1. Vasant Naik
Edison, NJ 08820 201-923-1888 vasantkumarnaik@yahoo.com
Executive Summary
A financial/banking services technologist with extensive hands on experience managing
production and application supportoperations, global resources,terabytes of data, thousands of
users supporting varies MIS applications daily basis.
Strong financial domainknowledge and broad expertise ranging from trading and revenue realization
systems to compliance operations,from sales coverage tracking to internet banking systems.
Forge successful partnerships with Developers and technical support across global locations.
Strengths include data analysis and reconciliations, trading, MIS support and incident management
for Fixed Income, Equities and Commodities based instruments and reporting tools.
Proven track record in providing technical and organizational leadership for multi-project
onshore/offshore operations models and integration efforts within a high pressure environment.
Contributed to cost savings of $2M+ by minimizing resources and exceeding objectives.
Professional Experience
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY (2006-Present)
VP, Applications Support Manager – CIB, MIS Production Management 2014- Present
Managing MIS Production Management Team of 6; supported a suite of internal client facing critical
cross region applications and 9,000+ users. Responsibilities include release management, production
incident management, production monitoring and support, mentoring and guiding team members. Also
functioned as proxy managerfor global MIS applications.
Responsibilities
Business Unit Change Coordination, LOB Capacity Planning, provide direct applicationsupport
for over 26 applications.
Create and deliverstatus reports to senior management including Chief Business Technologist
and Program Managers across CIB Banking, researchand shared services.
Standby Manager for 6 resources, NY, Chicago, Tampa and Mumbai supporting JPMorgan
Access Banking suite of applications and manage BPI/incident/Capacity for applications.
Working closely with users for datamining and provide critical data for banks day to day and
monthly use.
Lead the incident managementprocess during system outages, communicate status to senior
business partners and enforce strategic resolutions during problem managementprocesses .
Help to Developmentteam to follow Agile Framework.
Manage the daily application build scrum meeting with USA, INDIA, UK resources and track
project on JIRA.
Coordinate with Central deploymentteam to schedule release slots/DR/HA events.
Achievements
Reduced incident tickets by 53% in2015 compared to 2014 by proactively implementing process
for monitoring critical resources,alerts, application exceptions and come up with remediationplan
to reduce the repeated incidents. Also reduced downtime of the applications.
Automated Big Data (Hadoop) archive process to save 60% disk space cost.
Automated release process by utilizing deployment automation tools resulted in saving
of 4 hours in each release.
Led initiative to decommission 7 applications and off boarded 3 applications to save
infrastructure and maintenance cost. Approx. save $2mm.
2. Implemented and streamlined capacity planning process to proactively manage resource
capacity and future growth for production infrastructures.
Established Application/prod owner working group by conducting weekly PWGs to plan
the upcoming releases, discuss recurring issues and review release implementation
instructions.
Took initiative in consolidating all DB servers into same server group hence removing
lots of overhead in maintaining them separately.
Helped to implement Production Management conceptand setup for all the MIS applications.All
the applications used to support by AD now L1/L2 support has beenwith MIS Production
managementteam.
Partnered with applicationdevelopmentteams, business stakeholders to reform support for a
target platform.
Contributed to success of Geneos/Splunk monitoring system to save more than 18 hours day of
monitoring work.
Help to decommissionaround 5 applications and moved supportof 4 applications to low cost
locations.
Managed and monitored team efforts to provide 24/7 support.
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY 2012-2013
VP, Applications Support Manager - JPMorgan ACCESS
Managed Access Banking Team of 8 and supported a suite of External/internal client facing critical
applications and 40,000+ users. Responsibilities include release management,production incident
management, production monitoring and support and mentoring, guiding team members. Also functioned
as proxy managerfor global JPMorganaccess manager.
Responsibilities
Business Unit Change Coordination, LOB Capacity Planning, provide direct applicationsupport
for over 8 applications.
Create and deliverstatus reports to senior management including Chief Business Technologist
and Program Managers across CIB Banking, researchand shared services.
Standby Manager for 6 resources, NY, Chicago, Mumbai and Singapore supporting JPMorgan
Access Banking suite of applications and manage BPI/incident/Capacity for applications.
Worked with Banks call centers and Product team to stabilize applications and resolved issues.
Lead the incident managementprocess during system outages, communicate status to senior
business partners and enforce strategic resolutions during problem managementprocesses .
Manage the weekly and monthly applicationbuild and deploymentcycle for Production/DR/BCP
environment (PWG).
Coordinate with Central deploymentteam to schedule release slots.
Achievements
Impacted the successful migration all the clients/users from old legacy system Cash Online to
ANG. This has improved the performance and clients/users can work on new 21 century platform.
Partnered with applicationdevelopmentteams, business stakeholders to reform support for a
target platform.
Contributed to success of Geneos/Splunk monitoring system to save more than 18 hours day of
monitoring work.
Improved efficiencies to reduce resources from 10 to 6 which saved approximately $1.5M.
Major changes to stabilize portal which is a front face of over 80 applications this has reduced
over$2mm man hours cost.
Managed and monitored global team efforts to provide 24/7 support.
3. JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY 2010-2012
VP, Global lead IB Intelligence Engine Data team
Lead of team of 4 supporting 6 business critical applications and 3,000+ users. Responsibilities include
release management,production incident management, production monitoring and support and
mentoring, guiding team members.
Responsibilities
Business Unit Change Coordination, LOB Capacity Planning, provide direct applicationsupport
for 6 applications.
Create and deliverstatus reports to senior management including Chief Business Technologist
and Program Managers across IB Banking, researchand shared services.
Manage four global resources,NY, Mumbai and Singapore supporting Client profitability and IBIE
applications and manage BPI/incident/Capacity for IBIE applications.
Representbusiness requirements and supportability enhancements for developmentof existing
and strategic platforms.
Lead the incident managementprocess during system outages, communicate status to senior
business partners and enforce strategic resolutions during problem managementprocesses .
Manage the weekly and monthly applicationbuild and deploymentcycle for
UAT/Production/DR/BCP environment.
Coordinate with Central deploymentteam to schedule release slots.
Strictly follow subversionfor source code management.
Achievements
Impacted the successful migration of a disparate revenue reporting systems onto a new
consolidated platform resulting in saving $5M per year.
Partnered with developmentteams and stakeholders to reform support for a target platform.
Contributed to success of an on boarding Aqueduct applicationon IBIE Servers which reduced
server costs by $3M/year.
Improved efficiencies to reduce resources from eight to four which saved approximately $1M.
Automated backend updates reducing work of the team by 15%.
Managed and monitored team efforts to provide 24/7 support.
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY 2007-2010
NA Operate Team Lead/ IB Client Profitability Operate team
Supported a suite of client profitability and on boarding applications. Migrated Artemis to two servers’
Data warehouse and reporting which improved performance and achieved the SLA. Implemented client
on-boarding applications including USA, CSP SCOT and KYC.
Automated backend updates and repeated users requests reducing work of the team by 30%.
Implemented recertification of users, upstream system, reports and tools.
Interfaced with offshore teams to deliver24/7 support for all applications.
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY 2006-2007
Senior Application Support Analyst/ IB Client Profitability Operate team
Supported a suite of Client Profitability applications. Developmentwork for
DBA/SA/SAN/Autosys/Informatica/Wintel and assisted with system reconciliation/audits.
TIAA-CREF, New York, NY 1999-2006
Consultant, Senior Developer/Trading floor support lead
4. Engineered financial services technology solutions for multiple trading applications including a FIX
Income trading platform, back office and applicationsecurity maintenance systems. System analysis &
database design,maintained data integrity, provided business rules at eachdata entry operation.
Communicated requirements from stakeholders,provided status and escalated issues.Tested,
implemented and provided applicationsupport.
Achievements
Requirement Analysis. Understanding trading processes,built the foundation for system
designthat fulfilled system requirements.
Enforced SOX compliance,maintained documentation for all production changes.
Performed a key role in the Sybase 12.x migration.
Worked as User support specialist/Lead,500+ users including Front office (Trader, Portfolio
Managementgroups) and Middle office (Back Office) users.
Education/Certifications
Bachelor of Commerce,RavishankarUniversity, India
Master’s in Software Technology & System Management,National Institute of Information Technology
(NIIT), India Honors 1990
Certified Sybase DBA (Sybase 11.x), Authority: Tekmetrics (BrainBench)
Certified RDBMS Developer (Sybase 11.x), Authority: Tekmetrics (BrainBench)
Training
Java Programming, Learning Patterns Place NY
Designing J2EE Web Applications using Java Servlets, JSPs and Struts, Trivera Technologies NY
Oracle Performance and tuning – internal JPMC
Introduction to Vertica – internal JPMC
Tables,Stored Procedures, Triggers,Rules and APT Sybase by HCL-HP, India
T-SQL/SQL and SQR by NIIT (Sybase),India.
Documentation Standards by NIIT (Sybase), India.
Optimization and Tuning for Sybase Applicationby NIIT (Sybase)India.
Technology Skills
RDBMS: Oracle 11.2, SYBASE 10.x/11.5.x/12.x/12.5.x,Vertica 5.0.4.0, Autosys, Informatica, Business
Objects, Control-M T-SQL/SQL and, SQL Anywhere 5.0, SQL Developer,SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft
SQL Server ManagementStudio ver 10.50.1600.1
Big Data: Hadoop
Languages:COBOL (MF, MS, HP-UX), FoxPro 2.X, CLIPPER 5.0, C, Java with Agile Framework
Operating Systems: Linux, Wintel, SunOS 5.8 SUNW, SUN UNIX 4.1.1, HP UNIX (HPUX) 9.0/10.2,
Windows XP/NT, MS-DOS VER 6.22,
Scripts: UNIX C-Shell, Perl, AWK
Front End Tools: Sybase APT, DWB, Rapid SQL 7.0.1
Web Tools:JBuilder 8 Enterprise, Hudson, Maven ReportWriter, Business Objects, SQR, BRIO
(Structured Query Report).
Case Tools:Relational Designer,Turbo Analyst, JIRA
Version control/Document repository: SharePoint, Confluence, Subversion
Alerting Tools:Geneos, Keynote, Splunk