Career Pause for Personal and Professional Growth:• Self-Discovery & Leadership Development: Focused on enhancing self-awareness and decision-making abilities to align personal growth with career goals.• Cognitive Skill Enhancement: Strengthened deep processing abilities to accelerate learning and adapt quickly to new challenges.• Management Consulting Training: Upskilled in problem-solving techniques, including mental models and frameworks, to improve strategic thinking and cross-functional capabilities.Now, with a renewed sense of purpose, I am eager to bring this enriched perspective back to the professional sphere. I welcome any inquiries and am prepared to provide further details about this transformative experience.

Roles & Responsibilities: Partnered with cross-functional teams to deliver Compliance and Risk control standardization solutions.• Initiated an in-house digital platform, streamlining 'Trade Confirmations' review, achieving a 3X increase in efficiency and productivity.• Automated trading desk data ingestion into the Record Management System, reducing inaccuracies and enhancing operational efficiency.• Transitioned two projects from Waterfall to Agile, accelerating development and improving team maturity scores from 1 to 3 in one year.• Conducted data analysis, cleansing, and validation with stakeholders, producing detailed artifacts for the development team.• Led end-to-end product ownership, from conceptualization to launch, continuously enhancing business metrics and driving project success with stakeholder engagement.

Roles & Responsibilities: As a Business Analyst, I was responsible for identifying process gaps and providing actionable solutions. Key contributions included highlighting non-value-added activities, developing enhancements, standardizing business rules, and implementing scalable solutions in alignment with target implementation model principles.• Modeled current business process flows and authored functional requirement documents for incorporating monthly reviews of Asset-Backed and Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities.• Refined manual audit procedures for securities compliance with a comprehensive control system, achieving a 20% improvement in regulatory adherence.• Upgraded dashboard layouts in collaboration with stakeholders, receiving commendation for a user-friendly design that enhanced report aesthetics and functionality.• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with stakeholders to ensure accurate integration of enhancements and new functionalities, optimizing the user experience before rollout.

Roles & Responsibilities: As a Programmer Analyst, monitored the production website of an investment banking digital project. Additionally, led the change management (ITSM) team, implementing strategic changes while minimizing disruption to IT services.• Achieved a 95% ticket resolution rate through effective KPI support metrics understanding.• Led end-to-end execution of Business Continuity Planning events, ensuring 100% comprehensive site readiness.• Managed Change Requests and conducted change impact assessments for application maintenance.• Authored extensive documentation for streamlined support processes and knowledge transfer.• Generated weekly statistical reports and communicated analysis to management for the specified areas of responsibility, including Application Performance Issues, Enhancement initiatives, and the upgradation of the Change Management Process.

Roles & Responsibilities: As a Linux Administrator, I identified and resolved server performance inefficiencies, ensured the continuous optimization of server infrastructure, and maintained an up-to-date system environment to support operational excellence and security.• Executed patching and package installations on Linux operating systems using YUM and RPM across 500+ Red Hat servers and 200+ SUSE servers.• Identified root causes of elevated incidents related to memory utilization, implementing targeted solutions resulting in a 30% reduction in monthly tickets.• Managed service requests for vCPU/memory optimization, kernel tuning, server decommissioning/readiness, mounting and unmounting file systems, backup and restoration, and Logical Volume Manager (LVM).