft General Ledger (PSGL), central data warehouses, custom upstream/downstream systems, pricing feeds from Refinitiv, Bloomberg and Markit• Relational Database Testing using SQL. Created XML test feeds. • Batch runs using Autosys, Control-M and Cron commands

Instruct is a front end tool used by State Street’s clients to book Exchange traded bonds and OTC derivative trades like swaps, futures, options, FX etc. Managed defect log and documented future enhancements.

Loan Payment Solutions (LPS) is a loan maintenance application used by student borrowers. Interactive Letter Processor (ILP) is used to automate generating various forms and letters that are to be sent to the borrowers. Responsible for requirement gathering, documentation, traceability and QA testing.