SK

Ph: (423) 520-6520

SUMMARY

 

·               13+ years of professional IT experience in areas of Solution Strategy, Project Management, Planning, Technical Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Support of large Enterprise Application systems and Cloud based scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications.

·               Strong process knowledge with experience in executing full Software Development Life Cycle projects in Healthcare, Financial and Enterprise Technology sectors in the capacity of Architect, Technical Manager, Team Lead roles.

·               Good knowledge in a variety of Programming and Scripting languages, Databases, Data Warehouse/marts, Networking, Security and overall systems architecture.  Have handled projects from inception (Charter creation and estimation) to closure.

·               Experience in designing and building scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications in public, hybrid and private clouds.  Expert knowledge and understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure, network, storage, applications and patterns.  Knowledge in using IaaS and PaaS offering from AWS, Azure, HP Helion and Google cloud.

·               Proven experience in implementing Microsoft Azure technologies like Service Bus, App Fabric hosting/caching in private cloud/non-cloud environments and building applications in Service Oriented (SOA) or Microservices Based Architectures (MBA).  Currently exploring building scalable applications with cloud native architectures and NoSQL databases like Mongo DB, Cassandra etc.

·               Experience in successfully driving and enabling DevOps, Automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc.  Expert scripting knowledge in PowerShell for cloud automation (Knowledge in AWS, Azure APIs).

·               10+ years of experience in Microsoft .Net technologies.  Proven experience in developing multi-threaded windows application using WPF, XAML and MVVM design pattern.  Developing n-tier web applications using ASP.Net MVC and ASMX/SOAP/XML, WCF, REST/JSON web services with a variety of databases as backend.

·               8 years of experience in developing and maintaining legacy Mainframe applications, data extraction/conversion and application migration to modern platforms.  Experience in using Sybase, DB2 / DB2 UDB in Mainframe and AIX environment.  Expertise in data modeling, writing T-SQL, stored procedures, functions and query performance tuning.

·               Good knowledge in Object Oriented Design/Programming principles and UML modeling.

·               Good working knowledge in Operating Systems like AIX, Windows Server and Linux.  Also, working experience in virtualization platforms and hypervisors like Hyper-v, vSphere, ESXi and Xen.  Knowledge in Open Stack, Cloud Foundry etc.

·               Thorough understanding of operating system internals, networking protocols, data structures and algorithms.  Have involved in developing firmware for microcontroller based controller applications at the beginning of the career.

·               Good presentation and facilitation skills in leading JAD sessions.  An effective communicator with all levels of technical professionals, business users and the management.  Good people management and negotiation skills.

·               A self-motivated team player with good interpersonal, communication, organizational, analytical and problem solving skills.  Dynamic, proactive and good leadership qualities.

·               A quick learner and technology savvy.  Also, an enthusiast in Embedded Systems, Open Source and Mobile Technologies.  Also an enthusiast level iOS programmer.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C#, VB.Net, VB 4/5/6, Java, C++, C, COBOL

Scripting: PowerShell, Unix Shell Scripting, Perl

Web Technologies: ASP, ASP.Net, MVC, XML, XSLT, HTML 5, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, CGI, JSON, SOAP, REST,

  Silverlight

.Net Technologies: .Net Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5, WPF, XAML, WCF, Web Services, MVVM, LINQ

Databases: DB2 UDB, Sybase, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005/8/12/14 (SSIS, SSRS), Mango DB,

  MySQL (Oracle, Maria DB), MS Access

Mainframe: MVS, Visual Age PacBase, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, FileAid, SYNCSORT, JobTrac, CA Workload

  Automation

Mobile Development: Apple XCode and Objective C, IBM Worklight

Data Analytics: SAS Enterprise Guide, MCSource (Healthcare Data Mart)

Services: IIS 6/7/8, Apache, Sendmail, DNS, Samba, NFS, FTP, POP3, LDAP, IPChains/IPTables

Operating System: Linux, UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000/NT/9x/Vista/7/8, Hyper-v, vSphere, ESXi, Xen.

Tools: Visual Studio, UML, Microsoft Visio, ClearCase/ClearQuest, TFS, Visual SourceSafe, Subversion,

  Quality Center, Fortify, Control-M, MS Project, MS Office, MS Sharepoint, Expression Blend, Jenkins, Ansible,

  Puppet, Chef, HP OO, Chocolatey, MSBuild, Docker.

 

EDUCATION

Level	Course of Study	Institution
Graduate	Master of Computer Application	College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
Bachelors	B.Sc., Computer Science	University of Madras, India

 

CERTIFICATIONS

·               Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Web Applications (Including Exam 487: Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services) Certified: 03/30/2013

·               Certified Software Quality Analyst.  Certified by Quality Assurance Institute, USA. Granted: 3/23/2007, Expired: 3/24/2013.

·               Competent Communicator, Competent Leadership and Advanced Leadership Silver certification from Toastmasters International.  Leadership experience: Provided leadership to 5 clubs in the Chattanooga, TN area as the Area Governor in the year 2011-2012.  Also have provided leadership at a corporate club as VP Education in 2009/2012 and Club Treasurer in 2008.

 

TRAINING COMPLETED:

 

SOA Architecture using IBM Websphere Message Broker

Developing User Requirements: The Key to Project Success - Learning Tree International

SQL Server Integration Services - New Horizons

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Franklin Covey

Fundamentals of Project Management (PMP Exam Prep Course) - Velociteach

Communications Skills - BlueCross BlueShield Blue University

Business Etiquette - BlueCross BlueShield Blue University

Effective Presentation Skills - BlueCross BlueShield Blue University

Visual Basic Programming for .NET - New Horizons

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Alpharetta, GAApr 2013 – till date

Senior Consultant

Project Name: Propel

Propel is HPEs service broker solution for IT that provides a single self service IT experience and one-stop-shop for all IT services, including IT and its customers.  It aggregates services from all underlying ITSM (IT Service Management) and cloud catalogs into a single IT service catalog.  Provides a single, standalone engaging apps which can be integrated with traditional IT applications in the backend.  Orchestrates service delivery and enables easy onboarding and integration of external suppliers and their services in plug-and-play fashion regardless of whether services are traditional or cloud-based.

·               Involved in developing WCF Web Services in an App Fabric hosted environment (IIS 7/8).  Developed PowerShell services for Active Directory/Exchange and Lync (Skype for Business) provisioning. Developed a data upload REST service and a few others.

·               Implemented Microsoft Service Bus 1.1 and App Fabric Caching clusters and application integration.  Automated the whole process of initial setup and configuration process thus capable of spanning instances in minimal time across several regions and multiple instances across global datacenters/cloud infrastructure.

·               Built initial platform setup scripts for configuration of IIS, Service Bus, App Fabric, SQL Server database, windows patch levels, .Net Framework and several other components needed by the application.

·               As part of the DevOps initiatives, developed deployment automation using PowerShell scripting.  Key in building continuous integration of several and most of the solution components with Jenkins.  Implemented custom mechanisms for configuration transformation using XML and XSLT.  Incorporated application build, testing, packaging and Fortify code scans.

·               Designed and implemented continuous delivery of the application (Multi-Tiers, Several load balanced servers in each tier, Several application components in each server) to more than 20 instances of the application (Dev, Test and Prod) spanning more than 200 servers in different global regions and both ES (Enterprise Services, later HPE) and IT areas).  Deployment targeted to IIS virtual apps, Service Bus cluster and App Fabric Caching cluster.  Also worked on Ansible, HP Operations Orchestration and other orchestration tools and involved in creating proof of concepts as part of tool evaluation and selection.  Enabled on-demand deployments to help developers deploy code to Dev and Test environments.  Designed the packaging in such way it could be installed as a standalone installer in ES areas and as an automated process for internal IT areas.

·               Created proof-of-concept in using PowerShell in the Propel workflow task.

·               Migrated some SSIS packages to later SQL version and implemented them in Tidal job scheduler.  Tidal monitoring and troubleshooting.

·               Used several HP internal tools for troubleshooting, performance monitoring of the application servers and database.  Used private cloud infrastructure and Cloud Service Manager for provisioning cloud infrastructure (Servers, Load Balancers, SRPs, VIPs, Storage, Databases etc.).  Also, worked on exploring feasibility of implementing Propel in public cloud Helion when it was released.

·               Implemented a NuGet Gallery to serve as a Chocolatey repository.  Migrated deployment automation to Chocolatey packages later.

·               Liaised and worked closely with the development team, DBAs, transition team, ops team and several other application teams inside HP for solution implementation and problem resolution.

·               Troubleshooting application problems and helping developers in resolving issues.

Duration: 3 years

Technology : .Net Framework 4/4.5, IIS 7/8, App Fabric Hosting and Caching, Windows Fabric, Service Bus 1.1, C#, ASP.Net MVC,

   Windows 2008 R2/2012 R2, SQL Server 2008/12/14, SSIS, WCF, REST, XML, XSL/XSLT, PowerShell, Jenkins,

   MSBuild, Ansible, HP OO, Fortify, Subversion, TeamForge and other HP tools.

 

 

 

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TNJuly 2007 – Dec 2012

Application Systems Analyst - Specialist

 

Key Projects:

 

Project Name: Member Dashboard Phase 1 and Phase 2

A strategic project for the company to provide excellent customer service. This is a call center CTI telephony application helping to provide the customer service representatives with information available via the data captured by the IVR system and real time through a dashboard application. The dashboard application is built over the Genesis Interactive Workspace telephony API that will provide access to members/subscribers demographic, policies, claims, medical, dental, vision, FSA and clinical history information.

·               Have played a major role in the project in analysis and development of the dashboard component.

·               The application connects to a multitude of other applications and web services across the enterprise in delivering information in the dashboard.

·               Majorly involved in performance tuning of the application for faster response times. Involved in fine-tuning Sybase and DB2 queries and stored procedures, web services response times and better user experience by implementing background threading mechanisms in the client WPF MVVM application.

·               Worked with the performance testers in improving application performance and request/response times based on the testing feedback.

·               Designed and developed ASMX and WCF web services to record caller inquiry information to Facets claims system database and on to an in house data warehouse.  Developed Sybase and DB2 stored procedures and queries as part of the web services.

·               Developed WPF user controls and screens and parts of dashboard to retrieve claims related information using Facets FXI services framework.

·               Worked with other application development and administration teams in executing the project.

·               Worked with the users in capturing the requirements, responding to user concerns and resolving application performance issues.

·               Worked with other developers and contractors from other application areas in joint designing and integration of the application.

Duration: 1 year 6 months

Technology : C#.Net, .Net Framework 4, WPF, XAML, WCF, MVVM, IIS, DB2, Sybase, Genesis Interactive

  Workspace and Agent Desktop APIs, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Message

  Broker and SOA architectures, Windows 2008 R2.

 

Project Name: Provider Site Visit

Provider Site Visit helps the Network Managers manage their visits to providers and to record information related to their visits.  This web based application tracks the visits to be completed by the Network Managers and captures notes during and after the visit.  The system provides the managers with capability of generating several types of summary and detail reports on demand for reporting purposes.

·               As the Team Lead, was responsible for scope definition, requirements management and execution of this project.

·               Was responsible for taking user enhancement requests and helping the users in defining and prioritizing the requirements.  Also involved in maintenance of the application.

·               Developed ASP.Net web application using MVC 3 framework and SSRS reporting with a SQL Server database.

·               Written SSIS scripts to load provider information into SQL Server from Facets claims system and Sybase databases.

·               Designed and developed SSRS reports and interfaces for accessing the reports.

·               Designed and developed WCF web services to interface to DB2 warehouse databases.

Duration: 6 Months

Technology: ASP.Net, MVC 3, Entity Framework, UML, C#, ADO.Net, WCF, IIS 7, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server 2008, Sybase, DB2,

  Windows 2008 R2.

 

Project Name: NextGen

The NextGen application interface provides the care management user communities with a web application interface to access care related data from NextGen application.

·               As the Team Lead, was responsible for scope definition, requirements management and execution of this project.

·               Involved in the analysis, design and development of ASP.Net application in MVC architecture.

·               Involved in designing and developing SSIS scripts for loading data into SQL Server database from the output files of NextGen application.

·               Used ADO.Net data access to retrieve data from SQL Server database tables.

·               Created WCF web services to retrieve member related information from Facets FXI services gateway.

·               Helped the SOA architects in configuring contracts for accessing Facets FXI services in the ESB.

Duration: 6 Months

Technology: ASP.Net, MVC 3, C#, ADO.Net, WCF, IIS 7, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server 2008, Sybase, DB2, SAS, AIX,

  Windows 2008 R2.

 

Project Name: NGCM Care Management

The NGCM Care Management application helps the care management user community to access care management information through a consolidated application.  This application involves complex data retrieval techniques from several sources and presenting the information in a more streamlined manner.  The sources include DB2 and Sybase Datawarehouse tables, MCSource datamart tables, external vendor provided data on prescription and drug information, and member information from other BlueCross entities.  Several data extracting and loading techniques using direct database connectivity to remote retrieval and loading files received from external entities were involved.  The ASP.Net application provides the users with a streamlined UI in accessing these data at one place.

·               Involved in the design and development of ASP.Net application.

·               Involved in creating SSIS scripts for loading data from internal Datawarehouse and Datamart tables hosted in Sybase and DB2 databases using ADO into SQL Server databases.  Involved in creating SSIS scripts in extracting and loading files received from externally.

·               Developed ASP.Net web pages in the application using MVC framework.

·               Used ADO.Net data access to retrieve data from SQL Server database tables.

·               Designed and developed ASMX web services to retrieve case management data from Care Advance application system via the service broker.

Duration: 8 Months

Technology: ASP.Net, MVC 2 Framework, C#, ADO.Net, AJAX, Web Services, IIS, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server 2008, Sybase, DB2,

  SAS, AIX, Windows 2008 R2.

 

Project Name: Provider Practice Application

Lead the team in building a web application using ASP.Net and MVC Framework for specific needs of a business group in analyzing provider practice patterns based on episodes of treatment data extracted from MCSource data mart.

·               Involved in the design and development of this ASP.Net application.

·               Used ADO.Net data access to retrieve data from SQL Server database tables.

·               Designed and developed web service calls to connect to Facets FXI service gateway to retrieve provider related information.

·               Designed and developed SSIS scripts for loading Episode Treatment Group data from MCSource warehouse databases into the SQL Server.

·               Developed request interface to retrieve reports generated by Cognos.

Duration: 6 Months

Technology: ASP.Net, VB.Net, ADO.Net, Web Services, IIS, SSIS, SQL Server 2008, Sybase, DB2, Cognos BI, Windows 2008

 

 

Project Name: MCSource Migration

MCSource is a data warehouse and an analytical data mart. This project involves migration of MCSource data warehouse to version 7.0.  This migration involves incremental upgrade on 2 production and 2 AIX test servers hosting the data mart from version 6.0 (previous production version) to v6.1, v6.2 and to the final implementation version v7.0.  All versions involved data model changes in the inputs supplied to the system.  Data to the warehouse is sourced from two other enterprise data warehouses (DB2 on z/OS and DB2 UDB on AIX).  The MCSource AIX and DB2 UDB servers also houses a dozen of in house built applications that feed data to other applications, systems and business areas for reporting.

·               As the Team lead for this large migration project, have managed and executed the project from its inception to completion.

·               This project was executed well before estimated implementation timeline without compromising quality and making sure all the servers are upgraded, migrated and all the in house applications and downstream feeds are upgraded.

·               Was a liaison between the vendor and the internal application areas and business users.

·               Carried out Analysis and Data Mapping exercise with the help of a project team.

·               Responsible for scope definition, planning, requirements management, tracking, execution and delivery of all project deliverables.  Also responsible for engaging IT resources and subject matter experts from different departments, cross application teams and the user community as and when needed for the project.

·               Also handled design and development of some of the mainframe data extraction jobs, testing and validating the data loads.  Worked with the AIX, Database and PC administrators for the server migration and ensuring all the users have the front end client application available through desktop and Citrix environment.

·               Performed modifications to the MDDB database system C#.Net desktop application to reflect the data model changes.

·               Communicated and involved other application areas impacted due to the changes in the warehouse.

Duration: 8 Months

Technology : AIX, MVS, COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, Shell Scripting, MCSource, MS Access, Citrix Zen, Windows XP, C#,

  .Net 3.0, ADO.Net, SSIS, SAS, MS SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003.

 

Project Name: iOS Mobile Application POC

Developed a proof of concept for a mobile application in iOS targeting iPhone and iPad devices with the help of a team.  The proof of concept is to explore and evaluate the possibilities and feasibility of mobile development through cross platform development tools like IBM Worklight or native development environments like Xcode.  Some of the concepts that have been explored through this project are Text to Speech and Speech Synthesis, Animation, UI Design, SOAP and REST/JSON web services, Push Notifications, Background application states etc.

Technology: Xcode, Objective C, OS X, IBM Worklight.

 

Project Name: MCSource Enhancements and Regrouping

This project involved several enhancements to MCSource data warehouse and regrouping of member dimension and Health Status Indicators in the data warehouse.  Enhancements were done to member, provider and claims dimensions in the data warehouse to include newer field mappings and adding history data.

·               Was the Team Lead for this large project, having managed and executed the project from inception to completion.

·               Was responsible for scope definition, requirements management and execution of the project and CMMi process documentations.

·               Analyzed and applied necessary modifications to the MDDB database system which is a C#.Net Win forms application.

·               Have carried out enhancements to mainframe data extract programs and jobs, data mapping, loading and validation.

·               Supported and engaged business users in validation of the mapping and data loads.

·               Coordinated with the vendor in regrouping membership and HSI data.

Duration: 6 Months

Technology : AIX, MVS, COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, DB2, Shell Scripting, MCSource, MS Access, C#.Net, ADO.Net, MS SQL

  Server 2005, SAS, Windows Server 2003.

 

Other Projects, Maintenance and Support Activities:

§    Provider Practice Application: Lead the team in building a client/server application in VB.Net for specific needs of a business group in analyzing provider practice patterns based on episodes of treatment data extracted from MCSource data warehouse.

§    Amisys to Facets Conversion: Some of the member groups and products were converted from the Amisys to the Facets claims system.  As a part of this conversion, some of the data mapping to MCSource was changed.  Was involved in data mapping, development and testing of the data extracts.  Was involved in the validations after data loads with a team of business users.

§    Health Status Indicators: Was involved in conceptualizing and creating a HSI extract to data analysts.  This involves creating a set of scripts and programs in AIX servers using MicroFocus COBOL, Shell Scripting and DB2 SQL and Stored Procedures.

§    MCSource Support and other management Reporting needs: Have involved in supporting data load cycles in MCSource.  Investigating user experienced problems and providing solutions.  Have involved in analysis and developing ad-hoc reports (a few of them involving SAS) to the management.

§    Scheduling AIX scripts and job using Control-M. Monitoring jobs and problem escalation to the vendor.

§    Responsible for estimation and delivery of CMMi process documentation for the project, status reporting, risk mitigation and problem escalation.

§    Responsible for getting the project charter approved, estimation, planning and status reporting.

§    Provided suggestions for process enhancements and helped in formalizing and improving some of the documentations and methodologies for CMMi compliance.

§    Responsible for communicating to key stakeholders and sponsor of the projects.

§    Trained and guided application developers and contractors on application functionalities, technical and business knowledge.

 

 

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES June 2004 – April 2007

Software Engineer

 

Key Projects:

All projects were executed for client Ameriprise Financial Inc. Minneapolis, MN

 

Project Name: Ameriprise Insured Money Market Account

Role: Team Lead

This is a vendor conversion project.  The vendors provide management services for book keeping of the investments in money market funds provided by different banks.  This helps in meeting some of the compliance requirements of NASD.

As part of the conversion, this project involves enhancement of the brokerage trading system in better handling of intra-day redemptions and deposits processing, tax reporting and statement reporting to clients and enable multi-bank money market investment.

Responsibilities:

This project involves major work in a vendor provided trading system running on Tandem environment and to the in house mainframe application systems.  Responsibilities include Technical Requirements Development for a vendor provided trading system and the other cross commit application systems.  Carried out System Analysis, Conceptual design activities and High Level Design and Detailed Design.  Have analyzed the impacts to various application systems due to the new vendor change.  Have provided optimal solution in handling the client statement requirements due to conversion.  Involved in elucidating requirement from business users on additional functionality required.  Lead the development team in delivering the code and components.  Initiated requirements walk-through & code reviews.

Also includes SDLC documentation using Method1 methodology.  Have done effort estimation and scheduling for the project.  Assessed technology risks and provided solution for mitigating the risk.  Has involved in test planning and testing involving multiple application systems.

Duration: 6 Months

Technology: Mainframe, Tandem, MVS, VisualAge PacBase, COBOL, JCL, DB2

 

 

Project Name: REITs to Brokerage

Role: Team Lead/Module Lead

This project involves Analysis, Design, Build and Implementation of an enhanced platform for accommodating REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) and LP (Limited Partnership) accounts in the existing system of records and trading system within the company.

This helps the company to overcome the manual workarounds involved in maintaining these accounts on a proprietary system.  It helps in leveraging the existing system of brokerage accounts to accommodate REITs and LPs.

 

This project was executed in 4 phases.  Was involved in all the phases of the project.

a.        REITs Platform Analysis – This is an analysis on whether to move the REITs product from the existing proprietary system to the new platform or to enhance the proprietary system for added functionality.

Responsibilities:

Was involved in understanding the as-is processing of REIT/LP products in SPIES system.  Participated in requirement elucidation for the new platform for processing REIT/LP.  Have created Method1 SDLC documentations.  Have identified potential risk areas and have done mitigation plan

b.        REITs to Brokerage Build Phase1 – This dealt with building software for enhancing the new trading platform for accommodating REIT product.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities in this phase include analysis, design, build and testing of a new system in mainframe for processing REIT/LP.  Have developed technical requirements from the business use cases by carrying out system analysis.

Have designed an engine for calculating the concessions which is a most critical component in the project.  Have involved in coding activities of the concession engine.  Have involved in requirements walkthrough and code reviews of other modules.  Have developed technical requirements to 12 applications cross commits that were involved in the change and enhancement.

Have prepared test plans and lead a team of 14 members in testing the application end to end.  Interacted and coordinated with other application teams and the external vendors in performing the testing successfully.

c.        REITs to Brokerage Build Phase2 – This dealt with enhancements and patches to the system built in Phase1.

Responsibilities:

Had lead the team through analysis, design and development phases.  Have provided design for a major enhancement to the concession calculation engine, dividend processing and commission processing.

Have done implementation planning and scheduling of jobs in JobTrac.  Totally there were 130 new jobs that got installed and several scheduling modifications to the existing jobs.  Totally 13 new online screens installed as part of the project.

d.        REITs to Brokerage Conversion – This dealt with the actual systematic conversion of the accounts from the existing system to the new platform.

Responsibilities:

Had technically leaded the team in all phases of the project.  Involved in development of conversion requirements involving 6 external vendors and several in house application teams.  Done major contribution to the design and development of Financial conversion of accounts.  Have estimated effort and scheduled the delivery of the various components involved in the conversion.  Have participated in planning for the conversion involving external vendors and internal application teams.

Have done test planning and lead the team in carrying out the testing of the conversion components using Mercury Quality Center.  Have involved in mock conversion before the actual conversion and have coordinated the conversion effort that happened over a weekend involving external vendors and internal application teams.  Was involved in post implementation warranty and production support for the application.

Duration: 1 Year 10 Months

Technology: Mainframe, MVS, VisualAge PacBase, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Mercury Quality Center, IMS

 

 

 

 

 

Project Name: B & C Shares Remediation

Role: Business System Analyst

The broker-dealer community, including the company, is currently under a regulatory review by NASD on mutual fund sales practices pertaining to class B and C shares.  Main regulatory concerns revolve around whether investors were ‘inappropriately’ sold class B or C shares when they would have incurred lower total expenses had they been sold class A shares. 

NASD is in the process of firming up a methodology of compensating clients who could have been potentially harmed (economically) by purchasing B or C shares (instead of A shares).  NASD is expected to take corrective/punitive action against broker dealer firms.

The purpose of this project is to enable the company to effectively meet the regulatory issue on B shares and C shares.

Responsibilities:

Involved in the project as a System Analyst in elucidating user requirement from business users and developing technical requirements to the impacted application systems.  Have done conceptual and high level design of mainframe components in identifying the B and C share accounts.  Have involved in coding activities in including the remediation engine in the existing fee processing system.  Developed the VB 5.0 application for reporting the affected accounts using Crystal Reports and data retrieval through ODBC connections to DB2 database tables.  Have reviewed the code and participated in requirement walkthroughs.  Have provided optimal solution in resolving technical problems.  Have done risk analysis and mitigation planning.

Duration: 3 Months

Technology: VB 6, Crystal Reports, ODBC, DB2, MVS, VisualAge PacBase, COBOL, JCL

 

Project Name: ROA Phase2

Role: Developer

The team which executed this project was awarded the Best Project title in the Rewards and Recognition program of Infosys.

NASD and SEC issued an Alert in the beginning of 2003 because investors had not always received breakpoints discounts to which they were entitled.  This resulted in investors potentially overpaying front-end sales loads

The Brokerage ROA Certification project developed a process/system(s) to calculate the ROA, LOI, Repurchase Credits and Cash Invested for Advisors to determine the client’s eligibility for breakpoints during the pre-sale process. The Pre-Sale information for advisors was made available on On-Line Brokerage System and for CSR’s via Windows Desktop application.

ROA Phase II is aimed at closing the gaps and making enhancements to the applications created for or affected due to ROA certification project.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include analysis, design and build of impacted application systems.  Have involved in system impact analysis of the Brokerage Mainframe application system.  Developed high level design and low level design for the Tax Reporting system impacts.  Coded and unit tested the Tax Reporting system batch jobs and programs in suppressing shell accounts.  Developed the VB 6 desktop application retrieving data from DB2 brokerage tables via ODBC to display pre sales information.  Participated in code reviews and walkthroughs.  Have done SDLC documentation using Method1.

Duration: 5 Months

Technology: MVS, VisualAge PacBase, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VB 6

 

 

FRONTPOINT SYSTEMS LIMITED, Chennai, IndiaJun 2002 – Mar 2003

Assistant Network Engineer

 

Responsibilities:

·   Implementation of WAN and Remote administration of Data center servers (both Linux and windows NT/2000), IIS, Tomcat, JBoss and MS SQL servers.

·   Implementation of Web, E-Mail, Proxy, DNS, Firewall and Directory Servers.

·   Configuration and maintenance of leased line modems and Cisco series routers.

·   Implementation of security architecture.

·   Traffic, performance monitoring and Load balancing.

·   Presales estimation and quotation preparation.

 

UNITY ELECTRO SYSTEMS LTD, Coimbatore, IndiaFeb 2000 – Aug 2001

Systems Programmer

 

Key Achievements:

 

I/O Kernel: Designed and built an interrupt-based kernel for the 8051 platform which handles buffered I/O.  This kernel was used in all of the other projects and products built by the company that replaced the traditional in loop scanning and refresh of input and output devices to a more streamlined I/O mechanism.

 

Key Projects:

 

Infusion Syringe Pump

Have involved in the Design, Build and Implementation of an automated Syringe Pump Equipment System that infuses drip liquid to patients.  Features of the System include PCA (Patient Controlled Anesthesia) and application of Bolus liquid through easily accessible remote switches.  It also implements an occlusion alarm.  A fail-safe security feature implemented avoids internal and external malfunctions.  It is a secure system where the interface is also restricted through security codes and access policies, thus avoiding mishandling of the equipment by unauthorized users.

Hardware: Philips 80C552 microcontroller (8051 derivative) based mainboard

Software: C, Assembly, Avocet AVC51 C Cross-compiler

 

DAGS - Data Acquisition and Graphing System for Statistical Process Control

Have involved in the Analysis, Design, Build and Implementation of a Data Acquisition and Statistical Control System used to evaluate the quality of the automotive bearings during its manufacture.  The automatically acquired data is used for Analysis and statistically controlling the Manufacturing Process.  Some of the reports produced by the system help in determining the Capability of the Process.  The System abides to the SPC standards proposed by the Ford-Chrysler-GM alliance for manufacturing of automotive parts.  The RS232 data interface was written in Turbo C and the client application interface was written in VB 4 and VBA for MS Excel.

Hardware: Industrial Computer

Software: DOS, Windows, Turbo C, MS Excel, VBA, VB 4.0

 

Air Conditioner Controller

Have involved in the Design, Build and Implementation of a fuzzy based controller used in controlling Industrial Air Conditioners.  The controller switches the compressors in a time shared manner and based on temperature hysteresis and input power according to the settings.  The special features include an inbuilt High/Low Voltage Cut-off mechanism, which helps the Compressors to operate even without the presence of a power stabilizer.

Hardware: Microchip PIC 16C622 microcontroller based main board

Software: MPLAB C, MPLAB IDE

 

 

RADIUS Authentication Client

Have involved in the Design, Build and Implementation of a RADIUS (Remote Authenticated Dial-In User Access Service) Authentication Client that replaces the Hardware based NAS/RAS Clients used in ISP Networks for providing Dial-Up Internet Access Service.  It provides the Authentication and Authorization Services for users to access the Internet from a Corporate/Institution Campus.  The system enforces the accessibility rules and restricting/providing implemented access policies.  C socket programs were used to listen to incoming connections and enforce access rules using IPChains/IPTables commands.  Client application is a simple VB 4 desktop application, which accepts user name and password for authentication and communicates to the server with TCP/IP packets in RADIUS rfc format.

Hardware:  Solaris Servers and Windows 95 Workstations

Software:  Solaris, Linux, VB 4, C, IPChains/IPTables

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES

 

References are available on request.