Responsible for leading a team of technology professionals focused on building, designing, implementing and optimizing a stable, secure, and scalable data and database infrastructure, required to support MediaWallah's core business initiatives and analytics research.

Assessed infrastructure, data architecture, database performance, and ETL processes.

Leading several projects to upgrade underlying infrastructure components. Responsible for the design, development and implementation of ongoing financial system projects to automate the workflow of underlying data, simplify and improve existing data flows functions, and develop software tools to fulfill technology needs.

Vice President, Database Engineering GroupResponsible for the design, developing and implementation of ongoing database engineering projects to automate and simplify existing DBA functions, rollout of Software Development Life Cycle process to reduce deployment time, and design and develop software tools to fulfill technology needs. Managed the enhancements of the firm’s enterprise wide self-service DBA web-portal. Directed efforts to identify database performance and tuning issues.

Delegating responsibilities of assignments to developers and DBAs. Interfacing with business managers, application users, and project managers to gather/define/document requirements for new initiatives. Created and maintained logical & physical data models. Resolved database stability and optimization issues. Involved in managing various database applications for trading environments.

Managed and implemented development efforts for trade processing, fund accounting administration, and financial reporting. Responsible for tool development, report generation, and liaison between business units & technical teams. Re-engineered workflow and updated procedures between technical team and client, to increase efficiency and productivity.

Responsible for database performance and tuning, troubleshooting, and system monitoring. Involved in SQL code optimization techniques for quality assurance, production, and development efforts

(Merger with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette November, 2000)Led a team of 7 Sybase/Oracle/MSSQL server DBAs and 4 consultants responsible for supporting Fixed Income databases and all development efforts.Responsible for planning and implementing various projects during merger of DLJ and CIBC

Implemented action plans to provide Sybase database administration services for a customized Securities Lending and Borrowing system project

Developed software for art historical research. Responsible for the management of the Trust’s software and database infrastructure, installation, management, and maintenance of production databases and hardware environments. Designed, built and deployed several ground breaking interactive web sites that are still in use today at the Trust. Some of these include the AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus,) ULAN (Union List of Artist Names,) TGN (Thesaurus of Geographical Place Names,) and ART (Authority Reference Tool.)Responsible for maintaining and negotiating yearly support contracts covering vendor hardware/software services and products.