Director
BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES
Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months
Handpicked by head of engineering of global investment firm with approximately $125 billion in global investments to play lead role in transitioning technology platform from an unsequenced, disordered, mid-market infrastructure into an elastic, fully compliant, enterprise-class, engineering operations practice. Directed team of 6 directors and 50 staff members; administer $50 million budget.
* Strategic Planning: Researched and developed multiyear strategy for business-driven technology initiatives with a focus on innovative, next-generation approaches for supporting research and trade floor.
* Process Development: Assessed and documented existing Engineering and Operations processes; re-engineered workflow to ensure ITIL -based process maturity and a measurable quality of services against SLAs/SLOs.
* Engineering Build-Out: Established the roles, functions, and reporting mechanisms for a fully defined Engineering/Operations discipline that was aligned to various lines of business and had an application oriented posture; managed architecture and build-out of two new data centers including VMAX, SRDF/S, FAST-VP, and VPLEX.
* Research & Trading Floor Platform: Drove architecture and design improvements that included a complex, three-tier application data lifecycle mechanism that: ✓ Provided a universal index for access to ingested data feeds from disparate sources regardless of location/formatting.
✓ Created rules for event processing to ensure delivery of authoritative/trustworthy data to traders and researchers.
✓ Provided advanced search, discover, and ranking capabilities; enabled knowledge management; and facilitated secure collaboration based on complex criteria (spatio-temporal data, predictive analytics, decision-support mechanisms)
EVP, Engineering & Operations, Global Investment Banking Strategy
CMONEY, INC., Houston, TX * 2010
Chief Information Officer - Created and managed technological, operational, and administrative platforms for publicly traded startup providing mobile-based, real-time money transfer services. Led go-to-market strategy for mobile banking/mobile payments processing application, global IT and IS functions, and major enterprise business-transformation program.
* Funding: Collaborated with executive team and VC community on securing $150 million in series C funding.
* Mobile Application: Defined instrumentation and analytics for collecting operational intelligence/big data regarding purchasing habits of mobile wallet users that would be commoditized as high-value product for financial institutions/retailers.
Merrill Lynch/Bank of America, Charlotte, NC (08/08 - 06/10)
Served as Executive Director for a large scale, next-generation project designed to implement a global operational improvement capability across an integrated engineering function to support Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Countrywide. Directed large-scale, next-generation data center project to support global investment banking organization. Led 15 director-level team members; accountable for 200+ associates. Managed $350+ million in P&L. Reported to C-level executives.
* Global Application Support: Supported business that included 700+ application development and support resources for credit and interest rate derivatives, credit/market risk management, equities/equities derivatives, and currencies/commodities. Managed and reported on successes with scorecards that tracked performance against key objectives with application development team in the US, India, China, and Singapore.
* Technology Analysis & Selection: Directed analysis and selection process for research and trading floor platform, cloud design, virtualization, vendor strategy, asset management, and financial reporting across Engineering Operations group.
* Services Transformation: Program Head with overall responsibility for transition of services and large scale conversions across BAC, ML, and CW. I solicited current and future state requirements from stakeholders across Investment Banking, Private Banking, and technology for a 5000 person, $1.3bn infrastructure organization serving a 200, 000 employee firm.
* Data Center Rationalization: Rationalized 45 datacenters into 18 next-generation Tier IV sites; core focus was on storage/network/compute virtualization and cloud computing. Integrated CW and ML acquisitions and remove/reduce redundant operations. Oversight of Application & Process Optimization program aimed at retiring 50% of BAC applications.
SVP, Capacity & Performance Engineering: Lehman Brothers, Inc., New York, NY (01/07 - 07/08)
Met corporate directive for achieving 2x application and infrastructure performance at peak load capacity by effectively leading project management office (PMO) consisting of 4 directors and 60 team members. Oversaw $45 million budget.
* Investment Banking: Analyzed and defined technical life cycle for capacity planning and performance management; designed, planned, and implemented ITIL-based services and business solutions.
* Fixed Income & Equity Trading: Recommended and implemented technical collateral and program operations that managed capacity and performance for 55 Tier I applications.
* Subject Matter Expert: Became SME for capacity and performance management teams on workload characterization, quantitative model development, and organizational dynamics.
Additional Contracts Completed
ACCENTURE, Chicago, IL * 2004 - 2006
Practice Manager, Banking & Finance - Positioned Accenture as a strategic IT partner in the delivery of multimillion dollar technology, business process outsourcing, and ITSM services for major technology projects by building key relationships with investment banking Fortune 50 clients. Representative projects: * CitiGroup: Identified $8 million in excess hardware, application, and redundant operational spend in Global Credit and Securitized Markets technology in architecture rationalization effort.
* JP Morgan: Directed infrastructure and process engineering for 12 M&As totaling $50+ billion and impacting 50, 000+ users across three continents.
* Visa USA: Led build-out of central PMO function, design of new corporate governance and portfolio management best practices for annual capital investment portfolio, and implementation new methodologies and compliance processes.
BP, IST New Projects Director, NAGP DCT: Led initiation, planning, development, and execution of multiple projects. (2003)
EMC2, Program Manager, Professional Services: Oversaw multiple SAN upgrade projects in four states; coordinated service delivery, professional services, and business development. (2002)
Sun Microsystems, Project Manager, Critical Accounts: Turned around projects that were in the red or critical status with budgets ranging from $3 million to $15 million. (2000)
Additional Experience
Project Management
MCSE, MCP+1, MCT, CCNA Training, MCSD, Visual Basic .NET Program
Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Punjab, Lahore, PK, GPA: 3.7/4.0