Yusuf Osmani is a highly experienced technical and data architect with over 19 years of experience in the financial and insurance industries. He has a proven track record of leading transformation projects, delivering data warehouse solutions, and developing enterprise applications. Throughout his career, he has consistently managed technically diverse teams, provided technical expertise to projects, and worked with business stakeholders. Most recently, he served as an IT consultant and technical architect at Guardian Insurance, where he spearheaded several data integration projects and systems implementations.

1. Yusuf Osmani
21 Park Woods Lane, Kings Park, NY 11754 | (516) 909-5419 | yusuf.osmani@gmail.com
Hardworking, passionate, and results-driven Technical/Data Architect and hands-on project manager with 19+ years of experience in the
financial and insurance industry leading transformation projects, delivering data warehouse solutions and developing enterprise
applications. Consistently maintain a successful track record in hiring and managing technically diverse teams, providing technical
expertise, and leading IT projects. A versatile, client focused, and goal oriented technical leader with excellent organizational and
interpersonal skills with experience leading teams and working with business owners and clients. Drives organizations to reassess and
reinvent operational strategies in order to maximize organizational impact.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Guardian Insurance Company, New York, NY June 2011 – Present
IT Consultant, Technical and Data Architect
• Direct and deploy the Operational Data Store on UDB/DB2 for the $50+ million Agency Compensation Transformation
Project, to aggregate data from disparate agencies and contract administration systems (UCLA, FAS, Agency UDB) into a
single consolidated data source for compensation systems and Guardian applications
• Spearhead data cleansing efforts by defining rules and guidelines to handle data integrity issues between multiple systems
• Collaborate to create consistent and unambiguous business definitions by implying a data-archeology to decipher and identify
forgotten but critical business rules via data analysis of the legacy systems
• Consult and provide guidelines to all Guardian teams consuming the data, acting as a Subject Matter Expert of Guardian
referential data as well as transactional data
• Provide business analysis and technical expertise to the massive undertaking of the Agency Code field expansion project which
was spearheaded initially by IBM and later brought in-house
• Create data feeds for various Guardian teams and constantly provide SME service and technical leadership in the ETL space
using Informatica, for reporting space using Business Objects and web services on WebSphere with Java
• Revamped the data mart for the Clubs and Awards project within an extremely short time of 4 months by taking over the
project when it had stalled after a year of development
• Deployed the agent/agency compensation (FAS replacement) project utilizing a vendor product (Varicent on MS SQL Server)
Barclay's Wealth, New York, NY April 2010 – June 2011
Vice President, Development Manager
• Managed Portfolio Reporting subsystem of Wealth Management Reporting for US clients and reduced batch time performance
by over 57% within 4 months of directing the system
• Reduced the number of failure incidences and tickets created for production services by half because of implementing
automatic error corrections scripts in addition to identifying and filtering out false positives
• Expanded the team by recruitment and building a development team in Singapore for future developments of subsystems
• Managed vendor responsible for developing core calculation engine for the system and reduced product delivery time by at
least 2 weeks for each cycle by combining regression testing efforts and aligning vendor resources with in-house QA team
• Recognized for the success with PR subsystem and managed Client Review, Client Relationship Configuration, and Investment
Catalog subsystems within WMR
• Collaborated with technical partners, vendors and stakeholders to deliver a functionality of Barclays Wealth America to Asian
clients on a new platform utilizing diverse technologies such as Siebel, XML/XSLT, .Net and Java
• Saved the company $750,000 by personally taking charge of the translation, design, and development of Chinese Statements
instead of sub-contracting a vendor
• Created statement mock-ups for business users to provide the buy-ins as well as design templates and specifications for the
vendors to produce and render statements using Adobe InDesign
• Collaborated with operations and business users through the UAT phase of the project by ensuring there were no
statement generation issues and all defects identified were tracked in the Mercury Quality Center
• Enhanced exception reporting by integrating feeds from source systems and allowing drill-downs that eliminated manual
work that operations team was forced to do
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY March 2008 – April 2010
IT Consultant, Senior Developer
• Architected and developed a new international account opening system by utilizing J2EE and core Java
• Refactored a minimum-set of functionality from exiting US Client Account Information System to a CORE account opening
system, which became the bases for all international regions to make the system more service oriented
• Replaced existing flat file document code feed to downstream system from legacy file extracts to easily configurable,
automated JMS based system which could handle many different types of feeds
• Worked regularly with Operations team as well as account opening specialists on client issues to improve user experience by
providing system training and tracking enhancement through the JIRA system

2. Yusuf Osmani
21 Park Woods Lane, Kings Park, NY 11754 | (516) 909-5419 | yusuf.osmani@gmail.com
UBS Wealth Management, Weehawken, NJ October 1999 – November 2007
Associate Director, Technical Architect
• Responsible for WebSphere architecture continuum and related technologies as well as creating, implementing and supporting
the recommended topologies, standards, and configurations at the firm
• Designed and developed Presentation Builder, which is an application that allows financial advisors to create compliance
approved portfolio analysis presentations for clients
• Re-architected the Client Inquiry application, which is a high-priority multimodal application to be accessed by financial
advisors through browser, PDA or any telephone using complex techniques such as VOIP and XSLT, which dynamically
constructed page content based on device type
• Designed and managed reusable logging component/framework for the firm based on Apache Log4J
• Performed architecture, software development assistance, assessments, redesign, and code reviews to ensure scalability and
performance of tier-one business critical J2EE applications such as Consolidated Order Entry and WMUS Online Services
• Created client-side, server-side components, and generators for use by the company
• Managed a team of Technical Architects, Engineers, and System Administrators for technology evaluations, certifications of
WebSphere Application Server v. 4.0, 5.1, 6.0/1 on all platforms including z/OS and WAS XD v. 5.1, 6.1
• Gained team recognition for the highest success impact on IBM’s WAS 5 beta program with over 160 PMRs
• Authored and reviewed many Best Practices in area of web development and conducted many WAS forums to educate the
developer community
• Saved company $1.2 million on WebSphere license agreement as the primary technical contact for IBM vendor management
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, NY January 1997 – October 1999
Senior Developer – International Stock Lending
• Developed an international stock lending system, used in New York, London, Zurich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore
• Designed and implemented the International Contract System front-end with MS-Visual Basic, and maintained and enhanced
back-end with UNIX Scripts, Perl, C, C++
• Tested database structures in Sybase and worked closely with DBA’s in optimizing backend database to enhance performance
• Increased profit by $160 million within two years by adopting technology to align with business needs and goals
• Met frequently with several high revenue generating traders to customize the application front-end to maximize their efficiency
and their ability to retrieve vital business information faster
• Created business critical reports such as P&L reporting, using Crystal Reports, Java scripts, Perl and CGI by making them
available online and simplified hours of manual work by traders, which improved performance by over 90%
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
• Languages: Java, C, C++, VB, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, UNIX shell scripts
• Tools/Environments: J2EE (EJB, Servlet, JSP, JSF), WebSphere Application Server (2.03-6.1), IBM WSAD, RAD, Eclipse,
MS Visual Studio 6, MS SQL Management Studio, Hadoop, Hive
• Databases: Oracle 8i, 9i; Sybase 11.9, 12.5; DB2/UDB 7.2, 8.1; SQL Server 2008 R2
• Operating Systems: Windows (NT, 95-XP, 2003, Vista), AIX 5.3, Solaris 8, Linux Red Hat AS 3
• Programs: MS Project, Visio, & Office; Visual SourceSafe; PVCS; JProbe; Clear Quest; JIRA; Informatica; Business Objects
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science May 1996
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics May 1996
Dean’s List Honors | Golden Key National Honor Society Member
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Language: Fluent in Uzbek, German, and Farsi
Interests: Traveling, Ironman Triathlon, Ultra Distance Racing, Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing, Kite & Wake Boarding, Skydiving
Professional Training: Varicent, Project Management Skills Class, IBM WebSphere XD 5.1, 6.0, Linux Advanced Server, Series 7
Financial, Leadership Challenge Program, Comprehensive Leadership, Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Programming, IBM Course,
Programming EJBs using IBM WebSphere, Fast Track to Sybase SQL Server 11