Pradip

Professional Summary:

·         Lead with 9 years of experience in Application Analysis, Design, Development, Integration, deployment and Maintenance/Support for Web, Standalone, and Client-Server based Software Applications in multiple domains primarily in Financial Services (Capital Market – Clearing & Settlement System, Equities Trade Processing, Anti Money Laundering, Risk Calculations, and Prepaid Card).

·         Rich work exposure in software development as Software Analyst, Consultant, Team Leader, Tech lead, Onsite Coordinator.

·         Excellent work exposure in Software Design and Development in Capital Market, Trade processing, Clearing & Settlement process in Financial Services during my assignment with National Stock Exchange, India.

·         Excellent background in developing applications using Java, J2EE Technologies on BEA WebLogic Application Server, WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.1 (WAS), JBOSS Application server.

·         Some of the technologies extensively worked on during my tenure in Software Development are spring, Web services, SOAP, XML, JMS, JNDI, Apache, Tomcat, JDBC and various Databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgress.

·         Strong work experience on the Front End UI development using JSF, Java servlet and JSP.

·         Worked extensively on Mission Critical multithreaded applications.

·         Strong experience on various development environments like Eclipse, MyEclipse.

·         Worked extensively on build and deployment tools like ANT, MAVEN and version control using CVS and Visual Source Safe.

·         Thorough understanding of Object Oriented Methodology, UML and Design Patterns.

·         Expertise in OOAD Technologies developing Use Cases, Activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams using case tools like UML/Rational Rose 2000.

·         Extensive experience with XML with JAXP, SAX & DOM parsers, JavaMail.

·         Extensive experience in JASPER Reporting, Apache Directory Server.

·         Extensive experience in ActiveBatch, Gentran ETL.

·         Extensive R&D work in J-Integra – Java – COM communication.

·         Working experience in UNIX shell scripting.

 

Technical Skills:

Operating System                                          : Windows 2000/XP/NT, UNIX, Linux.

Software Development methodologies              : Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Application Development (OOAD),

                            Unified Modeling Language (UML), Iterative Software Development, Six

              Sigma Software Development Methodology, Waterfall Software

  Development Methodology

Frameworks and Architectures              : Model View Controller (MVC), Spring 2.5, Message Oriented Middleware

                            (MOM using JMS, IBM MQ Series), Service Oriented Architectures (SOA

              Using Web Services using JAX RPC and JAX WS), Unit Testing

  Framework using JUNIT and DBUNIT

Database                                                        : Oracle 8i/9i, MS-SQL Server.

Languages/ API/ Technologies                            : JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, Java Servlets, JNDI, J2EE, XML, SOAP, XPATH,

              XSLT

UI Framework                                                        : JSP, Java script, HTML, DHTML, AJAX.

Application Servers                                          : WebLogic 8.0, WebSphere 5.1/6.1, TOMCAT 5.5, APACHE WEB

                          SERVER 1.1, JWS, JBoss

Remote Invocation Frameworks              : Java RMI, Web Services.

Tools for Version Control                            : CVS, PVCS, SVN, MS-VSS

Information Exchange Protocols              : FTP, NDM

Others                                                                      : WSAD 5.1, Eclipse, MQ Server, JProfiler (For Profiling), UML, ERWin

                          (For Database Design), DWR

 

Educational Qualification:

·         Diploma in Advanced Computing - CDAC (India).

·         Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) from North Maharashtra University (India).

 

Achievements:

·         I have been awarded Kudos award for providing solutions to performance improvements in Postgres Database in Sungard.

·         I have been awarded Kudos award for implementing Jasper Charting framework for CSA framework of Sungard.

·         I have been awarded Kudos award for implementing multi-language support with multi data base support in Sungard.

·         I have been awarded I-Appreciate award for end to end successful execution of challenging Script migration project with minimum defects in Oracle Financial Services Software

 

Certifications:

·         NSE (National Stock Exchange of India: http://www.nse-india.com/ ) certification.

·         Java 1.5 Certification.

 

Professional Experience:

 

Client: Citi Bank, Tampa

Project Title: AML - Enterprise Case Management Solution

Role: Onsite Coordinator, Tech Lead

Duration: May 2013 to Present

 

Project Description:

Enterprise Case Management solution which allows for the ingestion of alerts from a variety of systems and creation of manual cases from referrals and other sources. The solution also provides a configurable workflow that allows for customizable escalation criteria and will assist in streamlining investigations by allowing business units to transfer cases among each other and allow users the ability to access data from a variety of internal and external sources.. This system is primarily built using J2EE framework and has multiple integration points developed in various middleware technologies like IBM MQ series, Web Services, NDM, FTP and HTTP protocol communication to integrate with multiple other systems in and out of the firm firewall. The user interface for this system is developed using Spring framework.

 

Responsibilities:

·         As a Technical Lead, I was actively involed in the techlogy analysis for both the systems along with the active coding for various modules.

·         Desing and Coding the core framework using J2EE on Webshere 6.1 and the services with the integration points using J2EE, Spring 2.5, IBM MQ Series, Web Services (JAX RPC/JAX WS).

·         Performance tunning in application and database part..

·         Involved in definining strategy for coding to implementation.

·         As a Onsite cordinator, I was working with OPS team to resolve requirment gaps and guding offshore team on devlopment based on the requirement, closely monitoring offshore devlopment and involved in onsite deployment.

·         Managed the team of 3 Senior Software Developers.

 

Environment: Java 5, Spring 2.5, IBM MQ Series, Web services using JAX RPC/JAX WS, Apache Commons API, JDBC, JMS, WAS Work Manager, Web Sphere 6.1, JSP, JSTL, Custom Tags, HTML, CSS, XML, Java Script, PL/SQL, DB Objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Functions etc, Ant Script, Log4J, PVCS, TOAD, SOAP UI, ERWin, Tortoise SVN.

 

Client: Citi Bank, India

Project Title: Citi Prepaid Application

Role: Tech Lead, Team Lead

Duration: Aug 2010 to Apr 2013

 

Project Description:

Citi Prepaid provides the customized prepaid programs to corporations looking for more efficient and cost effective ways to deliver payments. There are various applications come under Citi Prepaid; one of those is scripting module. This scripting module contains various VB scripts, WSF script and Gentran Application (ETL) map files; some of these scripts get called manually and some of them are scheduled. At present, these scripts call com components which are written in J++. These com components are nothing but the ECount Service DLL created from J++ code.

 

The proposed changes in script migration project is about to modify existing scripts to call Java based com components instead of calling J++ based com components.This project involved two modules; one is to develop Java based com components and other is to modify existing VB scripts, WSF scripts and Gentran map files to call these newly developed Java based com components. The challenges were here to run the J-Integra service as a wrapper windows service and to make it robus and enable to be called by multiple scripts and that can be by multiple threads, I had achieved this with multithreading with greater concurrency flexibility.

 

Responsibilities:

·         As a Technical Lead, I was prepared the technology architecture and design flow for scripts migration.

·         I was involded design, resolving technical challenges and R&D, as this project required lot of R&D work which inloves interaction between J2EE, J++ and COM communications.

·         Desing and Coding the services with the integration points using J2EE, Spring 2.5, IBM MQ Series, Web Services (JAX RPC/JAX WS), J-Integra, LDAP

·         Prepared POC on Windows registry migration to LDAP Format.

·         Achieved concurrency with wrapping the Java-COM communication service with multithreading.

·         Performance tunning in application and database part.

·         Involved in definining strategy for coding to implementation.

·         Managed the team of 2 Senior Software Developers.

·         Preparing the Proof of Concept and the Presentations to demostrate the solution to the business users.

·         As a Team Lead, I was responsible for Effort estimation & project planning activities using Function Point analysis.

 

Environment: Java 5, Spring 2.5, IBM MQ Series, Web services using JAX RPC/JAX WS, Apache Commons API, JDBC, JMS, J-Integra, Gentran, PL/SQL, DB Objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Functions etc, Ant Script, Log4J, TOAD, SOAP UI, Tortoise SVN.

 

Client: Sungard, India

Project Title: Anti-Money Laundering

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Duration: Dec 2009 to Jul 2010

 

Project Description:

This product provides comprehensive money laundering compliance solution. It provides transaction monitoring, alerts/cases management, watch list checking and compliance reporting features to help banks and other financial institution to manage the risk imposed by money laundering and other suspicious financial activities.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Design and coding the services with the integration points using J2EE, Spring 2.5, IBM MQ Series, Web Services (JAX RPC/JAX WS), J-Integra.

·         Performance tunning in application and database part..

·         Involved in definining strategy for coding to implementation.

·         Design and Coding of User Interfaces using JSP, AJAX and Servlet.

·         Design and Coding of various Java Webservices using Apache AXIS.

·         Coding the business tier which includes the business objecs and delegates using JDK 1.4.

·         Coding the persistence module using JDBC, SQL/PLSQL.

·         Design and development of Jasper Reports.

 

Environment: Java 5, Spring 2.5, JBoss, Web services using JAX RPC/JAX WS, Apache Commons API, JDBC, JMS, Jasper Reports, PL/SQL, DB Objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Functions etc, Ant Script, Log4J, TOAD, SOAP UI, Tortoise SVN.

 

Client: Sungard, India

Project Title: Risk Management Solution for Banks

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Duration: 2007 to Jul 2010

 

Project Description:

This product delivers an efficient and cost effective solution that utilizes the same risk and capital management framework employed by many of the sophisticated banks. In particular, the application calculates risk based economical capital requirements and Risk-Adjusted Return n Capital(RAROC), an ROE-type measure that allows for apples-to-apples comparison amongst business units. It provides a solution that is tailored to a client’s portfolios, accounts for all risk types, and is flexible to allow for seamless modeling of new portfolios or business units.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in definining strategy for coding to implementation.

·         Design and Coding of User Interfaces using JSP, JSF and Servlet.

·         Design and Coding of various Java Webservices using Apache AXIS.

·         Coding the business tier which includes the business objecs and delegates using JDK 1.4.

·         Coding the persistence module using JDBC, SQL/PLSQL.

 

Environment: Java 5, Spring 2.5, JBoss, Web services using JAX RPC/JAX WS, Apache Commons API, JDBC, JMS, PL/SQL, DB Objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Functions etc, Ant Script, Log4J, TOAD, SOAP UI, Tortoise SVN.

 

Client: National Stock Exchange, India

Project Title: NSE’s Clearing & Settlement System (NCSS)

Role: Senior Associate System Analyst

Duration: Aug 2005 to Sep 2007

 

Project Description:

NCSS is clearing and settlement system for capital markets segment on National Stock Exchange of India. NCSS application computes the margin and settlement information for the trading members. This is done after trade modification and custodian trade confirmations are received from the trading members through the extranet file interface. The security settlement involves allocation and generation of deliveries, with security pay-in/pay-out from the depositories through Extranet. The fund settlement is done through the clearing banks designated by the Clearing Corporation. This project includes 3 different applications based on the types of users. NCIS application is for clearing bank and custodian to perform provisional and final obligation and trades confirmation. NCSS is the internal application used by NSE operations users to run daily post trading activities. Connect2NSE is the application used by Trading members to confirm trades and OTR confirmation.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Providing support, maintennace & enhancements to existing system.

·         Involved in definining strategy for coding to implementation.

·         Design and Coding of User Interfaces using JSP, and Servlet.

·         Design and Coding of backend jobs using shell scripts, Java , Proc to capture trades.

·         Coding the business tier which includes the business objecs and delegates using JDK 1.4.

·         Coding the persistence module using JDBC, SQL/PLSQL.

·         Providing the UAT support to the client.

·         Ensuring on timely delivery & with quality standards

·         Presentations to clients for next phase of development and Interacting with technical users for support issues.

·         Writing and reviewing build and deployment scripts in Ant.

·         Installed, configured and deployed the application on the Weblogic Application server 8.1.

 

Environment: Java 5, Spring 2.5, Weblogic, Web services using JAX RPC/JAX WS, Apache Commons API, JDBC, JMS, PL/SQL, DB Objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Functions etc, Ant Script, Log4J, TOAD, SOAP UI, Tortoise SVN.

 

 

Project Title: Matrimonial Web Site

Role: Developer

Duration: Jan 2004 to June 2004

 

Project Description:

This website provides the match making facility. It provides bride/groom search options to users. It allows users registration free of cost. User can do Quick search on basis of age, religion or he can do more complicated search on details basis. Horoscope facility also available to user for matchmaking. The common chat room is provided for registered users only.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Worked on the design, analysis and development of the entire web site.

·         Project presentation

 

 

Environment: ASP 3.0, MySQL database, Visual Studio, IIS Server.