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Newport Beach, Ca, Us

Newport Beach, California, Us

• Led 10-member credit research and data science teams in PIMCO, overseeing technology deliveries for PIMCO credit researchers, fund managers, and portfolio analytics group.• Actively engaged with business and senior executives to define product roadmap, strategy, and execution framework aligning with the defined OKRs and well-articulated KPIs.• Managed engineering team for software design & development, creating requirements document, conducting Agile ceremonies sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and defining product backlog to help prioritize the work.• Key Product deliverables in the last 8 years: - Led the launch of PIMCO Credit analyst platform with suite of products utilized for mapping capital structure on corporate bonds, publishing credit writeups, ratings/recommendation,and financial reporting. The platform increased transparency in buy/sell decisions, risk assessment and corporate structuring cutting down 50% of time spent in multiple communications between analyst and traders. - Led the launch of PIMCO Credit research reporting platform in Power BI for comprehensive analysis on company/sector/fund/ESG performance, financial projections, fund distributions and reporting. The product resulted in 60% time saving of credit analyst aggregating data form multiple places.- Led ESG reporting platform buildout for comprehensive analysis on ESG investment, account exposure and sector comparison reports based on various ESG metrics. The platform resulted in 50% operational efficiency from earlier manual processes of collecting, transforming, and analyzing data feeds for ESG comparison. - Launched Credit summary tool using generative AI capability via GPT 4.0 model to generate concise summaries on credit notes that fund managers can refer in client calls and quick investment analysis The anticipated annual cost saving from the tool is around $20 million, in terms of cutting down communication time of more than 500 investment professionals globally.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

• Managed NFL programming and helped launched ‘Download & Go’ feature in Directv streaming product services. • Managed strategic initiatives for technology infrastructure and operations team with budget in excess of $5 MM.• Defined project strategy, roadmap, and vision documents, getting a buy in from senior executives.• Worked with engineering group to deliver solutions, managing timelines and key deliverables.• Streamlined infrastructure pipelines for rolling out production requests, CICD and cloud deployments, hardware needs, and storage requirements resulting in 40% operational efficiency in cycle time. • Led enterprise-wide Agile development transformation for software delivery, establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), establishing cadence in planning, prioritization, tracking project deliverables and dashboard reporting. • Conducted Agile development training for teams and executives. • Role established through a consulting contract with Irvine Technologies.

New York, New York, Us

• Designed end-to-end ETF servicing product offering portfolio creation, order generation and settlement, and collateral management for equity and fixed income ETFs. The product enabled Citi to save $10 million in annual savings from third party ETF servicing providers and helped onboard 75 new funds in the first 3 year of the product launch with annual servicing fees of $20 mm. • Led requirements gathering and gap analysis, whiteboarding solutions with Citi product team and proposing workflows and functional specs for ETF servicing platform.• Designed UI, DB schema, application services, and software architecture for the ETF product and managed IT development for the approved design.• Conducted Integration and user acceptance test cycles to hash out any gaps in development.• Role established through a consulting contract with Open Systems Technologies.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed fund accounting technology group to provide software support in security valuation, fund accruals, NAV calculations, corporate actions, and FX processing using SunGard fund accounting software (InvestOne).• Led global technology team (15 people) for delivering software improvements and providing technology support on business inquiries.• Led bank initiatives for InvestOne software upgrades, accounts consolidation, and SEC 13F/G quarterly reporting for compliance.• Led resource planning, scoping, and budgeting for the technology team in Pittsburgh, New York, and India.• Coded programs, UI, database interfaces and conducted code reviews on application development. Supported release deployment and change management communications. • Role established through a consulting contract with Wipro Limited.

New York, Ny, Us

• Led membership rewards program at Amex to recategorize the standard reward structure into three tiers, MR, MR First, and MR Express, offering more customer incentives and rewards-sharing features.• Supported loan origination, payment processing, and closing platforms.• Conducted design sessions, gathering requirements and creating process flows and functional design documents.• Coded programs in mainframe technologies for the backend and UI features.

• Developed new software features as per business requirements.• Created design documents, architecture workflow and developed software as per the technical specs. • Mentored team members on code reviews and testing.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Developed Software applications for financial accounting services (American Express).• Wrote programs in Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2) and implemented software as per business requirements. • Created design documents, architecture workflow and mentored team on code reviews and software testing as per the SDLC standards.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Engineer'S Degree, Information Technology