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Greater Philadelphia Area

- Oversee the installation and configuration of the ION solution by providing on-site and off-site assistance. - Guide ION team and the client team throughout implementation for complete upgrade/migration/roll out preparedness of the client's system. Monitor progress of the on-going project activities and ensure that tasks are executed on time. - Meet with clients on daily basis ensuring installations and configurations are progressed as per project plan. - Drive user acceptance testing and validations during the deployment project. Develop test cases and workflows. - Conduct the training sessions for traders and IT support ensuring the ION solution is used effectively. Provide user specific and technical documentation. - Provide guidance on go-live procedures and lead the efforts to provide go-live and post go-live. - Manage the technical relationship with clients and drive resolution of clients' complex technical issues during and post implementation. - Aid project management team by developing schedules, tracking milestones (with clients and internally), providing reports and time estimates. Manage bigger scope and determine the bottom line for on-going projects. - Evaluate existing deployment procedures, change requests and recommend improvements. Provide feedback to various development teams on product enhancements based on customer experience. - Utilize the knowledge and understanding of the clients’ environment to recommend implementation of suitable features. - Investigate client's business processes and goals and recommend changes to the solution accordingly. - Handle conflict resolution through managing client's expectations and negotiating with the involved parties to agree on reasonable solutions for the change requests made during the deployment.

- Collaborate with ION product and development teams to generate proposals and cost indications for initial technical assessments. - Work with clients and account managers to evaluate and define requirements, scope and system integration points for the ION solution. - Review client's existing set up and suggest customized solutions. Perform requirement gathering, gap analysis, prepare design workflows and user stories for implementation analysis. - Develop a deployment project plan based on the implementation analysis results. - Interface with clients and sales to generate cost indications and proposals for the complete deployment project. - Assist project managers and account managers with scope changes during projects.

- Develop and optimize an automated web application, including designing the application architecture and building the front-end application, and conducting technical evaluation and resource allocations to support an internal migration. - Coordinate performance lab, focusing on building a system that would generate key performance indicators for financial products. - Coordinate the changes to ION software required for the Single Security Initiative, a major regulatory change in the way US MBS are traded.

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Interface with ION product owners and assist them in pre-sales client demos for ION's proprietary financial software suite. - Build and maintain test platform for financial trading software suite. - Configure and deploy software into multiple environments. - Implement, integrate and troubleshoot different ION solutions for Rates, Credit, FX, Mortgages, etc. on the dedicated Pre-Sales Platform.

- Assisted with deployment projects to gain understanding of ION implementation procedures. - Assisted with UAT validations during the deployment project. - Assisted with training sessions to gain understanding of ION training procedures. - Provided assistance with go-live preparations and go-live activities. - Gained subject matter expertise on client's business processes and their migration plans. - Log and track incidents during and post implementation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Meaningful Use Certification:- Responsible for requirement gathering and requirement analysis.- Re-designing User Interface and prototyping based on the requirements gathered.- Working closely with the Project Manager to mitigate risks and communicating other factors in decision making beforedeploying the feature.- Documenting list of features, steps performed in testing the already existing ones and generating tickets for the same.- Performed Gap Analysis focussing on the Lychee Application and recommended features for further enhancement.UI Testing:- Test the deployed feature for its working and report outcome to the team through the ticketing system- Performed deployment roll out tasks on the Integration Server and solved plugin dependencies using Eclipse and firebug.- Direct interaction with end users for UI walkthroughs and solving issues.Lychee:- Responsible for the Design of the Lychee Application and its data components.- Updating existing C# applications and writing C# patches; Creating C# tools to expedite the process.- Working with SQL and Postgres Databases for imports, exports and manipulation of the data.- Generating Reports (using Pentaho).- Administrative tasks with user accounts on Lychee Application including managing enrollments, updates and authorizations.- Coordinating with the Clients (requests) and our Development team through team (scrum) meetings and client meetings.Facilitating Change Management for the Lychee Application using Assembla.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Worked for a start-up company named Soccer Insane World and performed the following tasks-- Gathering requirements in the process of building a website for soccer fans with latest updates, bracket game and soccerfantasy game.- Reviewing and evaluating existing website designs, finding strengths and weakness and suggesting ways to improve them.- Creating new website design templates, prototypes, story boards and conceptualization.- Develop PowerPoint presentations. Online trend research/trend reports.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Worked as a research assistant on a project based on analysis and detection of emerging events (sentiment tracking) from social media data, led by Dr. Chaomei Chen. The project is part of the Center for Visual & Decision Informatics (CVDI), a collaborative NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center between Drexel University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Master'S Degree, Information Systems, 3.82

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Phi Epsilon, Pragathi - Indian Graduate Association

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, 3.5