First Direct (styled first direct) is a telephone and internet based retail bank in the United Kingdom, a division of HSBC Bank plc.

Role and Responsibilities

I was involved in developing code for ATM screens using Base24’s Tandem Language.

Live deployment of code.

End to end support after the deployment of this code to live.

Project Description

HSBC’s Debit Card Rebranding was a major POS and ATM Project on Base24 routing system.

Role and Responsibilities

Worked as a System Analyst for Debit Card Rebranding Support in Sheffield UK and managed it single handedly for 5 months.This onsite opportunity helped me with good banking domain exposure.

Was involved in receiving requirements and developing code as per it.

Project Description

LLyods banking group is required by the EU to prepare and sell a fully functioning standalone bank by 2013.This new business must have atleast 600 branches comprising.

Role and Responsibilities

I was responsible for End top End Release management activities. Carry out Abinito full migrations. Extensively manage and maintain version control system, MKS.Perform all Live 2G code releases for the designated entity, altering release strategy and engaging support teams appropriately on a per-release basis. Provide Incident and Problem management support and consultancy with regard to 2G project lifecycles, release activity and technical infrastructure. Provide consultancy for all aspects of MKS repository management and Java Code management and perform branching/merging in MKS and development paths. Raise ACL requests for developers. Involved in migration work.

Client UK

Operating System Windows XP

Team Size 2

Role Technical Lead

Period (Nov 13 – May 14)

Project Description

Barclays is a number one bank in UK and has started their global operations all over the world. Basel II is a global, voluntary regulatory standard on bank capital adequacy, stress testing and market liquidity risk. GFTS Change team is required to support various applications such as Data warehousing solutions, Credit Risk, Basel II reporting etc.

Role and Responsibilities

• I have widely supported various Basel II reporting.
• I am part of support team where we support CIT, SIT, OAT and LIVE project phases to handle various issues related to implementation and runtime issue is invoked by Unix scripts and commands.
• I have carried out Abiinitio and full migrations on various workloads/environments. I also interact with various different technical teams for issue resolutions. Maintain and resolve issues in ticketing tool on the basis of priority and criticality.
• I also have exposure Tivoli Work Load Scheduler to see which Jobs are scheduled and their respective run times, schedule new jobs etc. and basic TWS administration Skills.
• Batch Monitoring and fixing the bugs.
• Perform initial analysis for all issues related to batch/data quality

Project Description

Cognizant’s Bigdecisions is Prebuilt AI-driven analytics applications that helps deliver business insights and leverage analytics from enterprise data.

Role and Responsibilities

• Strong experience as Data scientist in Model Building and validation using R, Python Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib libraries.
• Knowledge of popular cloud platform such as Azure and ability to build APIs on them.
• Demonstrated skill at data cleansing, data quality assessment and using analytics for data assessment in Bigdecision platform.
• Understanding the key end to end analytics projects requirements.
• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Basic statistical principles and apply them with the data sets
• Understanding of machine learning techniques.
• Importing analyzing and create visualisations with common data science toolkits, such as Numpy, mathplotlip, R,etc.
• Had to work in common cloud environments and understanding of robust on-premise data science infrastructure
• Provide platform demos to client.

• Technically Proficient in Solution Provider for all production and non-production environment and Writing Productivity Increases based SQL Queries and Shell Scripts.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and perform granular data analysis.
• Provide excellent troubleshooting, debugging, documentation, and communication skills.
• Good exposure to SQL tuning such as index usages, writing more efficient SQL statement using subqueries, joins, functions.
• Exposure to ITIL Process like Incident management, change management and problem management.
• Technically proficient in Unix Shell scripting, Pattern searching (Grep, Sed), Vi editor and job scheduling in Unix / Linux Platform.
• Good Knowledge to Telecom, Healthcare and Banking domain.
• Good Knowledge on Application and Process Monitoring.
• A goal-oriented individual with good problem-solving skills.
• Doing regular Deployments on Windows and Linux environments.
• On 24-hour support rotation with team to monitor networks, make critical system updates/changes, and work closely with developers and DBAs during these implementations.
• Ability to adapt to pristine environment quickly, dedicated team player, confident, sincere and committed.