SUMMARY

 

Mr. Mehta has considerable experience as an Application/Production Support Analyst in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and production-UAT support using ETL (BI– Pentaho, Talend, Informatica, Microsoft DTS), SQL (Sybase, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), Core Java (OOPS, Collections,  Regex, JDBC)

His background and strengths include:

·          Production support and analysis, ITIL, requirement analysis, enhancements, designing; and strong customer interface, client services, consulting, debugging and problem-solving attitude.

·          Exceptional troubleshooting skills with ETL / Business Intelligence tools, Java and (Sybase) T-SQL.

·          Experience in Banking/Finance: Trading, FX, Market & Credit Risk, Insurance, Retail and Hospitality (tourism) domains.

·          Knowledge of JEE Technologies (Spring Framework IOC, Hibernate, JSF, Web works), JavaScript, XML, LDAP, Web Content Management Systems (EMC Documentum - CMS).

·          Excellent client management and inter-person management skills. Track record of ensuring client satisfaction through-out the carrier, by understanding and meeting expectations.

·          Efficient in meeting deadlines, without impacting deliverables. Ability to work on several projects concurrently, on a tight schedule.

·          Excellent planning and organizational skills. Experience of leading module and team/delivery management.

 

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

 

·          Business Intelligence: Kettle-Pentaho’s BI-ETL, SQL server DTS, XML transformations, Informatica 8.6 (support)  Database: Sybase, SQL Server 2000

·          Programming Languages and Scripts: Java, UNIX Shell Scripts (ksh/bash), SQL

·          Tools and Framework: Spring IOC, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Web Works, Dreamweaver, Build Automation: ANT IDE and Reporting Tools: Eclipse 3.x, MyEclipse, NetBeans 4.0

·          Content Management: EMC Documentum: Webtop Administrator, Content Server, Business Process Manager, Alfresco Web content management Application/Web Servers:, Apache, Tomcat 5.x/4.x

·          Version/Source Control Systems: Microsoft VSS, IBM ClearCase Subversion (SVN), CVS.

·          O/S and Environment: Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT, Win 2k Server, Sun Solaris 8, UNIX, and Linux.

·          Familiar with: JSF, JNDI, ORM, Spring Framework: IOC, AOP, DAO, ORM, Spring Web MVC, JavaScript - DOM4J, C, Microsoft IIS, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, MySQL, Junit, TDD (test driven development) , iPad iOS support.

 

EXPERIENCE

Bridgewater Associates (Hedge Fund) – Core Management & Analytics Application Support Analyst                      (Sep’13- current)

·          Supporting multiple iPad/Microsoft based analytics apps, which is the core of Management Ecosystem of the fund.

·          Supporting VIP, and Management Committee user base

·          Improving and creating new processes and framework for improving existing machine.

 

UBS AG, Consultant – Electronics Trading Application Support Analyst / Lead                                                               (Nov’11- Sep’13)

Front office/client support for Prime Brokerage and FOREX Trading of derivatives like Cash (Forward, SPOT, SWAP, NDF) and Options

·          Front-line support to Hedge fund clients and traders (L1 & L2). Supports client services, sales team for new deals/client’s on-boarding

·          Serving as single point of contact between clients and SPOKE by supporting FX trade capture for prime brokerage derivatives system.

·          Building relationship with customers (Hedge funds) and Sales team – to represent UBS FX Products (on technical side) as an SME

·          Release management, application enhancement, development management (L3 support) of FX derivatives trading system.

·          Incident management of Production outages/issues following the standard ITIL Production & UAT Support, in 24x7 follow-the-sun-model

·          Developing SQL & automated shell scripts to facilitate ad-hoc trade reports/ client-reports to users. Providing pricing support using Reuters Xtra300 Power plus pro plugins

·          Working closely with customers/ developers/QA team to understand ways to improve the platform, fix bugs and interact with DEV/QA team to perform UAT testing (JUnit test cases), producing (masked) data and carry release cycles (UAT,PROD)

Cost Savings: Performance improvement - FX reporting: Kedar is working on the initiative to re-org of DB, UNIX, Web and work with network/infra/DBA teams to fine-tune all these services, with no developer help available. There are few major issues which he identified in just a week of investigation, which had been in place for a decade now. Once resolved/achieved, this will save the cost of development, and win the FX client’s appreciations, resulting in more business and more revenue.

TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS: J2EE (JSP, Spring), UNIX Shell scripts, Sybase and Oracle SQL, Sun Solaris based Unix environment, ClearCase, FX Option Trader, Harmony (Traiana) (TRML, the alternate to FIX), Reuters pricing Powerplus Pro & EIKON, JUnit & Mockit

 

IT Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services America Ltd                                                                                                                     Jan’07- Nov’11             

Consulting Projects:
 

Bank of America, Production/Application Support Analyst (Oct’08-Nov 2011)

Support, enhancements, development management of various Risk Management System across Production/ UAT environments, such as –

Market Risk Global FX, Commodities, Back office support, Phoenix (Market Risk, Equities and Fixed Income Management system based on position acquisition, Value at risk calculation and reporting), MRS (Market Risk Suite), MUREX, FX Opt ions – Risk Calculator , Specific Risk, Commodity Markets, Futures, FOREX, Credit Risk HFAD (Hedge Funds), RFAD (Regulated Funds), FlaRE (Flash Reporting), IRisk (Issuer’s risk), Common Positions Data, Equities, Hedge Fund Management System, Limits Management System, Historical Simulation (Automatically processes delivery of Hypothetical PL and Scenario) Ten Day Reporting system (provides Risk Managers a Ten Day view of Dear and Stress from Risk data mart with ability to slice and dice)

·          Led onsite-offshore team of 5 members to support back-office users/clients and all above Market risk systems

·          Responsible for customer interaction and verification of risk numbers for risk managers using risk management tools.

·          Supported hourly (24x7) batch - ETL pipe load from Sybase to Netezza data warehouse. Provided support for cube based slice and dice reporting. Supported Unix based automated batch processes

·          Interfaced between different technology/business groups such as - data warehouse admins, ETL COE group, Informatica development team, DBA, UNIX admin groups, Vendors and customers - for remediation of issues across Production, UAT, DEV environments and also release management.

·          Developed solid relationships with infrastructure teams and leveraged that to improve system stability and availability.

·          Worked on various POC, proposals (RFP) involving use of Java -ETL tools like Informatica and Alfresco web content management.

·          Release management using JIRA, ClearCase and Maximo, following through standard bank software engineering process.

Cost Savings:

·          Developed SQL server DTS Transformation packages and jobs - to facilitate automated archival and transformation between various data inventories – resulting cost savings of ~480 hours person hours/year

·          Development of ETL transformations using Pentaho Kettle for automated archival of feed files.

·          Developed and enhanced stored procedures in Sybase. Created UNIX shell scripts and Autosys jobs to automate manual processes.

·          Enhancement and development of 10 Day Risk reports using VB6 and the .net framework.

·          Database Capacity management. Various value-additions contributed to business support team by automating DB archival, automating file archival jobs and creating re-usable services.

TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS: SQL Server DTS, SSIS, UNIX Shell scripts, Sybase and SQL Server PL/SQL, Sun Solaris based Unix, Pentaho Kettle BI, Windows 200x servers,  Log4j, ClearCase, Autosys, DBArtician, Pikachu, Java, J2EE (Spring, JDBC, JNDI), Apache Ant, XML, Maximo, JIRcoA

 

Fannie Mae, Lead Analyst and Developer, Web Content Management (May 2008 - September 2008)

·          Led analysis and development efforts for Fannie Mae’s in-house Content Management System, “TRAX”, which provides functionality for the objectives of loan approval and Credit Loss Management.

·          Enhance and optimize current manual processes by TRAX- Valuation Engine - using the J2EE Application Development Framework, Documentum and numerous Oracle products for identity and content management.

·          Led research on possible SSO approaches which includes design of security and generic component with the team of 2+ resources.

·          Responsible for designing generic Documentum view solution for all CLM/Valuation applications.

·          Involved in requirement gathering and responsible for deliverables of Documentum.

·          Participation in Documentum generic SSO solution for document view functionality/proposal.

·          Involved in designing DFC based Documentum services and content Index server

TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS: Java, J2EE, Webworks, Documentum Query Language, Documentum Content Server 6, Documentum Webtop, Documentum Administrator, Documentum Foundation Services, J2EE Application Development Framework, Various Oracle products for identity management and content management

 

NIKE Inc., Team Member, Offshore Support and Enhancements (Feb, 2008- May, 2008)

Brand NET Exchange is a web-application used by Nike Global Brand Marketing for online initiative collaboration and online repository of athletes, soccer players, models, and advertising and event images.

·          Supported Brand Marketing and the Content Creation Management team, through collaborative platform “BrandNet Exchange”, which was used for creation of initiatives, storage and management of digital assets, document management, meta-data archival initiative, workflow and report management of all such activities.

·          Involved in enhancement and providing new functionality to users of NIKE.

·          Responsible for KLO-bug support including improvement of performance of existing search functionality.

·          Troubleshooting of customized Webtop. Enhancements using DFC (Documentum Foundation Classes)

·          Leveraged Business Process Manager for document workflow, along with Content Index server

·          Remediated performance related issue with content index server by troubleshooting DFC and Java code

·          Involved into SOW related work for other clients with similar requirement (like United Airlines).

·          Coordinating with onsite team, weekly status meetings with customer and process documentation

·          Worked with a team to manage development of new components, maintenance and performance optimization of the existing BrandNetX Application.

·          Implemented enhancements per client requirement. Generated reports and stories to add on WIKI of NIKE.

TECHNOLOGIES: Java, J2EE, JSP, Webwork, Documentum Query Language

SPECIAL SOFTWARE AND TOOLS: Documentum Content Server 5.3 SP5, Documentum Webtop, Documentum Administrator, Documentum Media Services and Digital Asset Management, VPN, Citirx Metaframe, MS Remote Desktop, Quality Center, Samson, Intellij IDEA, Oracle 9i, Apache Tomcat 5.x/4.x, e-Room solution.

 

Profuturo GNP, Associate Developer and Team-Member – Business Intelligence Research Team (Jan, 2007- Feb, 2008)

Profuturo-GNP is one of the biggest Mexican finance company with a portfolio of more than 80 Billion weights with a structure of 160 branches, taking care of more than 3 million clients in the country.

·          Provided Profuturo with high-quality services, as well as the timely and efficient management of information.

·          Involved in requirement validation - specifically ETL (Business Intelligence) use case.

·          Involved in validation-enhancements of various artefacts like SRS (Software requirement specification), (SDD) Software Design Document, Activity Diagrams and Class diagrams.

·          Coordinated with onsite team for requirement and design understanding.

·          Carried out ETL transformation and their integration as dedicated resource for all the modules.

·          Suggested and implemented the best practice in the various complex scenarios.

Achievements:  Became a senior developer/ member of Open source Kettle- ETL at Pentaho’s official blog

·          Involved in development phase of project. Was a specialized resource for

o         Development of re-usable XML transformation using ETL Kettle and Talend

o         ETL transformations Integration into application and Database related operations.

o         Implementing re-usable business services dealing with Different File’s Value Objects

·          Responsible for making prototype of the new system with basic framework of modules: Teller De Productos, Cuentas Certifacion and Seguros. Created test cases and did unit testing of use cases developed by me.

·          Undergone a rigorous initial corporate training program for first 2 months - for corporate development.

TECHNOLOGIES: Java, J2EE, JSP, JSF, SPRING, HIBERNATE, HQL, SQL, XML based ETL transformations,

Windows XP and Windows Vista, Oracle 9i, JDBC, JNDI

TOOLS: Pentaho Kettle ETL, PL-SQL, J-Unit, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, IBM WID

 

Mandvi Kutch Municipal Corporation and Tourism, Lead consultant, designer and developer (June, 2006 to Aug 2006)

e-Corporation: Mandvi-Kutch Municipal Corporation was in need of some small interactive website, which could help them to support their “Vibrant-Gujarat” initiative. The challenging task here was to transfer heritage of city, which was not at all digitalized or captured before. It needed a social media presence.

·          Proposed a project to Mayor of City Counsel. Worked with development officials to capture the requirements.

·          Involved in requirement collection, digital asset management and doing photography of tourist attraction/spots.

·          Responsible for all client interactions: performed website design, photo-editing and development at client site

·          Also offered post deployment support and maintenance for 2 months, as part of the package.

TECHNOLOGIES/TOOLS: Core Java, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash website builder, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft FrontPage and Publisher, 3d Software, Analysis Tools, and Visual Studio 2005

 

Internship: National Institute of Design (NID) – Industrial Training (Jan, 2006 to May 2006)

Project:   Employee Management System, Jury assessment System for the NID web portal.

·          Responsible for development phase of “Employee management portal”  (Leave, salary record management)

·          Worked on Jury assessment system, in which artist-students could submit their digital assets, which later could be reviewed by Juries (artists) across the globe to provide grades to students.

·          Interaction with the officers of NID for requirement gathering, validation and design.

·          Performed design and development of web portal; database design and also Digital asset gathering.

TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS: ASP.NET (1.1), JavaScript, Oracle 9i, ODPNet, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash website builder, Microsoft FrontPage Publisher, 3d Software, analysis Tools, and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.0

 

EDUCATION

 

·          Bachelors of Science/Engineering in Computer Science

C U Shah College of Engineering and Technology – Saurashtra University - 2006

 

Curricular Achievements

·          Received “A” grade for the RESEARCH paper at National Conference on IT and Communication - Organized at Indian Institute of Management IIM-A/AMA (TOPPED 20 researchers of INDIA)

·          Won artificial intelligence, National level Tech Debate at DDIT. Also, represented various research papers.

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

·          Sun Certified Java Programmer (1.5) with 84%, 2007.

·          Received organizational service award for dedication and commitment, from TCS.

 

AFFILIATIONS

 

·          Volunteering IT Consultation to start-ups participating in Stamford Innovation center, Stamford tech meet

·          Volunteered with WildMetro NYC, CRY, New York earth, NYC cares, Green Earth NYC / Green Apple

·          Regularly attending NYC Java meets, NYC Tech entrepreneur’s meet-ups (@ NYU Skirball center) & Google meet-ups in NYC

·          Volunteer assistant to co-founder of PhotofusionUSA - working to promote, brand and consult local artists, by photography exhibitions, online portals and workshop.

·          Organized photography meet-ups. Working on online promotion of ”NYC- Music Underground” artists

·          Participated and presented research on Open Source Initiative at Indian Institute of Management - IIM-A, BarCamp, summit for Global IT entrepreneurs, Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship.

·          Performed duties as Organizer of committee, National Conference on IT and Communication, organized at   IIM-A and AMA. (Indian institute of Management – Ahmadabad).

·          Participated and Presented research on Spring/Hibernate for DRUPAL meet of open source technologies

·          Correspondence and canvassing head of iNNOVATION 04 and 05, Engineering school’s tech Event.