Objective

Experience

• Setup the company, discovered the members and established the team.
• Won businesses and established relationship with clients.
• Drafted and communicated guiding principles and policies for running the company.

• Masterminded the Junior hiring program.
  Conceived, designed and implemented global strategy for hiring graduates & MBAs from top schools in US, France, UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland. Presented the business plan to the management team, achieved a go-ahead and set long and short term goals. Identified schools & events and surveyed compensation packages. Developed interviewing methodology and conducted interviewing skills training. Designed marketing tools (brochures, flyers, web-site, posters, etc) for the target segment. Prepared the organization to integrate and develop the young hires. The program is very successful. It has enriched firm's diversity, made it significantly visible and increased motivation of employees through involvement in a company building exercise.
  
• Anticipated the need to change the working style of the company.
  Designed the organization, processes, roles and technology infrastructure to improve exchange of knowledge across business areas and geographical locations. This initiative has led to promotion of knowledge inventories instead of keeping the genius locked inside personal hard-disks.
  
• Global organization and communication
  Recognized the need to establish a framework and engine for communicating effectively to target audiences within and outside the company. Identified employees across company locations to work on the task-force. Helped scope the problem and drafted the initial strategy presented to executive management committee.
• Researched and assessed vendors for software development outsourcing in US, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

• Researched best-practices for modeling, developing and operating Securities settlement systems across developed and emerging markets. The work included identifying risk, legal and government policy frameworks. Evaluated options to improve efficiency and manage risk for different settlement models.
• Studied fragmentation and operational inefficiency caused by cross-technology, cross-functional and varying evolution speeds of systems at a large international CSD. Analyzed the preliminary requirements and planned the implementation of a front-end integrating disparate back-office systems.

• Helped in planning and setup for a new division. Identified key issues in integration of people and business during acquisition (IBM acquired Cimad in 1997).
• Made management aware of the need for knowledge management. Conducted preliminary survey and analysis.
• Was rated in top five percent of employees.

• Studied clearing model & financial risk. Explained concepts to team members.
• Led design and implementation of payments management, most complex part of the system.

• Managed eight member team responsible for fixing bugs reported by fifty testers. Established a change tracking system and release guidelines. Organized the team and divided areas of responsibility. Reduced pending problems from 300 to 120 in two weeks and brought down average turnaround time to 2 days.
• Conceived the need for a rule-based converter which would capture operational data and transform it into client reports. Assisted in implementation.
• Designed a transport layer framework using MQSeries to transport objects from core transaction process to secondary data analysis process. Managed development and testing. Wrote user manual and programming guidelines.
• Led design and implementation of real-time reporting. Studied settlement process, analyzed client's needs and designed the architecture.
• Helped setup methodology, configuration management, testing infrastructure and development frameworks.

• Studied the problems of growth & competition at a diversified insurance broker. Recommended changes in business practices and technology infrastructure.
• Modeled web-based frameworks for point of sales system applicable to video rentals, real estate rentals, etc.

• Led development team for inventory management system from a Hot-rolled coils line. Build requirements, introduced bar-coding, managed outsourced development and coordinated it across two development sites. Trained users, analysts and software developers.
• Standardized and streamlined software development process. Eliminated redundancies and promoted best practices across project teams. Designed workflow tools. Conceptualized a software to help manage information system projects.
• Founded an informal knowledge sharing group where members met once a week to understand technical issues and increase awareness on new technologies.

• Developed software tool to analyze flow through rocket nozzles. It reduced the design cycle time.

Education

• Graduated with Honors. Major : Aerospace Engineering
• Awarded state government merit scholarship.
• Admitted to the program in top 2% out of 100 000 applicants.

Skills

Personal

Interests