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Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Orchestrated strategy for Web Technology and Reporting group - a development team of 6, across East and West coasts, which oversee 7 platforms supporting multiple lines of business including Dodd-Frank Reporting, FX.
• Steered architectural improvements to internal Java platforms for improved maintainability.
• Transformed traditional waterfall SDLC to Scrum methodology utilizing Jira and Confluence.
• Spearhead Secure-Coding and Dev Ops initiative for IB&M which involves implementing industry standard development practices including code management, code review and build automation leveraging Maven, Jenkins and Nexus.
• Drove reduction in production issues through implementation of business self-service solutions and improvements in support model.
• Championed team’s growth by instilling core Bank values and leading by example.

Los Angeles, California

• Senior Calypso technologist involved in Front-to-Back Calypso implementation for GCM.
• Spearheaded Bi-directional MarkitWire module implementation. Partnered with business throughout design, development and testing to ensure successful delivery.
• Proposed technology and SDLC improvements in an effort to streamline development process and improve system performance.
• Educated junior team members of Java and Calypso technologies and OOP design.

San Francisco Bay Area

• IT partner for Capital Markets business supporting multiple systems including Calypso.
• Managing Calypso development team supporting Front, Middle, and Back Office.
• Collaborate with Capital Markets business to ensure IT and business strategies are in-line for relevant systems.
• Coordinate monthly Calypso releases across development team, QA, and multiple business units.
• Experience in various financial products (IRS, CDS/CDX, Equity TRS, Commodity TRS, Bonds, Options, Advances) and their lifecycles.
• Proficient with multiple Calypso modules including trade capture, trade lifecycles, workflows, reporting, scheduled tasks, messaging, transfers/payments, accounting, pricing environments, market data, ERS and the.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed Calypso front office development team.
• Facilitated code review across team members to ensure code follows OOP standards.
• Responsible for monthly releases and multiple Calypso environments, which consists of the Core Calypso platform and both Java and.NET web services.
• Engaged both front and back office teams to identify go-live strategy for on-boarding back office onto Calypso.
• Built functionality to extract trade lifecycle events from one environment and import into another to allow for automation of parallel testing. The process leveraged XStream to serialize the Java objects.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Accomplishments include development of custom Scheduled Tasks, custom reports, an in-house solution to load Credit Ratings from Moody, S&P and Fitch, performance improvements in existing processes and automation of.
• Assisted with major Calypso upgrade from version 11 to version 13, in addition to assigned responsibilities.
• Engaged with front office business to fully understand requirements and business processes.
• Leveraged understanding of Calypso and FHLB business processes to effectively design and develop sustainable solutions leveraging appropriate object-oriented design concepts.
• Responsible for maintenance and deployments of Calypso infrastructure in dev region.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for providing architectural and technical guidance for integration of CRE, Calypso, and Aladdin with vendor systems as part of Helium outsourcing initiative.
• Redesigned entire CRE architecture to support new vendor accounting platform and data capture model.
• Managed Aladdin and Calypso vendor integration, which includes creation and transmission of FpML (Financial Products Markup Language) representations of trades, communication of cash impact of trades, and a custom.
• Developed custom Calypso MessageEngine to process individual transfers as per business use case. Additional engines were written for transmission and Ack/Nak processing of these messages via MQ.
• Coordinated requirements across multiple vendors and internal teams.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed a 2 person development team for CRE, an in-house counterparty exposure calculation engine.
• Responsible for assignment of work, coordination of requirements with business users, and ensuring project deliverables are completed with proper coding methodologies and within a reasonable amount of time.
• Partnered with business to determine strategy and direction for the growth of CRE.
• Integral in designing core TNAV (Total Net Asset Value) functionality.

Greater Chicago Area

• Senior developer on Calypso, a front-to-back derivatives processing suite. Supported products include Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Index Swaps, Equity Linked Swaps, Commodity Index Swaps.
• Integrated Calypso with internal Trading System, Security Master, Accounting System, and external vendors such as DTCC.
• Designed and developed custom Commodity Index Swap workflow. Leveraged a customized CIS trade screen and numerous workflow rules to support market disruption functionality since out-of-the-box solution was not available.
• Successfully integrated numerous patches provided by Calypso including a patch for DTCC Novation Consent for credit products. The patch required modifications to Calypso provided workflows, filters, a schema upgrade.
• Implemented message generation and transmission for all core products. Message generation required development of custom html templates and custom message formatters. Message transmission involved creation of custom.
• Customized credit event functionality for CDS and CDX trades. Developed custom workflow rules so credit event applied on block trade automatically replays on allocation trades.

Greater Chicago Area

• Designed and developed FITSToTSL, a Java middleware system that captured trades from the fixed income trading system (FITS) and forwarded them to TSL for back office processing. Replaced 2 older processes which were.
• Enhanced TSL to support fixed income products including bonds, repos, time deposits, swaps, and options.
• Coordinated development and testing efforts across FITS and TSL teams.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed on CARS, a 3-tier in-house application that provides an OTC collateral management solution. The application has a Sybase database, Java service tier, and a C# GUI.
• Enhanced CARS to support Tri-Party Collateral. Required changes at all levels of application to properly recognize tri-party collateral and tri-party custodians in the system.
• Provided support and solutions for small enhancements and bug fixes.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed on High Value Taxpayer System application for the state of New York Department of Taxation and Finance. The application utilizes Struts, Tiles, Spring, and Ibatis. The application can collect ACH Debit, ACH.
• Enhanced various application features to be restartable. The processes were not restartable because the integrity of the data was being compromised. Utilized Spring’s Transaction Manager to handle all updates as a.
• Utilized knowledge of data structures and algorithms to design and implement an efficient solution to the duplicate confirmation number issue for the conversion process. Algorithm filtered out records using regular.
• Developed the “Am I Healthy” page utilizing Struts. Created an action class to check if system servers are properly responding.
• Designed shell script code to send out email notifications whenever invalid records were discovered while processing input files. If a record does not pass proper validations it is written to a file called REJECTED.LOG.
• Utilized CLOB objects to allow text 8 KB and larger to be saved to the database.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed on Pay Connexion application. Pay Connexion is a multi-channel payment application. Clients can make single and recurring payments via IVR, the web or through a Customer Service Representative.
• Incorporated functionality to allow Billers to be configured to accept credit card and debit card payments via the Paymentech-Salem card processor platform.
• Enhanced application to allow invalid bank accounts to be changed to valid status. Modified various Java classes and SQL stored procedures to allow feature to function properly. Stored procedure was modified to return.
• Modified Add Account and Edit Account code to dynamically display the appropriate messages and labels for various fields based on what payment options a client has available to them.
• Improved application unit testing by seamlessly integrating Emma with PCX for Windows and Solaris environments.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for troubleshooting desktop support related issues at client sites.
• Installed Ghost image builds on laptops and desktops.
• Configured and setup workstations for clients.
• Maintained ownership inventory of equipment.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science