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Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma

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More than 16 years of experience in Application Development and Project Management of Securities processing (Fixed Income and Equities) platforms.

! Domain expertise lies in Application Development, Project Management and Support of Investment Banking & Retail Banking IT Solutions in C/C++/Python, Athena (JPMorgan), Sybase, Unix, Core Java and other programming languages.

! Master of Computer Application by academics
! Recipient of various Professional Annual Awards

o 2013 –Asia Pacific CEO Award for the significant contribution to local community in Japan in the Philanthropy space.

o 2012 - Lawrence Waller Award for team excellence for decommissioning ISTAR MX (Back- office solution for securities firms) for Fixed Income & Equity in 2012.

o 2010 - People@The Core Awards (Bronze Award) for successful implementation and automation of Japan Fixed Income Corporate Action project.

o 2009 - People@The Core Awards (Silver Award) for excellent partnering with the Position Server (PS+ team - IB F&BM).

o 2007 – “Brand Recall” for BNP PARIBAS India Solutions Pvt. Ltd. :- For getting maximum votes in all categories, the person who has contributed significantly to the projects other than his allocated project without impacting the delivery on the primary project. This demonstrates the enthusiasm and commitment. The person who has been very innovative in his approach and has suggested solutions which are beneficial to the project. The person who has been the most committed to the company whether that is through hours spent in the office, personal sacrifices or ability to not be swayed from the task in hand. The person who networks very well within the organization and has the best inter-personal skills.

o 2005 – Appreciation Award from BNP PARIBAS India Sol. Pvt. Ltd. for the significant contribution to setting up of India subsidiary.


Experience

2016 Jan - 2017 Jun
Deputy Director
Broadridge Japan Ltd / Tokyo

❖ Jan 2016 to Jun 2017

Organization : Broadridge Japan Ltd, JAPAN

Position:Deputy Director of Client Services, Global Technology and Operations

(Jan 2016 – Jun 2017)

Field : Investment Banking: Capital market; Gloss- Global Trade Settlement System

– Japan and abroad clients. JASDEC PS – A collection of different system

components to support communication with Japan Securities Depository Center’s

(JASDEC) Pre-Settlement Matching System (PSMS) and Book-Entry Transfer System (BETS)

Key Responsibilities
• Working to continuously develop relationships with clients and deliver high levels of application development and services in the Trade processing, Settlement and Clearing space. Responsible for on-site development and support quality and continued service delivery, working extensively with client management teams.
• Extensive working relationship with technology and operations staff to MD level, with extensive know how of full front-to-back trade processing knowledge from trade order inception through to settlement, accounting, general ledger and regulatory reporting.
• Involved in production and process efficiency, resiliency management, and business contingency and system capacity management initiatives.
• Worked with various onshore and offshore clients’ teams, interfacing with a wide range of teams within IT, Operations and the wider business units, including delivery management of full front-to-back, both in Equity and Fixed Income space.
• Extensive worked within C, Unix, Sybase and Core Java development space as well as expanding application delivery management responsibilities following successful conclusion of global strategic initiatives.
• Ensure timeliness, quality, and adherence to standards of all deliverables as scheduled in the release.
• Mentor & train new and lateral hires in the organization on Gloss product and technology.
2008 Jan - 2016 Jan
Vice President
JPMorgan Securities Japan Co. Ltd. / Tokyo
❖ Jan 2008 to Jan 2016

Organization:JPMorgan Securities Japan Co Ltd, JAPAN

Position:Vice President (Jan 2012 ~ Jan 2016); Sr. Associate (Jan 2010 – Dec 2011); Associate (Jan 2008 – Dec 2010)

Field:Application Development/Support Manager and Delivery Manager
Key Responsibilities
▪ Application Development(in C, Java, Unix, Core Java & Sybase) and Production Support cross-business Settlement and Clearing systems (Gloss Tokyo, SACURA, Non-Gloss minor apps, FMS, SAKE, Euclid, ISTAR) in Middle and Back office.
▪ Long-term strategic business re-engineering (SRP); Delivering of long-term projects, as well as being responsive to short turnaround requests from the business.
▪ Design, architecture, development and implementation of application software within Global Core processing technological framework.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning (optimization).
▪ Build strong partnership with business counterpart, develop and deliver defined functionality.Lead team, and work, communicate and interact effectively with project managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Tech leads, Technical operations and users.
▪ Work with and adapt to constantly changing technologies. Work in on-shore and off-shore models.
▪ Read and understand business requirements, write functional requirements, develop detailed technical designs, and build (coding), unit, and system test application code.
▪ Support the changes and applications post implementation by debugging, fixing, and participating in maintenance releases, as prescribed by management.
▪ To work as part of an Agile/KANBAN/Scrum team to deliver technology solutions in an Agile/KANBAN fashion including but not limited to sprint planning, complexity analysis, standup calls, and sprint retrospectives.
▪ Test Driven Development as part of AGILE-LEAN
▪ Audits - Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) , PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC), Internal Japan Rates/Equities Securities Audit
▪ Regulatory Reporting, Financial Services Agency (FSA) and Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) inspection
▪ Disaster Recovery Strategy, High Availability with good Hygiene, Resiliency and Stability
▪ Annual Technology Forecasting and Budgeting, todeal effectively with conflict and controversy, Manage Vendor relationship, Controls and access recertification.
Program and Projects undertaken:

ISO20022, New BOJ Net, Client On-boarding, Strategy for T+1 settlement and clearing (2017), Athena and ANVIL onboarding, Reference Dataonboarding – RDI (Client, Account, SSI and Instrument), Global Liquidity, Self Custody, Disclosure of Interests (DOI), Liquidity Risk Infrastructure (LRI), Volker Aged Inventory Reporting, BASEL, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Anti Money Laundering, OFAC-Sanction screening, Intra Day Liquidity feed, Sybase migration, Keonization of all environments, India HUBing, Global Operate transfer – Level 1, 2 & 3, Back-To-Back Repo business, START to TLM migration, GLOSS MEMSERVER, Global Liquidity feed, DAC & TRECS Recon, Regulatory Reporting - ARRT Feed Recon, SACURA onboarding, T+3 àT+2 settlement and clearing,Agency Lending, Credit Analysis (Financial Ratios), STP and implementation of SPSS Inferential Statistics (One Way ANOVA, Chi-Square, Regression etc.).

Decommission of following application:
• SAKE - used to book the Security movement (Deposit/Withdrawal) for the client account (JPMorgan Securities and Bank branch accounts as a custodian for the client.)
• FMS - system used by JPMSJ to keep track of projected Nostro account balances for funding purposes.
• UDT’s – Functionality of MS-Access and MS-Excel based tools on boarded to strategic systems.
• ISTAR/MX - Back-office solution from NRI for JPMSJ covering Equity and Fixed Income.
• NINJA - interface application between MO and Ops from upstream and downstream to feed settlement engine.
• Concorde (Rates and FB) - Fixed income pricing, trade capture, risk management system used by Credit & Rates business in Tokyo
Field:Area Product Owner (AGILE/KANBAN) & Delivery Manager
Key Responsibilities
▪ Key focus as Delivery and Program/Project management for Asia Fixed Income applications covering RTC locations.
▪ Supporting roadmap for Global Fixed Income consolidation strategy with Senior MDs in US, with a target timeframe for the roadmap by Q4 2015. Plan out roadmap for Japan Systems (Jasdec Adapter and Affiliate Clearing) for iSCPPprogram.
▪ Supporting Japan-related application/Ops changes where needed for FI and Equity environment
▪ Routing member for APAC Region JIRA changes into the global equity prioritization process (iSCPP/Napoli/NOVA etc.)
▪ Facilitating further system feed for Regulatory and Compliance changes for New BOJ Net, Intra-Day-Liquidity, DOI, LRI, OFAC and FATCA in APAC region.
2004 Feb - 2007 Dec
Senior Software Developer
BNP PARIBAS India Solutions Pvt. Ltd. / London/Mumbai
Feb 2004 to Dec 2007

Organization:BNP PARIBAS, BNPPISPL, Mumbai, INDIA

Position:Sr. Software Developer (Aug 2004 – Dec 200)

Field:Investment Banking: Capital market; Gloss- Global Trade
Settlement System – Hong Kong/Tokyo
Key Responsibilities
▪ To take active participation in the development, support and maintenance of the Gloss application.
▪ Ensure timeliness, quality, adherence to standards, etc. of all deliverables as scheduled in the release.
▪ Develop and test C/Sybase/JAM/Gloss functions as per the BNP Paribas standards.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning.
▪ Reviewing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Ensure successful System and Regression Testing.
▪ Develop knowledge base of all areas of Securities settlement and the full Project Life Cycle.
▪ Mentoring & Training to new hires in the organization on Gloss product and technology.

Organization:BNP PARIBAS, London, United Kingdom

Position:Software Developer (Feb 2004 – Jul 2004)

Field:Investment Banking: Capital market; Gloss- Global Trade
Settlement System – Hong Kong/Tokyo
Key Responsibilities
▪ Develop and test C/Sybase/JAM/Gloss functions as per the BNP Paribas standards.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning.
▪ Reviewing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Ensure successful System and Regression Testing.
Domain:Gloss
Gloss is an acronym for GLObal Settlement System. A London based Financial Software House called Wilco (a subsidiary of ADP), and is used widely throughout the Investment Banking sector produced it. However, BNP PARIBAS version of Gloss is significantly different in many areas from other installations of the software, as it has undergone much proprietary development (100+ man-years). Gloss is a system used to settle trades. This involves pre-settlement functions, the production of Settlement statements (such as faxes and telexes) and the actual settlement of trades with other financial institutions. It also has a General Ledger function, which is able to produce company accounts. It should be noted that GLOSS' role is not restricted to settlement. It is also used for input of trades by the Front Office, Risk Management by the Middle Office, Accounting purposes by the Back Office and for Expense transactions within Tokyo & Hong-KongHuman Resources. We works very closely with London based development teams; providing trade-processing solutions for Equity, Debt and Derivatives trading for BNP Tokyo & Hong-Kong.
2003 Oct - 2004 Jan
Sr. Software Engineer
DSL Software Ltd, Deutsche Bank / Bangalore
❖ Oct 2003 to Jan 2004

Organization:DSL Software Ltd, Deutsche Bank, Bangalore, India

Position:Sr. Software Engineer

Field:Investment Banking: Credit Risk Management SystemMATRIX-CRMS
Key Responsibilities
▪ To take active participation in the development, support and maintenance of the Matrix application.
▪ Develop and test C++/Oracle/Matrix functions.
▪ Ensure successful System and Regression Testing.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning.
▪ Reviewing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Mentoring & Training to new hires in the organization on Matrix product and technology.
Domain:Credit Risk Management System

Matrix is primarily a credit risk reporting system. Matrix is a credit risk engine based on a distributed processing architecture. It calculates and reports current/projected future exposures results for use by GCI Risk Controlling. Stress exposures are also calculated and reported. The system collects Trades of different product types like the following

• Equity
• Stock Loan/Borrow
• Bond Options
• Repurchase Agreement - Repo
These trades are valued/priced using the Monte Carlo Methodology and then appropriate aggregation/netting rules are applied at different levels like the portfolio/facility/netting set level. A set of reporting tables are populated at the end of the run and these are loaded by GCI after Risk Controlling checks the quality of the data in the reports. Hedge/Funds reporting are also done through Matrix
2003 Jun - 2003 Oct
Information Analyst
Electronics Data Systems (INDIA) / Gurgaon (INDIA)
❖ Jun 2003 to Oct 2003

Organization:Electronics Data Systems (INDIA), Gurgaon, India

Position:Information Analyst

Field:Telecom Billing - IBS
Key Responsibilities
▪ To take active participation in the development, support and maintenance of the IBS application.
▪ Ensure timeliness, quality, adherence to standards, etc. of all deliverables as scheduled in the release.
▪ Develop and test C/Sybase/IBS functions.
▪ Ensure successful System and Regression Testing.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning.
▪ Reviewing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Mentoring & Training to new hires in the organization on IBS product and technology.
Domain:Telecom Billing

The IBS is a service-based cost allocation System. The application takes in data from various sources for numerous services such as Mainframes, Vendor Tapes etc. The information is assigned to the responsible billing financial entity and the appropriate charges are applied. The charges are consolidated by billing financial entity and used to create general ledger entries, a formatted communication statement and file extracts. The information is distributed to the telecommunication customers

2002 Dec - 2003 May
Software Engineer
Nucleus Software Export Ltd / Delhi
❖ Dec 2002 to May 2003

Organization:Nucleus Software Export Ltd, Delhi, India

Position:Software Engineer

Field:FinnOne - Leasing, Hire Purchase, and Consumer Loans business.
Key Responsibilities
▪ To take active participation in the development, support and maintenance of the FinnOneapplication.
▪ Ensure timeliness, quality, adherence to standards, etc. of all deliverables as scheduled in the release.
▪ Develop and test on D2K 5.0 /Oracle 8
▪ Ensure successful System and Regression Testing.
▪ Develop knowledge base of all areas of Lending.
▪ Performance & fine Tuning.
▪ Reviewing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
Domain:FinnOne- Leasing, Hire Purchase & Consumer Loans

FinnOne is a comprehensive solution that provides a cohesive, integrated operational and decision making support to all transactions of a Leasing, Hire Purchase, and Consumer Loans business. The in-built security provides total control over information, so critical to survive in today's complex and dynamic environment. The Lending module is well integrated with the other applications in the FinnOne suite.

2002 Aug - 2002 Nov
Lecturer
Hindu Institute Of Management / Sonepat (India)
❖ Aug 2002 to Nov 2002

Organization:Hindu Institute Of Management, Sonepat, India

Position:Lecturer

Field:Education/Practical
Key Responsibilities
▪ Ensure successful Placement Coordination.
▪ To take Lectures and to conduct Lab.
2001 Jan - 2002 Jul
System Trainee / Project Trainee
Polaris Software Lab Ltd / Noida (India)
❖ Jan 2001 to Jul 2002

Organization:Polaris Software Lab Ltd, Noida, India

Position:System Trainee(Oct 2001- Jul 2002)

Field:BANKWARE – Any Time Any Where, Any Mode Banking.

Key Responsibilities
▪ Software Development on C/Sybase/SQRibe/PB 6.5.
▪ Preparing Model Database for Implementation.
▪ Performance & Fine Tuning.
▪ Automating Backup Process.
▪ Version Control with VSS Tools.
▪ Analysis and Designing.
▪ Preparing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Reviewing code segments.
▪ Solving client issues.

Position:Project Trainee (Jan 2001- Sep 2001)

Key Responsibilities
▪ Software Development on C/Sybase/SQRibe/PB 6.5
▪ Version Control with VSS Tools.
▪ Preparing Unit Test Plan, Program Specifications.
▪ Preparation of Project Report.
Domain:BANKWARE – Retail Banking

BankNow is a Retail Banking solution licensed by POLARIS for customization to suit global requirements from M&I EastPoint Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. The customization has been done to meet global requirements like multi-currency, e-banking and m-banking features. Apart from the core product external interfaces like e-banking, m-banking, ATM/VRU/EDC interface based on ISO 8583 formats, G.L. Interface, EBP (Electronic Bill Payment) interface and CIS (Customer Information System) interface are also being developed. The core product is a highly parameterized system providing both front office & back office functionality's of retail banking environment suitable for global banking market. The BankNow system is presently implemented successfully at HPSCB Shimla, ICICI Bombay & going under implementation in Bank Artha Graha, Jakarta and Shinsei Banking Group, Japan.

Education

1998 - 2001
MD University Rohtak (INDIA)
Master of Computer Applications / Computer Applications , Database Management Systems, Computer Programming - Software
1994 - 1997
MD University Rohtak (INDIA)
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) / Computer Programming , Data structures , Algorithms

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