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Lead Software Engineer

K.V.Rangareddy, India
Worldwide
M.Tech
K.V.Rangareddy, India
Worldwide
M.Tech

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RamaResume_12Jan2024DGFreelance.pdf

HTMLJava (Programming Language)Adobe InDesignApache AntAuditingMicrosoft AzureOracle WebLogic ServerUnixCalculationsCapacity PlanningInvestmentsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)IBM Rational ClearCaseDatabasesCorporate ServicesSAP Crystal ReportsDatabase DesignDemand ForecastingDOS (Disk Operating System)Eclipse (Software)Enterprise JavaBeansPerl (Programming Language)Performance ManagementJava Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)Financial Information EXchangeFront OfficeHibernateHP-UXIBM WebSphere MQIBM Websphere Application ServerIntelliJ IDEAJava Database ConnectivityJava Message Service (JMS)Java ServletSpring FrameworkApache StrutsJava Naming and Directory InterfaceJavaserver PagesMicrosoft VisioMicrosoft SQL ServersWindows ServersMySQLObject-Oriented Software DevelopmentOpen Source TechnologyOracle ApplicationsRequirements AnalysisService-Oriented ArchitectureSolaris (Operating System)UMLWeb ServicesSecurities (Finance)Transaction Processing (Computing)Stocks (Finance)ScriptingEnterprise Application PlatformDiversification (Investing)Ibm Websphere Studio Application DeveloperMarket DataEr-WinEmerging MarketsRational RoseCoaching and MentoringToad (Software)Team Management
Charles River Investment Management System (04/2012 - Present)
  • 12 years’ experience in Charles River Investment Management System -Development, Implementation, configuration, application upgrades, interfaces,FIX- financial Information Exchange, Crystal reports development, Bloomberg data implementations, Compliance rules writing.
  • Deployment of CRD across various Investment Management Teams like Fixed Income, Equity, FX , Muni for High Networth , Money Market, Fund of Funds,Mutual Series, Emerging Markets.
  • Working with various Investment Management user groups to analyze ,understand Business use cases, gaps and address them tactically as well as strategically. 
  • Steered transformation of organizational practices with the focus on leveraging IT as a strategic tool and in-depth experience of multiple/multilevel regular audits both internal, external, and regulator
  • Strong management skills, capable of leading & motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity; a knack for  motivating the team for exceeding customer expectations in the delivery of committed service.
Java Projects (01/2001 - Present)
  • Java practitioner implemented numerous multi-tier enterprise applications in Java for the last two decades, proficient in design and development using opensource frameworks. Expertise in capacity planning, demand forecasting, regional diversification, performance analysis, Memory analysis, and system tuning.
  • Expertise in a wide variety of development Java and other open Source technologies - Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Web Services, EJB, JSP,JNDI, JDBC, Servlets, Struts, HTML, JMS, Hibernate , Quick rules, CSS, Java Scripts, IBM MQ, WebLogic, WebSphere, SOA, UML, OOAD, and Rational Rose, Oracle MSSQL,MYSQL
  • IDE - IntelliJ, Eclipse, WSAD, WebLogic Workshop
  • Databases -Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 
  • Data design Tools & DB design - ERWIN, TOAD, WINSQL,Visio.
  • Messaging – IBM MQ- Series 6.0, 7.x , Sonic MQ
  • Azure Cloud, UNIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows Servers
  • Tools - MS-Visio, Ant, CVS, VSS, Clear Case, rational rose.
  • Scripting: Ant, MS DOS, Windows, Perl, UNIX
Simcorp Dimension Implementation (04/2008 - 08/2009) (04/2008 - 08/2009)
  • Worked on SimCorp dimension IM application for ING IM from Jan 2005 to February 2008 & Rabo bank from April 2008 to August 2009 as application implementation manager, business analyst. Having good working knowledge of Charles River, Cloverleaf, Multi funds tools, Swift Alliance, Smart Stream.
  • Hands on exposure with SimCorp dimension in setting up of Filter toolbox, DFS for importing FX Rates, market data prices, price-import batch jobs and importing of securities trades data from various front office systems like SOPHIS and Charles River to SimCorp Dimension.
  • Creation of Data Extractions, data format filters for batch jobs to import, export data, front office transaction processing, portfolio calculations, performance calculations. STP process for - transactions, matching, settlements, payment reconciliation, STP queues for Transaction status,internal external message. Corporate actions. creation of new dimension users, setting up user authorization profile and assigning authorization profiles to the users
  • Expertise in crystal reports development, Configuration of reports, report properties, setting up report batch jobs, batch job groups on Charles River & SimCorp dimension and having expertise in resolution of issues related to batch jobs and batch job groups.

Languages

EnglishFluentHindiFluentTeluguNative speaker

Project history

Lead Software Engineer (AVP)

Franklin Templeton Investments

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

  • Application development, production ownership and managing multiple investment banking applications Charles River IMS, Wall Street Office, Black Mountain Everest, BPM-Barra portfolio Manager, Think Folio, Simcorp Dimension, FIX Messaging, Swift Alliance, legacy TIS (Trading & Information system) Bloomberg terminal and back-office systems.
  • Hands-on business knowledge on workflows related to Portfolio Management, trading, compliance for  Equities, swaps, derivatives,Fixed Income, Futures, Options, FX , Separately Managed accounts,High Net worth, Emerging Markets, Munis, Currency Forwards,Payment reconciliations, match processing and settlements.
  • Providing support for functionality, performance, and integration testing of the systems. This involves environment set-up, application upgrade, and escalation of problems to another team. Regular meeting with business clients to understand and gather requirements. Mentoring and providing training to team members.
  • Application maintenance and production support, across Franklin Templeton Offices located across the globe (Australia, India, Europe, Brazil, Canada, UK, USA), with focus on providing better application user experiences and business capabilities. 
  • In-depth knowledge about the Integration Requirements of IM systems with other upstream and downstream systems, expertise in gathering requirements to configure the data imports and exports, reference data, market data and securities data for various. applications.

Senior Software Engineer

Franklin Templeton Investments, India

Banking & Financial Services

500-1000 team member

  • Creation of workflow monitor, workflow rule, stored queries, navigation, import configuration, metadata configuration for user defined fields provided by Charles River.
  • Hands-on applications Integrations with various vendors for FIX, Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI, RIMES, Reuters, STOXX, S&P, FTSE, ICE, IDC, Various Brokers etc. Managing FIX networks for Equity, Fixed Income Trading.
  • Expert in Agile and DevOps, Formulated the DevOps strategy by owning leadership decision-making and determining business objectives for several critical assignments. Established the standards for Source Control Management (SCM)
  • Deployment of CRD across various Investment Management Teams like Fixed Income, Equity, FX , Muni for High Networth , Money Market, Fund of Funds, Mutual Series, Emerging Markets.
  • Working with various Investment Management user groups to analyze ,understand Business use cases, gaps and address them tactically as well as strategically.
  • Worked on Charles River version upgrades from v8.2 to v9.1.4.5.1, v9.1.4.5.1 to v9.2.3, v9.2.3 to v18r2 and v18r2 to v20.r1 in test, staging and production environments. Enhancing the APIs between Charles River and proprietary Franklin Templeton trading & information System, and comparison of batch feeds, data exception between versions. Developed systems implementation and Upgradation plans for Charles River IMS, PAM Securities 
  • Developed data feed codes for loading Factset Fixed income Index security and duration data, configuration of reports, translations, import and export data feeds with in application and installation of new patches & versions and Setting of data translation to meet the Charles River Requirement. Setting /modifying and Monitoring of control-M jobs 
  • Implemented the BBG- BVAL price import process to import the daily data into Charles River and PAM systems at regular intervals. Configured and implemented STP process for ISO 15022 messages from Charles River system to JP Morgan, Citi Direct Swift message processing systems 
  • Created automated batch process scripts for daily scheduled jobs and scheduled the tasks using windows tasks scheduler in windows environment. Created business reports using Crystal reports 10 to send the trade information exported to JP Morgan chase, Citi Direct and Daily Trade Execution summary etc.
  • Creation of workflow monitor, workflow rule, stored queries, navigation, import configuration, metadata configuration for user defined fields provided by Charles River.
  • Providing the support for functionality, performance, and integration testing of the systems. This involves environment set-up, application upgrade, and escalation of problems to another team. Regular meeting with business clients to understand and gather requirements. Mentoring and providing trainings to team members.
  • Responsible for business requirements gathering, documenting the requirements, creating implementation details and implementations. Interacts with the business users on various new requirements and issues like daily securities data, market prices, Transaction processing, reconciliations, portfolio calculations, portfolio accounting, CR system Trade Blotter – Buy, Sell, Done deal, Manager Workbench, Compliance, Work flow issues and issues related to daily data exports & imports from BBG, Wall Street.

Senior Business Analyst

Flagstone Capital Management Ltd

Banking & Financial Services

500-1000 team member

  • Subject matter expertise with investment management applications - Charles River IMS, settlements systems and back-office accounting system PAM - Princeton financials system.
  • Interactions with business teams on new requirements,documentation, implementations, resolving issues daily data loads of securities, market prices, Trades processing, Trade reconciliations, portfolio calculations, portfolio accounting, Trade Blotter issues on Buy, Sell, Done deal, Compliance, workflow issues. Issues in daily data exports & imports from Bloomberg, Wall Street Office.

Business Systems Analyst SimCorp dimension

Rabo Securities
bank Netherlands
Rabo bank securities division is part of Rabo bank, Netherlands. Its operation includes management of portfolio
accounting for a variety of securities like equities, bonds etc using SimCorp dimension and Sophis applications.
SimCorp dimension processes the status changes of securities imported from various front office systems like
OMS, Sophis and OASYS, uploads the generated finance transactions to global people soft accounting system
on daily basis. Sophis system is used as front office system to trade Equities Derivatives, FX Securities, Fixed
income securities etc.
* As an analyst involved in monitoring of various STP Status servers, Communication servers, MQ Client
server, OMS MQ queues, SOPHIS MQ queues, Front office transaction processing, Back office transaction
processing, STP transaction processing, match processing, settlements, Payment reconciliation, portfolio
accounting, auxiliary jobs monitoring and importing market data, trades data.
* Interaction with the business users on various new business requirements gathering, implementations,
systems issues like STP transaction processing, reconciliations, portfolio calculations, portfolio accounting ,
preparation of test plans etc.
* Trading Life Cycle management of various instruments like equities, fixed income, derivatives and resolving
the issues of the same on SimCorp dimension application.
* Configuration and testing new IM systems including SimCorp test environments, update new installation
files, installation and testing of new patches.
* Involved in preparations for system upgrade from version 4.1 to version 4.4
* Involved in configuration batch job scripts on Windows NT and IBM Tivoli schedulers.
* Configuration of STP servers on Windows, created DOS scripts, scheduled batch job scripts on Windows NT
Scheduler.
* Monitoring and supporting Sophis system trading and trades flow between Sophis and SimCorp dimension
* Creation of new SimCorp system configuration in NEW, UAT and Production.
* Interaction with business users on various new requirements, changes, implementation and testing.

Business Systems Analyst - SimCorp Dimension

Rabo bank , The Netherlands

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

  • Involved in setting up Filter toolbox, DFS, FX Rates, market data prices, price-import batch jobs, and securities, trades data
  • Worked in data extractions, batch job configurations, transaction processing, portfolio calculations, STP processes, corporate actions,user management, and crystal reports development for both Charles River and SimCorp Dimension
  • Worked on SimCorp dimension IM application for ING IM from Jan 2005 to February 2008 & Rabo bank from April 2008 to August 2009 as application implementation manager, business analyst. Having good working knowledge of Charles River, Cloverleaf, Multi funds tools, Swift Alliance, Smart Stream.
  • Hands on exposure with SimCorp dimension in setting up of Filter tool Box, DFS for importing FX Rates, market data prices, price-import batch jobs and importing of securities trades data from various front office systems like SOPHIS and Charles River to SimCorp Dimension. creation of Data Extractions, data format filters for batch jobs to import, export data, front office transaction processing, portfolio calculations, performance calculations, STP transactions processing, match processing, settlements, payment reconciliation, STP Transaction status queues, STP internal message queues, STP external message queues, corporate actions. creation of new dimension users, setting up user authorization profile and assigning authorization profiles to the users

Technical & Functional Business Application Manager SimCorp

Logica CMG - ING - IM , The Netherlands

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

  • Successfully migrated Corporate Treasury fund accounting from MAIN FRAME system to Simcorp Dimension US GAAP, IFRS standards. Developed data import interfaces for FX Rates, Standard Contract quotes, Lehman Prices, Prices from Reuters, Configured, imported and maintained market data, reference data, and static data Simcorp dimension as part of market data maintenance (MDM)
  • Hands on exposure with SimCorp dimension in setting up of Filter toolbox, DFS for importing FX Rates, market data prices, price-import batch jobs and importing of securities trades data from various front office systems like SOPHIS and Charles River to SimCorp Dimension. 
  • Creation of Data Extractions, data format filters for batch jobs to import, export data, front office transaction processing, portfolio calculations, performance calculations. STP process for - transactions, matching, settlements, payment reconciliation, STP queues for Transaction status, internal & external message.
  • Corporate actions. creation of new dimension users, setting up user authorization profile and assigning authorization profiles to the users 
  • Expertise in crystal reports development, Configuration of reports, report properties, setting up report batch jobs, batch job groups on Charles River & SimCorp dimension and having expertise in resolution of issues related to batch jobs and batch job groups.
  • Developed project for Client: Endeavour Insurance(CICA), UK for 10 months using . Java, EJB - BMPs, JSP, JDBC,HTML,CSS,STRUTS, Oracle, Win CVS, WebLogic.

Project Lead

Hewlett-Packard GDIC, Bangalore, India

Transport & Logistics

500-1000 team member

  • Prepared PDS (Presentation Design Statement), HDS (High level Design Specification), writing jsps with struts 1.1, Java Classes and EJB 2.0, integrating EJBs with jsps. Configured and implemented MQ Series to get the information of shipments from GCDB (Global Customer database) to QSMS application through origin and destination queue and worked on Shipment control library system with ESQL and 4GL.
  • Involved in installation, configuration, and creation of Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, and writing automated scripts of IBM MQ series for this project for a period of 10 months

Associate Consultant

I-flex Solutions ,Bangalore , India

Banking & Financial Services

1000-5000 team member

  • Developed java projects for a period of 3 years to various clients - CITI Bank, Singapore-Domain: Banking- Net Banker | Bonaire, Inc, USA Domain: Banking - Revenue and Billing System | CITI Bank, UK Domain: Banking - Internal Rating System | CITI Bank, UK Domain: Banking - Loans and Accounts Maintenance System.
  • Technologies - Java, J2EE, Struts , JSP, EJBs -CMP, BMP beans, JDBC, Hibernate, Oracle, WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache web server, Java Scripts, Ant builds, VSS, CVS, ERWIN data modeler, Rational rose, UML, Log4J.

Certificates

Caritas Investment Certificate by CFA

CFA

2016

Simcorp Dimension Application Training,

Simcorp Dimension - SCD

2012

Sun Certified Java Programmer

Sun micro systems

2010

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