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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Shaping data strategy with a focus on developing scalable technology solutions for the identification, ingestion, modeling, persistence and distribution of data for trade surveillance, as part of the risk management function. Collaborate with cross-organizational senior leadership, risk managers and operations teams to understand business and regulatory requirements, craft roadmaps and deliver tailored solutions that drive business outcomes while adhering to key regulatory standards.Manage a team of product managers & data / software engineers to architect, design and develop targeted technology solutions.

New York, New York, Us

Led a global team accountable for the delivery of high-quality Product reference data to trading, clearing and settlement groups at GS. In addition to hiring, talent reviews, career and succession planning, employee engagement, vision and roadmap planning, tracking and reporting, I:▪ Reorganized stewardship team to introduce data modeling & transformation capabilities achieving a 20% reduction in customer response times▪ Attained 12% operational efficiency gains (across 4 metrics) by leading transition from legacy CRM system to cloud-native ServiceNow platform▪ Partnered with Data Design & Curation team to develop and leverage machine learning (ML) models to proactively identify exception patterns in vendor reference data and effect a 9% reduction in manual data correction events▪ Created framework, led evaluation & delivered recommendations for vendor data-set – based on cost, automation potential and fit-for-purpose▪ Designed and implemented data models & ingestion mechanism on fixed income dataset, enabling compliance with SEC regulation 15C2-11▪ Implemented models and pipelines to ingest and curate data from several exchanges into firmwide Securities Master

New York, New York, Us

▪ Crafted vision & business case and obtained executive approval for a 3-year, $8M investment in data platform uplift and transformation initiative to ingest, curate and distribute market/regulatory data to trading, settlement and clearing across the firm▪ Analyzed customer profiles and demand; Identified gaps, negotiated minimum viable (MVP) feature set and go-to-market strategy; Led end-to-end solution definition and implementation to – consolidate data for all traded securities on a single platform, improve data quality by 80%, attain 100% regulatory compliance and achieve 30% reduction in exceptions for all onboarded assets▪ Defined vision and led effort to modernize digital data delivery from Sybase (DB) replication to multiple channels – APIs, data feeds, resulting in 75% improvement (from 8 to 2 weeks) in time-to-market as well as reduced maintenance costs and platform downtime▪ Championed adoption of Agile methodologies & best practices on sprint planning, story grooming, daily scrums, and demos

Gb

Led engagements focused on technology innovation, developing operating models, analyses on market size, cost structure, customer profiles, competitive trends as well as compelling and insightful executive-level business cases for several fortune 100 financial services organizations.▪ Renegotiated service contracts & overhauled processes to cut annual operating costs by $250K (4%) as the IT procurement lead at a hedge fund▪ Established PMO operation for $10MM software development initiative at a major US bank including program discipline to delivery gating, reporting and risk management; resulting in early identification and mitigation of issues, greater accountability and increased transparency

Gb

Conducted infrastructure analyses and delivered virtualization, automation and service-oriented architecture (SOA) recommendations at several major financial institutions across the U.S. ▪ Achieved 30% increase in resiliency via discovery, planning, migration and virtualization of a datacenter with 3100+ servers and 350+ applications▪ Led due diligence analyses on market size, cost structure, customer profiles and competitive trends, to develop compelling and insightful business case for a UK based transportation firm to invest in, and pursue private charter business in the United States

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Architected and implemented incident and change management product solutions utilizing CA Service Management product suite

Analyzed requirements for, designed, developed and tested multiple modules of a Java based home/office security and automation server product with native mobile application support

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics And Telecommmunications

Executive Education Program