Functional Skills

Integration Management (IMO)
Accounting Software Implementation
Application Modernization
Data Transformation
IT Transformation
Program Management
Product Strategy

Software Skills

ActiveMQ
iOS
Java
Jboss
MacOS
Objective-C
Python
Swift
C++

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Real Estate
Technology

Languages

Marathi
Hindi
English
Bulge Bracket Investment Banks
Fortune 500

Experience

AppITWorks Product Management / Strategy
Independent Consultant
1/2017 - Present
Advised 4 startup founders to get to product-market fit for mobile first apps and SaaS products. Provided consulting to adopt best practices in design, product management and software development. Conducted training course on iOS mobile app development to 48 senior students as part of One Summer Chicago program for the past 3 years.

LendMainStreet Start-Up
Co-Founder and CTO
3/2017 - 10/2018
Designed the prototype of a loan servicing portal to serve small business owners to apply for SBA loans. Researched loan servicing processes of 6 local community banks and credit unions. Conducted foundational research of business owners to capture user stories and pain points

Morgan Stanley Investment Bank Engineering
VP of Product and Engineering
4/2012 - 2/2017
Functioned as client partner of Derivatives and Data Services for migration of accounting systems to the State Street Bank, this program was $20M spread over a 4 year period. Partnered with 30 application owners with over 40 applications to strategize and execute multiple cycles of integration, fallback, and go-live rollout cycles. Managed product management teams for OTC Trading, Risk Exposure and Collateral Margining system, and delivered annual cost savings of 20% by supporting the 2x growth of OTC trade processing volume.

Morgan Stanley Investment Bank Engineering
Manager of Product and Engineering
3/2006 - 3/2012
Architected middle office integration of Interests and Credit Derivatives with the BlackRock Aladdin trading to do 100% of automation by eliminating manual touch points by operation teams. Enhanced the Calypso trading system to digitize handling of derivative legal agreements that resulted in $1m savings for the legal team by eliminating custom development by external vendors. Developed the payments settlement system to process derivative payments with external banks, which resulted in a 2.5x times capacity increase for the OTC global operations team. Redesigned the trade confirmation and trade notification workflows, which resulted in reduction of daily support tickets volume from 20% to 8%. Envisioned the Block trade allocation front end for the Equity Portfolio team, resulting in major time savings for trading team and reduction of booking errors. Designed a margin management system with RESTFul APIs to replace an old legacy system, which resulted in cost savings of $200k annually.

Bank of America Information Technology
Senior Consultant
2/2005 - 2/2006
Designed and delivered web client by integrating with RESTFul WEB services, to do bulk bookings of derivatives.

UBS Information Technology
Senior Consultant
3/2003 - 1/2005
Led team of 2 developers to deliver margin and collateral module for the new prime brokerages business.