Jigar P. - Professional Freelancer

Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Experience

Jun 2018 - Present

7 years 6 months

Managing projects of around 500 PDs.
Allocating and planning resources for project tasks.
Acting as Technical Architect for Trade Enrichment System (TESYS).
Optimizing application and process performance.
Bridging business analysts, software development, IT support, testing and release teams.
Managing infrastructure migration and optimization.
Handling L3 support for the TESYS application.
Analyzing and providing RCAs for P1 and P2 issues in TESYS.
Preparing technical specifications, reviewing code, performing TD reviews, conducting technical review meetings, maintaining project documents in RTC, and delivering knowledge sharing sessions for the offshore team.
Interacting with users and BAs to gather requirements.
Tracking work orders.
Managing escalations.

Jun 2011 - May 2018

7 years

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Managing projects of around 250 PDs.
Serving as project lead for Java and MS Access portfolio applications.
Leading a team of 8-12 members.
Handling development and L3 support for the TESYS application.
Preparing technical specifications, reviewing code, conducting TD reviews, leading technical review meetings, maintaining project documents in RTC, and running knowledge sharing sessions.
Interacting with users and BAs for requirements.
Resource planning.
Tracking work orders.
Managing client escalations.
Preparing maintenance reports for management meetings.
Acting as single point of contact between offshore team and client.
Leading the Cash FX module for PCClass India Sub-Custody project.
Solely developing modules.
Preparing technical specifications, leading technical review meetings, conducting SCF review meetings, maintaining project documents in Clearcase.
Interacting with users for requirements, coding for the ACRs and handling production issues.
Performing Clearcase activities like merging, branch creation and code labeling.

Feb 2009 - May 2011

2 years 4 months

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Leading the Cash & FX module for PCClass India Sub-Custody project.
Solely developing modules.
Preparing technical specifications, leading technical and SCF review meetings, maintaining project docs in Clearcase, and running knowledge sharing sessions.
Interacting with users to gather requirements.
Responding to SIT, UAT and production issues.
Monitoring Autosys EOD jobs.
Performing Clearcase activities like merging, branch creation and code labeling.
Handling project build activities for SIT and UAT.

Oct 2007 - Jan 2009

1 year 4 months

On-site

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Serving as team lead for STP.
Managing onsite-offshore communication.
Responding to UAT and production issues.
Enhancing and implementing straight through processing (STP), requestor and distribution modules.
Actively involved in migrating from Sun One 6.0 to Sun One 6.1.

Apr 2007 - Oct 2007

7 months

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Feb 2005 - Mar 2007

2 years 2 months

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Worked as developer on client side.
Responding to production issues.
Developed multithreaded retail parser.
Developing and maintaining CTS module.
Requirement gathering from client and worked as developer on consignment tracking solution.
Programming of Route Module, ETA Scheduler, and Consignment log reports.

20+ years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in Java and J2EE, including 18 years in investment banking and financial services.
Functional knowledge of custody, capital markets, cash management, FX, trade processing & settlement, corporate actions and client billing.
Extensive hands-on experience in IT consulting, project management, offshore team management, outsourcing strategy, system migration, application performance optimization, gathering system requirements, design, software development, testing, implementation & maintenance.
Experience working with global teams, project planning and tracking, team management and mentoring junior members, offshoring/nearshoring and transition management.