Vikram Bhandari Email & Phone Number

Lugano, Ticino, Ch

London, England, Gb

• Acquisition - Part of Management group responsible for acquisition by Mercuria Energy Group• Product - Set the strategy, product roadmap and priority across all product lines.• DevOps - Manage Operations, Infrastructure & Client Environments, automated QA-Build & Deploy process, expand Product Suite & technology upgrades and Expand Product suite.• Agile Planning & Delivery – Implemented Agile bi-weekly planning & reviews using Atlassian, implemented Functional Ownership Model, added release Visibility across all Products, improved Client interaction and transparency till Production and implemented new SOW’s.• Processes Transformation - Implemented consistent Technical & People processes, collected KPI’s across multiple products and Locations.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Research and Development, Project Architecture & Technology Roadmap, Global Teams (CT, Calgary and Bangalore) and setting-up Development Processes. Led two important initiatives at EKA• SMART Next Generation Futuristic Functions - JAVA (New Initiative)• Energy Trading Risk Management (.NET)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Scotia was continuation after acquiring commodities business from UBS. Managed all aspects of Development, Enterprise Initiatives, Responsible for resource planning and PnL.Managed below • CTRM Platform, JAVA and Delphi – Architected complex Intraday/EOD Risk, Multi-Valuation, Scenario, T+n analysis, Inventory finance deals, Map-reduce algorithm for Commodities to manage increase in volumes by multiple folds. • MERLIN - JAVA and Oracle - Architected to suffice Scotia’s Enterprise Data and Integration HUB requirements (all business lines) that become a Bank standard internal and external data communication.• Enterprise Risk Data Warehouse - JAVA, .NET and ORACLE – A bank wide platform to have a single view of Risk across the business lines.

Zurich, Ch

Managed Commodities Trading and Risk Management Platform. Re-Architected in-sourced vendor system to enable 30X volumes and merging 3 trading platforms for Power, Gas, Oil and Agriculture. Managed 15 Developers and Architects across Stamford and Jersey City.• Awarded Global IT Innovation Award for Technology and Architecture work. I was the only individual to receive this award in 2008 at UBS.• New Architecture – Implemented Distributed Commodities Map Reduce Algorithm, Intelligent Normalized Persistence Layer, Multiple schema approach and grid based on-demand caching. Improvements got us 85% EOD Performance (8 hours to 60 minutes), 85% reduced storage (5 GB/day to 600MB/day) and 90% memory improvements (1.2GB to 100MB’s).• Risk Functions – Implemented Global/Incremental EOD processes, Native currency calculations and intelligent storage layer.

Westport, Ct, Us

Managed Development of Risk Modules across all Commodities, Locations and Clients. Involved with product Architecture from inception. Managed a team of 25+ Developers and Architects in an on-shore off-shore Development Model managing high value client, Supporting sales cycles and Technology interactions.• Designed and Architected functionalities - Valuation engine, P/L attribution, Simulation/Scenarios, VaR, Price engine, deal life cycle and Settlement for Commodities Physicals, Swaps, Options and Futures.• Part of core Technology team in building TPT’s solution for commodity trading and risk management.• Part of the group to build off-shore office with 500+ employees in Pune.• TPT CommodityXL is in-Production at 250+ locations Globally.

Technology Leadership, Future Cutting-Edge Technology And Leadership

Master'S Degree, Computer Science