KUNDAN SEN
  -BJECTIVE

A challenging position in application development that takes my development / team lead skills to the next level, while provides an agile environment and constant challenges of varying nature to keep me in a high learning curve. 
QUALIFICATIONS

* 4 years of experience in end-to-end systems development at Morgan Stanley. Have successfully planned, coordinated and executed projects with clear delineation of schedule, cost and final deliverables
* Over 4 years of experience in end-to-end systems development at Citigroup (formerly Salomon Smith Barney)
* Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, October 2001 (3.82/4.00)
* Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India: B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, June 1998 (3.05/4.00)
WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Associate, Morgan Stanley, Operational Risk / Shared Services / Straight Through Processing Technology
January 2005 – current

* Develop applications and systems used by Operations business users
* Roles and Responsibilities:
  - As a team lead in Java development, coordinated development across on-, near- and off-shore resources
  - Followed Morgan Stanley’s Change Management / Software Development guidelines
  - Coordinated requirements discussions across a global Operations user base, acting as the NY spokesperson
  - Designed, developed and supported web applications and batch processing systems
  - Trained new members of the group and set up group-level development standards
  - Contributed heavily to community mailgroups on Java, Informatica, Linux, and general MS development
  - Represented the group in best practices meetings held at the department level
* Technology involved:
  - Java 1.4-1.6, using Eclipse IDE, and MS-proprietary Java application framework
  - Java XML Broker (JXB), a MS-proprietary technology for transactional message processing via MQ
  - Struts, Spring, XML, XSLT as frameworks / structures
  - Tomcat / Apache as the platform for webapp deployment
  - IBM MQ and XML as the communication method between independent, agile systems
  - Sybase 12.5.3 as the backend for all data requirements
  - JRules version 5 to empower business users to manage application logic
  - Quest SQL Tuning and plain vanilla showplan options for Sybase performance tuning
  - Informatica 7.1.3 for Extraction – Transformation – Loading (ETL) work
  - Autosys for scheduling
  - Perl jobs to fill in gaps in Informatica / JXB / Java processing
  - Performance tuning Java code using Code Coverage, Find Bugs, JProfiler
* Projects completed:
  - Deficit Control System (defcon)
    - A central, web-based tool that facilitates the tracking of all deficits for the company, across institutional and retail divisions. The system records and stores comments and actions taken towards deficit resolution on a global basis, with the data displayed from the prior day’s close of business.
    - An automated notification service follows up delinquent users, with automatic escalation if signoffs or remedial actions are not taken within a set timeframe
    - After a huge overhaul of the existing application back in 2006, the application was handed over to Applications Support Group (ASG) – and has been running steady with zero issues since then
    - Java 1.4 web application, using Struts 1.1, deployed over Tomcat / Apache 5.0


  - Position Exceptions Management (Poem)
 Traps nonsensical or erroneous positions or balances (for example, balance on a position-only account) to potentially prevent write-offs, fraud, regulations violations. Prompts users to correct erroneous data, thereby presenting a better picture of the Firm’s positions and balances.
    - Processes 3 million accounts against 11 million positions and  3 million balances in about 15 minutes, producing roughly 2500 exceptions across all categories
    - Allows users to define pre- and post-processing filters to minimize noise. Filters are defined in a generic table template, using XPaths and match operators to define queries
    - Loosely coupled systems communicating over MQ / XML allows for easy scalability

  - Accounts Validation Engine (AVE)
    - Collects master and auxiliary account data from various enterprise data sources, then cross-checks the consolidated data with a repository of pre-defined business rules on a daily basis. Ensures that all the accounts comply with the legal requirements of format and content. Invalid accounts raise exceptions which are collected and can be addressed later by notifying the appropriate users via emails.
    - Rules processed via JRules, with the users having control over the business rules via a web interface
    - Processes the full population of 1.2 million active accounts in the firm’s books and records every day

  - Centralized data Repository (CDR)
    - This is “data re-use”, a concept that I saw through from idea to fruition, this uses multiple technologies to pull data from their authoritative systems into a central database for OpsControl
    - Achieves tremendous economy of scale for all our systems, as well as those of the data providers, by avoiding multiple separate fetches of the same, or similar, information by various systems
    - Moving to a centralized structure allows better development focus and optimization 

  - Supervision over Manual Journals (SoMJ)
    - Manual journals are created on a daily basis for a variety of reasons. The SoMJ process goes through all these journals at the close of business for each region (Far East, Europe and US), looking for (and recording) evidence of supervisory controls,  or prioritizing exceptions for supervisory review.

  - Responsibility Maintenance
    - SOAP service to match up ownership information given a complicated hierarchy of accounts and ownership rules. Uses in-memory caches with synchronization mechanism across load-balanced servers.

Senior Programmer Analyst, Citigroup Global Markets (Salomon Smith Barney), Securities Lending Systems Development
September 2000 – January 2005 

* Develop trading applications required for the Equity Finance desk, domestic and international.
* Roles and Responsibilities:
  - Followed the Citigroup Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC) 
  - Gathered requirements from traders in New York, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Sydney, and prepared functional and technical documentation
  - Reusable prototyping and feasibility study with domestic and international users
  - End-to-end design and implementation from batch to database to servers to clients
  - Involved in various phases of testing including system and user acceptance
  - GUI and database optimization and performance tuning
* Technology involved: 
  - Multi-threaded Java/Swing front end with trade entry screens and real-time tables (uses Sitraka/ Quest DesktopViews package) developed using Eclipse IDE, tuned by JProfiler and Borland OptimizeIt
  - Java servlets deployed through Macromedia JRun 
  - Sybase 12.5 database; Sybase replication for real-time feed from external systems
  - Each client handles multiple queries returning 1000+ rows in under the half-second response requirement, while keeping real-time tables updated through several hundred messages received per minute
  - Autosys batch process and Perl scripts for end-of-day data loads from external (international) systems
  - TWiki document collaboration system, Apache webserver management
  - Customized version of Mantis (PHP, MySQL) open-source bug tracking system
  - HTML/Perl/CGI web pages and user-driven reports, Actuate 6.0 web-based reports
* 
Projects completed include:
  - 3-tier real time 24x7 trading platform, “MATRIX” (Java/ Servlets/Sybase):
* Real Time Needs application: 
    - Feature-rich, real-time securities lending/borrowing trading system for domestic users, allowing traders book trades, modify positions, get security details, and communicate within themselves through a chat interface.
    - Real-time updates on security positions and hard stocks, updating all active clients and alerting users of changes, through a messaging service.
* Inventory Management application:
    - Provides the Equity Finance desk the ability to track all related International Stock Loan positions, and creates a centralized source of data, which displays information to all related Sales and Operations personnel.
    - Allows the various Securities Lending desks to determine borrowing needs due to short positions, as well as finance long positions. This Inventory Management System possesses extended settlement ladders to project positions for future settlement.  It links to the EQUAL (P&L) system for profit analysis.
    - Marked as one of the top 100 projects in Citigroup for 2003.
    - Web-based GUIs (Servlets/JRun/CGI/Perl):
    - Presents tools for research and analysis of trading data
* User-driven and batch reports (Actuate/Sybase):
    - Presents reports for fast and easy analysis of market data
    - Set standards for better quality of report generation techniques in Citigroup
    - Audit reports track security breaches and provide summary reports to top-level management group
* Bug tracking systems (MySQL/PHP):
    - This was developed on top of open source code (Mantis), customized to Citigroup quality management and audit specifications
* Conversion of legacy applications (C/Motif/Scripts) to Java-based cross platform systems

Graduate Assistant, Rutgers University, Laboratory for Visiometrics and Modeling
January 1999 – September 2000

* MS Thesis work: 
  - Design and implementation of an animation/ visualization system for massive datasets (volumes): Number-cruncher program to work through GigaBytes of data, involving massive matrix transformations, disk I/O, and custom designed tree structures, using C/C++/Unix (Irix). Performance   optimization of the same, using several generic as well as specific methods. 

Software Engineer, Vedika International Private Limited, Calcutta, India 
June 1998 – December 1998

* Worked in client implementation of web-based accounting package, ‘FactFire’, using Java front end and CORBA link to C++ back end
RELEVANT SKILLS

1. Platforms (OS): Unix, Linux, MS Windows
2. Programming: Java, Sybase, Informatica, Unix/Linux, XML/XSLT, MQ, HTML /Perl/CGI programming, Tomcat/Apache
3. General: Internet and WWW tools, system utilities, high performance data structures and algorithms.

kundan.sen@gmail.com
Cell: 1-917-574-6573