Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Experience in Application Development, Production Support and Maintaining application on IBM Mainframes and on Distributed Platforms in various aspects of software life cycle. - IT Project Lead with consistent track record of leading & delivering small to large scale software projects. - Possesses good functional knowledge on Securities Processing, Trade Settlement and Asset Servicing under Global Custody domain. - Excellent in managing, mentoring, and coaching team members - Strong documentation, reporting and presentation skills - Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills - Good understanding of Agile software development and Business Analysis practices - Served fortune clients like Renault Group, France; CVRD Inco, Canada; Arcelor Mittal, USA.
• Providing E0 estimates and solutions to business needs • Understanding business requirements and transforming them into functional requirement specifications • Managing all queries/issues from stakeholders such as business users, product sponsors, support groups and higher management • Hosting monthly prioritization meeting with product sponsors, business users and technical teams. • Supervising and coordinating Integration System Testing and User Acceptance Testing • Managing and coordinating large project implementations. • Managing large team of global contractors / vendors • Ensuring application development is in compliance with risk policies • Incident and problem management. • Running software change assessments to review production impact on new functionality / product / feature rollouts and infrastructure upgrades. • Ensuring application hygiene and control environment is maintained. • Managing resiliency and business continuity programs. • Facing and supporting internal and external audits
Onsite coordinator to interface between client and offshore team. Due diligence at client place to accesses the efforts of knowledge transition phase. Applications development for 13 small mainframe applications. Also includes handling minor or major code changes, bug fixing and solving support requests from clients. Developed the requirement specification documents using reverse engineering. Configured Natural Engineer tool at onsite and gained extensive knowledge on the tool. Developed code synchronization tool to sync application code with Natural Engineer Tool.
Preparing High-level designs, Low-level designs for enhancement request. Analyzing, Developing, testing the code and preparation of documentation. Solving the Production support problems raised by the users, which include priority 2, 3 and 4. Guiding new team members technically, business and process wise as part of the mentoring program.