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Vivek Kapur

Nashville,TN

Summary

A seasoned IT project manager with 14 years of diverse experience across Management, Design, and Development of numerous applications across myriad roles and industries. Have demonstrated strong functional knowledge, stakeholder management and project management skills to ensure successful implementation and delivery of complex projects with high quality standards and timelines. Exceptional technical expertise in automation of data driven projects with strong emphasis on business transformation, analysis, development and delivery.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Project Manager

Alliance Bernstein
Nashville, TN
12.2021 - Current
  • Product Manager across proprietary & autonomous Fixed Income Trading Platform. Developed project roadmap to define objectives, timelines & milestones.
  • Led & assisted automation of operations for insurance clients to facilitate auto trading of available funds in overnight fixed income vehicles and robust reporting.
  • Led & consolidated automation of legacy business workflows for client account onboarding, opening & closing process to create efficiency & dollar savings.
  • Led impact analysis and planned retirement for legacy fixed income order sizing and execution tool customized using InvestorTool Perform platform.
  • Designed global dashboards to access canned reports. Prepared and published user manuals for business adoption and user education.
  • Worked in fixed income technology on order and trade management tools specifically. Contributed towards trade automation for fixed income assets under management.
  • Liaised with leadership and senior stakeholders for project forecasts, estimation and approvals respectively.
  • Analyzed architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.

IT Project Manager

UBS Bank
Weehawken, NJ
03.2019 - 12.2022
  • Managed cross divisional teams comprising Business Analysts, developers and testers spread across different geographies.
  • Managed design and development of brand new reporting platform for capturing Invested Assets/Loans/Net New Money transactions for regulatory requirements across Wealth Management domain.
  • Responsible for impact analysis and migration of finance ledger system to new Platform i.e. Broadridge. Facilitated change management and test planning for ~200 transaction feeds (~1 billion transaction daily).
  • Consolidated multiple legacy systems to create dollar savings for bank.
  • Created gantt charts for detailed project timelines. Maintained raid logs and closely monitored and tracked project progress.
  • Developed and Documented functional documents for system requirement. Worked with business stakeholders for sign off on functional requirements and adoption of business changes.
  • Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Designed global dashboards to access canned reports. Prepared and published user manuals for business adoption and user education.
  • Strong governance and active liaison with key stakeholders on regular basis, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
  • Continuous liaison with data engineering teams to keep track of issues.
  • Managed large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.

Project Manager / Business Analyst

UBS Bank
02.2016 - 03.2019
  • Responsible for Project Planning, Estimation, & Delivery Management.
  • Led cross-functional team of 8 members for successful project delivery. Responsible for End to End delivery for various project in Risk IT across Wealth Management America domain.
  • Analyzed regulatory requirements for development of risk models for Mortgage, Lombard, Secured Products, Credit Cards and Unsecured Products for IFRS9/CCAR/BCBS-239/BASEL regulations.
  • Collaborated with multiple business stakeholders to extract requirements. Developed detailed functional specifications for development reference.
  • Modeled and designed data pipeline to establish data lineage and reconciliation between risk and finance system.
  • Worked for Model calibration and benchmarking for VAR and CVAR. Facilitated Model testing including back testing, sensitivity analysis, stress testing, and benchmarking.
  • Managed reporting and sourcing requirements for regulatory projects.
  • Prototyped migration of risk models (Python/R) to Azure Cloud. Prototyped development of data ingestion pipeline for on-premise HDFS data workload to ADLS. Adapted Spark streaming for this workload.
  • Liaised consistently with leadership team to support strategic opportunities and align cross-functional resources with delivery.

Business Analyst

UBS
01.2015 - 12.2015
  • Responsible for analyzing reporting requirements for BCBS-239 and IFRS-9 regulatory directives.
  • Created automated process to identify and calculate specific wrong way risk exposures to bank. Created framework to report RWA data to finance for BCBS-239 regulatory requirements related to Specific wrong way Risk and Margin Period of Risk.
  • Designed Daily and Monthly scheduled processes in order to identify SWWR trades for single name and index products for OTC, SFT and ETD portfolio. Identified trades are sent downstream to credit warehouse.
  • Responsible for sourcing Wealth Management Data and Products from front system to reporting data warehouse.
  • Interacted with front office systems in order to identify upstream data, systems and products needed to map respective systems.
  • Gather business requirements for reporting Expected Loss for lombard products. Aggregating reports at counterparty and product level.
  • Implementing loaders for pushing lombard classified data into credit warehouse.
  • Designed batch process to extract market risk data from OLAP cube. This data was utilized for credit risk calculations.
  • Created process to identify and calculate exposures to central banks collaterized by sovereign bonds.

Technical Lead Developer

UBS
London, United Kingdom
03.2012 - 12.2014
  • Responsible for designing new workflow system in order to meet new business requirement for project in Operational Risk domain.
  • Led Team of 10 developers and testers across different geographical locations for set of 2 applications.
  • Designed/Developed business layer at mid-tier using Java/J2EE and Spring Framework. Integrated with rich UI interface on WPF.
  • Designed/Developed SOAP Services to be consumed by UI and other downstream applications.
  • Designed/Developed Technical Design, Physical Data Model and security framework for application.
  • Project Management and Delivery specific to SDLC and Agile Methodologies.
  • Content Management Migration Subject Matter Expert for Market and Credit Risk legacy applications running on EMC Content Management Platform.

Technical Analyst / Lead Developer

UBS
Singapore, Singapore
09.2010 - 03.2012
  • Responsible as Primary point of contact for facilitating decommission of market risk reporting application.
  • Rationalization & Consolidation of Legacy Apps into Enterprise Wide Strategic Solutions
  • Lead Developer with team of 5 onshore developers.
  • Designed reusable deep export utility to facilitate migration of all content and metadata from existent repository to flat files system.

Senior Systems Analyst

IBM
New Delhi, India
06.2006 - 07.2010
  • Created federated content repository running across different geographical location. Repository supported more than 50000 global users and synchronized leading search tools like ADTS, Intellisearch etc.
  • Content Management expert leading team of 10 people offshore. Upgrade/Migration of infrastructure & large volumes of business data.
  • Facilitated creation of innovation lab for content management capability and applications.
  • Development of Migration Utility with plug n play architecture aimed to migrate data from one content management platform to another.
  • Development of connector tool called content transfer accelerator to support faster content download across diverse geographical location.

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
03.2022

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Dehradun, India
06.2006

Skills

  • Certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP)
  • Certified MS-Azure Practitioner
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified ITIL Service Delivery Expert
  • Credit, Market & Operational Risk
  • Machine Learning: Python,R, Supervised, Unsupervised
  • Asset Class: Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives
  • Java: J2EE, Springs, Hibernate
  • Database: Oracle, mySQL, Postgres
  • BI: Tableau, SAP Business Objects, Microstrategy
  • Delivery: Agile, Kanban, Waterfall
  • Project Management, Forecasting & Planning
  • Change Management
  • Product development and deployment
  • Business Requirements
  • Data Analysis, Gap Analysis
  • Quality assurance

Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Jan 2021 - No Expiration

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals - Jan 2021 - No Expiration

Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) - Feb 2019 - No Expiration

Sun Java Certified March 2007 - No Expiration

Timeline

IT Project Manager

Alliance Bernstein
12.2021 - Current

IT Project Manager

UBS Bank
03.2019 - 12.2022

Project Manager / Business Analyst

UBS Bank
02.2016 - 03.2019

Business Analyst

UBS
01.2015 - 12.2015

Technical Lead Developer

UBS
03.2012 - 12.2014

Technical Analyst / Lead Developer

UBS
09.2010 - 03.2012

Senior Systems Analyst

IBM
06.2006 - 07.2010

Master of Science - Data Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Programming

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Vivek Kapur