Strong analytical skills used in requirements gathering and converting them into effective solutions.
Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
Understand backlog tracking, burn down metrics and task definition
Keen problem solving skills allowing rapid assimilation and resolution of complex problems.
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately to business and technical teams at all levels.
Experience of both of clients and developers viewpoints in outsourcing situations.
Vast experience in Project Management, IT Business Analysis and functional & technical designs.
Experience in working with Multilingual Clients & multiple vendor models.
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1. Ravi Sharma
Email: rgsharma0912@gmail.com
Phone: +31645110765
Objective
To secure a challenging and responsible position in a corporate environment in which initiative, skills,
ambition and commitment to excellence will be utilized to their full potential to provide the efficient and
effective solutions to the needs of the organization.
Experience Summary
Around 8.8 years of IT industry experience in the areas of Functional solutioning, application
development, maintenance, production support of critical applications and project management. Part
of entire life cycle of a project starting from performing business study activities as a business analyst,
realizing the business needs functionally & technically as a Business analyst, supporting the projects
with project manager with regard to planning, resourcing and execution. Having strong Oral, Written,
Interpersonal Communication and good Analytical skills. Also, I have completed Scrum Master PSM
I , Prince 2 foundation project management level and couple of functional ( European banking,
Settlement & clearing , Custody services & Corporate action) and technical certifications (Db2).
Experience primarily in the domains of Investment Banking. Currently working as a IT analyst -
functional designer & part of scrum team for ABN AMRO’s Investment domain. Good skills in
converting business requirements into effective & generic functional and technical solutions.
KEY SKILLS
• Strong analytical skills used in requirements gathering and converting them into effective
solutions.
• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and
leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures.
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics and task definition
• Keen problem solving skills allowing rapid assimilation and resolution of complex problems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately
to business and technical teams at all levels.
• Experience of both of clients and developers viewpoints in outsourcing situations.
• Vast experience in Project Management, Business Analysis and functional designs.
• Ability to take on tasks without a need for significant supervision.
• Experience in working with Multilingual Clients & multiple vendor models.
• Helping technical teams to realize the functional requirements in an effective and cost saving
way.
• Ability to grasp new technology and tools quickly.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Self-belief and Passion and commitment towards work.
Technology
Below is a list of software technologies, tools and methods that I have worked on.
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2. Qualifications
Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization
Bachelor of Engineering
(B.E), Jun 2003 - Jun 2007
Sarvjanik College of Engg &
Technology, Surat, Gujarat.
Computer Science
Certification Summary
Technical Certification:
Exam Number Exam Description Date
DB2-733 DB2 IBM CERTIFIED DEVELOPER 17th
Apr-2009
DB2-701 DB2 DBA IBM CERTIFIED ADMINISTRATOR 6th
-jan-2008
DB2-700 DB2 IBM DATABASE ASSOCIATE 17th
- Aug-2008
Functional Certification:
Exam Name Exam Description Date
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Software Tools
• Operating Systems: MVS, IBM Mainframe
• Database: DB2, IMS
• Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL,ADGEN
• Others: NETWORKING, Shell Script
• iGraphics
• ISPW
• ADGEN
• TELON
• ECG
• OPC
• SPUFI
• QMF
• FAD
• FAI
• FAM
• Expediter
• Fault analyser
• Cascade
• Prisma/SNOW
• HP Quality
Center
3. Corporate
Action
TCS- Corporate actions processing 22-Nov-2015
BABOK TCS-IIBA endorsed Business analyst certification In Progress
Scrum Master Scrum master PSM-1 24-Nov-2014
PRINCE2 PRINCE2 Foundation Certification 29th
July-2013
European
Banking
Concept
European banking and governing body. Emerging of
EURO as single European currency.
15th
Jan 2011
Banking and
finance
fundamentals
Financial Technology Centre(TCS subsidiary) –
Certificate Program in Banking Competency (E0)
3rd
Dec-2008
NCFM N.C.F.M ( National Certification for Financial
Management ) from N.S.E ( National Stock Exchange )
17-Aug-2008
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4. Project Thesis
Project Title ABN AMRO
Description ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. They
have a clear focus on consumer and commercial clients in their
local markets and focus globally on select multinational
corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients.
ABN AMRO is a prominent international bank, their history going
back to 1824. Now with more than 4,500 branches in 60
countries, a staff of over 110,000 full-time equivalents,
ABN AMRO ranks eighth in Europe and 13th in the world based
on total assets of EUR 999 billion.
Role IT Business Analyst
Responsibilities o Understanding and evaluating the business
requirements.
o Estimation(FPA) discussion with Vendor management
o FMI and solution design Investment domain.
o Create Traceability metrics to ensure all requirements
are covered.
o Testing on Acceptance environment
o Provides assistance and work direction to aid other
associates in their day to day activities
o Implementation.
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5. Assignments
Project TOPS 2020 – Phoenix Project Level 3
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period May 2015 till date
Location Amsterdam
Description The Objective of Phoenix program is to rationalise
Investment landscape and convert batch driven process to
real-time process. Program is divided into 9 Levels and each
level is dedicated to group of functionalities.
In Phoenix Level 3, Legacy Corporate action system is
decided to replace with TCS BaNCS package. Currently
Corporate action is processed manually by back office team
which is very time consuming and error prone. With BaNCS
it will be STP and rule based processing. There is a
complexity involved to create interfacing between ABN
AMRO env and BaNCS package. This package is going to
deploy first time in ABN env. And it will have new interface
with ABN AMRO system with Corporate action processing.
Roles IT Business Analyst – Part of scrum team
Solution Environment Mainframe, COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,
FILE AID, Operating Systems: MVS, TCS BaNCS.
Activities • FMI and solution/impact of corporate action processing
in STP mode. Reverse engineering of existing
corporate action system to understand business rules.
• Understanding, evaluating and elicitation the business
requirements.
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• BAT testing on acceptance environment.
Project Internal Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP)
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period May 2015 Nov 2015
Location Amsterdam
Description DNB expects banks to an Internal Liquidity Adequacy
Assessment Process (ILAAP) have arranged, in which the
company's own liquidity risk management properly evaluate
and, where necessary, sharpen. DNB has launched the
periodical evaluation (Supervisory Review and Evaluation
Process) the liquidity risk management by banks and
investment firms in accordance with the principles of the FSA
Liquidity Policy 2011 (the policy).
Roles IT Business Analyst – Part of scrum team
Solution Environment Mainframe, COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,
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6. FILE AID, Operating Systems: MVS, TCS BaNCS.
Activities • FMI and solution/impact to find all transaction will
impact cash flow to forecast cash information to ILAAP.
• Understanding, evaluating and elicitation the business
requirements.
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management.
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• BAT testing on acceptance environment.
Project TOPS 2020 – Phoenix Project Level 0
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period Jan 2014 till May 2015
Location Amsterdam
Description The objective of project is to convert batch driven investment
system into real time processing system. Project is about to
modernize and rationalise investment landscape. Project is
divided in to 9 levels. Existing investment landscape is mix
(legacy + NEDBEL-SOA) system which have several
position administrations. In level 0, All position will be
consolidated into one online DB2 administration and in later
increment it will be used for single of position administration.
The Idea is to make system more agile to incorporate new
business functionalities in system and reduce cost for time
to market.
Roles IT Business Analyst – Part of scrum team
Solution Environment Mainframe, COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,
FILE AID, Micro focus Cobol, Operating Systems: MVS
Activities • FMI and solution/impact of Investment landscape to
route all transactions to new position administration.
• Understanding, evaluating and elicitation the business
requirements.
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• BAT testing on acceptance environment.
Project Shorten settlement date ( T + 2 ) for Europe ESES market
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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7. Period Oct 2013 to Dec 2014
Location Mumbai, India
Description At the moment, markets across Europe settle on divergent
cycles, contributing to high rates of trade failure, costs and
operational risks, particularly for cross-border transactions.
The European Commission has proposed that financial
market participants should settle their securities transactions
no later than two days after the date on which a trade is
executed, referred to as a T+2 settlement cycle. The
proposal also states that financial penalties will be imposed
for trades that do not settle within the T+2 cycle.
Roles IT Business Analyst – Part of scrum team
Solution Environment COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,XPEDITOR,
FILE AID, Micro focus Cobol, Operating Systems: MVS
Activities • FMI and solution/impact of T + 2 in Investment domain
• Understanding, evaluating and elicitation the business
requirements.
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• BAT testing on acceptance environment.
Project SWIFT 2013 - Security Message FMI
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period May 2013 to Oct 2013
Location Mumbai, India
Description ABNAMRO Investment bank uses SWIFT messages to trade
with other financial institutions. SWIFT organisation defines
standard protocols for communication between financial
institutions. All financial institutions adhere to change in SWIFT
messages for smooth communication. Also, all financial
institution must adapt the SWIFT message changes to ensure
they can process FIN messages correctly.
Roles IT Business Analyst – Part of scrum team
Solution Environment COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,XPEDITOR,
FILE AID, Micro focus Cobol, Operating Systems: MVS
Activities • FMI and solution/impact of SWIFT 2013 in Investment
domain
• Understanding, evaluating and elicitation the business
requirements.
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
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8. functional designs
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• BAT testing on acceptance environment.
Project Release wise development and Fondscoversion Project.
Customer ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period Oct 2012 to Feb 2013
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands ( Oct 2012 till Feb 2013)
Description ABN AMRO defines internal market FUNDS. These FUNDS are
typically defined by under ABN AMRO whose value depends on
underlying classical shares. Fond conversion project is a
migration of internal market fund of ABN AMRO to other
specific funds to simplify the investment of internal market fund.
Roles Business Analyst and Functional designer
Solution Environment COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,XPEDITOR,
FILE AID
Operating Systems: MVS
Activities • Project management activities such as planning of all
the phases of the project, resourcing, planning.
• Understanding and evaluating the business
requirements.
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• Implementation
• Production support
• Coordinate work between onsite and offshore.
Project REMEDY – Securities clients
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period Feb 2011 – Oct – 2012
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands ( Feb 2011 till Oct 2012)
Description This is a compliance project for ABN AMRO. After merger with
FORTIS bank many clients are added to ABN AMRO. However,
As par European regulatory no bank can have more than
certain amount of clients. To align with European regulatory
some Branch office clients from ABN AMRO migrated to Dutch
Bank. Complete portfolio of client transfer to DUTCH bank and
deactivate from ABN AMRO system.
Role Business Analyst and Functional designer
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
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9. Tools COBOL,DB2,IMS,ICASCADE,ISPW,ADGEN
Platforms IMS-DC,IMS-DB,DB2,Cobol,JCL
O/S OS390
Activities • Project management activities such as planning of all
the phases of the project, resourcing, planning.
• Understanding and evaluating the business
requirements.
• Understanding the business requirements and creating
functional designs
• Estimation discussion with Vendor management.
• Feasibility study for the requirements
• Implementation
• Production support
• Coordinate work between onsite and offshore.
Highlights • New COBOL modules were written to extract the data
of clients and send to DUTCH bank.
• New module created for Transfer the current clients
position to Dutch bank,
• New Modules created to transfer historical transaction
to the Dutch bank.
• New modules created to perform book off of the
positions.
• New modules created to provide the corporate action
related benefits to the clients.
• Very crucial project as it is a compliance project for
ABN AMRO.
• New transactions and PSB defined.
Project TIR ( Technical integration of Retails clients)
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period July 2010 – Feb 2011
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands ( July 2010 till Feb 2011)
Description Main aim of this project is to merger of Fortis Bank and ABN
AMRO bank. Main purpose of this module is to provide all the
clients who have IVR service (Telephonic Banking) with Fortis
bank should also receive the IVR service after migrating to ABN
AMRO system. So customer don’t affect due to merger of
banks.
Role Functional designer and onsite co-ordinator, Onsite Co-
ordinator / Module Leader
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
Tools COBOL,DB2,IMS,ICASCADE,ISPW,ADGEN
Platforms IMS-DC,IMS-DB,DB2,Cobol,JCL
O/S OS390
Highlights • New COBOL modules were written to insert FORTIS
clients to ABN AMRO system.
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10. • Migrated clients’ assigned SALDO Service, Transfer
Service and Investment inquiry service depending upon
the core banking accounts.
• Very crucial project as a part of merger,
• New transactions and PSB defined.
Project Periodic investment ( PEBEL )
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period January – 2010 to APR -2010
Description Main aim of this project is to realize new channel (Internet
banking) for investment of internal fund of ABN AMRO which is
similar to mutual fund.
Role Team member
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
Tools COBOL,DB2,IMS,IPMS,CASCADE,ISPW,ADGEN
Platforms IMS-DC,IMS-DB,DB2,Cobol,JCL
O/S OS390
Highlights • New ADGEN module made and existing changed.
• New COBOL modules made with check pointing and
restartability.
• Loading and unloading jobs created.
• New transactions and PSB defined.
Project Release wise development – Investment Banking
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period June-2008 – Jan 2010
Description This is a part of the Release wise development wherein
different change requests from the business are compiled
related to different functionalities.
Role Team member
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
Tools COBOL,DB2,IMS,IPMS,CASCADE,ISPW,ADGEN
Platforms IMS-DC,IMS-DB,DB2,Cobol,JCL
O/S OS390
Highlights • New ADGEN module made and existing changed.
• New Cobol modules made with check pointing and
restartability.
• New AV2 batch jobs built
• New services built
• New services built for the order entry system to validate
if the orders can be placed on a particular service
concept.
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11. • New DB2 load unload jobs built in AV2 environment for
the business to have direct access to production tables
Project Exposure on Derivative(EOD)
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period March-2009 to May-2009
Description Project EOD is the successor of MIFID (Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive) project. The main objective is to send the
client derivative exposure report and inform about risk
associated with derivative before client place an order.
Role Team member
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
Tools COBOL,DB2,IMS,IPMS,CASCADE,ISPW
Platforms IMS-DC,IMS-DB,DB2,Cobol,JCL
O/S OS390
Highlights • New 14 cobol programs are made from scratch to
send the client exposure report based on clinet’s
account deviate from preffered portfolio.
• Existing dataservices changed for interfacing with
Internet and Intranet screens
• New jobs built for synchronising data between
Investment domain and the central repository of
contracts
Project ABN AMRO Base Support
Customer ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Period May 2008 – till date
Description This is an ongoing Maintenance and Production Support
project, catering to the investment activities of ABN AMRO. On-
site and offshore teams support these applications. The role is
as a team member managing about 3 key applications at
offshore.
Role Team member
Solution Environment IBM Mainframe
Tools COBOL, JCL, TSO, Abend Aid, DB2, IMS, Advantage Gen,
Telon, Xpeditor,File Aid,IPMS,CASCADE,ISPW.
Highlights • Estimation of the task.
• Configuration Management.
• Project Status reporting.
• Quality review of the task.
• Production Support.
• Preparing MOM.
• Creating Task in IPMS
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12. • Requirement Analysis of Change requests: This
consists of analyzing the Change requests affecting
business and estimating the time required to complete
the request.
• Coding of Programs: Once analysis is complete, the
actual coding starts. While coding appropriate care is
taken that the required functionality is met and the
existing functionality of programs does not change.
• Creating Test Plan: The test plan is prepared in such a
way that it will consist of all test conditions that are
possible.
• Unit Testing: The changed elements are thoroughly
tested to verify the required out put.
• Creating system specific documentation in CASCADE:
This consists of preparing detail documentation
regarding the application system. This will give a broad
view on the various aspects of the system like
Application Knowledge, Business Aspect, Special
Process, and Production Support.
• Production support to various applications.
Career Profile
Dates Organization Role
27th
-Feb-2008 – Till Date TATA Consultancy
Services Limited
Assistant Consultant
Achievements
Selected as Mainframe Faculty for Initial Learning program of TCS and awarded as
champion of the ILP.
Received appreciation from IVR Project Manager for TIR – IVR project which was
published in TCS BFS magazines.
Received STAR OF THE MONTH awards for REMEDY PROJECT performance.
Certificate of appreciation for Static release wise development project, from
customer(ABN AMRO) , which got very high CSI from client
FUN-AT-WORK Co-ordinator for TCS project level events.
I was part of mainframe selection panel for lateral recruitment process for TCS ABN-
AMRO relationship.
Assigned as trainer for Db2/Cobol trainings.
Created SOP (Standard operation procedure) document for standardize review process.
Personal Details
Date of Birth 09-12-1984
Nationality Indian
Passport Details
Name as on
passport
Relations
hip
Passport
Number
Date of Issue Expiry Date Place of Issue
Ravi Sharma Self G4286475 21-Oct-2007 20-Oct-2017 Surat
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